Guild Wars 2

Conjure Earth Shield has a lot of potential; it is our only Pull (now with Protection!), our only Daze and our only other Block besides Arcane Shield with its ridiculous cooldown, is relatively decent at stacking bleeds outside of Earth Attunement, and is the only skill in the game that can provide allies with Invulnerability.

However, hardly anyone runs it because casting it takes too much time, and because it is not a stun breaker. These are problems with all Conjures, but it’s especially a shame that a Conjure that’s so obviously defensively oriented as Earth Shield doesn’t break stuns, and has a cast time that can spell doom when you’re focused.

Besides, Conjures are our only Utility class that lacks a stun breaker.

Please devs, consider this!

I’d also love to hear other players’ opinions.

Thank you!

instant and stun breaker is too much
making it instant would be perfect. making it also a stun break means it would need nerfs

reikken.4961:

instant and stun breaker is too much
making it instant would be perfect. making it also a stun break means it would need nerfs

I don’t understand how that makes any sense considering all the other stun breakers are instant cast.

Arcane Shield
Mist Form
Glyph of Elemental Power
Earth Armor
Signet of Air

It would actually be a worth-while stunbreaker, as most of ours are actually pretty garbage.

I hope we sometimes see that eventually adressed.
I doubt it though.
Love the class, see the potential but are disappointed by the balancing team

Wraistlin.6072:

reikken.4961:

instant and stun breaker is too much
making it instant would be perfect. making it also a stun break means it would need nerfs

I don’t understand how that makes any sense considering all the other stun breakers are instant cast.

Arcane Shield
Mist Form
Glyph of Elemental Power
Earth Armor
Signet of Air

I don’t think he meant that a stun breaker isn’t instant-cast, only that Earth Shield should be instant-cast but not a stun breaker.

@reikken: I do see your point. If it were to become a stun breaker, it gives us a variety of CC options and an Invulnerability to counter with immediately after breaking stun, not to mention immediate (minor?) buffs to Vitality and Toughness, which I admit could be a bit too powerful.

EDIT: Although it does lock us out of our Attunements. But I’m not sure if that’s a strong enough trade-off.

But yes, it should at least be instant-cast!

+1 for at least instacast. +1 for stunbreak…move the one from GoEP over dem dar. Not sure about both at same time.

How about just making conjures not a waste of a utility slot that forces you to trade 20 skills for 5?

Could they are least let us drop the conjured weapon and pick it back up. If you get knocked down there goes your conjured weapon which means it is very risky in WvW or PvP.

I’ve been saying forever that this skill should be an instant stunbreaker. Glad other people are finally realizing that too. It would sure as hell be a lot more useful that glyph of elemental power being a stunbreaker. Don’t know what they were thinking when they were trying to spread stunbreaks around when they put it on that skill, something you’d want to use as soon as its off cooldown defeats the purpose of it being a stunbreaker.