Yea. I had the same issue in my early versions of this build. That’s one of the reason I opted in for heavy weight so I can shove shield enemies and destroy them before they get up. But one can always parry as a god souls player.
Finally a build that uses stamina, I swear to got it's so weird to me how so many other builds out there play with the base 10 stamina, it just feels so suffocating when you don't have the stamina regen attributes. Well, I still find the heavy weight to be odd since I like the quick dash, but I'll give it a try