Guild Wars 2

What does Shield need? Viability. both of the other offhands (torch, and shield) have some kind of condi removal and some burst in thier skills. So how to make shield better

1. Give it condi removal. this ties into 1 other thing I noticed. there is no risk/ reward on the proc of shield 5. currently the only reason to leave the shield up the full duration is a projectile block that does not go with ANY traits and does it WORSE then WoR with more downtime.

I was thinking give it a condi removal per second of shield. as it lasts for 4s that gives you 4 conditions removed if you leave it up. this ties into what do you want more? pop the shild if you need a heal and leave it up if you need condi clear. this would also be removed for any ally inside the bubble, giving the bubble a purpose other then the really bad projectile defense.

2. Give Shield 4 resistance as well as protection, giving allies both protections from power and condi builds, as well as putting it on par with other offhands while still keeping the support nature that is it’s role. Either one of these ideas i think would be good.

TL:DR condi removal on shield

fyi, i just read the tldr

interesting, think of the shield bubble like a big sanctuary, and while allies are in it, remove 1 condi per sec

bubble only lasts like, 4 secs? so total 4 condis? i dunno idea tho

id rather have shield 4 be the knock back and give retal (in a cone) and have the shield 5… drop the bubble at location (not lock you in place) still destroy projectiles but also give slow to enemies within it….no activation / early pop. obviously cd on both would need to be adjusted.

Here’s an idea

Change number four so that it also taunts enemies that it hits (in addition to 5s protection for pve & pvp)

Then change number 5 into an AOE knock back that grants nearby allies AEGIS.

Then change the shield trait so that shield skill grant nearby allies resistance (3 seconds)

Looking at the Revenant’s datamined shield abilities, I can only dream that they’ll update Guardian shield abilities.

Condi removal would be nice, but I’m more interested in having a block as well as eliminating the channeling requirement for the bubble. As you said, there’s essentially no reason at all to keep it up after using it for the knockback.