Dire Armplates Feat 9

Your armplates have been drastically enhanced with sharp quills that bristle menacingly. While your armplate is raised, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to checks to Demoralize. When you Shield Block using your reaction against a melee Strike, you break off some of the quills, dealing 3d8 piercing damage to the attacking creature (basic Reflex save against the higher of your class DC or spell DC). On a critical failure, the creature also takes 3d4 persistent bleed damage as the quills embed themselves in its flesh. At 12th level and every three levels thereafter, the piercing damage increases by 1d8, and the persistent piercing damage increases by 1d4.