Bronze Shield

Bronze Shield

Vendor Value	1,800
Enchantment Slots	1
Slot	Shield
Offensive Affinity
Melee Magic Range -1% -10% -10%
Defensive Stats
Crit Avoidance	10%
Crit Reduction	0.8
Protection Resistance Agility Stamina 4 -1 -1 3.75
Defensive Affinity
Melee Magic Range 15% 15% 15%
Piercing Blunt Slashing 13% 33% 13%
Set Bonus
Nigh-Invincibility [6] Increases protection, resistance, and stamina by 10%. Enhances parries to negate all damage when you parry. Increases threat by 25%. Increases strength of self de/buffs by 2. Increases strength of team de/buffs by 1. Increases enemy de/buffs stacks by 25%.
Protective Plates [2, 3, 4] Increases protection by [7.5%|15%|22.5%].
Enchanting
Base XP	20
Cost 1 Bronze Bar
Augmentation
Bonus Stats +0.2 Protection +0.2 Stamina
Research
Success Fail Basic Runic Dust Common Gear Scraps
Crafting
Category	Melee
Level	3
Experience	250
Tooltip
A crude bronze shield. Better than nothing.

A Bronze Shield is a low-tier shield that provides small defensive bonuses when in combat. It does not have any requirement to be equipped.

Acquisition

A Bronze Shield can be bought at the Marketplace or can be crafted:

Icon	Name	Skill: Level	Experience	Recipe
	Bronze Shield	Crafting (Melee): 3	250	x50

Augmenting

Augmenting a Bronze Shield provides +0.2 Protection and +0.2 Stamina per augmentation and costs 1 Bronze Bar per counter increase, and a number of Bronze Shield base copies when augmenting beyond +5.

Enchanting

Scroll	Slot	Level	Silver Amount	Rune Amount	Runes	Effect per scroll
Scroll of Weakening	Helm, Body, Legs, Shield, Weapon	4	100	20	Air, Fire, Mind	Decreases the level requirements of the item by 1.
Scroll of Healing	Shield, Combat-Amulet	10	200	30	Blood, Nature, Cosmic	Passive heal per tick increased by 20%. Increases health received from consumables by 10%.
Scroll of Fortitude	Shield, Combat-Amulet	68	800	70	Blood, Chaos, Nature	Increases stamina by 10.
Scroll of Force	Shield	79	900	80	Blood, Death, Chaos	Gain 1% of your protection as strength.

See also

• Equipment