Dark Souls III – Where to Find All Shields Location Guide

Golden Wing Crest Shield

• Skill: Spell Parry
• Can be found in Grand Archives

A blue knight’s shield engraved with a golden wing crest.

Grass Crest Shield

• Skill: Parry
• Can be found in Road of Sacrifices

Old medium metal shield of unknown origin

Kite Shield

• Skill: Parry
• Buy form Greirat

An orthodox metal shield

Knight Shield

• Skill: Parry
• Buy form Greirat after pillaging Village

Orthodox shield of the kind commonly used by low-ranking knights.

Large Leather Shield

• Skill: Parry
• Buy form Shrine Handmaid

Orthodox round shield covered with leather.

Lothric Knight Shield

• Skill: Parry
• Drop from Lothric Knight, Greirat after pillaging Irithyll

Shield of the renowned Lothric Knights, decorated with the royal crest.

Pierce Shield

• Skill: Shield Bash
• Drop form Siegward of Catarina – (Irithyll of the Boreal Valley, Appears in the kitchen above the sewers if you returned his armor in the Cathedral of the Deep.

An unusual style of round shield peculiar to the knights of Catarina

Pontiff Knight Shield

• Skill: Weapon Skill
• Buy form Grierat after pillaging Village

Shield of the Pontiff’s knights, frigid spirits that linger in Irithyll.

Porcine Shield

• Skill: Shield Bash
• Can be found in Snuggly the Crow

Shield based on a pig’s head, depicted with unsettling authenticity.

Round Shield

• Skill: Parry
• Buy form Greirat

Standard round wooden shield.

Shield of Want

• Skill: Weapon Skill
• Can be found in Smouldering Lake

Shield of an ancient king who was cursed by an all-consuming thirst. In the end, he was no king.

Silver Eagle Kite Shield

• Skill: Weapon Skill
• Can be found in High Wall of Lothric

Orthodox metal shield engraved with a crest depicting a silver eagle.

Silver Knight Shield

• Skill: Parry
• Drop form Silver Knight

Heavy shield carried by the Silver Knights who served the old royal family. A flowing canal is chiseled deeply into its face.

Spider Shield

• Skill: Weapon Skill
• Can be found in Cathedral of the Deep Unkindled

A shield bearing a large etching of a spider.

Spiked Shield

• Skill: Shield Strike
• Can be found in Cathedral of the Deep

Shield of Longfinger Kirk, the notorious Knight of Thorns. The surface bristles with thorns.

Spirit Tree Crest Shield

• Skill: Parry
• Can be found in Lothric Castle

A knight’s shield engraved with a crest depicting a spirit tree.

Stone Parma

• Skill: Weapon Skill
• Can be found in Farron Keep

A round, stone shield, once carried by an old knight who turned to stone himself.

Sunlight Shield

• Skill: Parry
• Can be found in Snuggly the Crow

A large, circular shield made of metal and decorated with a holy symbol depicting the sun.

Sunset Shield

• Skill: Parry
• Can be found in Firelink Shrine (after aiding Sirris against Hodrick)

Shield of the Holy Knights of the Sunless Realms

Wargod Wooden Shield

• Skill: Weapon Skill
• Can be found in Undead Settlement

Wooden shield reinforced with metal. The largest of the wooden medium shields.

Wooden Shield

• Skill: Parry
• Drop form Hollow Soldier

A vertically elongated wooden shield decorated with a white dragon.

Greatshields List:

Ponderous Greatshields are the heaviest and most stable of all shields. They have hefty attribute requirements, both in raw Str required to simply use them, and in their high weight values.

Ancient Dragon Greatshield

• Skill: Weapon Skill
• Can be found in Archdragon Peak

A wooden shield bearing the image of an ancient dragon

Black Iron Greatshield

• Skill: Shield Bash
• Can be found in Smouldering Lake

Greatshield made of black iron, deeply feared for its association with Knightslayer Tsorig.

Bonewheel Shield

• Skill: Wheel of Fate
• Drop form Skeleton Wheel

A giant wooden wheel, encircled by spikes and half-melded to a strange skeleton.

Cathedral Knight Greatshield

• Skill: Shield Bash
• Drop form Knight of the Deep, Consumed King’s Knight

A heavy iron shield used by the knights of the Cathedral of the Deep. The blessings of the Cathedral have granted it high dark absorption.

Curse Ward Greatshield

• Skill: Weapon Skill
• Can be found in Cathedral of the Deep

Greatshield given to those who resisted the curse long ago.

Dragonslayer Greatshield

• Skill: Shield Bash
• Drom form Dragonslayer Armour Soul

Melted iron shield that once formed part of the Dragonslayer Armour.

Greatshield of Glory

• Skill: Shield Bash
• Can be found in Profaned Capital

A greatshield adorned with flowing patterns, a celebration of an ancient glory.

Havel’s Greatshield

• Skill: Stone Flesh
• Drop form Champion in Archdragon Peak

A tremendously solid and heavy greatshield, cut straight from a great slab of stone.

Lothric Knight Greatshield

• Skill: Shield Bash
• Drop form Lothric Knight, Greirat after pillaging Irithyll

Greatshield of the renowned Lothric Knights, decorated with a holy symbol.

Moaning Shield

• Skill: Moan
• Drop from Eygon of Carim (Firelink Shrine – Visits briefly to check on Irina (peaceful). Appears hostile if you attack Irina. Appears and kidnaps Irina if you corrupt her)

A deformed greatshield given to Eygon of Carim upon being conferred knighthood.

Stone Greatshield

• Skill: Shield Bash
• Drop form Elder Ghru

A mossy stone disc, Though terribly heavy, it can serve as a shield.

Twin Dragon Greatshield

• Skill: Shield Bash
• Can be found in Road of Sacrifices

The lightest of all greatshields, made from wood and decorated with a two-headed dragon.

Wolf Knight’s Greatshield

• Skill: Weapon Skill
• Reward of the Watchdogs of Farron

Greatshield of a knight tainted by the dark of the Abyss, and master of the wolf’s blood of Farron

Yhorm’s Greatshield

• Skill: Shield Bash
• Drop form the Yhorm’s Soul

Greatshield used long ago by Yhorm the Giant.