Shield Oath makes Sheltron useless.

[eagledorf]

Now that I've had the opportunity to do Susano-o, I do believe that the Shield Oath gauge has been poorly implemented, with the caveat that I haven't gotten to do max level trials yet.

However, on Susano-o, you are basically better off tanking him in Sword Oath because of the poor design of the Shield Oath gauge. By going Sword Oath, you can generate enough gauge to mitigate every one of his tank busters reliably. If you are in Shield Oath, it's hit or miss. If you run the risk of taking greater damage from the tank buster in Shield Oath on top of doing less damage, it's not logical to use your tank stance.

I suspect that the team simply though "Shield Oath should generate gauge when you use your shield!", but really it should be predictable how fast you generate gauge unless it's intended for us to tank bosses in Sword Oath and Shield Oath is only for dungeons now. While getting gauge from Holy Spirit will help, there shouldn't be a RNG element to if you get your cooldown that can only be used effectively if you can predictably time its use because it only mitigates one hit.