combat idea?

Obviously there is the combat update that you have planned, but i was wondering about other things, personalization.
For example, right now we have swords and wooden shields.

what if, we had like, a metal shield? Increased success chance (Probably +1 over the wooden equivalent) AND increased combat timer since it's so heavy.

or set bonus daggers, like 10 seconds off of combat, but we are extremely volatile and will lose often. (Maybe even reduce exp because fail training)

I just dislike having wooden shields dad, i'm allergic to tree bark =[

Also, gem based shields, or even gem augmenting current equipment (This could be applied to all tools)