im still sticking to my 1h sword.
shield thrash has 80% knockback and dull effect.
what is dull effect?
makes the enemy move twice as slow.
and seeing as how 2h sword is slow as balls already, good luck with that.
and you learn trash at lvl 10 LOL
i had a 2h sword zerk me and kept trashing, he didnt kill me and we were both lvl 16 lol.