Scholar's Shield

Type

Sorcery

FP cost

30

Memory slots

1

Stamina cost

10

Requires

12Int

Spell school

Glintstone sorceries

One of the glintstone sorceries of the Academy of Raya Lucaria.

Enchants shield held in the left hand with additional damage negation.

This sorcery can be cast while in motion.

Taught to the Knights of the Cuckoo by the academy as payment for their contract.

Waypoint Ruins cellar

Limgrave

Starting Site of Grace: Waypoint Ruins Cellar

Before you go

• Have 2,500 runes.
• Defeat Mad Pumpkin Head at Waypoint Ruins to reach Sellen.

1. Follow the road along the eastern side of Agheel Lake to Waypoint Ruins. The ruins are filled with poisonous flowers; look among the stone walls for the stairs into the cellar.
2. Go down and defeat Mad Pumpkin Head. His helmet blocks many frontal hits, so try to get around his side rather than repeatedly hitting the metal head.
3. Open the door at the back of the arena, speak to Sellen and agree to study sorcery. Her shop is here, rather than at her chained body in Witchbane Ruins.
4. Buy Scholar's Shield for 2,500 runes. No scroll is required for this starting stock.

Notes

• Requires 12 Intelligence and one memory slot. Cast with a glintstone staff; each cast costs 30 FP before equipment that changes casting costs.
• Enchants a left-hand shield for 60 seconds. Hold the casting staff in your right hand, cast the spell, then switch that hand to your weapon while leaving the shield active.
• Reduces damage that gets through a block by 70% for Magic and 30% for physical, fire, lightning and holy damage. These reductions apply to the damage left after the shield's own protection, rather than adding flat percentage points to its displayed negation.
• It also reduces the stamina damage left after Guard Boost by 35%. If a block would otherwise cost 40 stamina, the buff brings that cost to 26 before other modifiers.
• The defensive benefit does not scale with Intelligence or Sorcery Scaling. Once you meet the casting requirements, upgrading the staff does not make this shield buff stronger.
• Can be used on shields with any affinity. This differs from ordinary weapon enchantments, which have stricter affinity rules.
• Greatshield Talisman can add its separate reduction to block stamina loss. The effects multiply rather than adding their percentages directly.
• Changing away from the shield or applying another shield buff removes this enchantment. Old Lord's Talisman extends it to 78 seconds.
• It improves blocking rather than protecting every hit you take. An attack that gets around the shield still needs a dodge or another defense.
• If the teacher dies after this spell is available in their shop, their bell bearing preserves the unpurchased stock at the Twin Maiden Husks. You do not need to kill a teacher to buy the spell.