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The Best Defense is a small shield in Seeker, Slayer, Survivor. It can also be used as an off-hand weapon, dealing Pierce and Crush damage.

Description[ | ]

Items in italics are quoted directly from the game.

The vindictive contestants of the Crucible gave birth to this brutal buckler design. A barbed steel spike projects from its center, designed to punch through plate, chain, and skin. No amount of scouring will cleanse the bloodstains from its base. The buckler's presence inspires fearful cringes from combatants and sympathetic winces from gentler audience members, evoking uninvited tales of seemingly lost battles turned by a timely shield bash to the gut, groin, or eye.

Though none seem to know who first crafted this buckler, Kazuwari denizens attest that dozens have worn it into the pit over the years of fighting. Your inheritance of it suggest that its previous bearers have learned the cruel, final lesson of the Crucible: even those bearing the best arms inevitably pay the pit its due.

Acquisition[ | ]

Weapon stats[ | ]

  • The weapon stats for The Best Defense are as follows:
    • Damage: 7-10 Pierce Crush
    • Penetration: 8
    • Chance to hit: Accuracy vs. Deflection
    • Attack time: 0.7 sec
    • Recovery time: 4.0

Enchantment tree[ | ]

Note: Penetrating Blast / Sharpened Bash and Sickening to Watch / Terrifying to Face are mutually exclusive.
 
 
 
 
 
Penetrating Bash
 
 
Piercing Bash
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sharpened Bash
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sickening to Watch
 
 
Cruel Design
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Terrifying to Face
 

Upgrades[ | ]

BaseEnchantmentEffectsCostIngredients
Piercing BashPenetrating Bash+2 PenetrationCopper pires (cp)3,0001111
Sharpened Bash+25% DamageCopper pires (cp)3,0001111
Cruel DesignSickening to Watch50% chance on scoring Kill to apply Sickened to nearby enemies for 8.0 secCopper pires (cp)3,0001111
Terrifying to Face50% chance on scoring Kill to apply Terrified to nearby enemies for 4.0 secCopper pires (cp)3,0001111
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