Guild Wars 2

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but it seems when I use Shield Master trait, and I reflect something, the healing bonus doesnt work, is that meant to happen?

If thats the case I may go with dogged march or soemthing

Does the reflect not register as a block? Is that the case with all reflects not just warr shield reflects?

Furajir.3815:

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but it seems when I use Shield Master trait, and I reflect something, the healing bonus doesnt work, is that meant to happen?

If thats the case I may go with dogged march or soemthing

If its not a bug then its lame, Reflect should be consider as Block too, because before you can reflect missile it should be block first by the shield.

XerMeLL.6042:

Furajir.3815:

Not sure if this is a bug or not, but it seems when I use Shield Master trait, and I reflect something, the healing bonus doesnt work, is that meant to happen?

If thats the case I may go with dogged march or soemthing

If its not a bug then its lame, Reflect should be consider as Block too, because before you can reflect missile it should be block first by the shield.

Exactly, hope i can get some more feedback on this.

Yeah, it was identified and discussed here back in the fall. Melee attacks still work, but projectiles don’t due to reflection.

Suffice to say, if unblockable defeats the reflect (it does), then the reflect should still count as a block for the purposes of the rune.

You are correct OP. If you trait shield master you do not get the regen when blocking / reflecting ranged attacks, instead you get the “reflect” only. You do get regen when blocking melee attacks even with shield master trait. I use dogged march as you stated. Doing that you get the regen from all blocked attacks. Ranged and melee.

drcraig.9403:

You are correct OP. If you trait shield master you do not get the regen when blocking / reflecting ranged attacks, instead you get the “reflect” only. You do get regen when blocking melee attacks even with shield master trait. I use dogged march as you stated. Doing that you get the regen from all blocked attacks. Ranged and melee.

+1. Exactly as he said.

Spartacus.3192:

drcraig.9403:

You are correct OP. If you trait shield master you do not get the regen when blocking / reflecting ranged attacks, instead you get the “reflect” only. You do get regen when blocking melee attacks even with shield master trait. I use dogged march as you stated. Doing that you get the regen from all blocked attacks. Ranged and melee.

+1. Exactly as he said.

I know you run a similar build to me, do you take dogged march over shield master?

Furajir.3815:

Spartacus.3192:

drcraig.9403:

You are correct OP. If you trait shield master you do not get the regen when blocking / reflecting ranged attacks, instead you get the “reflect” only. You do get regen when blocking melee attacks even with shield master trait. I use dogged march as you stated. Doing that you get the regen from all blocked attacks. Ranged and melee.

+1. Exactly as he said.

I know you run a similar build to me, do you take dogged march over shield master?

I take Shield master. Even if i dont get the regen when blocking i like the reduced recharge on the shield skills. And if you were to calculate what percentage of time you are reflecting missles vs blocking attacks, i would say you are blocking melee more often and then the regen/might stacks pays off.

Spartacus.3192:

Furajir.3815:

Spartacus.3192:

drcraig.9403:

You are correct OP. If you trait shield master you do not get the regen when blocking / reflecting ranged attacks, instead you get the “reflect” only. You do get regen when blocking melee attacks even with shield master trait. I use dogged march as you stated. Doing that you get the regen from all blocked attacks. Ranged and melee.

+1. Exactly as he said.

I know you run a similar build to me, do you take dogged march over shield master?

I take Shield master. Even if i dont get the regen when blocking i like the reduced recharge on the shield skills. And if you were to calculate what percentage of time you are reflecting missles vs blocking attacks, i would say you are blocking melee more often and then the regen/might stacks pays off.

@Spartacus…you make a good point. I think I’ll try shield master for awhile and see how it goes. If nothing else it is good to have reduced recharge on the shield. Thanks!

Which trait do you guys use with defender rune? Berserker or strength trait?

Sabtah.1704:

Which trait do you guys use with defender rune? Berserker or strength trait?

Neither one interacts with the rune in any way, so it really comes down to which if those lines you’d rather run regardless of the rune used.

Berserker gives you a burstier approach than Strength and a separate tankier approach that leverages Rousing Resilience in the Defense line.

I personally run vanilla strength. I do have a zerk set with Defender runes, but I only tested then for a few days before going back to Strength Runes.

I run mace/sh and GS with RR, defender runes, mango pie, draining sigil etc, its really fun with zerker