Board Thread:Oblivion/@comment-24353761-20160130044454/@comment-24353761-20170715202224

Very well. Thank you, Ottoman.

I just had to wonder about the way that Sigil Stones handle Shield. With certain items and applications (such as alchemy-concocted potions), you can get a Shield effect that offers a greater armor bonus than that of an equivalent Elemental Shield (or in the case of the  Altar of Spellmaking, creating a Shield spell costs around half the Gold to create — and around half the Magicka to cast — when compared to creating and casting an Elemental Shield spell of the exact same magnitude); it seems obvious that these differences in casting cost and Gold cost reflect the Elemental Shield's extra resistance against elemental damage of that type. So for lack of a better explanation, all I can figure is that whoever coded the Sigil Stones at Bethesda got it all backwards and gave the Sigil Stones' available Shield imbuements less power and protection than those offered by the Sigil Stones' Elemental Shield imbuements.

It would be nice if there were a patch or a mod to fix that. "Oh, you're Level 20.  Here's your Transcendent Sigil Stone; add it to something you wear and it can give you a Fire Shield of 25.  And...now you're Quickloading and grabbing the Sigil Stone again.  Okay, now it can give you a regular, non-elemental Shield of 45.  Take it or leave it." Because sometimes, you already have enough elemental resistance and you just need a little more mystic armor to help you shrug off all those high-level bandits and highwaymen swinging glass warhammers at your head.

(Hey, stupid khajiit highwayman ambushing travellers around Fort Ash!  You have glass armor and a glass battle axe!  Why are you pestering me for a measly 100 Septims?  Go sell some of that glass if you're that desperate to finance your skooma habit, you useless layabout....  x-p )

But I digress. Sorry if I wasn't perfectly clear with my first post (though I tried to be as clear as I could be), and sorry if some people in the world just feel this unhelpful need to split hairs in order to make themselves feel awesome at someone else's expense. And apologies for letting people like that provoke me.