Reccomended level and required level are the same on some items. Coders just to lazy I guess,but yes(or no?),you will not be able to equip this sheild until level 51.
This dropped for our group in Cazic Thule off a Tae Ew Aggressor (mid 50's mob). It has good stats though I prefer my Sarnak Battle Shield...the graphic is fun: it looks like blotched frogskin over a round shield (very similar to its inventory graphic). It is a gfood sized shield and perfectly round: ugly as hell but functional.
Is this item fake? or is it really no drop? I swear a friend showed it to me in a trade window and asked me how much it was. But that was awhile ago, they must have nerfed it :( If they made a mistake and it isn't no drop, how much would this thing cost?
I have the same problem, except with a DE Inny worshiper. Some freinds have opined that the "reccomended" level may actually be "required". However, if any Inny worshiper level 51 or higher as tried to equip this and failed I'd like to know.
In Answer to your question, I bought this shield when I was level 50 and could not equip it. When I made 51, I tried equiping it and it went right on. The Recommended is actually required, and any Pally/SK can use. Hope this helps as well as Whets your appetite for it, although I am a pally, I enjoy it for it's Int (Ogre SKs start with more Int the I Have with the shield on) to help with trade skills as well as good for combat.
The shield dropped off the Tae Ew Agressor yesterday. He was a lizard, nearly twice the size of the others, and conned level 56... we pulled him from the CY to the zone, but he may have originally been trained from the Maze from what some peeps were saying. I am an SK but did not loot the shield, as I have far better, it sat at the zone rotting for a long time till someone logged an alt or something to loot it I presume, nobody in the zone wanted it, and I was the lowest level melee there, so if I didnt need it I can see why they would not.
As a 56 SK I was tanking for the group, all of us were 55+. At 56, with good gear for a 56 SK, I was too low to tank in this zone, we had a good time but it was slow going, things hit hard and even with 4K+ HPs, if the slow didn't hit soon, the cleric could hardly keep up, and I am talking about single pulls. The entry mobs hit for 190(warriors) and 205(warders) (that was the easy part), and once into the maze we fought stuff hitting FAST for 270s. PS.. The Agressor FLURRIES-ouch.
The good news is that the MR is kinda low on the mobs, I could land darkness (with the mob un-tashed...which is rare on 55+ mobs) and the 58 chanter landed slows pretty well.
If this shield had the same resists the sarnak battleshield has or at least 10ac more or some flowing thought effect, I could see me using it.. but if you see the difficulty of the zone and the quality of some of the other drops, this is really worthless. If I use a shield I do it for the AC and more important - the resists, and it really lacks the resists.
nice to see VI supporting Pallys and SKs with good sheilds for just us. im a tad sick of seeing druids and shamans with Sarnak Battle sheilds. but I guess thats just jealousy on my part