Online:Obsidian Shield

	Obsidian Shield
Line		Earthen Heart
Line Rank		20	Cost	4050 Magicka
Cast Time		Instant	Duration	6.7 seconds
Target		Area
Area		12 meters
Morphs
		Igneous Shield Increased shield strength on self.
		Fragmented Shield Increases duration of Major Mending.
Notes Values are based on Max Magicka/Stamina 12000, Max Health 16000, and Weapon/Spell Damage 1000.

Obsidian Shield

Obsidian Shield: Call the earth to your defense, granting a damage shield for you and nearby allies that absorbs [1279 / 1293 / 1307 / 1321] damage. This portion of the ability scales off your Max Health. You also gain Major Mending, increasing your healing done by 16% for 2.5 seconds.

Igneous Shield: Call the earth to your defense, granting a damage shield for nearby allies that absorbs [1322 / 1336 / 1351 / 1365] damage. Your own damage shield absorbs [3305 / 3341 / 3377 / 3414] damage. This portion of the ability scales off your Max Health. You also gain Major Mending, increasing your healing done by 16% for 2.5 seconds.

Fragmented Shield: Call the earth to your defense, creating a damage shield for you and nearby allies that absorbs [1322 / 1336 / 1351 / 1365] damage. This portion of the ability scales off your Max Health. You also gain Major Mending, increasing your healing done by 16% for 6.7 seconds.

Obsidian Shield creates a weak Damage Shield on you and nearby allies that scales on your Max Health while also increasing your healing done. Igneous Shield increases the size of your own shield, while Fragmented Shield increases the duration of the healing done effect.

Notes

• Fragmented Shield is a recommended morph for the Dragonknight Initiate build, while Igneous Shield is recommended for Venomous Dragon, Stoneskin Dragon, and Elder Dragon.

Patch Notes

1.2.3

• Igneous Shield:
  • This ability now increases the healing you deal to allies for 5 seconds instead of increasing your shield value.
  • This ability's healing buff no longer stacks.

1.4.3

• Fragmented Shield: This ability now only deals area damage around the caster instead of all allies.

2.3.5

• Obsidian Shield: Igneous Shield's increased damage shield effect is now a baseline effect for Obsidian Shield.
  • Note: The Igneous Shield morph will continue to grant you the Major Mending buff as a morph effect.

2.4.5

• Reduced the duration of this ability and its morphs to 6 seconds from 20 seconds.
• Fragmented Shield: In addition to the changes made to the base ability, we also increased the damage this morph deals when the shield expires or is removed by 30%.

3.0.5

• Igneous Shield: Decreased the duration of the Major Mending buff granted by this morph to 2.5 seconds from 6 seconds.
  • Developer Comment: Major Mending is an extremely potent buff category for healing. The ease at which you are able to maintain it creates a system where only extreme damage can kill you because your health bar rapidly swings from near-empty to full. Adjusting the uptime on Igneous Shield's Major Mending means you will need to think more tactically about when to use your healing abilities. We have made similar changes to other classes with this goal in mind; access to the Major Mending buff is now much rarer.
• Obsidian Shard: Fixed an issue where the friendly heal from this morph could be dodged.

3.0.7

• Reduced the strength of the damage shield you apply to allies to 10% of your max health, down from 15%.
• Increased the strength of the damage shield you apply to yourself by 200%. The total shield value on yourself should remain unchanged after these changes.
  • Developer Comment: Dragonknights stacking Max Health could create extremely powerful damage shields on multiple allies at the same time, making some encounters easier than intended. We've kept the damage shield strength on the casting Dragonknight the same, while making it less effective on allies.

4.0.5

• This ability now grants you Major Mending for 2.5 seconds as a baseline effect, but no longer grants you a stronger damage shield that absorbs 200% more damage. In addition, we've also made adjustments to both morphs:
• Igneous Shield: This morph now grants you a stronger damage shield that absorbs 200% more damage.
• Fragmented Shield: This morph now increases the duration of Major Mending to 4.5 seconds.

4.2.5

• Reduced the health scale of this ability and its morphs to 8% from 10%, and reduced the shield bonus for the caster of Igneous Shield from 200% bonus to 150% bonus.
  • Developer Comment: With these changes, Obsidian Shield and its morphs should be roughly equivalent in power as they previously were, now that armor applies to them.
• Fragmented Shield: Fixed an issue where recasting this morph would not fully refresh the damage shield value.

5.0.5

• Earthen Heart: Adjusted the duration of these skills so that their final ranks land on integers rather than fractions when you have Rank 2 of Eternal Mountain. This has resulted in the following duration changes:
  • Magma Armor & morphs: Increased to 12 seconds from 10.8 seconds
  • Molten Weapons & morphs: Previously 39.6 seconds, adjusted so Igneous Weapons is now 42 seconds & Molten Armaments is 36 seconds
  • Obsidian Shield & morphs: Increased to 8 seconds from 7.2 seconds
  • Petrify & morphs, Ash Cloud & morphs: no change
  • Stonefist & morphs: Decreased to 3 seconds from 3.6 seconds

8.0.5

• Fragmented Shield (morph): Increased the duration of Major Mending granted from this morph to 6.667 seconds at base, up from 5 seconds. Don't worry though, it'll reach a nice whole number when you have your Eternal Mountain passive maxed out.