Magnetic Shield (engineer skill)

This article is about the engineer shield skill. For the elementalist conjured skill, see Magnetic Shield (elementalist skill).

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Create a magnetic field that reflects projectiles and can be released to knock back foes.

Duration: 3 seconds

— In-game description ^[?]

Related traits[edit]

Over Shield — Shield skills gain reduced recharge and grant protection to nearby allies. Protection on you gains increased damage reduction.

Applies the Absorb effect.
There are certain projectiles that are tricky to reflect with this skill. Since this skill has a 0 radius reflect, the Engineer can only reflect projectiles that hit them directly. For this reason, projectiles that explode on contact with another player, such as Giganticus Lupicus's Necrid Bolt, are easy to reflect if they target the Engineer themselves, but almost impossible if it targets one of their allies. Similarly, Lupicus's Necrid Barrage's projectiles are almost impossible to reflect with this skill, they can only be reflected when they land directly on the Engineer. Otherwise, the projectile explodes and does damage in an area.
- This behavior is shared by Mirror.

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 08, 2020	Fixed a bug that caused this skill to go on a 4-second cooldown rather than its full cooldown.
July 07, 2020	This skill now displays a ring to indicate the area Magnetic Inversion will affect. Improved the tooltip to include more information. Visual-effect size increased slightly for better visibility.
November 04, 2014	This skill can now be used while moving and will no longer root the engineer in place.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Magnetic Shield has been added to the game.