Divine shield or godly shield?

[Sheepco 36]

New to knight, not sure what to level

[DarkLink64 921]

You should get both at level 10.

Divine Shield has 2 effects: It increases your block rating chance, and absorbs all blocked Undead damage. You'll be healed instead of damaged when blocking damage from Undead monsters. The heal value is the raw damage - that means, if a monster has 1000 attack damage, you'll get healed by 1000 hp. It ignores all damage modifiers like ABS and Damage Reduction. If you take 1 damage from undead monsters (because of your high ABS), you'll still be healed for more than 1 hp.

Healing yourself is somewhat usefull early on - assuming you're exping on a map that has many undead.
The increased Block Rating is really what makes the skill important - Block is usefull in the game as a whole, hunting, exping, pvp, everywhere.

Godly Shield has 2 effects: It reduces all incoming damage by 25%, and this effect works while using a 2 hand sword.You'll receive the Block rating on your current Divine Shield level as a chain effect.

 

Reducing all incoming damage regardless of weapon youre using, is usefull on the game as a whole - and this effect is one of the most important that define Knights - this is where his tanky characteristic comes from.
The chained block chance is still tied to Shield - you don't gain block from Divine Shield while not wearing any shield.

That means, if you got both at level 10, when you use Godly Shield, you'll receive 25% damage reduction regardless of Weapon and 4% Block Rating increase from Divine Shield, when using shields.




Most of time you'll be better using Godly Shield, but, to make it trully shine, you'll have to level up Divine Shield to 10.
 

Edited November 10, 2019 by DarkLink64

[Sheepco 36]

Man, what a thorough reply, thanks for that! 
So with that in mind, i should use godly shield on maps that doesnt have many/any undead? Would it make sense to go 2h on those maps, or would i not be tanky enough without my shield. Im currently at level 100, and use divine shield. I can somewhat tank mystery desert 1, but i might get my ass handed to me, if i try to go 2h. Would godly shield mitigate that, at lvl 10?