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You should use coral since it gives 2 spike for each shield used.

Trust me I'm doing the same start and I'm on floor 128 because of it. :D

It outscales because you have multiple shields next to your weapon. It would be the same if you had 1 shield and 1 stopwatch but it looks like you have 4 or more. That would mean it outscales the stopwatch by like 4 times. Point is, if you have one shield and a stopwatch, you don't get outscaled.

One shield can only activate the weapon once, while shield spirit debuff activate multiple times