Hi, here's some information about the stacking of enhancements that increase your shield AC that I wanted to share
Character:
- +3 Shield Enhancement Bonus (Shield Expertise, fighter enhancement)
- +15% Shield AC (Dwarven Shield Mastery, racial enhancement)
- +15% Shield AC (Sacred Shield Mastery, paladin enhancement)
- +15% Shield AC (Stalwart Shield Mastery, fighter enhancement)
- +50% Shield AC (Reinforced Shield, fighter enhancement)
- +50% Shield AC (Reinforced Shield, paladin enhancement)
- +50% Shield AC (Shield Provess, unyielding sentinel epic destiny)
- 10% Total AC Bonus (Combat Expertise, feat)
Shields:
AC numbers as displayed in various places:
Code:
Name inventory equipped char-sheet total predicted
None 0 0 0 118 118.8
+2 Spiritcraft Buckler 4 6 20 141 141.5
+1 Magecraft Shield 9 12 35 157 157.4
+2 Magecraft Shield 10 13 38 161 160.98
+2 Mountain Shield 12 15 43 162 162.7
Madstone Shield 13 16 46 169 170.72
+4 Mountain Shield 14 17 49 173 173.97
Adherence 14 17 49 173 173.97
+7 Planeforged Shield 19 22 64 189 190.2
Stacking:
Apparently the increase to enhancement bonus is applied first, then all shield ac bonuses are applied (stacking additively), finally the combat expertise bonus is applied:
(shield armor + shield expertise bonus) * (100% + sum of all shield ac bonuses) * (110% from combat expertise)
Or in the case of my test character:
(shield armor + 3) * 2.95 * 1.1 = (shield armor + 3) * 3.245
Other notes:
- Shield bashing seems to be fixed now, there is no cooldown on shield bashes. Apparently it was broken before (http://ddowiki.com/page/Improved_Shield_Bash)
- Purified Weapon and Annoited Weapon (unyielding sentinel epic destiny) applies to shields
- Pierce Silver (epic feat) does not apply to shields
- The charater used to get these numbers had only very basic equipment (randomly picked up in the test dojo and the AH), but used almost all enhancement points and feats on AC / shield bonuses
- The mobility feat got nerfed and only provides +1 max dex bonus (used to be +2)