How would you feel if shields had no upfront healing?

[BungleBear]

The trouble with such high-potency shields is that they would enable parties to cheese mechanics. Think of the "merry-go-round doggos" in e10s. A lot of parties just stack shields and mitigation so they can ignore the mechanics and maintain uptime. With higher potency shields, this sort of thing would become more common. (I think this may be the reason why they don't allow Noct AST shields and SCH shields to stack.)