Which specific shields should get which speed rating/durability changes in your opinion?
I agree, and that's in there. Perhaps I should even change it to +20%.
Agreed. Do you think they should throw faster in addition to having more damage? Or would a damage buff be enough?
What change would you propose? I'm proposing a speed buff to spears because their attack speed is so unrealistically slow, like they're stabbing underwater. I'm sure other things could have a look at too, but I think faster stab speed would be an immediate improvement that would make them more realistic.
There are too many to count, but the vast majority of 82 speed shields should have more varied speeds between ~80 and 100.
Most cavalry kite shields should be faster and lighter in virtue of relatively smaller size - currently a few are, but many aren't. Targes, for example, being fairly small should be faster as well. Some of the larger Sturgia round shields are faster than smaller ones and should be swapped/adjusted.
Right now there's just no rhyme or reason to it at all, really.
Draw speed increase would help with the issue of not having time to use throwing axes without making their damage too high against troops themselves rather than shields. It should be on the table, but I'd try incremental changes based on results.
For spears you'd want a reasonable balance between damage, speed, and reach at the end. I'm not against speed buffs, but hitting all spears with the same % speed increase could give some spears too much of a boost. For example, if we buffed speed by 50% for all spears, well 50% of 50 is +25 while 50% of 100 is +50 - so already faster spears would get much higher speed and benefit much more from it. Universally hitting weapons that have very different baselines with the same percentage boostsfor this reason is generally too imbalanced a method.