Fire Resistance (Blades)

Fire Resistance is a measure of how effective a piece of Armor or shield, or item enchantment is at resisting attacks in. Element resisting reduces, but does not negate, the amount elemental damage received.

Armor
Since shield only have, oddly enough, offensive enchantments, only armor (except gauntlets) can be enchanted to resist elemental damage, however, they often differ in protection from their same material armor counter parts, and light armors and light shields can also have resistances to certain damages including elemental damage.

Unlike armors, shields have a block rating for damage types, both physical and elemental. The higher a shield's block rating, the more effective it is, but only while actively blocking (holding the shield button); they are not passive like armors: shield provides no protection otherwise. A shield can be tempered to increase it's block rating, but it will not be shown in tempering menu as to how much or the fact in general.

A high block will negate more damage than a low block and stagger an opponent, leaving them unable to deal or block damage for a time. It is suggested that the enemy is waited upon while attacking to go into low block, and the user uses high blocks whenever ever possible.