With the latest update, the anchor point for backpieces, shields and 2H weapons is closer to the back of the character in a more reasonable way.
However, I think there’s still a bug regarding shields during combat mode.
The shield is hovering too much from the hand during combat, and it seems to be the same hover applied from the Legendary Light gloves. With the gloves, it’s reasonable to have a more distant anchor point due to the “claws”, but for the chestpiece it’s totally unrelated.
I think this is an unintentional bug so I hope it gets fixed.
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