Mirrored Shield

Mirrored Shield
In-Game Description
"Shield: Deludes enemies" (GS) (TLA) "Arm: Shield (Use to delude foes)" (DD)
Trade Info
Item class	Shield
Buy value	5200
Sell value	3900
Artifact?	Yes
Sell value when broken	2600
Repair cost	1300
Equip/Use Effect
Defense Boost	39
Use Effect	Casts Delude on a target enemy group *
When Usable	Battle
Acquisition
• Sold in Lalivero (GS) • Sold in Contigo (TLA) • Sold in Champa Camp (DD)

The Mirrored Shield (ミラーシールド, Mirror Shield^?) is a Shield-class hand armor found throughout the Golden Sun series.

In Golden Sun and The Lost Age

The Mirrored Shield can be Used as an item during battle by an Adept who is able to equip it (but it does not necessarily have to be actually equipped) to emulate the Delude Psynergy to attempt to inflict the Delusion status condition on up to three enemies. It is bought as an artifact from the armor vendor at Lalivero in Golden Sun.

While it may have the highest Defense of all hand equipment in the first Golden Sun, it having just a Use effect - with that being an attempt at inflicting the unimpressive Delusion status condition on enemies - makes it only noteworthy for its Defense, and as it is, the shield is just barely one of the two best pieces of hand-armor for the warrior Adepts Isaac and Garet to be wearing, with the other being the War Gloves.

It is bought as an artifact from the armor vendor at Contigo in Golden Sun: The Lost Age. In The Lost Age, when it becomes available in Contigo as soon as the Great Western Sea can be sailed, though, the Aegis Shield you can get multiples of with Lucky Medals in Lemuria earlier are much better than it, because they have two more Defense points and a very useful 10% increase to the equipped Adept's chance to Unleash with his weapon. It should not be hard to find an improvement to replace the Mirrored Shield with if Isaac's party joins Felix's with the first game's Mirrored Shield equipped due to Password data transfer.

In Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

It is bought as an artifact from the armor vendor at Champa Camp in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. In Dark Dawn, the Mirrored Shield will be a placeholder for stronger and more useful armwear such as the Aegis Shield and the Cosmos Shield. It is available as soon as the player gains the ship. Since Eoleo joins the party with only weak Leather Gloves, the Mirrored Shield is an option for him until the player can gain the stronger Shields.

Trivia

• The Mirrored Shield and the first game's Dragon Shield are the only Shield Artifacts to appear in every entry of the Golden Sun series. What separates the two is that the Mirrored Shield is guaranteed to appear in Golden Sun: The Lost Age, but the Dragon Shield will only appear if it's in the player's inventory when they transfer data from the first game to The Lost Age.