Shield Specialization

Shield · innate (always on)

Shield Specialization is the devotion of one's self to the study of the proper use of shields. It increases the power of and flexibility of all other active skills in the Shield tree. NOTE: Only one Specialization skill may be trained and one additional skill maintained at any given time or two may be set to maintain. Enabling training for a different specialization skill may set a specialization skill currently set to maintain to unlearn.

Shield numbers are estimates

These formulas come from the community wiki and predate the game's overhaul. We check each school against the live game on a GM account; until Shield is checked, read the numbers as ballpark. A combat balance pass across 200+ skills is also still in progress, so every number is provisional. (ledger #59)

Calculator

Estimate

Shield Specialization levelGrandmaster is 100; skills keep levelling to 200 (ledger #17)Shield is in one of my two specialization slotsSpecialization only pays out while slotted · ledger #1, #3

At these inputs

2.9%Shield Mastery

+1.3% Shield Mastery
1.25% per level and is rounded to a single decimal point for display.

Last verified against: sotawiki snapshot of 2026-10-26 (article last seen in release 109). Not yet checked in the live game. Wiki article. Rules used on this page: ledger #1, #3, #17, #34, #37, #59.