Poor Man’s Shield

Information

Price 500 Features Drop bar Yes Sellable Yes Destructible Yes Stackable No Demountable No Divisible No Store categories Usually Sub-categories Defense Store categories Agility Block damage

“A ruined old shield that seems to be able to withstand more than you’d expect.”
— Description in Dota 2
Poor Man’s Shields is a utility item from DotA and Dota 2.

Update history

• February 14, 2013: Fixed a recent bug where Poor Man’s Shield sometimes did not block damage from heroines and heroes.

Trivia

• The Poor Man’s Shield is used as a profile icon for level 12 of the Dota 2 leveling system.

Production

Items needed

Dota 2

Dota 2 is – unlike other big MOBA titles like League of Legends – free to play with all heroes. However, game items can be purchased in the Dota 2 store, but all of them have no effect on the gameplay. Only cosmetic items like different skins for the heroes can be purchased. Just like in Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Portal 2, it is possible to create your own content via the Steam Workshop.

Dota 2 is a multiplayer online battle arena title from Valve. The successor to the extremely popular Warcraft 3 modification DotA (Defense of the Ancients), Dota 2 was the company’s first strategy game and was released on the download platform Steam on July 9, 2013. The game is a free-to-play title that can be played completely free of charge and is financed through in-game microtransactions, similar to Team Fortress 2.

Skills

Poor Man’s Shield
	Passive: Damage Block – Blocks physical damage depending on whether the wearer is a melee or ranged fighter. Poor Man’s Shield always blocks damage from enemy heroes and has a 53% chance to block damage from creeps.
	Ability: Passive	Block chance (creeps): 53 Damage block (melee): 20 Damage block (ranged combat): 10 + 6 Agility
	“A ruined old shield that seems to be able to withstand more than you’d expect.”