Cause i like the bandit knife better than the small leather shield... Blocking? What are you, casul? Overall a pretty offensive build (at least I use it that way), if people tend to hug you, maybe fishing for backstabs, hit with the knife. It's really fun to attack both with the murakumo and the knife and play around with it. You *can* go for parries, I guess you won't really need those much nowadays...
