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Greatshield

Weapons · Greatshield

Wooden Greatshield

StrikeSmithing Stone—Ash of War changeable

Wooden greatshield reinforced with a metal ornamentation.

Attack rating—At your attributes

Weight8Equip load units

Requires14Str

Passive buildup—At your attributes

Attack & scalingUpdates as you edit

Wooden greatshield reinforced with a metal ornamentation.

Greatshields boast high damage negation and guard capacity, making enemy attacks easy to repel.

No SkillFP pending · Ash of War, changeable

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

Compatible Ashes of War (7)

These Ashes of War can be applied to this weapon.

Map pending

LocationStormveil Castle courtyard guardhouse

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Starting Site of Grace: Liftside Chamber

Before you go

Defeat Margit and take Stormveil's side route to Rampart Tower. Continue through the chapel and Grafted Scion dining hall to the large main courtyard. Cross the upper end of the courtyard to Liftside Chamber and activate its grace before searching the exposed guardhouse.
Leave Liftside Chamber into the courtyard with barricades and flamethrowers. Find the guardhouse on the eastern side, opposite the room with the Prophecy painting. It is on your right if you enter the courtyard from the main gate.
Climb to the guardhouse's upper wooden floor and loot the corpse for the shield.
Watch the soldiers and fire weapons covering the courtyard. This is a corpse pickup, not a chest or a random enemy drop, and neither Godrick nor the creature in the castle depths needs to be defeated.

Map location pending

A low-requirement greatshield at 14 Strength and 8 weight. Standard physical protection is only 91%, with 62 base Guard Boost, so its size does not mean a full physical block.
Its greatshield hardness makes qualifying smaller attacks rebound more readily than on a small or medium shield. That can create an opening, but bosses and heavy attacks will not all bounce.
Standard Lightning protection is 51%, Magic 49%, Holy 47% and Fire 41%. Both elemental chip and physical chip remain relevant.
Has No Skill by default and can use compatible Ashes of War. Its Standard shield attacks scale with Strength.
Two-handing provides the usual Strength bonus, letting 10 Strength meet its 14 Strength requirement. You then use the shield in both hands rather than guarding with it beside a separate weapon.
The shield is a fixed upper-floor corpse pickup in Stormveil's guardhouse. It is not a random shield drop from the soldiers, and Godrick does not need to be defeated.
Upgrade with Smithing Stones to +25. Defensive Shield Grease or a compatible shield-buff spell can improve guarding separately from offensive weapon coatings. Reinforcement does not remove chip damage from an incompletely blocked damage type.

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