There are no shield specific skills. Also there is no active block skill.
So besides a few additional mitigation armor points, there is no reason to ever use a shield since if you were thinking of being in melee with a creature and blocking attacks, it is not going to happen.
So if that is the case, you might as well just use a big two hander and run around whacking stuff then running off. I found jump attack to be very powerful at rank 5, it adds a ton of damage, its basically like getting a sword 5 levels higher than what you have when you hit stuff.
Yeah i found that shield was not worth it. I dont have any 2h weps atm, but dual wield seems nice enough.
