God damn it I hate to show my nerd cards this hard

shield+staff, you can’t use the staff at any range the shield would be useful, and it’s a str scaling staff so you’re doing less damage than if you 2 handed it.

Not strictly true due to quite a few, quite good, melee spells. Carian piercer is really good, same for that big hammer spells, and the great sword spell is one of the hardest hitting spells in the game

This is double true if you're using the jellyfish shield which buffs your spell damage.

shield+moonveil, you can’t use the only reason people use moonveil, the weapon art.

If you don't put an ash of war on your shield it lets you use your right hand ash, so it works, but the stat spread you'd need for it isnt technically ideal

The rest is true though

Also lol at him trying to use all those things at once and fat rolling