Micromod: End Game Shields

This is barely even a mod, but I felt the need to do it when I saw those shields that Fax drew.

This mod introduces a single 10th level shield that can then be crafted, via Smithing or Alchemy, into any of 6 14th-level shields. The shield all have pretty decent defensive stats (i.e. better than the typical end-game shields) and either an interesting proc or some unique stat bonuses. 4 of the shield's recipes are available from the beginning of the game; two are hidden. All of the shields also have a 20% chance to counterattack (Adventurer's Aikido) on a successful block.

If you're not playing RotDG, the 14-point shields will be pretty OP on the 10th floor. Enjoy.

I say this is the alpha because, as per normal, I snuck in the time to code this while my wife was asleep and I haven't yet had time to test it. Hopefully, I'll get to that before Other Things suck away all of my time and attention. Has been tested; everything seems to work.

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Testing. Thanks for the special attention to the sadly lacking shields department.

 

Here is one I suggest. If you do not like it or do not want to include it, I can probably convince Syphonix to add it to the Druid Mod.

Code:

<item name="Druidic Shield" iconFile="items/shield_heraldic_tree.png" >
    <price amount="42000" />
    <armour level="12" type="shield" />
    <secondarybuff id="10" amount="5"/> <!-- armour absorption -->
    <secondarybuff id="7" amount="20"/> <!-- block -->
    <secondarybuff id="13" amount="2"/> <!-- hp regen -->
    <secondarybuff id="3" amount="4"/> <!-- magic power -->
    <secondarybuff id="14" amount="2"/> <!-- mana regen -->
    <primarybuff id="2" amount="-1" /> <!-- nim -->
    <playerHitEffectBuff percentage="12" name="Rooted Regeneration"/>
    <description text="No one *Ever* saw this shield coming. It seems be the opposite of most shields. It barely blocks anything and it actively aids HP and mana regeneration."/>
    </item>

This is supposed to help with increasing the and that the Druid mod scales with. (And add just enough to make it better than using another weapon that would otherwise give like a staff. That aspect may need a bit more to really compete, but regen is better than for the purpose of the Druid mod.)

 

End Game Shields (aka Heraldic Shields) now Officially open-source.

 

Something strange appears if I try to close spellDB.
Prior of that the validator works normally, buf it i put </spellDB> at the end of spelldb the validator cry me a river.