Ritual Thrusting Shield

Notes

• Requires 13 Strength and 12 Dexterity, and weighs 10. Standard Physical damage scales more strongly with Dexterity than Strength.
• Thrusting-shield attacks combine an attack with guarding during part of the motion. Your attack and the incoming block both use stamina; an empty bar can leave you guard-broken.
• Standard blocks 82% of Physical damage, leaving some chip damage. Starting Guard Boost is 55, and Fire is its weakest elemental guard at 35%.
• Compared with Dueling Shield, it has higher starting attack but weaker scaling and lower Physical blocking. Its lower requirements and early pickup are different benefits from its long-term damage.
• Shield Strike costs no FP and lets the skill input continue its normal attack chain. It is useful in the left hand, where an ordinary attack input would otherwise operate the right-hand weapon.
• Can use compatible Ashes from its melee and shield options. It is not limited to the exact skill list of an ordinary Medium Shield.
• For a melee skill on the left-hand shield, two-hand it if the right-hand skill takes priority. Shield skills follow their own input priority.
• Uses ordinary Smithing Stones to +25. Grease or an offensive enchantment works on a compatible Physical affinity, but a defensive shield coating replaces an existing offensive coating.
• Actual Pierce counterhits can benefit from Spear Talisman. This does not turn every blocked hit or shield bash into piercing damage.
• The pickup is inside Caelid Colosseum beyond the Great-Jar. The selected route approaches through the northern Siofra lift, rather than trying to climb the outer Caelid cliffs.
• Requires the additional weapon content. Its availability outside the Realm of Shadow does not mean it appears in an installation without those additions.