Guild Wars 2

As it is right now the shield lacks synergy with everything else the guardian has, and ironically the aegis works better as a shield than the actual shield.

While there are people who love shields or find a specific skill (the bubble) to be useful (with it’s push back) in very specific situations I feel that no one can deny that Shields are meant to be used in the front line of battle with a sword or a mace.

Think how much more awesome guardians would look if we could go to battle with a sword and shield looking all majestic as kittens.

Should shields be completely re-dessigned from scratch so as to work more like a shield should and less like a magical trinket to use with a scepter from far away?

I don’t think that reducing the cool-downs is enough to make it relevant, or even the added toughness, it’s more about the skills.

As much as myself and others agree it will never happen.

Shield is extremely situational and rarely used by anyone. But if it was changed this would upset the people that do use it. Sadly they can’t just change a weapons skills

I’ve found it useful in WVW

From what i know Anet already announced that shield will be totally redesigned in HoT.

I tried to use shield (yes, again) and I can reaffirm what I said on previous posts about the shield:

• The #4 needs another effect (IMO it should be 5 sec of cripple).
• The #5 should have the bug fixed (over a year bugged and not a single word about by devs), should not root and the detonation should scale better with healing power (it scales too poorly).
• The Shield trait needs something else (IMO it should be shield skills give 5 seconds of regen to affected allies – now the shield trait is just garbage, there is literally no reason to use it).

These changes doesn’t redesign the weapon, but will finally make the weapon on par with the other off hand weapons that Guardian has. I don’t believe that it needs to be completely redesigned. There is still salvation to the current shield.

And again, PLEASE, FIX THE BUG.

MidoriMarch.8067:

From what i know Anet already announced that shield will be totally redesigned in HoT.

When they said this?

The only thing shield is good for is knock people off points & or thieves out of shadow refuge.

Frankly I think they should
1: Change skill number 4 to be a point blank AOE centered on the guardian that grants protection to allies and damages enemies.

2: Change skill number 5 to be a point blank AOE centered on the guardian which knocks back enemies & grants AEGIS to allies.

3: Change the shield trait so that in addition to reducing shield cool downs it causes shield number 4 to taunt struck enemies & shield number 5 to also grant effected allies several seconds of resistance.

After that shield would be quite nice, have synergy with AEGIS traits and be useful in allot of builds.

The shield will get a redesign the day my Torch 4 manages to hit something

MidoriMarch.8067:

From what i know Anet already announced that shield will be totally redesigned in HoT.

I’m 99.999% sure that they didn’t say this. Sounds way too good to be true.

MidoriMarch.8067:

From what i know Anet already announced that shield will be totally redesigned in HoT.

Source please?

i think the said something about reworking shield in the stream covering the changes on guardian with the feature patch. but it was more like “thinking about changeing it”. I am too lazy to find it

Just add a block mechanism.

Block next incoming attack and if successfully blocked, grant Aegis to party members around you.

I would be happy with being able to apply a shield skin to a focus.