Something wrong with my Shield of Balduran

Klorox · Post by **Klorox** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:14 pm

I bought this item, but it doesn't reflect any beholder rays. The rays never hurt the character holding the item, but the shield just appeared to stop the rays, never reflect them.

Any way to fix this item?

TIA

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:31 pm

Weird. Do you have any mods going? Because as I recall, at least one drops the Shield from being as uber as it is.

Klorox · Post by **Klorox** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:55 pm

I have the G3 Tweakpack and Fixpack, but nothing in there mentions altering the Shield. I'm also fully patched.

DaemonJ · Post by **DaemonJ** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:03 pm

Don't use the shield while wearing the Cloak of Mirroring.

Klorox · Post by **Klorox** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 7:07 pm

I'm not.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:19 pm

Damn. I don't know what to suggest, but it certainly sounds like a mod adjustment. You've got no other patches running? What about the Baldurdash one?

Jedi_Sauraus · Post by **Jedi_Sauraus** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:13 pm

I've had this happen to me before as well, try re-equipping the shield / restarting the game, saveing, reloading, ect. from what I can tell the shield will work for a random amount of time then will stop for some reason until I do the above. Even if it does'nt work for you you only need that shield for doing the unseeing eye and then only if your doing it early.

DaemonJ · Post by **DaemonJ** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:01 am

Wasn't there something with in SoA the shield reflected the rays back but with ToB the shield only absorbed?

I know that installing ToB modified the Cloak of Mirroring by adding the horrible globe animation and also making it only absorb instead of reflecting.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:14 am

"My" shield works fine in ToB, so much either be a bug or a mod. It isn't the ToB behaviour at least.

Baldursgate Fan · Post by **Baldursgate Fan** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:32 pm

fable wrote:Damn. I don't know what to suggest, but it certainly sounds like a mod adjustment. You've got no other patches running? What about the Baldurdash one?

Easy, Fable, easy.

This has happened to me before.

You can do an equip and re-equip as what Jedi_Sauraus suggested. Or you can drop your Balduran shield and Shadow Keeper or CLUA console a new one.

If that still doesn't work, maybe you can zip your save game and attach it right here for us to take a look.

Good luck!

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:31 pm

Baldursgate Fan wrote:Easy, Fable, easy.

Sheesh, you sound like a commercial.

You can do an equip and re-equip as what Jedi_Sauraus suggested. Or you can drop your Balduran shield and Shadow Keeper or CLUA console a new one.

Yeah, but some of us want to know why it happened, not simply CLUA in a replacement. Which is why we're trying, quite calmly, I assure you, to get to the bottom of this. Got it?

Baldursgate Fan · Post by **Baldursgate Fan** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:16 am

[quote="fable"] Yep, got it in one; put the bug down as one of life's imponderables.

And methinks he has solved his problem, otherwise he would have posted again. QUOTE]

JustAName · Post by **JustAName** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:50 am

For anyone who has this problem in the future:

I just ran into the same issue, and remembered that the Cloak of Reflection had the same visual effect as the shield. So...unequip shield, equip cloak, exit screen to let effect show. Then go back to inventory, unquip cloak and re-equip shield, and the shield should now be functioning properly. Hope that helps!

Berethor · Post by **Berethor** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 2:34 pm

Yeah, I figured out that the Shield doesn't mirror the rays if you have the Cloak of Mirroring equipped. I was wondering why it took forever to kill the beholders in the Underdark... =X