Originally posted by CritMasterFlex:

I feel the same way. Started a new world to try everything through progression and the bone tower shield just doesn't work well against trolls. You can maybe block a shot or two but when they break your block the fight is over. And it's harder to get openings to counterattack. You may as well just kite with a bow instead because you're going to end up dodge rolling and running around anyways.

A buckler and a knife just eat the troll alive, that damage bonus from parry is important. I haven't devoted a lot to time to playing this since the update, but I'm hoping that later tower shields feel better.

depends on the tactics and playstyle for me towershields perform well even against trolls if things went bad i can allways perform a dodgeroll and charge the troll, the towershield works outstanding on more than one enemy imho as i can force them to bunch together and clean sweep the mob afterwards

its a preferred playstyle decisison one can make