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Steel Shield

Level 15 Warrior-only shield. +80 PDD, 7 upgrade slots, STR 20 requirement. Chance to block enemy attacks entirely. The natural L15 upgrade from Wooden Buckler.

Equipment Shield Warrior
Verified: closed-test-info

In-game description

Gives a chance to block enemy attacks entirely.

Liven's take

Steel Shield is the L15 Warrior shield upgrade over Wooden Buckler. +80 PDD is +10 over the buckler, and the STR requirement doubles (20 STR vs 10). Slots stay the same at 7, so scroll investment carries over.

Stat comparison

StatWooden BucklerSteel Shield
Level req1015
STR req1020
PDD+70+80
Slots77
Price2,000 mesos3,000 mesos
Block chanceYesYes

The upgrade is small but meaningful: +10 PDD from a shield swap is the equivalent of a +3 armor scroll landing successfully. Cheaper than scrolling a Wooden Buckler further.

How to acquire

  • Random from Blackbull's House chain (L11): 50/50 with Wooden Buckler. If you rolled Steel Shield here, you skip the Wooden Buckler tier entirely.
  • Vendor: Perion general shop sells Steel Shield for 3,000 mesos.
  • Mob drops: uncommon L10-15 Perion area drops.

What's next after Steel Shield: higher- tier shields exist (Reinforced Shield L18, various named shields L20-30). Steel Shield is a natural bridge from L15 to L20-25 when you'll upgrade again.

Stats

Requirements

Requires level 15
Requires STR 20
Requires job Warrior

Stats granted

Physical Defense (PDD) 80
reqJob 1
Upgrade slots 7
Vendor buy price 3,000 mesos

Sold by (1 shop)

  • River / Harry Perion Weapon Store · Perion inferred 3,000 mesos

Where it comes from

Given by quests (1)

Dropped by (1)

Craftable (0)

Not produced by any crafting recipe.

Available: quest rewards, crafting recipes, and crowdsourced mob drops (via MeowDB). Not yet documented: NPC vendor lists beyond the NPC sell price. Vendor data isn't publicly exposed at osmsdataexplorer as of this build.

Similar items nearby

Same slot / weapon type, within a few levels of this item's requirement. Handy for planning your next upgrade.

Wooden Buckler Lv 10 · Shield
Pan Lid Lv 10 · Shield
Mithril Buckler Lv 20 · Shield

Related guides

Sources

Closed-Test Information

OSMS Data Explorer - Classic World client datamine

ohmi69 (community datamine) - Aug 11 2026 (CoT 2); refreshed for Grand Launch Oct 22 2026

Community-maintained data dashboard extracted directly from the Classic World client; first captured from the CoT 2 build (Aug 2026, the figures below) and refreshed for the Grand Launch client on Oct 22 2026 (7,360 items, 343 quests, 109 monsters with Classic World stats). Provides 163 skills with per-level stats + PNG icons, 712 items + 1,199 equipment with icons, 187 monsters with animated sprites, 348 crafting recipes with ingredients and meso costs, 322 quests with chains and rewards, and full patch notes. GitHub-mirrored so the dataset survives even if the live dashboard goes down.

Confirmed facts

  • CoT 2 contains 163 skills across 25 classes (datamined Aug 11 2026)
  • CoT 2 contains 348 crafting recipes across 6 disciplines
  • CoT 2 contains 322 quests organized into chains by region
  • CoT 2 contains 712 non-equipment items and 1,199 equipment items
  • Warrior 1st job in CoT 2 has 6 skills including new 'Precise Strikes'
  • Archer 1st job in CoT 2 dropped 'Blessing of Amazon' and added 'Power Knockback'
Topics
Skills, Items, Equipment, Monsters, Crafting, Quests, Maps, Cash Shop
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