Paladin shields

Hi,
which paladin shields actually have trade value?

I'm wondering, because I have tried to sell some 44/45 AR Sacred Rondache over the past months and there was 0 interest.
I understand that their blocking rate is slightly worse, but I wouldn't have thought that this would make such a huge difference.
Is there any other reason for the difference in value between targes and rondaches?

Those are valuable but if non Eth, not as much as you'd believe.

1- Warning : usually AR means attack rating, while @R or AllRes is for all resists. Also use the proper categorization, stats to ease search. I don't see your stuff for trade as of now.

2- Main runewords for Pally shields are :
> Dream but needs 3 os which is an unlikely roll and not Larzukable : you'll want 3 os from start ;
> Exile but you want it Eth
> Spirit.

And BiS is either Dream or Exile, Spirit being usually considered as slightly worse than Herald Of Zakarum unique.

So if non Eth, it's a Spirit base. Hence something that is not BiS, so not something that you'll spend a Ber on.

With 44 or 45, you can hope for something on the Mal- Vex range, not more.

Finally, one advice for any trades in general, put your price in the.m.
- If you overvalue, your items will not go -> think to reduce prices sooner or later
- If you undervalue, sometimes you'll not optimize your pricing, but at least you sell and get something instead of having it taking space.
- If you value properly all the better.

To sum up, put prices and you'll have more trades, even if they are not optimal in prices they can gain trade speed.

Sacred Targe requires less strength = more points you can put into vitality.
It has better block chance = less points needed in dex to reach max block = more points you can put into vitality.

Found a beautiful 45 All res Vortex Shield with 217 def a day ago and was actually able to cube gamble 3 sockets on it! Something like that should be worth a decent amount (thanks to Dream runeword), but may take a while to sell. The high paying players are out there, but you have to be patient sometimes for less popular builds. I've sat on niche items like this for months, ignoring many low ballers until finally someone comes and is willing to pay what I believe is fair.

Necrarch wrote: 3 years ago

To sum up, put prices and you'll have more trades, even if they are not optimal in prices they can gain trade speed.

As a new trader here, can confirm this to Infinity and beyond. At first all my trades were with ”offer”. After I got more comfortable with the site I used the price checker and put a price on everything. Sales went through the roof. Already 12 today.

personally, I prefer zakarum shields, because they have a fixed damage of 46 with Smite.
all other shields have a range damage with a max average damage of 46.
zakarum shields ftw.

To notice out of Sacred Targe and Rondache, you'll need much more STR to wield it. Depending on your build it can be an issue or not.

str req doesn't matter, you will be able to wear even SR without any points on str with an Enigma.

Spirit is BiS (since you would like to achive 125FCR).

The dex diff is like 3-5 (so 9-15 life before bo) for max block between SR an ST (SR has the 2nd best block rate), but ST has very good marketing:P

actually Exile is also BiS for a smiter (since you will be able to wear CB gloves insted of dracs), and for that an Eth SR is a very good choice (highest avg Smite dmg).

I think vortex is next to useless with it's absymal block rate

Necrarch summarized pally shields very well above

On non-ladder, I sold this (see screenshot): it was near-perfect for ethereal Sacred Rondache (284 def is absolute perfection, +44 all res is 1 off perfect)
As you can see, took 15 days to execute, and trade was done in-game, not here - too many low-ballers here
I kept pushing for Ber, but ended up trading for Ber - Ohm as change (buyer wanted my Ohm to roll this shield for Exile) and I had spare Ohm to give him, happy to receive Ber-