Does air shield protect against seeking arrow?

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Edited based on reviewing my tests after Micah's post

I did some testing with vanilla priests as targets:


Black Steel Tower Shield:

Priests wounded (edit) 53% of the time, instead of killed.


Pendant of Luck:

Priest escapes the arrow completely 50% of the time, with an "escape deadly fate" message. Otherwise the arrows usually kill the priest. Edit: "Usually" probably means around 50%.


Shroud of Battle Saint, S9 bless:

Priest always escapes the 1st arrow, with an "escape deadly fate" message. The second (and 3rd etc) arrows that hit the same guy have no twist fate applied to them, so they usually kill him. Edit: "Usually" probably means around 50%. I only cast a quadruple-seeking arrow once, and the priest died on the third arrow.


Amulet of Missile Protection:

Priest avoids arrow 80% of the time, with a "magical missile protection" message.


Robe of Shadows:

Did not appear to offer any extra protection.

[Dedas]

Robe of shadows would not offer any protection as seeking arrow does magic damage (etherealness offer no protection).

[Micah]

Odd...the naked priests should die less than half the time vs a single arrow (8AN vs 9 HP). And the shield thing just adds an extra layer of strangeness to the equation. Ah well, not like the first time the rulebook's been a little less than accurate.

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Oops, I think I needed more testing with and without the shield.

Actual values for the "shield" test:

10 priests.

23 arrows to kill everyone, 1 caster automatically casting Seeking Arrow into the same province.

Did not replace wounded units.


15 arrows caused a wound.
8 arrows caused death.
2 priests died of disease.

Huh, 8 / 15 is 53%, which is really close to the DRN difference comparing 8 and 9.

With the pendant, amulet, or shroud, they escaped most of the time, so I was too lazy even to do 20 arrows.

So, thanks Micah!

I will update my original post.

[Incabulos]

I assume the robe of missile protection would have the same effect as the amulet of missile protection? Does the shield of valor apply the same "missile protection" spell as the robe and amulet? Or all are all three different effects?

[Edi]

Same effect, just a different source