Guild Wars 2

Protection is great. Protection for your team is really great but Over Shield does not work well for the Engineer itself. Here, let me explain why this is the case.

If the Engineer uses Shield 4 or 5 for their full duration the protection on the Engineer starts during the reflect and during the block and does not out last these animations. If you are reflecting or blocking correctly then protection is useless to you in both of these cases.

In the case of the Engineer supporting it’s allies with protection then typically you probably want protection to go out immediately so here is my suggestion. Stagger the protection output. Apply Protection to allies instantly and when the animation for both of these skills have ended then the Engineer should get protection.

Also shield cool-downs are naturally way too high in the current meta for shield to be valuable enough to want to carry.

Feel free to discuss.

Yeah its useless, as are 75% of all classes traits.