Are Shields Worthless against AN Attacks

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In practice none of those 4 combinations will stop AN attacks. And a shield dont provide defense. It provide Block. Its often the same, but not always. If it had actually been defense then it would indeed have worked.

As for Sombre's comment, he was saying that from a theoretical coding perspective, it is not necessarily true that an AN projectile will always pierce a shield. But in practice it will.

His comment is only relevant to modders.