Guild Wars 2

i love using shield from my guardian,warrior(sort of) and engineer. but the shield special timer is too long to wait! other off hand weapon are short and fair; compare to shield 24 and 32sec with honorable traits IX (30 and 40sec if no traits)!?

toons dead by the time it deploys the shield block!

please ANET be reasonable and reduce the timer to balance with other off hand weapons?

If you look across the skills you will find that all defensive skills are on longer timers than offensive skills. This likely to make SPVP fights more decisive and exciting from a spectator POV back when they where still going full tilt esport.

There is also the “player skill” angle. Defensive skills share a design consideration with controll skills. In both cases they are aimed at being used at decisive moments to shift the fight in your favor. This by blocking or interrupting your opponents big burst combo. Again a SPVP consideration, as anything above trash mobs will be able to eat 2-3 such combos to the face before they drop.

for me im being deprived of that two shield skill only two! once deploy that two skill you have to fend yourself with main weapon and 6-to-0 specials or run around! im not talking pvp or spvp, im talking about pve…

jroshq.8645:

for me im being deprived of that two shield skill only two! once deploy that two skill you have to fend yourself with main weapon and 6-to-0 specials or run around! im not talking pvp or spvp, im talking about pve…

If you’re talking PVE you shouldn’t even be using a Shield

As a rule, offhand weapons have long CD timers, a few exceptions exist such as Mesmer weapons & Ranger Dagger.

Shield skills would be far too good on short CDs.

jroshq.8645:

i love using shield from my guardian,warrior(sort of) and engineer. but the shield special timer is too long to wait! other off hand weapon are short and fair; compare to shield 24 and 32sec with honorable traits IX (30 and 40sec if no traits)!?

toons dead by the time it deploys the shield block!

please ANET be reasonable and reduce the timer to balance with other off hand weapons?

The shield timer is fine.

Try staying behind the mob. Also, try dodging (in the right moment).

Caedmon.6798:

jroshq.8645:

i love using shield from my guardian,warrior(sort of) and engineer. but the shield special timer is too long to wait! other off hand weapon are short and fair; compare to shield 24 and 32sec with honorable traits IX (30 and 40sec if no traits)!?

toons dead by the time it deploys the shield block!

please ANET be reasonable and reduce the timer to balance with other off hand weapons?

The shield timer is fine.

Many people think it is, indeed, too long. Shields are rather poor in guildwars 2, both in that other weapons offer more defence and in that their abilities have horrible cooldowns. One would also think that a shield would be about blocking, but often, that’s not the case with the abilities they are given.

Shields are just plain bad and guardians especially are better off just using a Hammer.

jroshq.8645:

for me im being deprived of that two shield skill only two! once deploy that two skill you have to fend yourself with main weapon and 6-to-0 specials or run around! im not talking pvp or spvp, im talking about pve…

Problem is that here there is no difference between PvP and PvE, they are one. That’s why many professions keep getting nerfs that make them fairly useless in PvE just to make them less OP in PvP.

shields in this game are below garbage

I love shields and i wish they were improved…

I admit I have never been tempted to use any shield but that of the engineer. However I don’t know how you could complain about the engineer shield, it is indisputably one of the best offhands in the game. But admittedly, the engi-shield easily does double what the other shields do, even on the same cooldown in the case of the guardian. So unless the engi shield is overpowered (which I don’t believe) the others could definitely use some work.

chronometria.3708:

Caedmon.6798:

jroshq.8645:

i love using shield from my guardian,warrior(sort of) and engineer. but the shield special timer is too long to wait! other off hand weapon are short and fair; compare to shield 24 and 32sec with honorable traits IX (30 and 40sec if no traits)!?

toons dead by the time it deploys the shield block!

please ANET be reasonable and reduce the timer to balance with other off hand weapons?

The shield timer is fine.

Many people think it is, indeed, too long. Shields are rather poor in guildwars 2, both in that other weapons offer more defence and in that their abilities have horrible cooldowns. One would also think that a shield would be about blocking, but often, that’s not the case with the abilities they are given.

Shields are just plain bad and guardians especially are better off just using a Hammer.

People have enough immunitys and blocks as it is,timers are fine.For warr speaking,having endure pain 5 sec immune,trait for endure pain,4 sec immune,shield stance 3 sec immune on a 30 sec cd wich can be lowered to 25 sec,that does Not need to be lowered anymore….Godmode comes to mind.

Edit:Typo, berserk = endure pain.

Are people talking PVP or PVE. The game changes massively between the two in terms of the effectiveness of defense. This because mobs can survive attacks that will one short PVP bunker builds, and do just as much damage in return.