That 37% has already been increased by Bastion. (.30 *1.25 = ~37.5%)

Imo blazing shield shall scale on the bigger stat. this shield is not here for sustain but to protect and deal damage at the same time. You are suppose to spam it in melee range so duration doesn't matter.

all damage shields should scale off of magicka or max resource of the character

philip-sanderneb18_ESO wrote: »

contact.opiumb16_ESO wrote: »

Imo blazing shield shall scale on the bigger stat. this shield is not here for sustain but to protect and deal damage at the same time. You are suppose to spam it in melee range so duration doesn't matter.

This is true, but if it would scale on a magicka Temp for example id think its too strong. It scales like the DK shield on HP and is therefore quite unique and can stay like that, if it gets some kind of little buff.

It doesn't need to scale on Magic. That would make Templar way OP, no thanks. It just needs to ignore battle spirit so it gets the full 30% hp bonus. That's it, dmg can still be reduced 50%.

Its 37-38% without battle spirit and full bastion CP, that would give my build a 18k shield, and around 22-23k buffed up. Fully maxed it would deal close to 18k on a crit (rare chance but in the middle of a zerg, I'd hit 18k at least five times out of 24 hits.). Not to mention the chance to proc burning light. If battle spirit did not effect this build, you would have the absolute most tanky, damaging single build for zergs in the game, nothing would compete. Imagine if emp got that power...with 120+k health...60k non crit AOE...thats dumb. I love my blazing shield build...but not being effected by battle spirit would destroy the skill through future nerfs. I'd say lower the amount it is nerfed by but not all the way

I really think they need to stop basing shields off of max health. Conjured ward is so powerful for sorcerors because it scales with their resource pool, not their health pool. Having it based entirely off of magicka gives sorcs an extremely large damage shield.

It needs to function similarly with every other damage shield in the game. Sun shield, fragmented shield, healing ward, annulment, etc. should all be scaling off of max magicka. Bone shield should be scaling off of max stamina.

Stamina users already get reamed in every aspect of this game, and have been getting reamed since launch. It's gotten a little less rough, but we're still taking it up the tailpipe because those dolts working at ZOS dont understand game balance.

The problem with Blazing and Bone Shield is that they have really bad 6 second duration with a 1 second animation. Bone shield and Obsidian Shield have the nice side effect though of buffing the entire team, although in the case of bone shield it requires a synergy (which has its own pros and cons, definitely a pro if your team is Undaunted 10 though).

On the matter of Blazing Shield, I personally look at it as a pairing of two components (damage) which would be akin to the damage portion of boundless storm for instance, and (Shielding) comparable in part to hardened ward. This skill was meant to deter assault and punish enemies fighting at close range. The problem with it in pvp though is that it doesn't punish unless you build a gimped health build. Health multipliers were also dropped. The Shield magnitude itself was lowered. The game is also now built more around driving your mag or stam way up. This has hurt these health based shields, and everyone who is familiar with the issue knows it. I personally think ALL shields should be based upon health, or at the very least an average of health and magicka. There needs to be a reason players have to choose between stats and builds.

The Sorcerer crowd don't like basing the ward on health, because it is their best form of mitigation (for magic sorcs anyway). I can understand this concern but really I think for the sake of parity and balance it would be a step in the right direction. In turn I think they need to find a way to improve an ability like exchange (make it uninterruptible), or crit surge (make it work more effectively, however they choose), etc.

Having played as a Stamplar for quite some time now, I'm pretty familiar with playing without a shield (and my StOrc feels very similar to the Stamplar, only it is more mobile). The Rally and Vigor skill are pretty important, line of sight is very important, rune is important.

I personally think they need to do something about the health shields though, and my own solution is to suggest that all the shields should be health shields. It will make things a hell of a lot easier to balance, and it will make the choice between toughness and dps a lot clearer. Right now the path to both is open for some builds, and that isn't good.

Even with Blazing Shield being based off of health it's still a weak shield unless your emp. I have 62k health on my templar in PvP, 45 points into bastion in the cp. When around zero enemies it cover about 8 to 10% of my health bar, if I toppling charge into a group of 10 to 15 enemies and hit it, I get maybe an extra 8 to 10%. That's pretty lame. It's a weak shield.