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The supplicated shield of moradin. "A shield embossed with the Symbol of Moradin", does not appear to be giving its +2 enchantment bonus. It says it is a heavy metal shield, thus should be a +2 normally, and with its enchantment should be a total of +4. When wielding this shield it only shows up as +2.

I saw there was a post a year or two back about this same issue that was suppossedly resolved, but it appears to be happening again.

It gives +4 on a Dwarven test character wielding nothing else; my guess is you already have a +2 (or larger) enchantment bonus from something else, and they do not stack?

Some older shields never had their +bonuses applied properly. Usually if it's a +enhancement bonus to Shield AC it should stack with the original shield equipment bonus.

I am assuming this is not the case. The only other magical items i have are the holy symbol of moradin, and a soulhammer also from moradin. Neither of which add anything to AC. The soulhammer has a +2 for damage...

Azgar wrote:It works fine while i am wearing nothing, and works fine if an item i am wearing is not armor i.e. a backpack, a bag, ring, weapon, bracelet etc.

However, if i wear anything that adds AC to one of the main wearable slots, so any piece of armor, the effect from the shield dissapears.

So it seems as if there is a conflict between wearing armor and using this shield.

I can reproduce this - the enhancement bonus from the shield is lost for a given location when armour is worn in that location, whether that armour is magical or mundane. That should not be the case per canon, right? My guess is that the code is overriding the enhancement bonus of the shield with that of the armour for that location, no matter what, even if it is zero. Could be a bad check, or just no check. More testing to do!

p.s. I hope this does not lead to any naked dwarves dashing about with nothing but a magic shield to hide their private parts!

In that case it could be providing a different type of bonus. There are non-armour items that provide an armour bonus that does not stack with normal armour (see Bracers of Protection). It could be coded to offer that type of bonus but not the usual enhancement.

I have seen this happen where the bonus was set as an armour bonus instead of a shield bonus. That was the case with 'a tower shield of rock-hard metal' at one point, if I remember correctly. I can't access the old thread it was reported in.

Hrosskell and Nylo win the prize. This shield had:
not...
Pending a copyover for mending. Your copy of the object should be fixed automatically.

I have a sneaking suspicion that a large number of bucklers have this effect; I've seen tons of magic ones but never ones that gave more than the standard +1 AC.

The following vnums need the same tweak, when possible:
2704
101105

Thanks. Done.