Good Evening,

What is currently the best shield we as warmies should be looking for, in regards to armworn smalls? I'm currently using a storm-bull buckler but cannot use AEG with it, and am thinking I'd get more bang for my buck with a small crafted metal shield instead. Lumium?

Thank you all.

If you're going to use it for armworn only and not handheld, I'd suggest Gargoyle-hide, they're cheap, and hit the armworn cap(unless the armworn cap gets changes to lower defense instead of a lower defense with a cap).
You can do better (especially if you're going to use it handheld any) but you're probably gonna have a higher hinderance penalty if you go beyond gargs or firecats.
And you can get more durable with something like stormbull, shalswars, or firecats. But garg's will get you the most out of armworn with the least hinderance(you could get less hinderance, but it probably won't hit the armworn cap)

As far as patterns: the regular ordinary shield pattern should be fine, I believe the targe is slightly heavier with a slightly higher lower defense(or it's the same weight with a slightly higher lower defense). If you're looking for least hinderance, then the small shield, or some kind of balance of a lighter material and a pattern that uses more volumes.


I've you're going for metal, I saw a covelite target shield the other day, that pretty much had no hinderance, was very durable, but didn't hit armworn cap. Lumium should be pretty good too, and damite better, but metal's more intended for the larger shields(leather small, bone medium, and metal large) and you'll probably get the most from your material for something larger.
I think at the low weights, most metal shields hinder and weigh too much for the protection they provide.

Honestly, I'd just stick with AEG until the spell no longer works that way. Cast ARMWORN, forms one on your arm instead of your hand, if you didn't know you could do that.
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