How would you feel if shields had no upfront healing?

[IceBlueNinja]

I dont like the idea as stated vatom it will make shields feel even more pointless, I like shields healing not only for party situation but for solo stuff like if am doing a B or A hunt , slinging shields for extra hp on my self makes me dps a good min or 2 as opposed to the slow tick and duration of regens, also again it helps to save poor equip team mates or even one self in situations, like incase my tank topple over and the dps is then target am able to swift cast and up that tank dps may be dead by then but i just spam shields on myself while tank gets up and pulls mobs off me. Even though I know i can bene them or something else yet once i throw the shield on i can focus on a bit more dps.

Shielding to me provides more up time rather than then stopping to throw some a regen after damage occur but that is just me. I feel I worry less on healing and people being alive when I do shields over regen, regens dont give me that feel of comfort when I feel as if they just dont tick fast enough and that mere 15 seconds aint cutting it, the game lies about spell speed increasing hots and dots ticks but I really dont see a dif when I tried like a 2k+ spell speed before, all I notice for sure was my shorter gcds , anyways I just hard core do crit and det(i dont do dh which i never know why healers do dh over det) det increase heal +dps , dh only does dps and thats not even that high. Think the chart I found was 1.4 to heals and dps of det and dh is just 1.8 increase to dps only.