now that we've covered all of your moves the last thing you need to absolutely master this weapon is a good armor set so when it comes to making your mix sets here are some armor skills that are definitely worth considering on the attack side of things the following skills provide damage increases either through raw attack or increased affinity and crit potential skills like attack boost agitator peak performance critical eye critical boost weakness exploits latent power or even maximum might these are pretty standard skills that go nicely with most weapons but keep in mind for sword and shield given that it is a fast attacking weapon it pairs very nicely with crit focus skills however as mentioned sword and shield also excels in elemental or status damage so skills like critical elements paired with the respective element attack up skills for your weapon ice dragon thunder fire water etc and also the abnormal statuses like poison paralysis or sleep outside of that in select cases you might want to consider using guard if you really want to double down on that guard point skill since doing so will reduce your knockback allowing you to follow into perfect rush from more attacks and of course offensive guard if you really want to lean into the damage potential of metsu shorty gekki additionally if you're running the hard basher combo then consider throwing on slugger for some extra ko and you're pretty much set and outside of that just look at the play style you're trying to achieve and pick skills that synergise nicely but the above list is a decent place to get started
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