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I can't recall the armor sounds not being present at any point except maybe Dark Souls 2?
As for the others
>Shield was universally useful and didn't need to roll.
Shields being bad in DaS 3 onward is a meme, like someone blatantly lied about them being shit (I think Mathew Mattosis) and /v/ just parroted it no stop.
My last Dark Souls 3 Run was me with using a great shield as early as possible, mining the curseward greatshield for most of the game.

It functioned absolutely fine and made some bosses trivial while making others like Soul of Cinder and Aldritch harder.

>Healing spells actually had a purpose
Explain.