Clipeus

Statistics Clipeus All Races DEF: 5 Evasion +1 Lv. 9 WAR / PLD / DRK This is a Buckler Shield, a Size 1 shield. It absorbs the least damage, but blocks more often than the other shield types.	Other Uses Used in Quest: None NPC Sell Price: 150~183 Gil
Synthesis Recipes None	Used in Recipes None
Desynthesis Recipe Unknown	Obtained From Desynthesis None

How to Obtain

Cannot be auctioned, traded, or bazaared, but can be delivered to a character on the same account.

Dropped From

Name	Level	Zone
Fungus Beetle (NM)	10-15	West Ronfaure

Historical Background

In the military of classical antiquity, a clipeus was a large shield worn by the Greeks and Romans as a piece of defensive armor. It was round in shape and in the middle was a bolt of iron, or of some other metal, with a sharp point.

The term "clypeus" is also used by entomologists to describe a shield-like part of an insect's exoskeleton, located behind the mandibles but anterior to the front edge of the carapace, what make sense, since this shield is dropped from a beetle-type monster.