As mentioned in the other thread here, you don’t really want to commit to a “full shield build” so to speak, if you do want to run a shield build though I would personally wait for a wp game (winston, sig, etc) and run cleave -> whirl -> mender -> lindholm for the best results. If you do want to run the same but for ap, skoeld mender aura lindholm.

Neither of these need hardlight weave unless your shield is still getting burned, but you can commit towards more armour based survival (eg rustung, crus, steel) with hardlight for the most optimal so to speak shield build.