Yeah I agree mirror shield is useless if you have candle
yeah, i've made some adjustments since that pic, and the club is gone; it had 1 rage, which is why it stayed as long as it did but now i have enough cleavers to make up the difference of losing it.
And i'm still using one of the the mirror shields because it has 2 haste on it, but I've also gotten several more haste buffs stacked on one of the hercule shields, so it may be next to go.
I've also given up on the coral since enemies never get a chance to attack back into me, though spikes carried me quite a ways while i was collecting cleavers.