Large-sized Illthorn Shield

[grossm]

I would like to purchase a large-sized illthorn shield. Thank you.

Edit: After doing some math, it appears that I actually want an illthorn TOWER shield. Thanks to thefarmer for inspiring me to look at the numbers.

[thefarmer]

Out of curiousity.. why of all things, a large shield? They're essentially mechanically useless.

edit:There are about about 4-5 specifically large sized ones that I'm aware of.

[Inspire]

I have a medium size if that option is to your liking.

[grossm]

Out of curiousity.. why of all things, a large shield? They're essentially mechanically useless.

I have a Paladin double-training in shields and learning Shield Charge but he is also single-training in Dodge. I haven't really crunched the numbers, but anecdotal evidence with +18 shields suggests that I'm better off with large than tower. I haven't tested with a medium, but with the blocking spell and the maneuver I figure a large will serve me better even if the dodge DS goes slightly up with a medium shield.

If you're suggesting that in the long run I'll be better off with a tower, I'll have to go and crunch some numbers. My goal is to get to CCF and walk away with a pocketed, sanctified, scripted, spiked, possibly TD-boosting shield that obviously I will want to hold onto for a long time.

[thefarmer]

Double trained in shields with Divine Shield would make a tower more beneficial, even at 1x dodge. The losses between large ->tower are far outweighed by the benefits of using the tower.

There's been a few number crunching on shields here if you want to save yourself the trouble of crunching it yourself.