Controller shielding is broken in pve

I agree, It's like Healers weren't made to revive fallen allies but Controllers were because of all the tools given to them and how POT/giving power works they pull it off, nerfing one of the key tools controllers need to revive team mates will seriously hurt the over all team support in content. With Quantum, the duration of protection that Quantum Tunneling gives does not last as long as the other Aggro Drops making it harder than it should be to pick someone; so many players will run with it and a shield for extra protection to pick up team mates. Then Light doesn't even have a Aggro Drop to fall back on if their only line of protection "a shield" fails, this change was uncalled for.

I actually never realized that light barrier broke on hits. Granted I haven't played hl since Origin Crisis. Hopefully the fix to time bubble makes it into the next hotfix so I can stop stressing myself out over this bug.

Agree with Damashi, the shields aren't working properly and should be looked in to. Problems like this shouldn't require posts to be fixed; one support ticket should be enough to have this remedied. Please look into this and give Controllers back their shields (working properly)!!

lol you should try HL's shield then, I was in a group with a HL troll in crime wave I think, and got hit TWICE but adds in the open world part, and the shield stopped blocking dmg

idk if this is intended or just a bug. But its something needing looked at IMO.

I had someone tell me hard light was functioning properly in another thread when I asked if it was suffering the same bug as time bubble. I'll try to look into it when a hard light troll in my league gets on.

granted I've never played as a HL troll

but just seemed like it lost the ability to block incoming dmg really fast IMO

I did some testing with hl's shield and it is working exactly like it is supposed to, unlike quantum's time bubble. I should have a video demonstration up shortly.

For those who don't know how hard light's shield works: hard light's shield has a shorter duration and cool down meaning it can be used more often, but will negate a few less hits due to ending before other controller shields would. Much like telekinetic shield (and how time bubble is supposed to act), light barrier does not disappear on hits. Light barrier also deals damage to its attacker, and has different damage prevention rules. Light barrier prevents damage equal to 50% of the controller's dominance + 100% restoration; time bubble and telekinetic shield prevent 100% dominance + 100% restoration.

As you can see in the video, I have tested all of the the controller shields, and the only one not functioning properly is Quantum's time bubble. Please fix this as soon as possible.

I meant the iconic power 'hard light shield' lol, not hard light's shield

No, hardlight shield is supposed to break on 3 hits because any power/role cause use it.

yeah, that's what I said?

Even if that were the case, the video shows it taking fewer hits than the other shields. Please continue to look into this.

Mind checking the supercharge shield? I've tried throwing that when I was picking someone up and time bubble failed, and it seemed to break quicker than usual, too.

I'll look into it; I should have a video on it up in about 30 mins or so.

Being a healer on my main and my only troll a gadget user I can't really contribute to much to this. Neither has any shields to really speak of lol. I kind of wish healer shields worked a little better, perhaps the number of hits they could block with scale up with resto or something. That or at least covered all 8 people so they would work better in raids.

From watching the video though I have to say it looks like quantum's shield is working worse than a healer shield. Sure we only block 3 hits, but there is a delay in when a hit registers. That shield in the vid looked like it popped almost instantly some times. I was lead to believe even healer shields could only take 1 hit a second, thus it should last at least 3 seconds.

Controller shields and tank shields are supposed to last quite a bit longer than a healer's shield, because a healers main method of damage negation is through healing, if that helps any.

Yeah... event horizon is broken... but in a very different way then time bubble. The video showing the issue should be up shortly.

It's the same as healer shields. There's a 1 second delay between hits but the shield goes away on the third hit so it only lasts 2 seconds, minimum.

Event horizon is also bugged. It seems to be functioning like hardlight's light barrier. It is damaging everyone who attacks it, but it also generates power like event horizon used to.

Thanks for checking.