And you may already know this but I will state it here for everyone's enjoyment.

Just because a shield has fire resistance (for an example), does not mean that your character is more resistant towards fire. Just the shield is, while it is in use.

So if you have a high FR resistance on a shield, it does not help you resist flames if you happen to walk into them when the shield is not active. Same would be true for a piercing resistance and walking on spikes, ect.

He's talking about SHIELD damage/resistance.

Gtfo.

lol that was my reaction too...

Ouch that hurt... I will now go in my closet to cry for an hour.

:P link didn't work

scary...

Fire resistance on shields applies only to the shield. That is, wearing a Grey Owlite shield won't make you any less flammable. This can be easily verified with any fire resist shield and a FoV at a terminal.

What status resistance *does* do, however, is decrease the amount of damage taken from a status-aligned attack. A notable example is the skeleton's fire breath attack in FSC. You'll notice it does essentially zero direct damage, but a shield left without fire resistance will turn green whilst Grey Owlite stays blue.

I hypothesize that any attack that has the chance to cause status infliction (slag walker attacks, elemental turret projectiles) has some degree of "status" damage. This can be negated only by having the appropriate status defence.

So your Dread Skelly shield will in effect take less damage from Ice and Poison Devilites than, say, Fire or Shock devilites.

Shield can't have status effects applied to them, therefore instead, when a status is inflicted upon a shield it does direct damage to the shield's health based on the status' strength.
If your shield has less health than the damage that the status would normally cause to a shield the shield absorbs as much strength (strength being related the duration and damage of the status and maybe the chance of hitting) from the status effect then breaks.
The remaining strength is then applied to you.

So if a Very Strong poison hits the player's shield and the shield absorbs only a fraction of it, a Weak or Moderate poison may end up being applying to the player (in addition to breaking the shield).

I know there is a chance that a status doesn't affect the player, and I am not sure if the shield absorbing the status' strength affects this chance. To me it seems like when a shield breaks from a status, the status is guaranteed to hit me, however I haven't paid too close attention to the times my shield has broken to statuses, and I may have just overlooked the times where my shield broke to a status but the status failed to affect me. I also notice that status only effects, like the zombie breaths seem to always 'hit' (make your shield flinch) when your shield is out, so the shield being hit may be independent to your own resist.

Being hit by lumbers has also shown me that shield first absorb attack damage, then status strength. So if the attack + status breaks your shield, but the attack alone doesn't, none of the attack damage will penetrate, however a portion of the status will. So when a lumber hit me, it broke my shield but I only took the remainder of the stun status and no damage (and stun doesn't do any additional damage per tick).

And as said, shield resistances to status effects modifies the damage done to shields by the status effects themselves.