Originally posted by Repo:

Shields are really heavy and slow you down when running, hence I find them inconvenient

Only tower shields slows you so much my man
Round and bucklers only 5% , gaining critical attacks when parry enemies , not seeing that its because you dont really didnt learned how to use them


On toppic
Since H&H update 2 handed weapons ( sledges , atgeirs and battle axes ) got a big buff in their block armor , making a parry attack with it in almost every wepon tier monster ( bronze atgeir can parry > almost all BF monsters , iron atgeir or iron sledge with swamp monster , silvet battleaxe with mountain monsters and BM atgeir with plains monsters ) , roll works of course but that critical damage is a big gift