Draft:Shiren 5 2020:Shield

Summary

Shields may be called "armor" in different places in the UI or in past Shiren games.

Swords and shields are virtually identical in terms of gameplay mechanics, so much so that both categories are described in full on the Swords page (rather than duplicating the information on two pages).

Reference Charts

Families

Here are all the "families" of shields, in Item Book order. Some shields improve their innate effect as they level up. This is an important consideration when choosing which item to use as your base. For example, if you want the best possible counterstrike, use the Counter Shield as your base item, because its innate retribution effect improves as the item levels up, whereas the related rune is essentially stuck at level 1. On the other hand, rustproof protection is binary, so it does not improve as the item levels up, and the rune is just as effective as the innate effect (except for the fact that runes can be removed while innate effects cannot). When equipment gains new runes on leveling up, they are not innate and take up rune slots.

Family	L1 Def	L8 Def	L1 Rune Slots	L8 Rune Slots	Total EXP to L8	Base Innate/Rune Effect	L8 Innate Effect	Added Runes	Resonance	Finding Tips
Plain Targe Type	2	15	5	∞				L4: Lively L8: CR Diet	Ordinary Stick Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Tin Shield Type	4	18	4	∞				L4: Lively L8: Rustproof	Tin Blade Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Iron Targe Type	6	20	3	∞				L4: Uplifting	Katana Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Wolfshead Type	8	22	5	∞				L4: Lively L5: Rustproof	Dotanuki Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Beast Shield Type	10	26	4	∞				L4: Uplifting L8: Enhancing	Beast Fang Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Targite Type	12	25	5	∞				L4: Uplifting L5: Rustproof L8: Anti-Theft	Bladite Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Red Shield Type	14	27	4	∞				L3: Uplifting L8: Anti-Fire, Anti-Peck	Red Blade Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Fuuma Shield Type	16	30	3	∞				L8: Tiger Mom	Kabura Katana Family: Damage +5 Fuuma Sword Family: Damage +10	Reported locations: Lost Well (VIP shops and Pick-A-Choice shops)
Gold Shield Type	2	14	7	∞		Rustproof: Does not rust	No change	L8: Pain Fueled	Dull Gold Edge Family: Max Strength +3	Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Diet Shield Type	2	12	5	∞		CR Diet: Hunger rate decreased to 50%	Hunger rate decreased to 30%	L8: Energizing		Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Heavy Shield Type	12	28	9	∞		Hungry: Hunger rate increased to 200%	Hunger rate increased to 130%	L8: Unmoving, Anti-Burgle		Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Midnight Shield Type	6	15	4	∞		Nocturnal: Night defense 25%, day defense -50%	Night defense 60%, day defense -120%	L6: Rustproof	Breeze Blade Family: Sword and shield can't rust Torches: Enemy attacks miss more often	Reported locations: Lost Well (VIP shops and Pick-A-Choice shops)
Day Shield Type	6	15	4	∞		Diurnal: Day defense 25%, night defense -50%	Day defense 60%, night defense -120%	L6: Rustproof	Bright Blade Family: Can read scrolls at night	Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Binary Shield Type	10	17	3	∞		Bit: 50% damage reduction when last digit of HP is 0 or 1	85% reduction	L6: Magi-Twister		Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Counter Shield Type	3	13	7	∞		Retribution: Counter 28% of damage taken	Counter 51% of damage taken	L8: Tiger Mom	Strength Bracelet: Counter damage doubled	Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Student Shield Type	3	15	4	∞		Tiger Mom: Gain experience equal to damage taken	It's unknown whether or not this improves	L5: Lively L8: Enhancing	Growth Bracelet: Another experience point per turn	Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Bowl Shield Type	4	13	4	∞		Pain Fueled: Sometimes refills hunger when taking damage. 6%	20% (Numbers from Japanese wiki, but I don't know how this rune works in the game)	L6: Rustproof		Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Spry Shield Type	2	13	5	∞		Agile: 22% evasion rate	43% evasion rate	L5: Rustproof	Myopic Masher Family: Attack and Defense +3	Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Blast Shield Type	5	15	6	∞		Anti-Blast (1): 50% explosion damage reduction	85% reduction	L8: Rustproof, Anti-Burgle	Crescent Katana Family: Attack and Defense +3	Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Lock Shield Type	5	12	5	∞		Anti-Theft: Items can't be stolen by monsters	No change	L8: Anti-Blast (1)		Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Safe Shield Type	6	13	6	∞		Anti-Burgle: Gitan can't be stolen by monsters	No change	L8: Anti-Blast (1)		Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Gyadon Blocker Type	7	14	7	∞		Anti-Peck: Items can't be eaten by monsters	No change	L8: Agile		Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Snake Shield Type	10	17	5	∞		Anti-Fire: 50% fire damage reduction	85% reduction	L8: Retribution	Lizard Lasher Family: Attack and Defense +3	Common in Tower of Fortune and elsewhere.
Steady Shield Type	4	14	6	∞		Unmoving: Immunity to movement effects	No change	L8: Retribution		Reported locations: Merchant's Hideout (pre-placed) Hunter Pond (monster drop or regular shops)
Anti-Gaze Trge Type	6	13	5	∞		Anti-Hypno: Immune to hypnosis	No change	L8: Agile		Reported locations: Merchant's Hideout (pre-placed) Hunter Pond (monster drop or regular shops)
Swap Shield Type	7	19	7	∞		Magi-Twister: When hit by magic, take 10 damage instead	Take 3 damage instead	L8: Uplifting, Enhancing	Burning Blade Family: Increases flame damage by 1 level With a Blue Flame rune, increases blue flame damage to 30 and does not increase red flame damage	Reported locations: Merchant's Hideout (pre-placed) Hunter Pond (monster drop or regular shops)
Shoddy Plank Type	30	37	10	∞		Expendable: Every hit decreases shield power	No change	N/A	Shoddy Dirk Family: Sword and shield can't rust (but still weaken from innates)	Reported locations: Underground Manor (free gift for districts 5-10)
Glass Buckler Type	35	42	4	11		Unsound: 50% chance to break	36% chance	L8: Stupefying	Glass Dirk Family: Immune to magic	Reported locations: Merchant's Hideout (VIP shops and Pick-A-Choice shops) Hunter Pond (monster drops or regular shops) Heavenly Lake (regular shops)
Pauper's Plank Type	7	17	5	∞		Costly: 15% damage reduction at the cost of 30 Gitan when hit. Without Gitan, defense drops to 0	50% damage reduction for 250 Gitan. See this external link for more info.	N/A	Dirk of Debts Family: ~20% chance to make monsters drop 200-399 Gitan (replacing their normal drop)	Reported locations: Merchant's Hideout (pre-placed or monster drop) Master's Footprint (pre-placed or monster drop)
Rush Shield Type	10	20	4	∞		Offensive: Adds shield power to attack instead of defense	No change	N/A	Extreme Sword Family: Equip 2 bracelets	Reported locations: Hunter Pond (monster drop)
Blazing Shield Type	4	11	4	∞		Grants a special non-rune ability that can't be synthesized.	No change	N/A	Torches: Full light at night	Reported locations: Lost Well (VIP shops and Pick-A-Choice shops)
Onigiri Shield Type	5	16	5	∞		Anti-Onigiri: Player and items can't be turned into onigiri	No change	L6: CR Diet		Reported locations: Hunter Pond (monster drop) Storm Forest (pre-placed or monster drop) Primordial Chasm (final reward / one time only) Primordial Chasm (pre-placed and regular shops / 50F+) Rousing Paradise (pre-placed)
Parry Shield Type	8	15	4	∞		Redirecting: 30% chance to redirect an incoming attack to another enemy	51% chance	L8: Retribution, Unmoving		Reported locations: Lost Well (final reward / one time only) Hunter Pond Rousing Paradise
Nirvana Board Type	7	18	6	∞		Unfamished: Sets max fullness to 1, but it won't deplete	No change	L8: Rustproof, Tiger Mom	Wonder Pick Family: Max HP +30	Reported locations: Master's Footprint (final reward / unknown repeatability) Old Road (regular shop / on 93F!)
Pathetic Shield Type	2	38	1	∞				N/A	Pathetic Blade Family: Equip 2 bracelets When both are L8: Can't equip 2 bracelets, but sometimes push back adjacent monsters 1 space	Reported locations: Onigiri Hollow (pre-placed or monster drop) Merchant's Hideout (pre-placed or monster drop) Master's Footprint (pre-placed or monster drop)
Fox Shield Type	9	30	0	5		No innates, but the Adaptive, Critproof, and Curative runes are exclusive and can't be synthesized or mixed into another shield.		L2: Energizing L3: Adaptive L5: Ability Regen L7: Critproof L8: Curative		Unlock both fox sister NPC allies; one can morph into both Fox items.
Helix Shield Type	25	40	∞	∞				L8: Anti-Hypno, Tiger Mom	Kaburagi Family: Damage +10	Reported locations: Inori Cave (final reward / wish for it / repeatable)

External References

These excellent external references may have better and more complete information that has not yet been replicated to this wiki:

• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sxAH3pZOZVdIk92PEJKpEty8FF6ZzlAJag3tsE5GAYM/edit?usp=sharing
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mGBY1txjWch9mckciV7WqbcO6a5VF1P3exPNOsaK580/edit?usp=sharing