Everyone is saying that the tower shields with high block potency work better with bulwark.

However, i was under the impression that Bulwark increased your block chance by 60% of what your block chance is, not adds 60%, meaning it scales equally well with both shield types. (eg, a 5% block chance with a tower shield would become 8% chance, not 65% chance). If that's the case, tower shields would still be pretty meh.

I'm not sure on this though, i've heard conflicting accounts. Either way, the balanced Kite Shield type is the best available right now purely due to the Holy Shield being of that type. Outside of that I prefer bucklers - i still like the option of shield swipe more frequently even if it isnt all that useful, and prefer the consistancy.