Question regarding Mythic Power ''Sacrificial Shield ''


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Sacrificial Shield (Ex)

Once per round when you would normally be hit by a weapon attack, you can use your shield to block the attack. You must be using a shield in order to use this ability. Subtract your shield's hardness and hit points from the damage of the attack and apply the remaining damage to your hit points. If the shield takes enough damage to destroy it, it's destroyed. Otherwise, it gains the broken condition, even if the damage was not enough to give it the broken condition under other circumstances. You can expend one use of mythic power when using this ability to negate any damage dealt to the shield, though you still take any damage that exceeds its hardness and hit points. You can choose to negate the damage after the damage is rolled

I mean this power is bad... bad clarified to be more precise. For example lets assume that a monster with an unholy weapon hits the mythic guardian, and you use this power to block the incoming physical damage.

What happens to the 2d6 unholy damage ? Do they hit the champ normally ? Are they lost ? plz enlighten me because i am confused.


Not an expert, but the ability never specifies that it only applies to physical damage. You use it to "block the attack". So any damage that would be delivered to you by a weapon is potentially blocked by this ability.


Yes, the shield blocks it. Add up the damage the weapon deals (including unholy), subtract the shield's hardness, and apply it to the shield. If it destroys the shield, apply the remainder to the bearer.

Seems like a decent enough power to me, though it lacks the luster of some of the more in-your-face abilities.

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