Darksteel Shield

The Darksteel Shield +4 is an large shield which not only provides a bonus of five to the wielder's general armor class in Throne of Bhaal, with an additional bonus of one against missile attacks in the Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition and The Black Pits II: Gladiators of Thay,b but also improves resistances to acid, cold, fire and poison damage by ten percent.
==Locations==
===Throne of Bhaal===
*Equipped by Diaytha, a drow priestess in Sendai's Enclave
===Gladiators of Thay===
*Sold by Hue Greenleaf after Tier 3 
* Equipped by Timmoth Goodtree at cleric level 33
==Lore==
==Notes==
* An additional copy of the Darksteel Shield, with different artwork, by the code SHLD31A.itm exists in the game files of the Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition, but remains unused.
** An item with the same code but a different name, Gorm's Arm +3, is re-imported into the game files of Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, but not used in-game, neither.
==Bugs==
* In the original Throne of Bhaal, this large shield does not offer the usual additional armor class bonus of 1 against missile attacks; this is fixed in the Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition.
Category:Bugs
Category:Missile avoidance
Category:Infobox upgrade