1. Because the combat relies so heavily on animation canceling, cast times also feel much more punishing than they should, as there is often still an animation after the cast. If you cancel that one too early, you break the whole cast and wasted that time, and if you cancel it too late, you are effectively having a longer cast time than the skill should have. Until this is adressed, no skill should receive a cast time. I can't make clear suggestions how, either with a better visual indicator how long the cast time is (cast bar?) or removing the post-cast-animations, but casting needs to feel much better to fit into the flow of combat.
2. There is no consistency across shields. The only shields that received a cast time are Annulment and Conjured Ward - why? If anything, it's the shields used by heavy armor tank builds that should have a longer cast time, as they are getting the most reward out of it with the resistance changes. Don't get me wrong, instant cast Sun Shield on my Templar is amazing, but how is it fair?
3. In the same line, ideally, light armor builds should have a shorter cast time than heavy armor builds. What I'd like to see is a light armor passive that reduces cast times across the board, maybe also increasing movement speed while casting.
4. The obvious one: ONE SECOND IS TOO FREAKING LONG. Especially with all the compounding factors mentioned above, it feels even longer than that. Ideally, it wouldn't be much longer than the current (Live) animation. Whether this is achieved by just reducing the cast time or the aforementioned light armor passive, idc.
5. Not directly related to the cast time, but the developer statement says that shields are supposed to be more beneficial for tanks. That is a colossal shift of what shields have been used for since release, effectively taking the main means of defense from the squishiest role and giving it to the tankiest. While I welcome more tanking options for PvE, I don't feel this has been well thought out at all. There are too many unforeseeable implications with this, and not having consistent behavior for shields only makes it worse.
6. This is more of a suggestion than a complaint, but it might also be nice to have counter play to interrupt. For example, shields could give immunity to interrupting cast times, which would make it safe to cast shields as long as you keep them up.

Mystrius_Archaion wrote: »

Beardimus wrote: »

We'll this one is easy to tell who's not a sorc / is a nightblade / came to skew the poll / is trollin. Look for the reds

Easy to tell? Which do you think is which?

I can see how this will benefit every class, especially certain builds of sorcerers and templars and nightblades.
I haven't played enough of dragonknights or wardens or build planned much for them to see how it benefits them as much as the others, but it definitely benefits them all in general very well.

Mystrius_Archaion wrote: »

haelene wrote: »

Mystrius_Archaion wrote: »

Beardimus wrote: »

We'll this one is easy to tell who's not a sorc / is a nightblade / came to skew the poll / is trollin. Look for the reds

Easy to tell? Which do you think is which?

I can see how this will benefit every class, especially certain builds of sorcerers and templars and nightblades.
I haven't played enough of dragonknights or wardens or build planned much for them to see how it benefits them as much as the others, but it definitely benefits them all in general very well.

I'm a magden main who primarily PvE's. Please tell me how this benefits me in any way? I'm not being snarky here. I'm serious. How in the world can delaying my safety against one shots with minimal to no tells benefit me?

Block one-shots. Seriously, all resistance applies before shields with this change and I never used shields against those before anyway.
Even a light armor user can survive one-shots if they just learn to block, or even dodge, which you don't have to do often enough to bother with any stamina stats.

Also, the shields last longer and PVE enemies are predictable in patterns enough that you should have the shield up before the one-shot is animating so you don't need to "emergency shield!" like a completely unprepared noob.

Mystrius_Archaion wrote: »

haelene wrote: »

Mystrius_Archaion wrote: »

Beardimus wrote: »

We'll this one is easy to tell who's not a sorc / is a nightblade / came to skew the poll / is trollin. Look for the reds

Easy to tell? Which do you think is which?

I can see how this will benefit every class, especially certain builds of sorcerers and templars and nightblades.
I haven't played enough of dragonknights or wardens or build planned much for them to see how it benefits them as much as the others, but it definitely benefits them all in general very well.

I'm a magden main who primarily PvE's. Please tell me how this benefits me in any way? I'm not being snarky here. I'm serious. How in the world can delaying my safety against one shots with minimal to no tells benefit me?

Block one-shots. Seriously, all resistance applies before shields with this change and I never used shields against those before anyway.
Even a light armor user can survive one-shots if they just learn to block, or even dodge, which you don't have to do often enough to bother with any stamina stats.

Also, the shields last longer and PVE enemies are predictable in patterns enough that you should have the shield up before the one-shot is animating so you don't need to "emergency shield!" like a completely unprepared noob.