Guild Wars 2

The sab shield skin is one my favorite ones, along with the legendary shield.

All of the special shield skins look really nice, but I have a hard time justifying using a shield due the skills they offer.

Of the 3 classes that can use shields, it feels like Guardian has the best shield skills, but I often just end up using the greatsword because of how quickly it kills mobs.

Anyone got ideas on how to enjoy the shield with the engi or warrior?

I use a warrior with shield it is awesome espically when traited.

I run mace/shield on my warrior alt with traits and I’ve never disliked it. Mace/shield with the bounce when you block trait is like having ranger whirling defense once every 20 seconds. Mace #2 doesn’t end prematurely when it reflects a ranged attack, and you still get the bonus adrenaline if you end without blocking melee, and shield #5 against masses of anything is basically free cooldown resets for burst skills.

Also, the stuns. All of them.

in PVP a shield is handy

Engineer with a shield is PERFECT against karka

There is one ability to reflect cripple-shots right back at karka and cripple them, giving a taste of their own medicine.

I use shield for engineer under 2 conditions:
-Karka defense in Lost Shores
-Added defense when I need to focus on healing/defense/survivability

I always run with shield on my Guardian, and having a shield like the Super Shield is even better.

Shield for engine has been great for leveling up. The AoE knockdown and block/stun.

Engineer gets quite a bit of mileage out of Shield. I used to run Pistol-Pistol, but the mini flame skill and the glue shot don’t seem to provide as much value as the daze from the shield toss or the reflect + push + on-demand blast finisher from skill 4. Now that my shield is Super, I don’t see myself swapping back to Pistol-Pistol anytime soon.

The Super Shield definitely makes me glad that I didn’t try to make the legendary shield.

I use a shield on my guardian and engineer. The Aegis makes having a nice-looking shield kind of useless though. It only really looks good on a Glyphic shield.

Shield is great in groups on Guardian. You can maybe justify focus when solo but in a group, that shield of absorption (and heal!) is a group saver. Protection is always nice too.

Personally I’m loving running sword/shield with the super skins.

As some others have said, engineer shield is essential to some builds, particularly control and support.

It offers three potential interrupts, reflect, block and moderate CD blast finisher, which is honestly probably my favorite feature.

Personally I don’t see the hype in the Super Shield though, I’ll wait for a Super Pistol!

Super shield AND super pistol

I switched to Pistol+Shield on my Engineer, just to run with it. The shield looks simply awesome. I prefer rifle, but running mostly with kits in wvw, its not so much difference. Love the blue trail the shield leaves when you run.

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I switched to Pistol+Shield on my Engineer, just to run with it. The shield looks simply awesome. I prefer rifle, but running mostly with kits in wvw, its not so much difference. Love the blue trail the shield leaves when you run.

If you’re running with kits. Pistol and shield is better than just rifle as you get 2 sigils and not just 1.

So after having actually bought the Super Shield Skin… Wow. I didn’t know about the little custom animations! I’ve been wanting a shield with different stats, so time to transmog…

Sorta related to topic but, has anyone noticed inconsistencies with the shield animation? As an engineer, when I unequip a kit (which draws or ‘unsheathes’ your weapons), it spins and the little sword appears. But when I sheath/unsheath the shield normally, it only spins.