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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Folly" data-source="post: 4177557" data-attributes="member: 62919">The problem here stems from the equation for magic items that emulate spells. This equation is horribly inadequate at estimating the price of the item. There are numerous examples were this equation cause items to be either under-priced or over-priced. Your question is a special exception since there is an existing item that already provided the base affect. Adding the cost of a second effect has an extra 50% attach to every effect except for the most expensive one. So if you where to use the equation to determine the cost of shield, it would be 1 spell level*1 caster level*2000 base coefficient *2 duration coefficient = 4000gp for the shield aspect. For a +4 armor (not discussing what it should be worth) cost 16000. This means that combining them would cost 22000, since 16000 for the armor and 6000 for the shield (because of the 50% extra cost). I personally wouldn't go for this item as the DM, since it would seem to me that if an armor bonus has a cost of 16000 for a +4, shield should cost about the same.</blockquote>