Guild Wars 2

So this skill seems pretty powerful and has a very neat design of having a drawback if shattered. I imagine that its recharge is dragon sized. I just have one suggestion though: can you give it some use for offence? From what I’ve read on Dulfy I have reason to believe that the shield will be the first weapon in the game to not offer a single offensive ability. I mean it is a shield, so I don’t think too much is necessary, but so far this fits with Ventari more than the staff does! Maybe it should have a payoff for channeling the skill for the entire duration. Something like a few seconds of Retaliation or an AOE Blind and damage would work alright. Then instead of people just wanting to shatter it to make you an easy target and stop your healing it would be a little bit more about killing it before it lays eggs.

I’ll wait for the PoI for final judgement, but my guts tell me that this thing is going to be ridiculously O/P in PvE because I highly doubt the AI will be smart enough to burst defiant bars when it sees them, so revs are essentially getting an endure pain on short cooldown in PvE.

Normally I wouldn’t care because this PvE is already plagued to the core by the bum rush zerker lolmeta, but we’re supposed to get hard group content so it’s time to make the balance at least remotely fair in PvE too.

Bearhugger.4326:

I’ll wait for the PoI for final judgement, but my guts tell me that this thing is going to be ridiculously O/P in PvE because I highly doubt the AI will be smart enough to burst defiant bars when it sees them, so revs are essentially getting an endure pain on short cooldown in PvE.

Normally I wouldn’t care because this PvE is already plagued to the core by the bum rush zerker lolmeta, but we’re supposed to get hard group content so it’s time to make the balance at least remotely fair in PvE too.

Did they mention the cooldown?

Bearhugger.4326:

Normally I wouldn’t care because this PvE is already plagued to the core by the bum rush zerker lolmeta, but we’re supposed to get hard group content so it’s time to make the balance at least remotely fair in PvE too.

You’re judging it when:

1. You don’t know the cooldown of said ability.
2. You don’t know how easy the defiance bar is to break.
3. You have no idea what this challenging group content is going to be, therefore you have no idea how viable revenant shield will be in said content.

I’ll bet dollars to donuts it’s 3 stacks (like the big crabs, basically).

Just a feeling.