Is this how the devs intended?

So I know Scholar and Sage are both barrier healers but was it intended for sages to be able to overnight recitation/ adlo shields with just their eukrasian prognosis? I find this to be strange. I always thought the strongest barrier always stays no matter what. When I’m paired with a sage I’m afraid to cast critlo because they will just over right it so easily.

I hope this is a bug that will quickly be addressed…

Yeah I noticed that as well last night doing trial 2 extreme. It’s probably an oversight because I don’t recall smaller shields ever overwriting bigger shields in the past, especially something as valuable as a 2 min cooldown shield.

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Originally Posted by jamjeeshoul77

Yeah I noticed that as well last night doing trial 2 extreme. It’s probably an oversight because I don’t recall smaller shields ever overwriting bigger shields in the past, especially something as valuable as a 2 min cooldown shield.

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Nocturnal shields would overwrite Scholar's Adloquium, even if the Nocturnal shield was smaller.

It's extremely annoying, but I doubt they will fix it, sadly.

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Originally Posted by jamjeeshoul77

Yeah I noticed that as well last night doing trial 2 extreme. It’s probably an oversight because I don’t recall smaller shields ever overwriting bigger shields in the past, especially something as valuable as a 2 min cooldown shield.

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Right I mean a critlo though lol. I guess they really want us to push for 1 pure and 1 barrier always if we wanna avoid the barriers overwriting.

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Originally Posted by SweetPete

Right I mean a critlo though lol. I guess they really want us to push for 1 pure and 1 barrier always if we wanna avoid the barriers overwriting.

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This has always happened even back in heavensward

IMHO SE and their testers don't understand healers deeply enough to spot little issues and quirks like this =/

IIRC the intended way for shield overwriting to work is for the stronger one to take precedence. So, I'd expect a fix to be forthcoming as soon as SE isn't busy putting out fires everywhere.

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Originally Posted by Jukebox12

This has always happened even back in heavensward

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Yeah it has been but the stronger shield always took precedence. I’ve played nocturnal and when sch would spread a critlo I couldn’t overwrite. Yeah sometimes I accidentally went noct with a sch so sue me hehe.

Getting your shields overwritten is the worst feeling ever especially when you apply them super early and the other healer has multiple GCDs to notice the barriers are up and still replaces them with smaller ones anyway.

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Originally Posted by NobleWinter

Getting your shields overwritten is the worst feeling ever especially when you apply them super early and the other healer has multiple GCDs to notice the barriers are up and still replaces them with smaller ones anyway.

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I feel your pain. I applied a critlo only for the sage to use eukrasian prognosis and overwrite. I was not happy to say the least. Of course you can’t say anything to anyone these days humbly of course without them getting overly sensitive then you find yourself reported and banned so I just ate it and didn’t use any shields anymore but seraphs. It went well still but just wanted to use my critlos especially during the first extreme trial.