Shields - Baldur's Gate 3 Database

Blood is smeared across the shield’s face, exalting wielders who bear the Absolute’s mark - and blighting those who don’t.

The Word of the Absolute

Shield

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The dull shine of the adamantine promises this shield could take a thousand beatings – and still look as good as new.

Adamantine Shield: When a melee attack misses you, the attacker is sent Reeling for 2 turn.

Shield Bash: When a foe hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction, to knock it Prone unless they succeed a Dexterity Saving Throw.

Attackers can’t land Critical Hits on the wearer.

• On the corpse of a skeleton in the Dorms area, located right above the Grymforge. You can access it via the stairs near the dock, then jump across using the lever bridges. (X: -556 Y: 408)

Associated Quest: The Adamantine Shield blueprint can be found solely through the undertaking of The Adamantine Forge quest. This quest is an essential precursor for access to the shield’s blueprint.

Crafting Procedure: To make the Adamantine Shield, you will need both the Shield Mould and some Mithral Ore. The assembly process takes place at the Adamantine Forge, which is located at coordinates X:-561 and Y:226. The sequential steps include placing the moulds into the forge, followed by the Mithral Ore, and finally, initiating the forge’s operation by utilizing the available lava.

Merchant Accessibility: The items for crafting can also be obtained from Grym as another method for obtaining the necessary items needed to make the shield.

Shield

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Shield

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Sticky, rope-like seaweed is wrapped around this oversized shell, allowing it to be fashioned as a shield.

• Equipped by the Kou-toa in the Underdark within The Festering Cove.

Shield

+2

Soft, loving whispers emanate from this shield. Though barely audible and spoken in some long forgotten language, they make you feel safe.

The Glowing Shield is a unique and uncommon shield that offers a distinctive form of defense. The shield emits soft, comforting whispers in a long-forgotten language, a phenomenon that instills a feeling of safety in those who wield it. This magical shield holds the power to bestow Temporary Hit Points upon the wearer when they find themselves in dire straits, taking damage while significantly injured.

Loving Protection: Once per Short Rest, if you are below 50% Hits Points and take damage, you gain 8 Temporary Hit Points.

• Location: The Glowing Shield can be discovered within a locked chest positioned on a ridge situated behind the Goblin Camp.
• Coordinates: X: -53, Y: 461

• The Glowing Shield’s unique ability reflects its name by providing “Loving Protection” through the bestowal of Temporary Hit Points.
• The enchantment activates when the wearer’s Hit Points fall below 50%, ensuring that it aids the bearer when they are significantly injured.

Shield

+2

Small pockets of rust are starting to eat away at a few of the studs.

Shield

+2

This thick oak shield is reinforced with a frame of rough-hammered iron.

An Iron-Banded Shield +1 is classified as a rare Shield, featuring an enchantment that enhances its Armour Class Armour Class bonus.

The wearer of this item gains no special properties beyond the Armour Class Armour Class enchantment.

Chapter Two:

• Leaning against a rack next to the bugbear merchant Lann Tarv in Moonrise Towers. Note: Must be stolen; Lann himself does not carry it in his stock.

Chapter Three:

• Hanging on a post inside The Rivington General (the shop tended by Exxvikyap) in Rivington.
• On a table outside the Audience Hall of Wyrm’s Rock Fortress in Wyrm’s Crossing ( X: 20 Y: 202 ).
• On the altar to Helm in the Stormshore Tabernacle in the Lower City ( X: 117 Y: -20 ).

Shield

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+1

Though the metal is only of moderate quality, a proud, flaming fist decorates the front of this shield.

The Metal Shield is a standard shield featuring the emblem of the Flaming Fist mercenaries. The shield’s front is adorned with a prominent symbol of a proud, flaming fist.

This shield is obtainable by discovering it among the wares offered by Grat the Trader at the Goblin Camp.

Shield

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These three small stumps make for a peculiar but effective shield.

The Organic Shield falls under the category of common shields. It stands out due to its unique design, featuring three small stumps that serve as an unconventional yet surprisingly efficient form of defense.

• This shield can be acquired by defeating a Wood Woad creature located in the Putrid Bog at coordinates (X:95, Y:210).

Shield

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A hand-like symbol is artlessly painted on the front of this wood shield.

A Scrapwood Shield is a common form of shield commonly employed by Goblins. The front surface of the shield features a crudely painted symbol resembling a hand.

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• Scrapwood Shields can be discovered in the possession of various characters throughout the game.

Shield

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Clever enchantments dance between the grooves of this shield, which emanates a magic of heightened awareness.

The Sentinel Shield is a Rare Shield in Baldur’s Gate 3. The Heightened Awareness effect is especially notable to allow advantages in fights where higher initiative is needed and for Perception Checks.

Heightened Awareness: Gain a +3 bonus to initiative rolls and Advantage on Perception Ability Checks.

Shield Bash: When a for hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction, to knock it Prone unless they succeed a Dexterity Saving Throw.

• Can be purchased for 1083 !gold from Lann Tarv at Moonrise Towers during Act 2 onwards.

Shield

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Though dented in many places, this shield shines like new.

The Shield +1 stands as a rare piece of equipment, designed to fortify defense by augmenting its Armor Class bonus. Although bearing dents in various places, this shield radiates a gleam akin to its brand-new state.

No Special Properties: Beyond the augmented Armor Class enchantment, the shield does not offer additional distinctive attributes.

Location 1: The shield can be discovered on a shelf behind Exxvikyap within The Rivington General in Rivington.
Location 2: Another Shield +1 is positioned on a shelf on the second floor of The Rivington General.
Location 3: An additional shield is situated behind Akabi in the Circus of the Last Days in Rivington. However, while visible, it remains unobtainable.
Location 4: A Shield +1 can be looted from a Sarcophagus in the Hhune Mausoleum.

Shield

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+1

Any tales about the !Paladins of Velen are so ancient as to be almost certainly hearsay. Irrefutable, however, is the powerful blessing they left on this ancient shield, which inspires heart-fluttering bravery to this day.

The Shield of Devotion is a Very Rare Shield in Baldur’s Gate 3. It is a very useful shield for Paladin other than the Paladin (Oathbreaker) due to its spell slot addition and useful protection spells.

Additional Spell Slot: You gain 1 Level 1 spell slots.

Shield Bash: When a foe hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction, to knock it Prone unless they succeed a Dexterity Saving Throw.

Shield of Devotion: Aid
Level 3 Abjuration Spell

• Can be purchased for 1083 Gold from Quartermaster Talli at Last Light Inn from Act 2.

Shield

+2

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Shield

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Shield

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Shield

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Is there anything as beautiful as lightning striking all around you?’ Yrre the Sparkstruck said, letting lightning strike all around them.

The Real Sparky Sparkswall is classified as an uncommon shield that grants the wearer the ability to generate a Lightning Aura.

Wearing this item provides the wearer with the ability:

• Lightning Aura: By expending 3 Lightning Charges, release a burst of electricity that inflicts damage and Jolts nearby enemies.

  • Action Required
  • Requires 3 Lightning Charges
  • Range: 6 m / 20 ft
  • Saving Throw: Dexterity Save
  • Duration: Lasts for 3 turns
  • Recharge: Requires a Long Rest

• Jolted (Condition): Affected creatures suffer 1d4 Lightning damage each turn and lose the ability to take Reactions. Condition ends upon exiting the Lightning Aura.

This shield can be obtained from a securely locked and trapped chest located in Grymforge at coordinates (X:-695, Y:420).

Shield

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Shield

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Shield

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Local rumour claims a devil’s tear gives these city militia shields their fire - much to the chagrin of the barracks blacksmith.

• Shield Bash: When a foe hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to knock it Prone unless they succeed a Dexterity Saving Throw.
• Grants Resistance to Fire damage.

You can loot this shield from a Dead Flaming Fist corpse, which can be found beneath some rubble just north of the Last Light Inn in the Shadow-Cursed Lands. You need to succeed a Perception check to reveal the rubble, then use a character with high enough strength to move it and reveal the corpse.

Shield

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Fire

‘Walking Fortress’ is a defensive technique reliant on a shield of this caliber. It involves upsetting your opponent who just wants to land a single blow.

Viconia’s Walking Fortress is an esteemed legendary shield that possesses remarkable defensive capabilities. When struck by assailants, this shield can retaliate with a burst of Force damage. It not only offers potent protection against spells, granting an Advantage to saving throws, but also imposes a Disadvantage on spell attacks directed at the bearer.

• Rebuke of the Mighty: When a foe hits you with a melee attack, you can use your Reaction Icon.png Reaction, dealing it 2~8 Force damage and knock it Prone (Condition) unless they succeed a Dexterity Saving Throw.
• Spellguard: You gain Advantage on Saving Throws against spells. Spell Attack Rolls against you have Disadvantage.
• Can cast Reflective Shell once per Short Rest.
• Can cast Warding Bond once per Long Rest.

Viconia’s Walking Fortress is acquired by looting from Viconia DeVir during the Daughter of Darkness quest in Chapter Three.

Shield

In the theatre of dreams, Ketheric killed his wife every night. That wasn’t how things happened… but always upon waking, he would glare into the dark, long-faced and solumn, and he would think: “I keep you alive with my memories, beloved. I kill you with what I’ve become.”

Arcane Enchantment: You gain +1 bonus to Spell Save DC and Spell Attack Rolls.

Shield Bash (Reaction): When a foe hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to knock it Prone, unless they succeed a Dexterity Saving Check.

Defeat Kethirc Thorm at the end of Act 2.

Shield

+2

Each whorl and groove and worm-curled twist of this shield evokes a tangle of bog-stuck trees in rain-swollen vines.

Ironvine: While the wielder is holding a weapon empowered with Shillelagh, and when they are hit by a melee attack, the attacker takes 1 Piercing damage.

Inside the Reithwin Tollhouse. (X: 127, Y: -91)

Shield

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And with her arm, the dryad linked a man who had once been her lover, and once of flesh and bone. Now his flesh was bark, and his bone heartwood. In his eyes, a feverish love still blazed like a thousand fireflies in a spring meadow.

+2 AC green quality shield.

Ensnaring Strike

Dropped from a Wood Woad creature, found in the bog lands near the Karga quest objective to the Southwest of the Hag’s Lair in Act 1. The Wood Woads are on the other side of the large felled tree trunk.

Shield

+2

A gnomish adventurer once used this to outpace his enemies down a slope.

Shield Conduit: The Shield Shrouds the wearer with Force Conduit at the start of its turn in combat. (Bludgeoning, Piercing and Slashing damage against the affected entity is reduced by 1 per turn remaining. if the entity takes damage while it has 5 or more turns remaining, it deals 1d4 Force damage in a 6-meter radius.)

Shield Bash: When a foe hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction, to knock it Prone unless they succeed a Dexterity Saving Throw.

Sold by Exxvikyap near the Rivington General Store.

Shield

+2

Named in the style of Extremely Unimaginative Jimmy, the geographer and interior decorator who named the ‘waterfall’ and ‘fireplace’.

Shield Bash: When a foe hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction, to knock it Prone unless they succeed a Dexterity Saving Throw.

Found inside Helm’s offerings chest, located in the underground basement of the Stormshore Tabernacle. Pick lock the hatch in the corner of the church floor, and then enter the basement. Be mindful of Gas Traps and Pressure Plates, so we recommend going into Turn Based Mode and slowly revealing the traps and disarming them, or flying over them to get here. Once in the other room, avoid the trap again, and then loot the chests as you so desire.

Note that each item in these chests are cursed, and will spawn a Deva protecting them when looted. However, you can drag the items out of the box place them on the floor, and then loot them to avoid fighting the Deva.

Shield

+2

Supposedly fashioned around a lock of hair stolen from the head of a prince in Gloomwrought, shields of this ilk gladly welcome the dark.

• Stealth +1

Inside a chest by the dock in the Ruined Battlefield. (X: -58, Y: -116)

It’s on okay item for a Tricket Sleric, or other wizard that can use shields to sneak around with until something better comes along, like the Dark Justiciar Shield

Shield

The Absolute’s power radiates from this shield, invisible waves of energy beckoning to the Branded.

• Absolute’s Aegis: If the wielder bears the Absolute’s Brand, all damage received from spells is reduced by 1.
• Fire Shield: Chill - Ice-cold flames shred light in a 3m radius. You take only half the damage of all Fire damage and deal 2-16 Cold Damage to anyone who hits you with a melee attack.
• Shield Bash: When a foe hits you with a melee attack you can use your reaction, to knock it Prone unless they succeed a Dexterity Saving Throw.

Drops from the names Abosultist guard at the front of Moonrise Towers once you begin the assault on Moonrise post-Gauntlet of Shar.

Pretty decent ten-turn thorn-type spell on a shield. If you want to take full advantage of it, you need to be Branded, which happened back in Act 1 when you speak to the GOblin priestess with one of your party members in the Shattered Sanctum.

Shield

+2

It’s never the shield that kills you - but hearing your frantic steel thudding uselessly against reinforced oak in the darkness is a good sign the end is near.

• Darkness Cloak: Creates a Cloud of Darkness and immediately attempts to Hide. It lasts 2 turns, costs a bonus action, and resets on a Short Rest.
• Shield Bash

Drops from the Dark Justiciar who is turned into a rat at the base of the large Shar statue in the Gauntlet of Shar. Players can jump down here using Feather Fall. (X: -721 Y: -723). It drops alongside the Justiciar’s Scimitar.

Shield

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