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Fixes the elemental shield magic effects so that they affect the armor rating as claimed in their descriptions, thus giving players a reason to actually use these previously pointless effects.
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This effect creates a shield of elemental fire around the subject's entire body. The spell adds its magnitude to the subject's Armor Rating, and also greatly reduces damage from fire attacks.
So goes the description for the fire shield magic effect. Similar descriptions are used for the frost shield and lightning shield effects, but all three of them lie to the player. Despite costing more than the normal shield effect, these elemental shields do nothing to bolster one's armor rating while also costing more than the resist element effects. To add an unmentioned insult to injury, the elemental shields also deal a truly pathetic amount of damage (1 point damage per 10 points magnitude) to enemies who land attacks in melee. Combined, the elemental shield effects are utterly useless in the vanilla game and might as well not exist other than to add more visual noise around characters.
This small MWSE addon fixes the problem by making the elemental shield effects improve the armor rating in the same manner as the basic shield effect, giving players a reason to actually use them.