Iron Tower Shield

Iron Tower Shield

A tall shield of strong iron.
Type	Shield
Damage	-
Stamina	-
Block	52 block armour 100 block force
Weight	4
Durability	200
Crafting Station	Forge
Station Level	2
Crafting Materials	15x Finewood 10x Iron
Biome	Swamp
Spawn ID	`spawn ShieldIronTower`

The Iron Tower Shield is not about parrying. It is a slab of Swamp iron wide enough to stand behind while the blows simply land, and it has 52 block armour.

How to Craft

Craft it at a level 2 forge from:

15x Finewood: Chopped from birch and oak trees with a Bronze Axe or better.
10x Iron: Smelted from Scrap Iron in a Smelter.

Name	Image	Biome	Crafting Station	Spawn ID
Finewood		Meadows	-	`spawn FineWood`
Iron		Swamp	Smelter	`spawn Iron`

When to Use It

This is early game gear. Iron comes from Sunken Crypts in the Swamp, so it opens up once The Elder is down.

Upgrades

You can upgrade it 3 times after crafting, and each level needs the station built one step higher than the last. Every other figure on this page is for quality 1, so this table shows where your own copy sits:

Quality	Crafting Station	Block armor	Durability	Resources
1	Forge (Level 2)	52	200	15x Finewood 10x Iron
2	Forge (Level 3)	58	250	10x Finewood 5x Iron
3	Forge (Level 4)	64	300	20x Finewood 10x Iron
4	Forge (Level 5)	-	-	40x Finewood 20x Iron

Properties

With 52 armour and 100 block force, it gives the most solid block in the iron tier. It is the shield to take into a Sunken Crypt, where something is always swinging at you from behind.

A tower shield cannot parry. It slows your movement by 10% while drawn and raises the cost of a dodge roll by the same 10%, and in exchange it blocks harder than anything else in its tier. What you give up is the parry, which staggers the attacker so it takes double damage.

The Serpent Scale Shield is the better buy if you can get it. It has more block power, costs less iron, carries a smaller movement penalty and adds pierce resistance on top. All it asks is that you hunt a Serpent.