Marred Leather Shield

Notes

• Requires eight Strength and weighs three. Standard affinity blocks 90% Physical damage and starts with 51 Guard Boost.
• Shield attacks apply 50 innate blood loss buildup. Merely blocking a hit does not apply that bleed to the attacker, and the shield has no rolling-damage effect.
• No Skill is fitted by default. Equip a compatible Shield Bash or Shield Crash if you want a skill that attacks with the shield, or keep No Skill for the right-hand weapon.
• The Blood affinity has the usual medium-shield buildup but adds an extra 100 flat damage to the resulting Blood Loss burst compared with an ordinary Blood medium shield. This is additional proc damage, not another 100 buildup per hit.
• Arcane increases its bleed only when the selected affinity supplies Arcane scaling. Standard has innate bleed without that Arcane scaling.
• Found on Stormveil's early side-route stairs. It is a fixed corpse pickup, not an Exile Soldier drop.
• Upgrade it with ordinary Smithing Stones to +25. The listed blocking percentages and base Guard Boost describe Standard affinity; changing affinity can trade physical protection for an element.
• Can use compatible shield Ashes of War. Shield Grease or Scholar's Shield can improve guarding; these are defensive shield buffs rather than permission to apply ordinary offensive grease to every affinity.