Oblivion talk:Fire Shield

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When I enchanted an item with THIS spell, it did not actually increase my displayed cumulative armor factor. I think this only shields your spell resistance, and not your actual armor rating as well. Krep 11:05, 30 October 2006 (EST)

Looks like I am utterly and completely WRONG. Perhaps what confused me was, when you equip an item with "Fire Shield" or "Frost Shield" or the like effect, your diplayed armor rating does increase by the same number of points but I was expecting it to show up on the magic effects page or that the armor rating number would turn green like other magically enhanced attributes/skills/etc. (note that, 7% fire shield is not your armor factor times 1.07, rather it's just 7 more points of armor factor which is 7% more absorbtion provided you are still under the 85% cap). It adds directly to your armor and it doesn't say in the character's "currently active magic effects" page that it's adding your armor factor - nor is it listed with the "resist fire" total. Rather, it is separate from the effects (such as "Shield" and "Resist Fire" effects) and listed as simply "fire shield".

Note also that possessing the "fire shield" spell effect will not give you access to "frost shield" or "electric shield" effects, those are considered separate when it comes to spell-making or enchanting. Krep 11:05, 30 October 2006 (EST)