Since bosses are not strong enough to justify massively boosting your defence capability at the expense of your damage capability, I think the 2h shields idea is basically dead now as a result of bone shield. You can now survive basically anything while wielding a 2h/dw so there's barely even use for a shield, let alone a 2h shield. Thread closed.
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