You become proficient with Bucklers.
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Shield_NewBucklerProficiencyFeature
You and your teammates can anticipate one another’s ranged attacks and stay out of each other’s way.
Benefit(s): Allies who also have this feat cannot provide soft cover to enemies, allowing you to make attacks of opportunity against an enemy even if those allies would normally grant soft cover against your attacks. If an ally who also has this feat casts a spell that targets the area you are in which allows a Reflex saving throw to avoid the effect (such as fireball), you gain a +4 dodge bonus on that saving throw.
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Shield_FriendlyFireManeuversFeature
Your ally’s eyes are your own, and your are his
Benefit: When you benefit from the Back to Back feat, enemies attacking you from behind are not granted +2 Concealment bonus to attack, you are not treated flat-footed when backstabbed.
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Shield_BackToBackImproved
You can easily find openings in your enemies’ defenses.
Benefit(s): Whenever you and an ally who also has this feat are threatening the same foe, you are considered to be flanking that foe if The angle between you is at least 60 degrees.
Normal: You must be positioned at an angle of at least 110 degrees relative to an ally to flank an opponent.
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Shield_ImprovedOutflankFeature
Yours small stature helps you avoid ranged attacks.
Benefit: You gain a +1 dodge bonus to AC against ranged attacks. In addition, you do not provide soft cover to creatures against ranged attacks.
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Shield_LowProfileFeature
Benefit: When you wield a reach weapon with which you are proficient, allies don’t provide soft cover to opponents you attack with reach.
Normal: Attacking a target that is beyond another creature, even an ally, can result in the target having soft cover from you.
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WayOfTheShield_PhalanxFormationFeature
You’ve mastered the art of balancing a polearm’s weight against a shield’s stability.
Benefit(s): You can use a two-handed weapon sized appropriately for you from the polearm or spears weapon group while also using a light, heavy, or tower shield with which you are proficient. The shield’s armor check penalty (if any) applies to attacks made with the weapon.
Note: Benefits of this feat do not apply during mounted combat.
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Way of the Shield - Shield Brace feature blueprint
You have learned how to cast spells from behind the safety of a shield.
Benefit: You reduce the arcane spell failure of any shield you use by 15% (to a minimum of 0%).
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Shield_ShieldedMageFeature
You are accustomed to fighting with your shield.
Benefit(s): You still gain a buckler’s bonus to AC even if you use your shield hand for some other purpose. When you wield a buckler, your shield hand is considered free for the purposes of casting spells, wielding weapons, and using any other abilities that require you to have a free hand or interact with your shield, such as the swashbuckler’s precise strike deed or the Weapon Finesse feat.
Special: A monk with this feat is not considered to be using a shield for the purposes of his AC bonus, fast movement, or flurry of blows.
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Way_of_the_shield-Unhindering_shield-Feature
You can strike at weapons to upset enemy attacks.
Benefit(s): You can shield bash with a buckler as if it were a light shield, and you can use the buckler in conjunction with any feats or abilities that normally apply to light shields. While using this style, whenever you successfully deal damage to an opponent with a shield bash using your buckler, that opponent takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls made against you until the start of your next turn.
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Upsetting Shield Style feature - Way of the Shield
You can turn the tables on disoriented opponents.
Benefit(s): While you are using Upsetting Shield Style, if a foe makes a melee attack roll against you that misses your AC by 5 or more, and they have a penalty on attack rolls against you caused by this style, that foe provokes an attack of opportunity from you.
You can only make one attack of opportunity against an opponent in this manner each round.
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Shield_UpsettingStrikeFeature
You punish those who fail to press their attack.
Benefit(s): While using Upsetting Shield Style, the penalty on attack rolls foes take for being hit by your shield bash attack applies to their attacks against any target. If an adjacent foe taking this penalty makes an attack roll against any target and misses the target’s AC by 5 or more, that foe provokes an attack of opportunity from you. You can only make one attack of opportunity against an opponent as a result of this feat or Upsetting Strike each round.
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Upsetting Vengeance feature - Way of the Shield