Yes or no? Why?
Dragon Scale Shield or Nah
C42 and.. any arena that isnt fiend/undead. So yea it has a lot of uses
The only Fire/Pierce shield, may be more useful if fire slimes and beasts get a buff of some sort.
@Holy-Nightmare
Well to be fair, Oilers are a freakin pain.
I'd say the shield is good if you're either being really cheap and don't want to buy both an elemental and a pierce shield, or you're so far into lategame that you can afford to buy very specialized pieces of equipment.
I actually really love the shield for a lot more than just C42. It does a great job resisting all poison/fire pure piercing and pure elemental attacks, to name a few-
Toxigels' spin attack
Oilers
Giant lichen colonies' spin attack
Gun puppies
Polyps
Dust buns
Gremlin Scorchers
Gremlin Mortafires
Gremlin Demos (in T3)
Retrode beams
Which makes it uniquely better than having either an elemental+normal OR normal+piercing shield in a ton of situations that generally arise in areas like clockwork tunnels, compounds and beast arenas, as well as the obvious C42. Definitely worth getting for the end game but not before then, as its lack of normal resistance and strange status resists make it questionable, especially for popular areas like FSC. My priority when crafting shields:
1. Swift strike buckler = cheap and easy, as well as useful to patch holes in resistances
2. Some all around defensive shield that will go to 5*, being volcanic plate, omega, barb thorn shield, possibly any other defensive.
3. A combination of defensive shields that work on freeze/fire/shock/poison areas. Typically = Dread Skelly + Grey Owlite
5. Every possible combination of freeze/fire/shock/poison and elemental/piercing/shadow/normal.. Dragon falls in here for sure.
So I'm not trying to tell you that it's the best shield in the game, just that it does its job of resisting specific attacks incredibly well and that overall I'd love to own a few more shields like it.
It's pretty good if you plan on doing Compound 42, since it covers just about everything there.
Otherwise, it's not too useful elsewhere (I see people using it in FSC for fire defense, but Grey Owlite/Crest of Almire would be better for that)