Siege Shield in Aetherian Archive

Khrogo

Does anyone know if Siege Shield is useful for the second boss in AA? Back in the day, before champion points, I seem to remember groups using it, but not sure if the mitigation was unintended and subsequently fixed. Thanks.

Aerithone

nope,zoses fixed pretty big amount of instances,where u can use it.
but *small tip* u can use it in hof for the last boss.)

ArchMikem

How is that PvP ability effective in the slightest in PvE? It mitigates damage from Seige Equipment which last I checked, Mobs in PvE don't plop down a Balista at you.

Asmael

ArchMikem wrote: »

How is that PvP ability effective in the slightest in PvE? It mitigates damage from Seige Equipment which last I checked, Mobs in PvE don't plop down a Balista at you.

It's used:

• In Sanctum Ophidia for magicka builds to burn their magicka very quickly
• In some specific tactics where you want ranged DDs to gain a few seconds against bosses that are too far away. For instance, after an explosion on the Twins in vMoL, Siege shield was used at times to allow ranged DDs to keep damaging the boss on the other side of the room.

Mureel

Khrogo wrote: »

Does anyone know if Siege Shield is useful for the second boss in AA? Back in the day, before champion points, I seem to remember groups using it, but not sure if the mitigation was unintended and subsequently fixed. Thanks.

Haha we sure did!!

Mureel

Asmael wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

How is that PvP ability effective in the slightest in PvE? It mitigates damage from Seige Equipment which last I checked, Mobs in PvE don't plop down a Balista at you.

It's used:

• In Sanctum Ophidia for magicka builds to burn their magicka very quickly
• In some specific tactics where you want ranged DDs to gain a few seconds against bosses that are too far away. For instance, after an explosion on the Twins in vMoL, Siege shield was used at times to allow ranged DDs to keep damaging the boss on the other side of the room.

Yeah we used to do on twins, yep. But that was very long ago.

Khrogo

Thanks for the setting me straight on this, everyone. It’s an expensive skill and, as a healer, being outta magicka is never good. And, yes, it was an extremely long time ago, back when no one could get past the Daedroth in CoA, and you were next to God if you had a six-trait crafter. Lol.