Divine spirit shield
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| Also known as? | Divine Shield, Divine, Divine ss |
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| Members only? | Yes |
| Quest item? | Summer's End |
| Tradeable? | Yes |
| Equipable? | Yes |
| Stacks? | No |
| High Alchemy | 1,200,000 coins |
| Low Alchemy | 800,000 coins |
| Destroy | Drop |
| Store price | Not sold |
| Exchange price | 488,300,000 coins update |
| GE Database | Look up price |
| Examine | An ethereal shield with a divine sigil attached to it. |
| Weight | 2 kg |
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The Divine spirit shield was released on 15 September 2008 along with Summer's end. It is currently the most expensive shield in the game. It requires 75 Defence and 75 Prayer to wield. The shield is made by attaching a Divine sigil to a Blessed spirit shield. To do this, players need 90 Prayer and 85 Smithing. Additionally, you can ask Brother Bordiss to attach it for 1,500,000 coins after completing Perils of Ice Mountain.
The Knowledge Base states that the Divine spirit shield comes with a special bonus, "30% - or as much as if possible if 30% is more than your current amount of Prayer points - of any damage you take is removed. Half of this 30% is deducted from your Prayer instead, while the other half is ignored completely".
For example, if a foe using Dharok's armour and other damage-boosting methods/ equipment would normally hit a 60 on a person wearing this shield, the damage would be reduced to 60*.7=42, and 1/2(60-42)=9 points would be deducted from this person's prayer. The damage reduced by this shield is therefore limited to 2x your prayer points: If you have 3 prayer points, only 6 damage can be reduced from any attack.
This shield stacks with Protection prayers multiplicatively, not additively. The prayer drain is based on damage before protection prayers. For example: Against a player, the shield reduces damage by 30% and then a protection prayer reduces 40% of what's left after the shield. In this way, exactly 58% of the damage taken is protected from, and 15% of the original damage is reduced from your prayer.
This shield has the exact same defence bonuses as the Elysian spirit shield, however, its special effect is slightly different. While the Elysian spirit shield has a 70% chance of reducing 25% damage, this shield has a 100% chance of reducing 30% damage, assuming the player has sufficient prayer points. (This means that, statistically, 17.5% of all damage received from the Elysian Spirit Shield is completely taken out of effect, whereas 30% of all damage from the Divine Shield is removed and 15% is taken from prayer points.) In this aspect, the Divine spirit shield is the most powerful shield in the game, yet nonetheless, it is more tedious to use. The price to pay for its constant reduction of damage is the loss of prayer points in a similar likeness to the prayer Smite.
It is the second most expensive item in the game, and the most expensive non-discontinued item in the game. Only the Christmas cracker is worth more.
| Bonuses Hover over image for type |  A player wielding the Divine spirit shield | |||||
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| Spirit shields and sigils
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Holy elixir • Arcane • Divine • Elysian • Spectral |
