No its good! Here is the change from previous PTS Version:
Igneous Shield (Obsidian Shield morph): The Major Mending buff granted by this morph is now tied to your own damage shield. If the damage shield is removed, the Major Mending bonus will also be removed.

@AllDKs
Rejoice

Tasear wrote: »

Isn't this bad?

Assuming the Patch Notes are implying the buff duration is no longer tied to the shield being active, it's much better than having the buff duration tied to the shield being active.

Thank ZOS for this one, i would hate to have to wait 3 months for a fix. Glad they squeezed it in in last moment.

Brrrofski wrote: »

2.5 seconds is more than enough for a rally and vigor or dragon blood/get embers off.

The pts idea was terrible. Glad they didn't stick with it.

Not worthy to slot it anymore to be honest

NBrookus wrote: »

I don't see it worth a skill slot at this point over harness for mag DK. But it is now at least functional; the other version just wouldn't ever work at all.

With the cost increase to vigor, I could see stam DKs using igneous tho.

Between mountains blessing and helping hands I still see it, now more than ever as a worthy slot.

D0ntevenL1ft wrote: »

This helps barely for Stam dk. Why not 3 seconds so we can get one more vigor tick? 2.5 doesn't change a thing compared to 2 seconds. Move it to 3 seconds and it's bareable while still being a 50% nerf. Still barely worth slotting over dragons blood for 8+12 increase in healing.

This latest change to it from what it was on pts is a buff. The original design had a major flaw and this fixed that.

Nifty2g wrote: »

I might be the odd one out but 2.5 seconds is so short, at least when it was active if you had a shield up you could probably get more than 2.5 seconds out of it.

@Princess_Asgari read above; repeated exactly what I just said. I probably could have dodge rolled on my Stam dk making the major mending last longer than 2.5 seconds with the horrible shield change they did.

Like I said you only get 2 vigor ticks because they ended the mending on a half second aka useless for vigor but quite useful for dragons blood on mdk.

Stam dk still got shafted hard.

No cause to rejoice, really.
2.5 seconds, that's one tick with Major Mending, down from three.
Add to that the nerf to stam return when you've got more than 26k.

It's like they've completely wrecked the core engine of stam DKs.
The PTS thingy was ludicrous, but the end result still hurts a lot.

Arthg wrote: »

No cause to rejoice, really.
2.5 seconds, that's one tick with Major Mending, down from three.
Add to that the nerf to stam return when you've got more than 26k.

It's like they've completely wrecked the core engine of stam DKs.
The PTS thingy was ludicrous, but the end result still hurts a lot.

Exactly what I was saying this is still an indirect nerf to Stam DK's because it doesn't help at all with vigor heals. At this point I'll probably stick to heavy armour, drop igneous and add GDB for that 8%+12% passive. Also lasts for 20 seconds so I won't need recasts as often to conserve resources. Only on console so haven't been able to test but may even try stacking all 3 and re arranging my back bar.

It's at least useful for tanks when they use GDB. If you cast that right after Ingenous Shield and you already have it active it can boost the total healing from 33% to about 46% of your missing health. One of the strongest burst heals on a health based tank.

Lexxypwns wrote: »

I think the people complaint don't realize that if someone else castd igneous and it overwrites yours you lost major mending, regardless of shield duration. Anyone arguing this isn't a huge improvement over having friendly casts remove your buffs is obviously clueless

Your statement rests upon the presence of two DKs with slotted igneous shields in the same group or close to one another, a situation not necessarily frequent (in my case, that happens, like, NEVER), and it completely disregards the nerf on resource return. The "buff" you're arguing exists is only specifically situational - when the nerf isn't.

Give me the old Igneous Shield any time.

Its a huge improvement compared to the *** we had before, I agree on that, its still a unnecessary nerf compared to homestead.