yeah but the moment you lower the shield guard the slow-down-time effect ends. Sure, you can move out of the way of the incoming hit, flank the enemy, drop shield and stick a knife in them but that still leaves my caster-cat too close to getting hit yet again. I love the stagger effect from shield bash.
During that video my cat was level 22 with only 100 health, 100 stamina and 280 magicka so any hit ...hurts. Especially when wearing leather armor and no perks spent in armor. Now it is level 29 and uses a heavy dwarven shield which does a lot more damage per bash hit than the light elven plus it covers the body a lot more. I've all perks in shield except the run-with-shield and chance-to-disarm-bash perks (don't need 'em).
Overall the shield IS my armor. So many times i'm running in the wild and get jumped out of nowhere by something and *BLOCK* the attack.... its glorious. Once I get the archmage robes im wearing those and sitting behind me shield.
