Kinda yes, since there is no Major fracture anymore.the1andonlyskwex wrote: »Mark Target
SUN SHEILD
I mean really, it's meant to be the main tanking tool for templar but it costs too much magicka, provides an almost comicaly bad level of protection and its main gimick of "dealing damage with the sheild on cast make it stronger" isn't worth jack due to the fact that the increase in sheild strength is dependant upon how many enemies you hit on cast, making it useless outside of a literal horde of enemies, and good luck actually hitting anybody with it in pvp outside of sitting in a zerg swarm, in which case it'll buy you 2-3 seconds tops.
then there's the other morph that makes it explode for 30% of the damage it asborbed during it's lifetime...but given the *** poor innate strength of the sheild that means you'll get ~3.6K blast outta it, which in pve aint worth jack and in pvp works in theory if you dump cp into sheild buffing and crank up your hp to disgustingly high levels, meaning you can actually hurt some of the squishier players, problem again, the heavy magicka cost, meaning unless you spec into max mag also, which would deminish sheild strength cuz it's scaled off max hp, you'll get 2-3 casts top...add in the fact it dosn't heal you in the slightest and..yeah it dosn't work
tl;dr sunsheild is too gimick to work and too expensive to use