[Verjigorm]

I was thinking about the Seeking Arrow thing and thought this:

An Air Shield Bless with a Shroud of the Battle Saint might give you some protection, but do you really want to take that many air books?

I would say if you have A4N4 on a Shroud that would provide the best protection against the actual missile itself and any wound it might produce.

Seeking Arrow is a physical attack, so protection is good against it I believe.

Let me do a quickie test and see because I've wondered the same thing...

Neither high protection nor the blessings I was referring to appear to have any affect...

Attached is a test turn file.

I tested previously with just shrouds to see if the 80% Air Bless had any effect and unfortunately all of the seeking arrows penetrated the air shields which means that either (a) Caelum got really lucky or (b) Shroud Air Shield doesn't effect SA...

Ok...

I went out on a limb and did an RTFM.... Book says that Seeking Arrow is 8AN which means that it is NOT a "missile" and it is NOT affected by protection.

Therefore the best ways to protect against Seeking Arrows are the dome spells. Specifically...

Dome of Flaming Death (My #1 all time favorite dome)
Dome of Arcane Warding
Forest Dome
Dome of Solid Air

I don't like the blood dome under most circumstances. I think as far as bang for buck goes, DOFD and DOAF are the best in overall gem cost because they can't be brought down and can be pumped to last for an extra turn for a single gem whereas if you get your FD or DOSA brought down, while they are permanent, they are comparably expensive to replace especially if you're getting bombarded by spells.