this shield can be used and found quite early on. It has good absorption of damage, but you will get more out of the buff the shield's weapon art does than the shield itself.
Ok, some fair points here, although you fail to mention that games have cost roughly the same since the early 90s, inflation affecting them little to none. I remember some N64 games going even above the $60 price. How can we expect games to make profit when the big AAA ones can ...