Icon Shield

StrikeSomber Smithing Stone—Unique skill

Greatshield painted with a divine scene; the recipience of a blessed tear from the Erdtree. An item that looks back fondly on the age of plenty.

Attack rating—At your attributes

Weight9Equip load units

Requires22Str

Passive buildup—At your attributes

Attack & scalingUpdates as you edit

Greatshield painted with a divine scene; the recipience of a blessed tear from the Erdtree. An item that looks back fondly on the age of plenty.

The divine scene acts in and of itself as a sacred invocation; gradually restoring the carrier's HP.

No SkillFP pending · Unique skill

This armament has no skill. If the armament in the other hand has a skill, that skill will be used instead.Ash of War: No Skill

Map pending

LocationWoodfolk Ruins

Altus Plateau

Starting Site of Grace: Bower of Bounty

Before you go

From Bower of Bounty, ride northeast through the wooded valley toward the Minor Erdtree. This is the forest below the broken greatbridge, rather than the road on top.
The large Wormface guards the tree. Its Death Blight clouds are dangerous even if you can survive the ordinary hits; move out before the buildup meter fills.
Pass the tree toward the ruins north of the boss clearing, then continue farther northeast to the separate northernmost ruined building.
Wormfaces and slugs are inside. Draw the nearest enemies out before stepping into the confined space, then search the corpse on the right for Icon Shield.
You do not need to defeat the large Wormface first. The cookbook in the nearer ruin and the cellar farther south are different pickups.

Map location pending

Restores 3 HP each second while active. The recovery is a flat amount, so upgrading the shield or raising maximum HP does not increase the heal.
The recovery works with other compatible regeneration, such as Blessed Dew Talisman and regeneration incantations. Two Icon Shields do not double their own effect.
Its regeneration works even below the 22 Strength requirement. That does not make it effective for blocking: meet the requirement if you intend to use it as a shield.
Weighs 9.0 and begins with 61 Guard Boost. Standard guard stops 95% of physical damage, so physical chip damage can still get through a successful block.
Its elemental block is Magic 49%, Fire 45%, Lightning 51% and Holy 48%. The healing is not a replacement for adequate protection against a heavy hit.
Has No Skill, leaving the right-hand weapon's skill available when the shield is in your left hand. Its skill and affinity cannot be replaced with an Ash of War.
Upgrade it with Somber Smithing Stones to +10. It is an exception that can still use compatible shield enchantments or Shield Grease despite its fixed skill and Somber upgrade path.
The shield is a corpse pickup inside the northern ruins, not a random Wormface drop or a reward for the large Wormface boss.

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