You and Your Shield: How to Use It Efficiently

I've decided to write a guide, and here it is.

A few things to note :
- you may want to emphasize that recharging a broken shield is way longer than an orange non-broken shields. As such, it may not be that bad to get hit instead of breaking your shield if you know you are going to need it again in the next few seconds.
- you forgot a lot of shields :
* for non-swordies, you may want to advise Ironmight Plate Shield as a piercing shield. BTS won't do them any good unless they use a sword side-arm
* Dread Skelly Shield is an awesome shield and doesn't require to farm Vana : shadow + freeze/poison have several use : SL Snarby, Heart of Ice are the main examples.
* I don't agree with your take on GoS : it's the perfect shield to start FSC, and even after you have CoA, I find GoS better for there, since the most dangerous things do elemental : Vanaduke mask especially, but also Red Rovers, fire traps and fire tiles. GoS tanks zombies swipes well enough.