Shield Bash Advice

[Kalgain]

After playing around with shield bash, I find it quite cool. The animations add a lot of style and uniqueness to the figher.

While I first hated that one cannot buff the damage and ab of shields with any spell or ability, at least it cannot be debuffed either and thus has its niche benefits.

A problem occurs when fighting mobs with damage resistance. dr bug aside, even if fixed the shields would need to be made of a certain material type or good aligned to overcome some damage reductions.

Does anyone know if the adamantine Tower shield from the docs merchant can be used to overcome such dr?

Or has anyone some advice to get some damage from shields when attacking high dr mobs?

[Valefort]

No, it won't work, adamantine material allows you to bypass adamatine DR, nothing else, while mobs usually have untyped DR or DR against one kind of damage.

Also unfortunately if the target has DR against weapons under a given enchantment (like ghosts who have 50 DR to mundane weapons here) then all shield bash damage will be resisted. The function is set correctly to overcome it but it simply doesn't work properly