Guild Wars 2

Why do block skills enter their full recharge when they do not block anything?

Take the engineer shield for instance. If i use any of the two skills, but do not trigger the secondary effects or have any mob hit me for the duration, they still enter their full 30+ second recharge.

This, in my opinion, strongly discourage experimental use of said skills because people worry that they will be on recharge when they really need them.

If they instead had a 5-10 second recharge when they did not block anything, people would be more inclined to test them out.

Having seen a build in Path of Exile entirely built around blocking, I would definitely love to see Aegis and Blocking skills be allowed more emphasis in builds (for the right trade-offs, of course).

Cooldowns on block skills are far too long.
Also, the animations that play when blocking are awesome and I would like to see them more often, and I would like to see additional block animations!