Guild Wars 2

I tested a lot to make sure, in PvP lobby, PvE and WvW. All the time I let the channel finish. It is bugged.

The description says the shield duration is 4 seconds, but its real duration is between 2~3 seconds. Either the description must be changed to real duration or the duration must be changed to the description. Because it can mislead the real strength of the weapon.

I won’t post it on bug section again because I will just be ignored over and over. I already posted this issue before 2 times and nothing.

Also, Shield of Judgment (#4) is still split between PvE/PvP.
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Offtopic, I’m still testing the weapon to see if it is now viable. By now, the #4 is really weak, but #5 can be used as control (which gardian lacks a lot). And the Shield Trait is worthless. But I’ll test a little more this weapon.

How long has it been like that? Gotta be at least a year

if i recall its from september 14 shield patch ?

Shield of Absorption:
Fixed a bug that caused this skill’s projectile absorption to persist after the skill was cancelled or interrupted.

Aeolus.3615:

if i recall its from september 14 shield patch ?

Shield of Absorption:
Fixed a bug that caused this skill’s projectile absorption to persist after the skill was cancelled or interrupted.

On all my tests, I waited to channel finish. I’m not saying that the dome should continue if it is cancelled or interruped, but intead, the duration of the dome should be 4 seconds if you finish the channel or change the tooltip description to the actual duration.

Mikau.6920:

Aeolus.3615:

if i recall its from september 14 shield patch ?

Shield of Absorption:
Fixed a bug that caused this skill’s projectile absorption to persist after the skill was cancelled or interrupted.

On all my tests, I waited to channel finish. I’m not saying that the dome should continue if it is cancelled or interruped, but intead, the duration of the dome should be 4 seconds if you finish the channel or change the tooltip description to the actual duration.

Thats true, i used shield alot sometimes i didnt want to blast the dome, but dome lasted like ~2 seconds, lots of players have reported this issue.

The bug that they ‘FIXED" wasn’t a bug. Why? Because you channel for 2 second, the shield then last for another 2 second, thus a total of 4 second per description. Alot of idiots with so much time in their hands were mistaken this for a bug and reporting it, forgetting to read (assuming they could read) the full description. And Anet has always been finding ways to nerf Guardian, they saw this as a perfect chance to further nerf the class in the guise of bug fixing, so now you only get a 2 seconds worth of blocks. The next updates about shield will read “Fixing a typo in shield 5 description, which will now read 2 seconds instead of 4”.

quaniesan.8497:

The bug that they ‘FIXED" wasn’t a bug. Why? Because you channel for 2 second, the shield then last for another 2 second, thus a total of 4 second per description. Alot of idiots with so much time in their hands were mistaken this for a bug and reporting it, forgetting to read (assuming they could read) the full description. And Anet has always been finding ways to nerf Guardian, they saw this as a perfect chance to further nerf the class in the guise of bug fixing, so now you only get a 2 seconds worth of blocks. The next updates about shield will read “Fixing a typo in shield 5 description, which will now read 2 seconds instead of 4”.

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Guess some anet dev playing wanted to damage the shield user faster "what a a nuisance!!! stoping my range auto atack, he tough shield is op, must be nerfed, " ….they love easy damage.. it makes people feel good players, what a bunch of skrits, no wonder why some people laugh when they ask me if i still play gw2….

quaniesan.8497:

The bug that they ‘FIXED" wasn’t a bug. Why? Because you channel for 2 second, the shield then last for another 2 second, thus a total of 4 second per description. Alot of idiots with so much time in their hands were mistaken this for a bug and reporting it, forgetting to read (assuming they could read) the full description. And Anet has always been finding ways to nerf Guardian, they saw this as a perfect chance to further nerf the class in the guise of bug fixing, so now you only get a 2 seconds worth of blocks. The next updates about shield will read “Fixing a typo in shield 5 description, which will now read 2 seconds instead of 4”.

Didn’t make sense to nerf what already is useless. I’m not sure how was the skill exactly functionality before the change, so I can’t talk much on that aspect.

I really hope they fix this. Every time I posted this (even on wiki – someone undo, saying that was working fine) I was ignored. I already posted twice that I remember on bug section. It is still the weakest weapon in the game, even with the CD reduction. And the trait doesn’t help at all with this problem, even competing with Strength in Numbers (in comparison with extra armor).

It feels they are only trying random stuffs instead of really trying fixing the problem. And the problem sadly is not with this weapon only, but other weapons (necro axe) and several skills and traits (mainly Radiant Retaliation – the dumbest trait in the game, literally does nothing, even if the bug was fixed).