New player. I made a small corner shield and bought a scimitar. I equipped them using the paperdoll. They appear on my character. When I press "T" and draw the sword, everything is fine. Push LMB, everything is fine. But the minute I "parry" with RMB, the shield and scimitar are swapped BACK with the starter shield and the starter sword. New shield and scimitar return to inventory.
The paperdoll is not the way to equip weapons, try this: 1) Put the 1 handed sword/shield in a slot in your hotbar (you can drop the sword first and then put the shield on top, dont forget to activate auto parry) 2) Bind this hotbar slot to a key (most ppl have it on right mouse button afaik) 3) Press right mouse button to parry