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why is dragonclaw greatshield so useless like cmon fromsoft

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We need more shield ashes of war that aren't just parries and bashes.

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sad to see that the crest shield from dark souls is not on here :( i always loved that shield

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why would you ever waste time parrying when u can just guard counter which is the same thing but with 0 risk and 0 skill required

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80+% physical block is a reliable shield, even if small...............i've used the iron roundshield who has 80 physical absorbtion and it may look bad because it got low guard as a small shield...but leveling it up actually increases that stat fast...pair this with protective grease or magic shield spell and it's a decent shield...and remember that the greatshield talisman actually decrease stamina cost by 20%, which means it's more useful the more stamina it costs to block (50 guardboost becomes 60 for example.......guard boost is a percentage of how much stamina is removed from the block cost)......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................if let's say you take 100 damage, blocking will decrease it to 20...500 damage becomes 100...1500 becomes 300........it's such a massive decrease in damage that it is in fact reliable to help you survive.....however, if you use a shield with less than 70%, it is in fact risky to use, as they also often have low guard boost.......................don't sleep on a shield because it got 80-90%....it is perfectly reliable.........not everyone wants big metal shields with their looks.....BE FASHIONABLE!

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i swear sprinting while guarding is bugged, i always get hit by someone right in front of me if i do it

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Make shields great again

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I hope we get a Dark Hand style shield in the DLC. Just please FROM. PLEASE. Let it parry, and not have some weak make-out move that works on like no one, but the dumbest NPCs & players.

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Imagine if you could put the shield in your right hand and block and your sword in the left and attack!

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Guard countering was a hell of a buff to shields overall and makes them good for pve again after the speed increase of ds3 kind of downgraded them.

But they can't sled like the loch shield in Bloodborne. What gives?

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How do I parry with one of these? Where do the silver bullets go?

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DON'T infuse your shield into HEAVY, KEEN or QUALITY. This decreases guard boost

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Guard counters really makes shields shine imo. At least in pve. If you really want to improve other than learning to roll, use a shield and try to learn how to avoid attacks without dodging. Thow on parry and practice that too.

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umm

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Someone in Fromsoftware's developer team has severe shield phobia. It's like they hate everything and everyone related to shields:
-Dozens of enemies have OHKO stunlock combos that don't let you block but do let you roll, and you just have learn that through telepathy or unfair deaths.
-Tons of attacks consistently don't give a damn about your shield and hit right through it even though you're locked on, facing the enemy, and blocking (no I obviously don't mean grabs).
-Lots of attacks cost a disproportionate amount of stamina to block, which wouldn't be a problem if holding your shield up didn't decimate your stamina regen and if enemies didn't often literally stay in "attack pose" for up to FOUR seconds forcing you to hold your shield up and lose out on a lot of stamina. In the first attempt of a fight the player has to fight intuitively, and with a shield they'll just get destroyed because they don't know when to stop holding the shield up, which destroys half the point of using a shield.
I swear, half of this game's mechanics feel like they were programmed by a 10 year old:
-"This spider's limbs move completely randomly and sporadically activate hitboxes, it also has infinite stamina, poise, and a maximum of 2 seconds of hitbox downtime that they often choose not to reach"
-"If you equip an ultra heavy weapon most enemies are 5 times easier to fight"
-"If the hand is running, it might shieldstunlock you to death, or it might just be running"
-"I liked Dark Souls 1's clunky movement so I made the horse move like it's high"
-"I decided to keep the broken garbage camera code from Demon's Souls because polish is useless. The camera moving the opposite direction of where you're moving the stick is a feature, it's like when a cop bends your arm the wrong way I mean right way"
-"I adore the camera, so I programmed the first challenging boss to use the camera to delete the game every 5 seconds. Even he disappears!"
80% content, 20% new mechanics, 0% polish. Not even the animation systems dev is able to do his job properly, and his work is the center of Soulsborne games.

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Bleed weapons inflict bleed "because they're sharp", according to most of their descriptions. OK, fine, but why does the blood loss from a sharp weapon still build up if it hits a shield with 100% physical resist? The whole point of 100% physical resist is that said weapon never reaches the toon behind the shield.

Shield-piercing weapons / skills and the things that cause blood loss via spells / miasma-like effects that are obviously not tied to the action of a pointy object are fair enough, but this point about passive-effect blood loss (and to a lesser extent poison too) ignoring the shield in the way of the blade supposedly responsible for said blood loss just never made any sense to me. Especially not in ER since, unlike previous games, guarding with a shield appears to make no difference whatsoever to status buildup of any kind - the only ones that have any effect at all are the ones with passive stat bonuses, which apply even if you put them on your back and forget about them.

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What does two handing a shield do again?

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The thought that some people play these games without a shield is perplexing to me. Not because of blocking, but because some enemies just seem like a nightmare to beat without the ability to parry them. Then on top of that, you also have quick enemies like dogs which even a Buckler makes significantly more tolerable.

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Really wished we had more circular shields with 100% physical damage negotiation

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Wish we could get the fire giants lid as a shield/ strength weapon or something

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A shame we didn't get the fine drip that were DS3's medium shields. Specially Crest Shields. I'd wore one on the back just for the pattern.

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I miss Skeleton Wheel

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Super disappointed in shields this game. Functionally, they have been gutted since launch, they all paid the price of Fingerprint Stone's sins. A lot of them are unforgivably ugly. Far too many flat-plank "heater shields" with no shape or texture. Terrible redundancy; we have Elemer's unique shield almost strictly outclassed by another wooden bleed-build-up shield you find on a rock outside, all the various small shields that boost status resistances outdone by the spiralhorn, which boosts all of them, and to a greater degree than the specialized ones for some reason? Even Dark Souls 1 had the spider shield, which prevented poison buildup from "chipping" on blocked hits, how do we not have anything like that this time around? And we finally get powerstance back, but we can't powerstance shields...

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I would love some double wielding shields like door in ds3, why we can't?

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God i wish we can have a dual wielding shield in the dlc like door in ds3

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I wish there were more shields that looked good with robes.

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I want the dark hand shield again, always looked cool for a “spell blade” character wasn’t the best option to block with but always looked cool to be casting spells and blocking a strike with a swirling vortex

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Shields are still good in pve, for some enemies like leonine misbegotten theyre way better than trying to dodge everything, but bring one to pvp and you're just wearing a "kick me" sign

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TFW when no Albinauric small shield(the dirty, wood-looking thing with vegetation on it) drop in Academy Town.

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they should've made a shield that increases the number of runes gained and other one increasing discovery

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They should make a shield in the DL that’s ash of war acts as a faith seal.

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brass shield is all you need

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all i want from the dlc is the twin shields that nox monks sometimes use. shields that work as fist weapons would be hilarious and fun. ngl i spent hours grinding those guys on my first playthrough (shield only) and was sorely dissapointed that it was a non-player weapon.

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Id like to see something akin to Valor Heart in dark souls 3 again, it was fun to use and if you picked and chose when to attack you could be a real pain but choose wrong via either lag or attacking into something with hard guard break get youre guard broken and open for a repost. Miss that weapon and truth be told would like to see something like that again

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just roll

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I miss being able to block without looking like a fool. I always thought it added more depth, too. Nowadays, the only defensive option they want you to use is dodge. But I consider it a lot more difficult and complex to properly manage your stamina during blocking than to press circle in the correct 30 frame window for immediate invulnerability. I don't know, combined with having to parry bosses three times for a riposte, it feels like this game just lacks defensive options. Compared to Demon's Souls Dark Souls 1 at least, never played the Dark Souls sequels.

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All you have to look for is a Greatshield with 100% physical resistance, highest guard Boost, and lowest Strength requirement.

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Definitely need more shields. An infusable lightning-resistant Greatshield is top on my list, personally, but I just wanted some decent variety.

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I found an albinauric with a weird orange shield in Caria Manor's graveyard past lorreta. I can't find anything on him, and wanna know what he's got

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lol i was thinking about how much i would love to have more gimmick shields and then i read the comments and most people are complaining about how are too many LOL

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There are way too many of these

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THERE ARE TOO MANY DAMN SHIELDS IN THIS GAME CUT EAT CATEGORY IN HALF AND REBALANCE THEM FROM! ALL CAPS!

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What the hell does Rst mean and why does the wiki not explain it?

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I avsolutely HATE that every thrust attack does chip dmg through shields. As if thrusting weapons didnt have enough pros already...

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Is there any point to meeting the stat requirements of a shield if you're not attacking with it? The stat penalty only applies to its attack damage.

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I've read the page about the hardness tiers for how different weapons and shields will act if they come into contact with each other and I thought I had a basic understanding of it but now I'm not so sure. I only ever use a brass shield +16 with barricade shield AoW on it and I've never felt like that combo wasn't giving me enough protection. I've used it on some hard hitting enemies and I only take a small stamina hit even from blocking heavy attacks. But I hit Malenia's difficulty hard for the first time yesterday and there's no denying she is a cheap OP 1st class c**t of the highest order. I don't see any enjoyment or fun from banging my head against a wall dying over and over trying to beat her. So I started trying the finger print shield, I haven't upgraded it because I never thought I'd use it because of the massive weight penalty that goes with it.

The finger print shield is how I knew I needed clarification from someone who knows more than I do. I made the troll outside the secluded cell all aggro with me then I used the brass shield to block it's attacks while casting barricade shield between hits and even blocking heavy attacks from that troll the stamina hit from each attack wasn't much at all. I tried the same with the finger print shield but the stamina loss from blocking the trolls attacks with that shield was considerably higher.
Can anyone explain what's going on here? I'm assuming the finger print shield is in the top hardness tier and can make weapons bounce off, preventing combos and making the attacker flinch. But the brass shield with barricade shield cast on it has a higher guard boost so drains less stamina from each blocked attack, is that correct?
I don't want to use the resources to upgrade the finger print shield knowing I'd only be doing it for one boss fight. But how high does FPS's guard boost get if it is fully upgraded?

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no logarius wheel? wtf fromsoft..

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Kill Lhutel the Headless at black knife cata for this shield, easy farm, run past him and open doors, hit grace in cata, will always spawn facing away from you and doesnt move until attacked, backstab and guard counter him to death.

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Does anybody here want the shield from a Shielded Silver Tear? I think I this would be a great medium shield or possibly great shield?

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>unironically using a shield

Lol what is this? DS1?

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These shields all suck, I want my Kusabimaru back.

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Incredibly disappointed there's no equivalent to Orma and Reeves or the Twin Door Shield. That's something that I've noticed a lot of in the game. There were a lot of cool ideas that should've been expanded on in the previous games, but were just outright removed in this game. Pretty sad if you ask me.

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Why, oh why, can't we get the giant disk that the Fire Giant uses as an offensive greatshield with slams and swipes instead of just bashes?

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why shield with under 100% physical damage negation (95% of spiked greatshield for example) sometimes can block all physical attacks from enemies? does that hit have to be low on power or something?

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Is the level of your shield the same as your weapon in terms of matchmaking? I'm assuming it is, but I cant find an answer anywhere.

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Can someone count every shield for me I want to get every single one

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I really liked the Redmane Greatshield. its both looks good/have stats and you can put ashes of war on it. Totally worth farming

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Link on the Beast Crest Heater shield is wrong

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I wish there was at least one shield that had a similar shape to the crest shield. The closest in size are the heater and kite shields, but they're just slightly too small.

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Wrong link on the Horse Crest Wooden Shield and Marred Wooden Shield. The first one leads to the Marred Wooden Shield and the second one to the Twinbird Kite Shield.

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C'mon man, I just wanted a perfectly round, not oval, but round MEDIUM shield with 100% PHYSICAL block for my solaire cosplay build.
Oh well. At least I can reasonably do an Ostrava cosplay build.

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Jelly shield not listed.

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anyone know where we get the 2nd generation albinauric shields? the wooden ones

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Flame Crest Wooden shield link redirects you to a different shield, please fix

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For people that just want to know what shields have what passives, such as 2HD players, they are:

Greatshields (probably not useful for 2HD due to high weight)
Ant's Skull Plate - 13.5 wgt, 28 Str - +60 Immunity
Eclipse Crest Greatshield - 15 wgt, 32 Str - +50 Immunity, Robustness, and Focus
Icon Shield - 11.5 wgt, 22 Str - Regenerate 3 HP/second

Medium Shields
Great Turtle Shell - 5.5 Wgt, 14 Str - +7-8% Stamina recovery
Twinbird Kite Shield - 4.5 Wgt, 12 Str - +5% attack and defense when below 20% HP

Small Shields
Ice Crest Shield - 3 Wgt, 9 Str - +40 Robustness and Immunity
Perfumer's Shield - 1.5 Wgt, 8 Str - +40 Immunity
Rift Shield - 2 Wgt, 8 Str - +40 Focus
Shield of the Guilty - 2 Wgt, 8 Str - +50 Focus
Smoldering Shield - 3 Wgt, 10 Str, 9 Dex, 12 Fai - +30 Robustness
Spiralhorn Shield - 2 Wgt, 8 Str, 10 Dex - +50 Immunity, Robustness, and Focus


In short, you probably want the Spiralhorn Shield for protection from debuffs (Eclipse Crest Greatshield only if you'll be using it), or Great Turtle Shell for stamina recovery. And you can get any of these really early in the game since the first two are in Liurnia and the turtle shell is in Weeping Peninsula.

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Can someone add this to the wiki? You can back step while blocking. Any shield or weapon. You can lower the guard at any point during back step but can’t start guarding during a backstep. Doesn’t appear to be a cost penalty for blocking hits mid back step but it seems to stop your backwards momentum. Very helpful on my two handed str weapons if I want to use backstep bait attacks safely in a pvp duel.

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A couple of articles lead to 404s because there's a '+' before the article name,

Example:
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/+Smoldering+Shield = leads to 404
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Rickety+Shield = leads to article

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Somebody's really ****ing messing up the links.

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The link to "Albinauric Shield" on this page is broken due to there being an inappropriate + between a / and the word Albinauric.
What should read as https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Albinauric+Shield
reads instead as https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/+Albinauric+Shield

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Can we have these in inventory order?

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For example: FINGERPRINT STONE SHIELD +10 with shield amulet will have 0 stamina cost per hit. You can simply hold your position until Malenia's dance is over and survive it without losing any health or stamina.

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Yes, the medium shields get the same parry frames with certain ashes of war. Still a shoutout out to the rickety shield for it's low weight (1,0) if you only use shields to parry, and want to weight optimize your builds. Another strong contender is the spiralhorn shield for double the weight, but which adds some useful resistances especially for pvp against mainly bleed/frost/madness and to a lesser degree rot and poison (who cares about death, lmao).

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So how much the existence of guard counters benefits them?

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Small shields need passive buffs to be worth using, (can't) change my mind.

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I wish blessed infusion worked like ds3. Still, this shield, at 95% physial at least matches any blessed infusion for a useable greatshield. Though in ds3 we could put blessed on the most junky lightweight shields and throw it on our backs to get , what was it 2 hp/sec per blessed item when maxed out in ds3? My ds3 bling was hollow greatsword black armor set and a broken wooden blessed plank shield. Depressssed guts... at least the r1 greatsword had a correct back and forth slam in ds3... now it's like someone using a baseball bat. tsk guts does not approve. has to use a zwi or similar now.

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The details in some of these shields are a little odd but they're still cool in a way

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Ok maybe I'm crazy, but if you put the no skill ash of war on two greatshields and dual wield them, do you unlock a powerstance moveset?

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Does the stability/boost of a shield also affect the stamina loss of a partial/missed parry?

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DS3 = twin giant shield

Elden Ring = can't even double wield shields. 0/10.

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DS3 = twin giant shield

Elden Ring = can't even double wield shields. 0/10.

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what is the point of upgrading shields? it seems like all it does is increase damage but why would i want that?

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By the way, you don't NEED 100 physical block so long as it's close. The difference between 95 and 100 even for heavy attacks is about a throwing knife.

Stability is more important.

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Shame they didn’t change shields directly in 1.04. I think the great shield talisman nerf of high boost shields and the buffs to shield bash and crash were good changes, but there’s so many shields that are massively underwhelming. Most of the somber/boss shields don’t have unique passives or skills, why add so many unique shields in the game if you don’t give anyone a reason to use them?

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I wish they would've included a couple shields along the same aesthetic as the crest shields from DS3. I really like the style of those shields and was surprised not to see any in this game.

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Boost=stability of the shield?

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Shield Order in Inventory

Small Shields:

Rickety Shield, Riveted Wooden Shield, Blue-White Wooden Shield, Scripture Wooden Shield, Red Thorn Roundshield, Pillory Shield, Buckler, Iron Roundshield, Gilded Iron Shield, Man-Serpant's Shield, Ice Crest Shield, Rift Shield, Perfumer's Shield, Shield of the Guilty, Spiralhorn Shield, Smouldering Shield, Coil Shield

Medium Shields:

Hawk Crest Wooden Shield, Horse Crest Wooden Shield, Candletree Wooden Shield, Flame Crest Wooden Shield, Marred Wooden Shield, Sun Realm Shield, Round Shield, Large Leather Shield, Black Leather Shield, Marred Leather Shield, Heater Shield, Blue Crest Heater Shield, Red Crest Heater Shield, Beast Crest Heater Shield, Inverted Hawk Heater Shield, Elipse Crest Heater Shield, Kite Shield, Blue-Gold Kite Shield, Scorpion Kite Shield, Twinbird Kite Shield, Brass Shield, Banished Knight's Shield, Albinauric Shield, Beastman's Jar Shield, Carian Knight's Shield, Silver Mirrorshield, Great Turtle Shell

Greatshields:

Wooden Greatshield, Lordsworn's Shield, Briar Greatshield, Spiked Palisade Shield, Icon Shield, Golden Beast Crest Shield, Manor Towershield, Crossed-Tree Towershield, Inverted Hawk Towershield, Dragon Towershield, Distinguished Greatshield, Gilded Greatshield, Cuckoo Greatshield, Redmane Greatshield, Golden Greatshield, Haligtree Crest Greatshield, Crucible Hornshield, Dragonclaw Shield, Fingerprint Stone Shield, Eclipse Crest Greatshield, Ant's Skull Plate, Erdtree Greatshield, Jellyfish Shield, Visage Shield, One-Eyed Shield

Someone order them on the page pls

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For lazy people:

Small shield: Spiralhorn (increases all status resistances);

Medium shield: Either brass (highest guard boost) or Carian (high phys and magic resistances, good stability);

Heavy shield: Jellyfish (boost att% only when not two-handed), Fingerprint (highest guard boost), Icon (hp regen when not two-handed). Visage and one eyed if you ever wish to deal damage, or ant's skull if you want best deflection. Erdtree can deflect spells, but it's meant to go in pvp.

Thanks me later.

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Does two handing a shield increase its guard boost?

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Do blocking while naked make you lose more stamina?

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No shields for a dex build ?

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Fingerprint shield + greatshield talisman = 100 guard boost
Thank me later

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This is really petty, but for the sake of fashion, there isn't a decent perfectly round medium shield with 100% physical reduction. The Albinauric is close, but its an oval and too gaudy for the aesthetics I'm looking for. The Black Leather Shield looks amazing, but its physical negation is only 88.

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Maybe this is a small nitpick for a niche playstyle, but I'm disappointed there's not a powerstance moveset for shields. DS3 already had the giant door shield they could recycle the animations from for greatshields, and the small/medium shields have a similar but slightly slower moveset to single hand fist weapons so they could give them a slower version of the dual fist moveset with block frames. Shouldn't be much extra work for the devs while giving shields more variety on top of the unique ashes of war they get.

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"Damage: To attack with shield, use it in both hands. Then the shield's damage stats apply, outside of that situation offensive stats are useless for shields."

should be

"Damage: To attack with shield, use it in your right hand or both hands. Then the shield's damage stats apply."

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Which one is the Grass Crest Shield?

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Does guard damage override armor damage negation? So if I run naked there would be no difference in incoming damage if I wore the heavy when blocking attacks with a great shield ?

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What is the gun shield from the Elden Ring game trailer where the character used a shield that had a gun connected to it and shot a dragon with it?

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Is there a list of shield with special effects like the turtle shield? Would be very useful for 2 handers

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Can you please order the shields the same way they are in-game? It makes cross-referencing much easier.

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Bro I really wanna make a build just using the one-eye, coil, and visage shields

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