You are skilled at protecting yourself and your allies with your shield.
Prerequisite: Shield Focus, base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: When you use the total defense action while using a light, heavy, or tower shield, you can provide a cover bonus to AC against all attacks to an adjacent ally your size or smaller. This cover bonus is equal to your shield’s shield bonus and lasts until the beginning of your next turn. Your shield does not provide a cover bonus to reflex saves.
Special: If you have the Shield Arm combat art (Or another ability that functions similarly to Shield Arm) and the ally would have been struck if not for the cover bonus to AC your shield arm provided, your arm takes damage just as if it had protected yourself from an attack.
