Shield

This page is about the Item Class. For general category of equipment also including quivers, see off-hand equipment.

An Off Hand or off-hand is an item class of equipment that counts as both armour and off-hand equipment. They provide base defences based on their attribute alignment.

Off-hands are further categorized into two sub-classes:

• Shields, which grant chance to block. Certain basetypes also grant the Raise Shield skill.
• Foci (or Focus), which does not grant any chance to block, and can roll caster modifiers.

Mechanics

Off hands can only be equipped in the off-hand weapon slot, and cannot normally be used with two-handed weapons unless Giant's Blood is allocated.

Types of shields

There are 5 main categories of off hands:

• 3 primary attribute categories which require a single attribute and provide an associated defence type.
  • "Tower Shield" - Strength - Armour
  • "Buckler" - Dexterity - Evasion
  • '"Foci" - Intelligence - Energy Shield
• 2 hybrid attribute categories which require two attributes and provide both associated defence types at lower values.
  • "Targe" - Strength/Dexterity - Armour/Evasion
  • "Kite Shield" - Strength/Intelligence - Armour/Energy Shield

There are no dexterity/intelligence hybrid off hand base types.

List of off hands

Main page: List of off hands

List of off hands

Unique off hands

Main page: List of unique off hands

Skill gems usable with shields

Main page: List of skill gems usable with shields

Gem	Tier
Raise Shield	0
Shield Charge	3
Magma Barrier	4
Resonating Shield	5
Shield Wall	7

Passive skills

There are passive skills that grant bonuses related to shields.

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