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Large Shield can block "red" unblockable attacks when perfect Heavy Stander
See here
Uh no, you can't block "True Unblockables" he says, which are Red ones from s3. That video is also outdated information since it was pre vamp where at the time you could not perfect guard aoes from siglint and keagan.
I main Fiona and here are some rare times I would use Large Shield with Long Sword:
PVP and/or Redeemers.
Large Shield and Long Hammer I almost always use together. Reasons why:
Iron Defence grants you a minute(?) of no flinch/no knockdown with 50% reduced damage taken.
Long Hammer smash attacks generate so much SP per hit it's no problem making up for its the cost of Iron Defence
You can't use shield enhancement with Small shield and Hammer making counter attack useless ( for damage purposes).
Sometime's Slashing High and Shield Charge will be on cool down at the same time allowing you in partial sense to have
3 "Slashing Highs" using Iron Defence for it's no knockdown.
Reasons to use Small Shield and Hammer: (Haven't done this too often so I may be missing reasons or data)
Some Bosses move around a lot making it hard for you to capitalise on tanking with Iron Defence for being too slow, meaning slow sp generation.
Some Bosses may be too strong for you in the sense that they can easily crit you making raw tanking with Iron Defence not feasible once again.
I main sword and small shield but I like to play hammer and large shield when I get bored of that.
