Shield cleave skill

Skill 'shield cleave'.

• Group: 'weaponsmaster'.
• Execution delay: 6 seconds.
• Costs: mana 200, moves 40.
• Available to classes: anti-paladin 29, ninja 31, paladin 29, ranger 35, samurai 26, thief 33, vampire 39, warrior 26

Format: shield

Professional warriors can cleave an opponent's shield with an edged sword, axe or polearm. Every successful blow hacks a deep notch into the shield, and once it is worn through, splits it in two. The chance depends on your skill, your proficiency with your weapon against the opponent's shield block, your strength against the opponent's constitution or dexterity, the level of the items, your size against the opponent's, and most of all on the materials: an axe bites a little easier into wood and leather but bounces off adamantite. A shield battered in a long fight gives way much more easily. Cleaving is easier mounted, and harder with a sword than with an axe or polearm.

On a failure your weapon rings off, stunning you for a moment, though the shield still takes a couple of nicks. A limited shield or one made of indestructible material cannot be cleaved.