Thrusting Shields | Elden Ring Wiki

has anyone tried these with the buffed malenia great rune?

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the 94 phys is actually not that bad considering u can scholar shield and/or stack a bunch of armor since this playstyle can be totally fine at heavy load

also insane that with enough block pokes u can just stance break a boss far quicker and safer than if u were to conventionally wait for safe enough windows for charged R2s on any other weapon

also can i just say that the backstab and ripostes with these just look so brutal

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I adore these things to death, but I have to admit they're busted as all hell. You could fix these by making them slower all around, increase stamina damage taken on active block and removing its active guard on crouch pokes, or at least change the animations so they aren't.... THAT. If they do make an Elden Ring 2 this will be the weapon class I look forward to the most with more unique ashes and variants.

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Love using inescapable frenzy against people who use this in pvp, so many people who use these shields think that they can just run in and be fine no matter what.
The funniest thing is, they don't seem to learn after getting grabbed most of the time.

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these weapons are obnoxious in pvp tbh

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For some reason these shields have extraordinary little stamina loss when attacking and getting hit during that. I used greathammer with hammer talisman and couldn't break that shield's guard even once.

BUT, the shield can be parried... I did kill someone like that in arena. Breath of fresh air.

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Can these also be used to attack after you guard counter with it or do you need a weapn?

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Now, my favorite real life weapon is the dueling shield. So I was beyond excited for this. But God, its just so broken and brainless. Id genuinely argue a thrusting shield build is the most op build in the game. I'm not even playing the game at this point. I just walk up. Block and spam rb. I win.

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I'm not sure if this is a bug, but these don't seem to have a hardness, at least not when defending.
This means attacks do not bounce off. Even when using the Barricade Shield Ash of War.
The Dragonbolt Blessing incantation still works.

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Reminds me of Cao Ren from the Dynasty Warriors games.

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These have a block r1 thrust when two-handed. In PvP this allows you to react trade a lot of weapon types by just holding block and then waiting for the other person to attack. Put on the Spear Talisman with the Two-Handed Sword Talisman and Greatshield Talisman and it's an absolute menace in duels.

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True to their real life purpose these things are fantastic in duels from my experience

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So far my favorite new weapon type in the DLC. It may not be the best (by far, lol), but it's a blast

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Man these should totally have max physical damage blocking..

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This weapon type is my favorite it has an insanely good matchup into the consort fight that with perfect parries from the tear and the guard counters are insane since guard counters block easily the strongest weapon ive used in this game

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In colosseum they're basically shield poke but even more broken

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You can backstab and riposte with yhese. As well as shield poke while 2 handing them. Likewise you can get parried (tested againt a sanguine noble)

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I found that the guard frames from attack animations heavily increases damage negation and guard boost stats. This is especially useful on the Carian thrusting shield has 76 guard boost because these guard frames increase its guard boost to nearly 100 making this a very safe and reliable option to guard counter some delayed boss combos that wouldn't be possible with any other weapon. The guard frames on the second charged heavy attack can also be a clutch option to use when blocking or rolling is not possible after a heavy attack but another follow-up is. Its 2 handed guard into a R1 is also a unique attack that preserves guard frames and it functions identically as thrusting sword or spear shield poke but it has the same guard frames boost as all the other attacks which means you can safely poke as well. I think a lot of people may be overlooking this weapon category.

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What a dissapointment its worse than brass shield bravo Mitsubishi and tanymura

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So you can shield poke with these, but based on some tests against a sanguine noble you can also be parried. Likewise you can riposte and backstab.

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lmao only 2? just move these into medium shields.

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Heavy Attacks block attacks on charge. Is nice. The Carian Shield Can be hit with scholars armament. Which is also nice. Run scholars int+str build for fun. Nice alternative to the claymans for variety. Shield crash is also goated on these.

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I wonder what the point of using this over, you know, a proper shield with a thrusting weapon like spear or thrusting sword, which also enable you to attack when guarding, but you get 100% physical block along with much higher guard boost, why would you use thrusting shield over that?

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I wonder what the point of using this over, you know, a proper shield with a thrusting weapon like spear or thrusting sword, which also enable you to attack when guarding, but you get 100% physical block along with much higher guard boost, why would you use thrusting shield over that?

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Finally, my boulder knight cosplay will be possible

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Ahh yes, only 2 weapons for the class

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They powerstance with twinblades

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probly the only actually interesting new class of weapons in the dlc. every other class is either boring or unnecessary aside from maybe perfumer and beast claw. "light greatswords" certainly were not needed, and the throwing weapons are gonna be pure cancer in pvp, not that anyone cares about pvp..

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please have a power stance moveset

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I'll be gleaming with joy if you can sword & board with them

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If we’re calling them thrusting shields, they should let us shield poke with them for the meme

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I hope one of these is made like the lizard folk shields in D&D. — The Fist of Fury

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I expect them to be sort of like Valorheart in DS3, which has attack chains that block at the same time. This would be quite cool and unique at least in PvP

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i hope they have parries

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Are these gonna be like a Lantern Shield, where they're the size of a small-shield but have long blades attached to it?

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Hoping we get a sort of remastered Orma and Reeves shield

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This page needs to be renamed to "Dueling Shields", I don't think thrusting shield works because many current shields could technically be applied to the thrusting title, and have a completely different moveset than the one shown in the trailer.

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Strongly suspect these will be something like a twinblade with blocking frames, can't wait to see what ashes they get!

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Giant Door Shield?

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'Thrusting Shield' so, shields with spikes on them? If it works like shield poking does, I feel like its gonna be mediocre, but I hope it isn't mediocre, seems like a cool idea.

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None of these will have 100% physical block, the guard boost will be awful and the damage will be subpar. Oh yeah, I'm using this.

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talk about weird ****

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hopefully they change the crucible knight's greatshield to this

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Oh worm?

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