Guild Wars 2

I rarely see any guardians using a shield, so I tried to use one myself in dungeons/WvW yesterday, and I can see why it’s not very popular.

1. Shield of Judgment is a useful skill, but it should be changed to not actually do ANY damage (since the shield should be a defensive weapon only on guardian) and increase protection duration. Still, I don’t really find it a fun skill to use.

2. Shield of Absorption can be useful it timed correctly, obviously, but it is just not a very fun or useful skill in many scenarios. The problem is that if there is a group member that is being targeted by enemies (I’m talking mainly about WvW here, PvE works too) and you want to move them away, if you use this skill you spread them all out which can actually help them most of the time, if they are being targeted by AoE. The shield created should not be spherical, since it’s unlikely that you are being targeted from all sides.

So to change it, it could be more helpful to increase the shield duration, while making the shield wall something similar to wall of reflection, so it’s more directional . This would also help in pushing the enemies back so they are still in the same place.