Pathfinder 1e Feat Combat Shield Mastery

Shield Material Expertise

Gain special defensive and hardness benefits when wielding a shield made of special materials.

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Type
Combat, Shield Mastery
Prerequisites
None
Spell Level
—
Availability
Selectable feat

When wielding a shield made of one of the materials listed below, you can use the listed ability twice per day. Darkwood: As a free action as part of an attack with your shield, you can drive splinters of your shield into your opponent, dealing an amount of bleed damage equal to 1 + the shield’s enhancement bonus. Dragonhide: As an immediate action when you take energy damage of the type to which the dragonhide shield is immune, you can reduce the amount of damage you take by 10 hit points. Living Steel: As a free action as part of an attack with your shield, you can attempt a sunder combat maneuver check against a metal weapon wielded by your target. If you succeed at the attempt, the weapon gains the broken condition; if the weapon already has the broken condition, it is destroyed.

Prerequisites

Shield Focus, base attack bonus +6 or fighter level 4th
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