Yea in DOS:1 I tried shield vs two hander and quickly found shield sucked. Near the end of the game there are some interesting 1 handers that make things a little interesting but it was hard to compete against that pure damage.
In (some) other rpgs; I always used shield because I favored defense vs offense and depended on casters to do most of the damage; but those were other games. I learned my lesson how to play warriors in D:OS-1
