I was curious about the damage shield changes and signed on to the PTS to give them a try. Aside from harness being broken there were a couple weird things i found with annulment and dampen. First the annulment shield is bigger than the dampen magicka shield. This is odd as it seems dampen is limited to 40% hp (5167) but annulment is giving slightly more?

Second the 40% limit seems to make the current version of dampen useless. Since dampen is the defensive morph of annulment (no resource return in favor of a bigger shield) I think it would be fair to let it increase the maximum health % of the shield (maybe by 3-4% instead of the current 6% to stay in line with zos's shield nerf goal).

The last point I'd like to bring up is bastion does not effect shield strength. This dampen screenshot is with 40 points into bastion (suppose to be +16% shield strength)
So does this mean the bastion node is going to become useless for DD's? I thought the whole point of nerfing shields was to make us have to choose defense. So I cant even spec into a larger shield with annulment if i want to change my cp to do that? The changes to annulment seem to be unfinished and/or not thought through all the way yet.