Shields

The General Shield Proficiency feat allows a character to use any of the following shields (except tower shields) without incurring a non-proficiency penalty.

The Tower Shield Proficiency feat allows a character to use tower shields without incurring a non-proficiency penalty. Non-proficiency with tower shields will also incur penalty on attack rolls at the value of the shield's Armor Check Penalty.

See also: Shield enchantment summary

The following table lists the basic shields in the game. Note that random-gen Bound to Account shields from chain end rewards (or quest end rewards in The Sharn Syndicate quests) use an older algorithm and do not match these stats. *1 Shields can get +1[W] as an enchantment, which overrides the AML to 20, even if the AML was higher; note that this currently applies to all lootgen shields (as of U15.2) Seems fixed with U18.1.

*2 This is for disjuncted shields. If the shield is enchanted, reduce this value by 1

*3 invokes a -2 penalty to attack rolls