Shimmering shield and overload

Gaggin · July 2017

I know wings reflect back overload light attacks, but they sure aren't absorbed by warden's shimmering shield. Is this a bug?

Waffennacht · July 2017

Actually I think based on PTS notes, Shimmering shield (Crystal slab) actually has a damage limit it can absorb and spill damage hits you. So it may actually be reducing the damage done, but I'm not sure

Vaoh · July 2017

Each of the three shields from casting Crystallized Shield (+morphs) can only absorb a certain amount of damage. This value is invisible right now but is supposed to be made visible in the tooltip next patch.

If damage taken from a projectile is too great for a single shield, the excess damage spills over onto your Health bar.

Overload deals very high damage. It also isn't mitigated at all by your resistances unless it touches your Health bar. Because of this, a lot of damage spills over per Overload, and is so excessive it still hurts a lot after part of it is absorbed.

Also secondary effects from abilities (DoTs, CCs) are not absorbed.

It's still a good skill, but it shouldn't be so easily broken past when the damage it defends against is already so specific.

Gan Xing · July 2017

Last I checked the crystallized shield can withstand some 30k damage. Unfortunately if the projectile has multiple effects (like knockdown), you will still get knocked down with crystallized shield.