I find shield useless, I just stopped playing with it all-together. I only attempt to kill blue/sometimes white no arrows if I am feeling lucky. Hardly do I ever engage in multitargets. Anything 3 or more I think is certain death. I feel like the Assasins are really owning up on the dps, seems like they can solo a lot better than us. I for one would like to see a little bit heavier hits coming from the swashie department.