Shield Wall (Feat)

You form a unified defense with those around you.

Prerequisites: Shield Proficiency (Feat)

Benefit: Whenever you are wielding a shield and are adjacent to an ally proficiently wielding a shield who also has this feat, the deflection bonus from your shield increases, depending on the shield wielded by your ally.

• If your ally is wielding a buckler or a light shield, your deflection bonus increases by +1.
• If your ally is wielding a heavy shield, war shield, or a tower shield, your deflection bonus increases by +2.

You keep these bonuses even if your ally loses his shield-based deflection bonus due to making a shield bash attack.

Special: If an adjacent ally with this feat uses a tower shield to grant total cover, you also benefit if an attack targeting you passes through the edge of the shield.