Something wrong with my Shield of Balduran

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I have the ToB patch and Baldurdash, but the cloak of mirroring does not reflect spells for my games.

 

¿Some weird bug in instalation, maybe? Because in my games, the cloak of mirroring and the shield of Baldur does´nt reflect any spell.

 

Well, I wouldn't know about spells. I leave the Cloak of Cheese off most of the time. All I know is that is works on the Beholder rays.

 

I believe it stops reflecting just from installing ToB. I don't think the patch is necessary. I just reinstalled BG2 (and have yet to install any mods) on a new computer and I can definitely verify that on unmodded, patched ToB the cloak of reflection actually doesn't.

 

I was upset by the newer version of the cloak in TOB. Not just because it absorbs spells instead of reflecting, but because it actually changed the animation to a spell trap so I couldn't see my cool looking character. And it's definately not fun having the spells not kill their casters. Has anyone noticed if this is true for the shield that reflects missiles?

 

There is a very small mod on this site that makes the Cloak look the way it used to.

I'll take that bump as meaning nobody know how to fix this problem, eh?

 

Ok, time for me to pipe in here.

I usually travel with the shield of Balduran for obvious reasons, and I just finished the Unseeing Eye quest, and for the first time, the SoB didn't do it's job 100%. Sure it protected my figher (Saerileth) from the rays, but not one of them was reflected. She was near, far, and everywhere in between...and still no reflection.

I checked my override folder, and there was no WA2SHIEL.ITM listed.

The only mods that are new to the mix are the Saerileth NPC, Kitanya NPC, Quest Packs, Boards of Magick item pack, and the Crossmod Banter Pack.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the EoU's "Smarter beholders" component...

 

I have had the same problem before but I could usually fix it by unequipping and then re-equiping the shield. I have no idea what caused the problem though.

 

Months later, I'm still having this problem. This is a completely new, fresh install of the game.

Grrr!

 

I noticed this first time in my current run too. Mods I've installed are:

Official Patch
G3 Fixpack
G3 Tweaks
Dungeon-Be-Gone

 

I can't help with the Shield of Balduran, but for me, the Cloak of Mirroring stopped reflecting and merely deflected. After finding the cloak item file (clck26?) in my override folder and deleting it, it became a reflector again. But I never buy the Shield, so I know nothing about that.

 

The Cloak of Reflection doesn't change from SoA to ToB, it's the Cloak of Mirroring that changes. In SoA it reflects spells back to the caster, whereas in ToB it simply causes them to do nothing.

As for the Shield of Balduran, I've experienced it not reflecting rays as well. Usually you can simply re-equip it or (if it's being stubborn) reload from a save and it will start working properly again. Both it and the Cloak of Reflection use the physical mirror effect which can be a bit flaky.

 

Shield of Balduran is designed in a way that two of its effects (namely, reflecting beholder rays and the strength penalty) do not automatically bypass the wielder's magic resistance. This can also explain why re-equipping the shield can solve the problem temporarily. To test whether this is the cause of the problem, try to use it on a character who doesn't have any MR at all and let me know if it makes any change. (I will fix the shield for the next IA release and will increase its price in the shop.)

 

Of course, and don't forget charisma -1.

 

This is incorrect. Effects targeted at self (1) never check magic resistance.

 

I have this problem too. No solution has been found I assume?

I have a number of mods installed (G3 fixpack, a bare-bones installation of scsii, questpack, unfinished business, and various NPC mods), but to my knowledge, none of them have a reflection-tweaking component, nor would I have installed it if they did.

I do have a wa2shiel.itm file in my override folder, but deleting it doesn't fix the shield -- not with reloading, repeated equipping and dropping, or consoling in a new one. In fact, it makes the shield even *worse* than it was before, as some rays actually bypass it and damage the character holding it now.

Quite annoying really. I'd like to clear the underdark lair, but without the shield, it's too much of a chore to be worth it. For the record, I cleared it legitimately quite a few times, even with scsii components installed, and frankly, I always found the whole thing more tedious than "challenging".

Does anyone have an idea how to fix this issue?

 

I've had this problem sometimes. I recently fixed it by changing my sound settings. I set my sounds back to default, and my shield amazingly started reflecting rays again.

 

that's just proves what I have always suspected, that beholders use sound to propagate their rays!