Love Thumper

The  is a Maylay Shield manufactured by Bandit.

Special Weapon Effects
Enormously high recharge delay. High roid damage. When shield is depleted, in addition to normal Roid bonus the shield also produces an explosive nova every time the user connects with a melee attack.

Usage & Description
Given that the characteristic trait of the Love Thumper is its recharge delay, assumption is made that the user will be utilizing the shield strictly for its roid bonus. The tactic for using Love Thumper is to allow damage to deplete the shield and then use the roid and Nova bonus damage for as long as possible before the shield begins to recharge. Any further damage will restart the timer, which by itself gives more than enough time to move between groups of enemies.

The Love Thumper is a good choice for melee-focused characters such as Zero's Bloodshed builds. Paired with a powerful melee bonus such as a high level Rapier, a Strength Relic and the Many Must Fall skill, this shield can help to wreak havoc on groups of enemies while helping keep Zer0 cloaked.

Gaige can make good use of this shield. The Sharing is Caring skill will greatly increase the damage done by Deathtrap. The drawback is that unlike a cloaked Zero, Gaige would be completely vulnerable to damage. That said, a Gaige using Blood Soaked Shields could regenerate her entire shield every time she makes a kill, granting the huge melee damage to Deathtrap while having a shield. Alternatively, since Deathtrap keeps whatever shield Gaige has equipped at the time of summoning, Gaige can switch from the Love Thumper to a shield more beneficial to herself once Deathtrap is sent out.

As the protection from this shield is limited (it works more like a booster than a shield), some form of health recovery is advised for any player who uses it.

That said, this is a niche item that, outside mentioned scenarios, is surpassed in every aspect by other shields.

The shield's incredibly high recharge delay also make it a good option to keep Maya's Fleet skill active over long periods of time, should The Rough Rider be unavailable.

This shield is ideal for use with Krieg's Mania tree, as Mania revolves around providing boosts when Krieg's shield is down, using health damage to provide boosts to his action-skill cooldown and boosting explosive damage, especially during Second Wind. As such, it is wise to avoid completing this quest until the player is in the late game.

Trivia

 * The flavor text is a reference to a song called "(If you loving you is wrong) I don't want to be right."
 * Unlike most Unique items in Borderlands 2, the Love Thumper has purple rarity.
 * While the prism of a purple-rarity shield should normally be purple, the prism of the Love Thumper is yellow, which is a common trait of a legendary shield.