Missile vs Shield

[Corwin]

Ighalli said:
You could lower the shield prot to 1, so that if it only adds its prot value to armor then 380 should die regardless.

Yes, this would be a good test.


So far all actual battle reports seem to confirm what I said - tower shields do not give virtual invulnerability against missiles. If I would have to guess, I would say that the suggestion that shield's defense is simply added to the "parried" missiles makes good sense to me. That's how shileds work in melee after all.

BTW that would take care of the situation where feeble skeleton with tower shield trying to deflect huge boulder thrown by giant. Sure, he will parry it, but the chances are is that he will still be grounded into bone dust most likely.