Originally posted by Lucidess:

I think it depends on your current max hp and stamina level too, but even then the Shield should still be doing most of the work.. It's possible to parry a Brute with a Club with no Block skill, it's madness I tell you.

Originally posted by blankitosonic:

Bronce buckler are only for parrying +fast combos , thats why the poor block force to engage next you parry an enemy , and parry bonus its 2.5 so you can block 70 with lvl 3 , trolls have that damage and some more using the log as club
And best food for black forest are ,deer stew , meat souce and cooked fish if you want full hp buil ( take off deer stew and use carrot soup if you want some more stamina )
Irom bucklet blocks 100 and after that silver round shield 107 , black metal 135

Originally posted by blankitosonic:

Thats the buff that tower shields got in HnH , huge block armor( power ) to take raw damage and big block force to take distance
Before tower shields just sucks im everything , thats why devs rework and balance them

Originally posted by jjones_50:

make a silver shield

Originally posted by Anarchist Jurisdictor:

There will be no satisfying conclusion for you this update around, OP, they just tried and failed to make a compelling reason to use tower shields (more knockback). There was also no reason to use tower shields before the update. In a more sophisticated action RPG the solution would be to make larger attacks unparryable but make parrying smaller attacks even deadlier (Dark Souls) or to give you more passive protection when the shield isn't lifted (Mount & Blade). If they bother to address this again I can't really see their solution being anything but numerically nerfing parry bonus to the point where bucklers of the same biome of their respective tower shields can't quite reach the same block armor.