Why is shield swipe so bad?

[Cherie]

Did anyone else play beta? Shield swipe's pacification used to be *way* better. I recall during, beta 2 I think, I got to the level cap(35) and was farming brayflox normal on my pld with my whm friend to see what the full gear set looked like. Shield swipe's pacification was so good, that if you used it at the right times, the last boss dragon wouldn't be able to use his fire breath...at all. They changed it for the release version though. Pacification doesn't stop his fire breath anymore... nor does it effect other things...

That brings a point, does it actually stop any enemy from using any abilities other than just mobs not in instanced places? I've used it on all kinds of bosses in even just lower level dungeons... It seems to not effect *any* boss abilities at all anymore... and also, I'd have to think really hard to even think of any trash mobs it really does much to anymore.

I kind of wish that they replaced it's pacification with something else, since they took away it's effectiveness on basically everything. Not that it really "needs" a special effect, but like many have pointed out, using it on anything is marginal at best. My suggestion would be they need to do something to make the ability "fun" to use at least if it isn't "useful".

I have no idea about how it worked in 1.0 though.