Tesla Shield Adjustment

After repeatedly getting myself stunned for 4 seconds by people breaking my rare Tesla Shield (which often also involves me getting shot), it occurred to me that Tesla Shield might be a bit more fair if the stun duration was proportional to the HP.

For example, a t4 Rare with 800 hp, might only stun you for 2.6 seconds when broken; while a legendary t5 with 1900 hp, night Stun you for 6.3 seconds.

This would make lower tier shields feel like less of a liability, and would be a Small nerf for high tier shields, without making them easier to break.

 

I'm not at the level where tesla shields are OP but I'm getting the message that they are bad news from other players. Great idea. Also, I used to use a T2 rare tesla shield and when it broke I was stuck without my yellow items to boost away.

But don't enforcers have naturally have low health anyway?

 

I'm not in favour of reducing stun duration for TS.

I am in the opposite camp and think there should be more of a balance to the shield and it's potential counters.

My suggestion would be in relation to its interaction with tesla bolts:
1. Either have the tesla bolt "break stun" and put the shield user in the standard stun.
or
2. Allow stun to penetrate the bubble (like a torp) and make them wait it out. (whereby the shield remains intact until time or broken by damage).

As it is just now there is no value in dropping a shield with a tesla bolt as you're in cooldown disadvantage - all you will get is a cannon shot to the face and another shield popped up in its place. While you wait your 18 seconds for your bolt again.

 

I understand that it's frustrating for weak shields to have the same 4 sec stun penalty as the super strong shields, but if your idea was implemented, then that creates an incentive to NOT upgrade your shield at all. In fact, up until your shield is strong enough to "definitely not break after 1 shot (from basically any weapon)", then the BEST shield would be a level 1 common T.Shield, because it would have the lowest stun length. Then you'd see tons of Level 1 commons... and then nothing else except Epics above level 40+.

I just don't think that is the incentive Rovio wants to create.

 

My Shield will still stop a Sniper hit, and remain intact, so I think I would still use it over a common. Not breaking is still better than a shorter stun.

I agree 100% that Tesla Bolt should be a better counter. I ran Tesla Bolt for ages, and would never use it over my EC to drop a shield (unless I had a lot of teammates around to take advantage).

 

Agreed. Tbolt should break the shield AND trigger the 4-sec stun.

 

Like the idea, nerf to OP shields as needed, buff to rare shields as needed.