Guild Wars 2

Who uses a shield as a guard anyway?
I’m a guard myself but i rarely use shields or see other guards using a shield because of the insane cooldown and its out-of-nowhere use, unless you’re utilizing the bonus armor and going all pew pew with your skill 1.

Shield of Judgement – 1/2 casting time, 30 cooldown
The protection is actually better than the “Hold the Line!” Shout but requires your ally to be directly in front of you in order to be hit by the cone wave. This makes the skill inefficient because this would only synergize with the scepter or in PVP when you are approaching in-combat allies and giving them the boon.

Shield of Absorption – 1 1/2 casting time, 40 cooldown
Creates a dome around you that pushes foes back and absorbs projectiles making you still for the whole duration! Now you have to go near to interrupt foes for what ever good reason this would do aside from preventing a stomp in PVP.

Other Guard Skill Comparison
The 30/40 cooldown is a big difference when compared to other off-hand weapons

Warrior Shield Skill Comparison
An interrupt skill (Shield Bash) for only 25 cooldown and a whooping 3 second block!
Why don’t guards have duration blocks and warriors have? We are the guardians not them!

Engineer Shield Skill Comparison
The Magnetic Shield is similar to Shield of Absorption but with only 30 second cooldown. A stun and a 2 second block with Static Shield.
Again, a duration block and not just one time.

Seriously, the guard shield skills feel like it has no certain objective and obviously left out when compared to other professions.I would rather use Focus for sustain and support.

This will fall on deaf ears just like the 100 other posts for guardian shield suggestions…

Kraljevo.2801:

This will fall on deaf ears just like the 100 other posts for guardian shield suggestions…

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Yup, our classes symbol and all, and ours is the worst shield skills out of the game. Finally just handed my Flameseeker over to my warrior and said to “kitten with it”

While I agree that it needs a rework. Don’t compare skills from 2 different Professions. Balance don’t work like that, those professions have a reason to have their shield working that way.

goldenwing.9654:

While I agree that it needs a rework. Don’t compare skills from 2 different Professions. Balance don’t work like that, those professions have a reason to have their shield working that way.

4# block for 3 sec and protect 3 allies (20 sec) + 5# daze 3 sec plus heal 3 allies (25sec) is what make balance for guardian shield

Ragnarox.9601:

goldenwing.9654:

While I agree that it needs a rework. Don’t compare skills from 2 different Professions. Balance don’t work like that, those professions have a reason to have their shield working that way.

4# block for 3 sec and protect 3 allies (20 sec) + 5# daze 3 sec plus heal 3 allies (25sec) is what make balance for guardian shield

Sounds good, probably 3s block is too much as we also have the 2s block from Shelter. The thing is focus is so much superior that is hard to make shield viable. Right now focus has better support than shield does, u can rezz while SoW is up, it has a mini regen + condi cleanse + blind + dmg on RoJ. What ever shield becomes it must not overwrite the focus’es role.
Its strange that shield doesn’t offers us any sort of sustain and it encourages cowardly gameplay. But yes, I do agree we need a real block, also daze doesn’t sound bad.

Shield of Judgement: Lower cooldown to 25s. Add applying 5 stacks of vulnerability to enemies hit.

I think 30 secs would be a nice cooldown for shield of absorption.

It doesnt need much more change. Shield of absorption is very strong in WvW situations. Shield of judgement too.

I already gave up on hope to they finally fix the shield.