Steadfast Shield hidden effect revealed?Follow

So, I was sitting in Adoulin not long ago looking at shouts and saw a plasm farm shout for PLD. Not abnormal, but I saw Steadfast Shield (the Delve shield) as one of the options. Which it's not a bad shield and it has been confirmed that PLD's have successfully supertanked with it in Delve. But abnormal enough for me to go re-check the BG wiki page again to see this now attached at the bottom.


Can anyone confirm this to be true? Or is this just trolling? I was going to log into the Test Server to see if I can even instantly get the shield to confirm, but it's like 4 hours of files. If it is true that it nullifies damage on blocks, where does this now put the shield compared to Aegis and Ochain?

iam also seeing people /shouting for S shield. my guess is it true. look at all the other D weapons they more stronger then relic etc so i dont see why the shield wont be also. well boys and girls looks like Ochain & Aegis got compilation

While presently true for the weapons, they intend to upgrade those. Commentary on the shields still stands, though.


One of SE's examples on the matter.

Edited, Jun 16th 2013 2:42am by Seriha

Sounds nice, but still not enough for PLD's to be accepted without Ochain or Aegis is it? I'd love it if so, but it's too much to hope for I'm sure.

Edited, Jun 16th 2013 8:07am by Camiie

I think you misunderstood. I'd love it if this shield would mean an end to Aegis/Ochain or GTFO. PLDs should never have had to deal with that. My question is if our increasingly d-bag community or the country club PLDs will accept the notion.

Pretty sure it was shown to NOT have Ochain's block rate. Someone brought this theory up on BG and someone then posted 3 SS's of a page full of Morimar lizard attacks. Had more 0's on Steadfast shield's page than Aegis, so a higher block rate there, but Ochain had 100% 0's the entire page, a whole lot higher than steadfast.

Not bard.

Nah, it's just a Size 3 with ridiculously high defense pushing the damage reduction on block.

Edited, Jun 16th 2013 10:38am by Raelix

Well, it's 50% damage blocked from base Size 3. And it gets another 25% from it's DEF:50 (%=def/2).

So it doesnt block for 0. It just blocks 75% of the damage taken upon a block. Which is significant, true, but any size 3 with DEF:40 already blocks 70% of the damage (ochain). For pure damage mitigation, even Aegis outblocks it damage wise. It may only have 40 def, but it's base size damage reduction is based off a tower shield (i believe that was 65% base), not the kite shield.

If it blocks more often than Aegis, i might want to look into getting it. If it blocks the same amount or less, then it's rubbish but maybe nice if it sports some incredible stats.

sum up:

Ochain: 70% reduced, but blocks pretty much always regardless of opponent
Steadfast Shield: 75% reduced, no idea on proc-rate
Aegis: 85% reduced, but is stuck having to deal with the natural proc cap for shields (which is a calculation and also depends on what you're facing).

There's one ne thing I'd like to know as I've had some interest in getting at least one decent sheild to use on Paladin. What path is being used on the sheild, and what rank is it. As I under stood it, there's; Hp/Vit/Int, Mp/Vit/Int, and the lesser Hp/MP/Mdef (+35/+30/+4 max, really? That's a Rdm sheild). From what people are saying, the gist its that SS is a physical version of Aegis with a slightly lower blockrate that's made up by the extra Vit and -pdt.

With all the talk about if it's a side choice or not for pld. Has anyone actually maxed the upgrades on it and what would be a better path choice for Pld? If the pattern is not broken then path A & B could have +14 vit. Then anywhere around +40 ~ +70 Hp or Mp (has to be higher than C) and 8 ~ 10 Int, if simular to other third teir stats. Right now I'm assuming the 0 dmg rate is either seen at rank 6 or its base form. I'm not even looking at the third path if the numbers on BG is correct. For magic, so far Aegis @ lv99 may be a better choice than SS while having a Run next to you. Otherwise a maxed SS may as well be a safe side alternative for folks who have not reached 99 on Ochain, and need the focus on Pdt over Mdt.

I am working solo(real solo, not multibox) on the souls portion of an Ochain, thank you S-E for that special kind of hell.

If the Steadfast Shield serves the purpose in Fracture runs, and you can pick it up with 6 hours of effort, it would seem to be a great stepping stone on the way to an Ochain or an Aegis for a small fraction of the effort. With the weak link in the Fracture chain being the securing of PLDs, I mean, what am I missing here?

I been in a few fracture plasm farm runs with a pld steadfast shield, its really not that bad. Just need the healer and bard to be more focus.

Edited, Jun 18th 2013 10:06am by chinaman

Pretty much what most people were suggesting. It's not an O.Chain but it's perfectly functional for doing stuff like Delve NM holding.