Talk:Rusted Magick Shield/@comment-24634511-20140810192642/@comment-5166842-20140811041747

Periphery doesn't help all that much with the Rusted Shield until it's upgraded. Most of the simple Gransys enemies will still stagger you when you block. Once it's gold-forged it does well on Gransys and even does okay on Bitterblack. You can block/perfect block attacks even from Living Armors (not all their attacks of course) and other strong enemies. Not Eliminators though. Everything except their charge attack will break your guard, iirc.