When you bash, it counts as having your shield raised for a split second and you can damage an enemy mid-swing without losing health. I was messing around with my +15 black iron greatshield in the burg and noticed during some bashes it would make the deflecting noise, I would lose no health but the hollow soldier would be staggered by the hit.
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Something useless i just discovered about greatshields
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I don't exactly understand. You call it useless, yet at the same time appear to be praising the move?
I don't really get it.
I don't really get it.
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I think by "useless" he means that it cant be relied upon in battle, as the window of opportunity (where the bash counts as a block) is only a split second. Still an interesting fact though.
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Ok, good to know.
Thanks for clearing it up.
Thanks for clearing it up.
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Do you mean there is a window to hit you during bash?
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Its been awhile since I have really used a greatshield, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC yes, you can be damaged during a shield bash. I seem to remember shield bashing a silver knight & getting my @$$ tore up in the process!
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You can do this with other shields when two-handing as well. The charge attack blocks and does a charge attack at the same time. Think of it as using the pick R1 Sprint as well as your shield up... although probably less damage if it is not elemental.
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not if its a bone wheel....
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Nope. Boneshield has little to no protection.
Secret about the Boneshield? It's to take your money away, with no protection whatsoever
ow, bonewheel, well it works the same way anyways, except a little jagged around the rims... yuck.
Secret about the Boneshield? It's to take your money away, with no protection whatsoever
ow, bonewheel, well it works the same way anyways, except a little jagged around the rims... yuck.
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actually i've used it for a playthough and when two handed the protections fine since even while attacking you often block attacks, plus you only need 20 str to 2 hand it for the same moveset the rest can go into end and vit to compensate.
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When using non-100% physical shields, I may add that the best thing to add for your shield is a leech weapon. Just to remove the added minimum damage to have minimum health regeneration to level it evenly well.
That's just disgusting, though.
That's just disgusting, though.
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Ever tried the Magic Shield of Death Build?sparkly-twinkly-lizard wrote:actually i've used it for a playthough and when two handed the protections fine since even while attacking you often block attacks, plus you only need 20 str to 2 hand it for the same moveset the rest can go into end and vit to compensate.
Bonewheel in left hand. Oolacile cat in main hand.
Cast Magic Shield. Press L2. ????? PROFIT!
More on note. All shield actions block. A Bash is a block. A parry is a 80% block, an attack with the shield is a block (except for kirks bash).
Havels shields special little buff? That entire thing blocks.
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It's basically a bad parry.
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I wonder if you could get the Leo Ring counter to work with this. I suspect not, but you never know.
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The shield that the Knight of Catarina drops can get a Leo Counter: it's running attack when two handed is a kick then attack.WhatDoesThePendantDo? wrote:I wonder if you could get the Leo Ring counter to work with this. I suspect not, but you never know.
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Good to know, never been one for the Pierce Shield but it might be worth a look. Thanks for the info.
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Please note, all small/medium shields running attacks are a kick/bash followed by 1 or 2 attacks... so that's not unique to the pierce shield. Pierce is just the one that get's a leo boost.
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