can any of pirates job use shiled?

Well, I heard that bare fists [no weapon equipped] counts as a 1-handed knuckle. So you could use a shield with that?

Probably not useful aside from a super-funded nub with like an 18+ shield, but yeah.

Or if you make a pirate using 1h common equip weapons(like Purse's or umbrella's or w/e) then you get both shield atk bonus + weapon atk, wich is normally higher then knuckle. But its still only useful first job, and a little ways into second, before the attacks require you to have a knuckle equipped.