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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 2327316" data-attributes="member: 3424">Well, the magic item pricing formulas are really guidelines, and you're advised to check the results against a similar magic item.  For your shield ring, the closest equivalent would be the ring of force shield, which grants a shield bonus of +2 and costs 8,500 gp.  Going by the principle that bonuses increase exponentially, i.e. a +2 bonus is 4 times (2x2) more expensive than a +1 bonus, a ring that grants a +4 shield bonus to AC should cost 34,000 gp. Pricing the immunity to magic missiles is a little tricky. Basing off spell immunity results in a cost of 4 x 7 x 2,000 gp x 1.5 = 84,000 gp. On the other hand, a brooch of shielding that protects against 101 hp of magic missile costs only 1,500 gp. Maybe a good compromise would be to use the level of the specific spell being protected against (1) x the minimum caster level for spell immunity (7) x 2,000 gp x 1.5 = 21,000 gp. That's the equivalent of 14 brooches of shielding, or 404 individual magic missiles. As a gut assessment, I doubt that a character will encounter so many magic missiles over the course of his career, so I'm prepared to go with that.Normally, adding an additional property to a single item costs double, but since the combined effect duplicates a single spell, I think it would be alright to just add the costs. I would thus estimate the value of a shield ring at 55,000 gp.  Does this sound right to you?</blockquote>

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