Increase Shield Duration

Jakx

The nerf to shields happened and it appears that any revert to this is unlikely. The developers have made their minds up and even despite the conversation with the class reps it went through. Adapt or die. Ill live, we'll live.

Now that shields are health capped it would be a nice quality of life change to bring back longer shield duration. They were initially reduced to 6 seconds as a way to nerf their potency but now that we've shifted to an era of health caps and insane enchant damage. For PvP it would be a little helpful to have a longer duration.

My guess is Pve considerations might be the overwhelming factor with these changes so its probably a pipe dream. However in PVE we arent stacking sets like Armor Master so how long are shields lasting on a Pve built character taking damage anyway?

doc_ketamine

in vMA, your shields are gone in a few seconds. But it would be helpful to conserve majicka in the times between add spawns if the shields were 12 seconds ...

Darkenarlol

Shields are now gone in 1-2 seconds or actually in 1-2 hits so even if they reduce their duration to 3 sec or buff it to 30 min it gonna mean absolutelly nothing

MakeMeUhSamich

8k is gone pretty fast.

THE_BIG_BOSS

Shields can Last for 3857393059 years and IT wont Change anything they are total garbage now. Just reroll stamina

AcadianPaladin

I don't waste a slot on any buff as stupidly short as 6 or 7 seconds. That is why the only shield I would ever use was Empowered Ward (10 sec). My whole magsorc was built around that to power her 20k ward - which usually lasted the full 10 seconds. Start picking at it via nerfs and it all falls apart. With a tear in my eye I retired that formerly magnificent solo PvE character. Could I adapt? Sure but I will not since there was absolutely nothing wrong with my magsorc. She was not a glass cannon. She was not overpowered.

Jakx

Kind of why I brought this up. Throw a bone to shields. Consistently nerfed over time. Give something back. Simple QoL improvement.

Unfortunately, I dont care much for all the sappy... "Why even bother" posts. Thats super constructive.

carlos424

As people have said, more time means nothing. Shields are gone with one or at most two hits. Something like raising shields to 45-50% of max health would help, but other than that ..... Just take it off your bar. Lol

BretonMage

I used to use Empowered Ward, but with the nerfs I've noticed the extra duration is just useless - the shield really is gone in a few seconds. I don't think extra duration is what we need, I think they should either give us a higher cap or increase our resistances.