Guild Wars 2

What actually shield doing? Only create field or something more?

Field that blocks projectiles for decent period of time. Awesome skill. The only downside is that it has ridiculously long CD and it’s hard to control when the shield is gonna pop up. Extremely useful in fractals and WvW.

Great for Giganticus Lupicus too.

It pulses a shield of absorption several times that does not knock back (absorbs projectiles). Because it lasts for 20 seconds untraited, it is one of the longest lasting anti-projectiles in the game. You can trait it for easy positioning with eternal spirit (20 in zeal), but once you learn how it works, you may not need to trait it anymore. Once you get hit or hit something it pulses at its current location. When neutral, it follows you around, so it’s best to summon this at a location where you want it to pulse.

If you’re running dungeons, once you understand how this works, I highly suggest bringing this for fights with a lot of projectiles. It greatly reduces the damage you and/or your team will take. Having 20 seconds of uninterrupted projectile absorption is enough of a window to dish out loads of damage on a couple bosses.

In TA, this allows your team to burst the champion nightmare vine, nearly unscathe, and shuts down Malrona’s deadly projectile spread. It’s interesting how many people don’t realize this absorbs all of Tom’s poison bolts in fractals. Then again, the tooltip doesn’t really tell you anything. This is just one of those instances where you have to personally test your skills to truly understand what they do.

I’m a little surprised I don’t see PuG guardians in my group using this skill in fractals, especially at scale 10 where something like harpies (cat golem fractal) knock you off the platforms with projectiles. Again, it’s probably a case of the lack of information on the tooltip and people not taking the time to test/ask how it works.

I use the bow of truth instead as my main weapon is melee ( mace/torch ) and ( specter/focus > second ).