Quote Originally Posted by Lumadurin View Post
A barrier was the only thing it could be changed to that still made sense thematically. It was either that or creating a completely new ability from scratch.
From a thematic stand point making it into something more like a party wide ToB would have been more fitting for warrior, and the game has something like this in one of the bard troubador's. The major issue with adding a shield is that it can be used for limit break charging which solidified Warrior's place in the speed run meta. That and reprisal + free shield for nearly all raid wide aoe's is very helpful for prog.