Pro tip:
Get a sword or dagger in your main hand, and nothing in your offhand. Then alternate between light attacks and bashing (attack while blocking).
If you do this combo right you can relatively harmlessly solo any enemy in the game in a 1v1 (including dragons and centurions).
It takes a bit of practice, but you need to get the timing right to get the bashes to land after the stagger animation from the previous bash has ended, but before the enemy can do another attack. Normally the timing is:
Bash->Light Attack->Brief Pause->Repeat->Bash...
or
Bash->Light Attack->Light Attack->Repeat->Bash...
The issue here is stamina, but as long as there you have no stamina regen debuffs active (alcohol, survival, etc) you should regen the min 1 stamina required to do another bash quick enough to do another as long as you don't do heavy attacks, or there are soups you can cook like Vegetable Soup which will give you 1 stamina per second for over 10 minutes.
Or do what @calvinoot said ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Get a sword or dagger in your main hand, and nothing in your offhand. Then alternate between light attacks and bashing (attack while blocking).
If you do this combo right you can relatively harmlessly solo any enemy in the game in a 1v1 (including dragons and centurions).
It takes a bit of practice, but you need to get the timing right to get the bashes to land after the stagger animation from the previous bash has ended, but before the enemy can do another attack. Normally the timing is:
Bash->Light Attack->Brief Pause->Repeat->Bash...
or
Bash->Light Attack->Light Attack->Repeat->Bash...
The issue here is stamina, but as long as there you have no stamina regen debuffs active (alcohol, survival, etc) you should regen the min 1 stamina required to do another bash quick enough to do another as long as you don't do heavy attacks, or there are soups you can cook like Vegetable Soup which will give you 1 stamina per second for over 10 minutes.
Or do what @calvinoot said ¯\_(ツ)_/¯