Guild Wars 2

It’s just me or the fact the skill needs to be targeted on team members to give them the buff is flawed?
I mean most of the team is behind you (since you’re a meleer), so you have to turn around to apply the buff.
Plus if the team is spread you can’t hit most people with it.

In my opinion SoJ should work like a shout and affect allies in a radius rather than in a cone.

I don’t think it’s flawed, but I also won’t be too sad if they change it.
I don’t think every skill that applies buffs need to just grant the buffs without any effort. And Protection is powerful enough to ask that effort. It’s also not too hard to apply it and most of the time I manage to catch at least one ally in the effect.

Making it a shout (or shout-like) is something I don’t agree with. It would be rather counterintuitive to not have it be within the graphical effect.

This way it gives you a choice between buffing allies with, all things considered, minimal effort (all you have to do is turn around -.-) or damaging opponents.

I remember when I first read this skill, I quite liked the idea! I still quite like the idea although as people don’t like that the shield can’t actually block anything, one suggestion I have for the skill would be to turn it into a counter-attack style block that when you block an attack or activate the skill again, you perform Shield of Judgement the way it works now.