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I have an Artifact Bone Buckler, an Artifact Pig Iron Buckler, and many (non-Artifact) Steel Shields of varying quality up to Excellent (no Masterwork items, though).

Which is best to wear?

[Quietust]

In version 0.31, probably the ≡Steel Shield≡.

[existent]

From what I understand, artifact status doesn't grant additional stats. An artifact pig iron buckler will always be worse than a steel shield, I think.

[Sunday]

However, I'm also pretty sure that the material shields are made of doesn't matter. A wooden shield blocks as well as a steel one. It's only with armor that you wear that the material matters. I could be wrong about that, but I've never seen an attack go "through" a shield - if the attack is blocked, it's blocked even if it's a steel sword against a balsa wood shield. Even if I'm right, however, shields offer better protection than bucklers.

Of course, I'm not sure whether shields/weapons give a skill boost depending on quality (as they did in 40d), in which case the artifact bucklers might be better. I'm pretty sure shields/buckers don't (but I think that artifact weapons might), but they might, in which case the buckler might be better. So I dunno.