Shield Ace

Whether to protect yourself or your allies, your training emphasizes effective use and maintenance of shields. You gain the Shield Block general feat and the Quick Repair skill feat. Whenever you successfully Repair a shield, you restore additional Hit Points to the shield equal to your level.

You can use your shield to protect yourself from explosions and other area attacks. You can use the Shield Block reaction while you have your shield raised and you would take physical damage from an area effect, even if that effect isn't an attack, in addition to its usual trigger. When you do, if you're between any allies and the source of the damage (the origin of a line or cone or the center of a burst or emanation), you prevent damage to those allies up to the shield's Hardness.

You can use Area Defender to Shield Block area effects that deal energy damage if you can Shield Block when you would take energy damage from an attack, such as with the Energetic Defender feat or a shield with the blocking trait.

Your shield blocks more than just projectiles. You can use the Shield Block reaction while you have your shield raised and you would take energy damage from an attack, in addition to its usual trigger. Whenever you Shield Block with a shield that has the blocking trait for the same type of damage you would take, that shield gains the deflecting trait for that damage type against the triggering attack.

You keep your guard up and Stride up to half your Speed; and this movement doesn’t trigger reactions.

When you have a shield raised, you can use your Shield Block reaction when an attack is made against an ally adjacent to you. If you do, the shield prevents that ally from taking damage instead of preventing you from taking damage, following the normal rules for Shield Block.

When you Raise a Shield, you can raise up to two shields at once. Additionally, at the start of each of your turns, you gain an additional reaction that you can use only to Shield Block.

Make a ranged attack roll against the attacker using your highest proficiency with a ranged weapon. If you cast spells, you can choose to make a spell attack roll instead. If you succeed, your opponent takes the effects of a successful spell attack roll for their own spell (or the effects of a critical success if your attack roll was a critical success).