Why... Cos a shield lasts 3 to 5 seconds ... So 1 second cool down is pointless

To be fair the solution should be as simple as this ...

Improve hardening ward for sorcs or the armour skill forget it's name

Make it so Sheilds are no stackable on a characters skill bar

So each character can only have one shield equipped ...

Still let shields from armour sets stack on top of the one sheild they have and from healing ward if cast by another user but not self cast

Keep the crit damage theyve added and all the other changes except keep cast time as is

This should allow sorcs to still have some tankiness from a single shield and stop the whole shield stacking problem that is going on

Bashev wrote: »

Because there is no CDs for the skills in this game. That is why we cannot have really powerful and interesting skills. Sometimes I think it is kind of lame but what can we do.

But there is: Being interrupted during certain channeled abilities puts them on cooldown afterwards. The same cooldown-mechanic could be applied after an instant casted shield to get the desired protection directly and not be able to refresh or stack shields in an absurd way. I think it‘s a good proposal to the current idea of having a „delay“ to cast shields. I still think the delay is not the correct adjustment to balance shields.