Dragonhead Shield

The Dragonhead Shield is a small shield added in The Ringed City dlc for Dark Souls III.

Availability

 * found on the pathway near the Purging Monument, right after the solving the "humanity riddle" next to the Ringed City Streets bonfire.

Characteristics
The Dragonhead Shield should not be used as one would use a regular small shield. While it does have moderately high physical resistance, and extremely good fire resistance, it weighs more than any other small shield in the game, in fact it has the weight of lighter weight regular shield with a below average stability for the small shield class. Its stability is even worse than the Buckler if compared at max upgrade.

It should instead be treated purely as an offensive offhand weapon that deals high fire damage, with the ability to hits opponents twice if they stand close enough. Players can however, block pyromancies and other fire based projectiles rather well as it has an extremely high fire damage resistance, likely the highest of its weight class. Only the Black Iron Greatshield and the Dragonhead Greatshield have as much fire resistance.

Upgrades
Upgrades with Titanite Scale.