Shield Mastery

Description

The Shield Mastery skill improves the effectiveness of Shields. The more you train the skill, the better your Shield defense skills will be. An experienced Shield user will be able to block enemy attacks instinctively. The Shield Mastery skill will be much more effective for larger shields.

Details

• Passively increases the user's Defense, Protection, Magic Defense, Magic Protection, and overall Auto Defense while a shield is equipped.
  • These changes do not show on the shield.

Summary

Rank		N	F	E	D	C	B	A	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
AP	Required	-	1						2						3		5
	Total	-	1	2	3	4	5	6	8	10	12	14	16	18	21	24	29
Small Shield	Defense Bonus	-	2	3	4	5	6	7	10		11		12		13	14	15
	Protection Bonus	-		1		2		3		4		5		6		7
	Magic Defense Bonus	-							0.5	1	1.5	2.5	3.5	4.5	5.5	6.5	7.5
	Magic Protection Bonus	-							0.5		1		1.5		2		2.5
Medium Shield	Defense Bonus	-	3	4	6	7	9	10	14		15	16		17	18	19	21
	Protection Bonus	-		1	2		3	4		5	6	7		8	9		10
	Magic Defense Bonus	-							0.7	1.4	2.1	3.5	4.9	6.3	7.7	9.1	10.5
	Magic Protection Bonus	-							0.7		1.4		2.1		2.8		3.5
Large Shield	Defense Bonus	1	5	7	9	11	13	15	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	28	30
	Protection Bonus	-	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
	Magic Defense Bonus	-							1	2	3	5	7	9	11	13	15
	Magic Protection Bonus	-							1		2		3		4		5
Additional Auto Defense (%)		2	3						5				6		7		8
Skill CP (Total)		-	10	15	20	30	35	40	50	60	65	70	75	80	85	90	100
Close Combat Talent EXP		0	2,000	3,000	3,500	4,000	4,500	5,000	6,000	7,000	8,000	9,000	10,000	12,000	14,000	17,000	20,000
Close Combat Talent EXP (Total)		0	2,000	5,000	8,500	12,500	17,000	22,000	28,000	35,000	43,000	52,000	62,000	74,000	88,000	105,000	125,000

Obtaining the Skill

• Equip a shield.

Other Methods

• Complete the quest Close Combat Basics in the Third Memoir. The skill will have training requirements up to Rank 3 completed.

Training Method

• Wind Guard also contributes to "Successfully use defense with a shield."
• Auto Defense from using Defense against Ranged, Magic, or Alchemy attacks with a shield or Natural Shield or Mana Deflector from Transformations does not count to "Trigger Auto Defense."
• Shield Mastery can be trained in tandem with Light or Heavy Armor Mastery.

Tips

• For fast training, go into the Sulfur Spiders of the Shadow Realm mission and enter the large hall where the spiders will spawn and let them attack you.
• Skills that trigger Advanced Heavy Stander (e.g. Demigod, Berserk, Human's Final Hit, Giant's Wind Guard) allows the enemy to repeatedly attack the player without delay, granting faster and more desirable results.
  • One should be cautious when using Berserk due to its defensive stat reduction.
• Use Enthralling Performance on Rats outside of Dunbarton or Dungeons, Foxes or Spiders in Tir Chonaill, or Fennec Foxes in the southeastern outskirts of Filia, then make them attack you against a wall.
• Using a low rank Shooting Rush in Shyllien Outskirts District 1 on a large mob of Mutant Rabbits will cause all of the rabbits hit to aggro you, effectively making it easy to train the skill.
• Using the Divine Link skill with its' Guardian Oath sub-skill trains the "Trigger Auto-Defense" training when it activates on the pet.

Novice Rank

• AP: 0

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
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Rank F

• AP: 1

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	32.00	7	224
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Rank E

• AP: 1

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	16.00	13	208
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Rank D

• AP: 1

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	8.00	13	104
Block attacks with the Defense skill and a Shield.	80.00	2	160
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Rank C

• AP: 1

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	4.00	25	100
Block attacks with the Defense skill and a Shield.	40.00	3	120
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Rank B

• AP: 1

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	3.20	32	102.4
Block attacks with the Defense skill and a Shield.	16.00	7	112
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Rank A

• AP: 1

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	2.80	38	106.4
Block attacks with the Defense skill and a Shield.	14.40	8	115.2
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Rank 9

• AP: 2

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	2.00	50	100
Block attacks with the Defense skill and a Shield.	10.00	10	100
Trigger Auto Defense.	80.00	2	160
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Rank 8

• AP: 2

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	1.60	63	100.8
Block attacks with the Defense skill and a Shield.	8.00	13	104
Trigger Auto Defense.	32.00	4	128
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Rank 7

• AP: 2

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	1.28	63	80.64
Block attacks with the Defense skill and a Shield.	4.80	13	62.4
Use the Charge skill after equipping a Shield.	4.80	13	62.4
Trigger Auto Defense.	16.00	7	112
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Rank 6

• AP: 2

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	1.20	69	82.8
Block attacks with the Defense skill and a Shield.	4.80	13	62.4
Use the Charge skill after equipping a Shield.	4.80	13	62.4
Trigger Auto Defense.	14.40	8	115.2
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Rank 5

• AP: 2

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	1.08	75	81
Block attacks with the Defense skill and a Shield.	4.00	15	60
Use the Charge skill after equipping a Shield.	4.00	15	60
Trigger Auto Defense.	12.00	9	108
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Rank 4

• AP: 2

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	1.00	82	82
Block attacks with the Defense skill and a Shield.	3.20	19	60.8
Use the Charge skill after equipping a Shield.	3.20	19	60.8
Trigger Auto Defense.	10.00	10	100
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Rank 3

• AP: 3

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	0.96	88	84.48
Block attacks with the Defense skill and a Shield.	2.80	23	64.4
Use the Charge skill after equipping a Shield.	2.80	23	64.4
Trigger Auto Defense.	10.00	10	100
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Rank 2

• AP: 3

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	0.80	100	80
Block attacks with the Defense skill and a Shield.	2.40	25	60
Use the Charge skill after equipping a Shield.	2.40	25	60
Trigger Auto Defense.	8.00	13	104
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Rank 1

• AP: 5

• Effects: None

Method	Exp.	Count	Total
Take melee attacks while equipped with a Shield.	0.80	100	80
Block attacks with the Defense skill and a Shield.	2.40	25	60
Use the Charge skill after equipping a Shield.	2.40	25	60
Trigger Auto Defense.	8.00	13	104
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Master Title

the Master of Shields

• Defense +10
• Protection +10

Related Enchants

Name	Type, Rank	Enchants Onto	Effect(s)	Comes On/From
Destiny Personalize (link) (edit)	Prefix, 4	One-handed Melee Weapons	When Shield Mastery is Rank 1 or higher Luck +15 When Smash is Rank 1 or higher Max Damage +24-32 When Sword Mastery is Rank 1 or higher Min Damage +10-20	Fragments of a Trivial Fate