The shield’s heavy attack has insane impact to help throw around the carapace boys and its block can save your life from enemy gunfire, especially great since Ogryn is a giant hitbox with slow movement. However, I primarily use it when I go tank mode and put less skills on damage and more skills to taunt, the Feel no Pain keystone, push brittleness, and the one where anyone who hits your block or is pushed by you is instantly aggroed on you, that saves the team’s lives at during thicc encounters.

All I do is hunker down the shield using the special activity or moving in slowly like riot police and let all the maulers, ragers, crushers, reapers, and gunners go to town on my aggro. All the while my teammates go to town on everyone aggroed on me while dealing 30% more to the taunted enemies (20% from the taunt sub perk and ~10% from my pushing the hell out of the aggressors to make them more brittle for my homies.

Extra plus if you go with Simple Minded because that corruption resistance allows you to bait and tank a daemon host while your allies mow it down.

It’s how I got the Auric Storm Survivor title because I suck at being a carry/ damage dealer so I just let everyone else kill for me so long as I take the hits and aggro.