Over Shield

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Over Shield

Specialization
Engineer icon small.png Inventions (trait list)
Tier
Adept
Type
Major
Training cost
3 Hero points
Game link
API
API
Over Shield

Shield skills grant protection to nearby allies. Protection on you gains increased damage reduction.

Radius.png Effectiveness Increased: 20%

— In-game description

Related skills[edit]

Weapon skills that are improved by this trait

Healing skills that are improved by this trait

Utility skills that are improved by this trait

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

Related traits[edit]

Traits that are improved by this trait

Inventions Inventions

Alchemy Alchemy

Tools Tools

Scrapper Scrapper

Notes[edit]

  • The increased protection effectiveness is multiplicative, so the damage is reduced by 39.6%.
  • Protection effectiveness does not affect allies.
  • Shield skills casts Ally Ward.
    • This only applies to main shield skills and not flip skills.

Version history[edit]

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch Changes
October 04, 2022
  • This trait no longer reduces the cooldown of shield skills.
August 17, 2021
  • Reduced protection duration from 3 seconds to 2 seconds in PvP only.
July 07, 2020
  • This trait has been reworked. It now causes the player to activate a skill that grants protection to nearby allies when using a shield skill.
October 02, 2018
  • This trait now increases the effectiveness of protection on engineers by 20%, causing protection to reduce damage by 40% instead of 33%.
January 26, 2016
  • The radius of this trait has been increased from 240 to 360.
August 25, 2015
  • Fixed an incorrect protection-duration skill fact for this trait.
  • This trait now properly updates skill facts for the shield skills it affects.
July 28, 2015
  • Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from properly reducing the recharge of the Static Shield.
June 23, 2015 Specialization update:
  • Over Shield has been added to the game.