Can we let shields stack?

[IttyBitty]

Really, everyone would start running SCH/SCH comps. It would be a mess.

This. People really undersell just how incredibly strong SCH actually is.

[Waemliht]

Do we need a post everyday giving the same sentiment? I'm sure the guy gets it by now.

[Tridus]

It would also severely twist the AST/AST sect sharing issue. Someone has to go Diurnal.

Really, everyone would start running SCH/SCH comps. It would be a mess.

Double deployed Critlo. For when you just don't want the bars to ever move.

[Riko_Futatabi]

Oh yeah? Well, gimme some WHM/WHM action and make our Medica II and Regen increase everyones HP if you already have full hit points! Yeaaaah! /selfhighfive ;D

[Karshan]

it has NO mechanical reason to exist

Untrue. Examples were already given :
- vulnerability debuff : it's meant to punish for not doing a mechanic correctly. Allow shield stacking, people will cheese anyway possible (people will try not to ? LOL remember skip soar ? It's a meme now)
- Some effects (such as some bumps) are only applied if you take more than 0 damage (I'm sure cause the guy wrote > 0 instead of >=0 lol). For instance, Sophia head bump. Allow stacking, and some of these mechanics become non existent.

[Alisi]

So I was running the Jade Stoa when I noticed that both Galvanize and Divine Benison could stack. Now this really rustled my jimmies. Why because for the longest time SE refused to let shields of sch, and ast stack period. But now whm gets a shield and it stacks with everything except another Divine Benison.

They did stack and having two sch dome thingies stacked too. They stopped that during Alexander Savage because having two sch's in a pt with stacking domes/etc. made it so people could ignore the mechanics. I can't remember which fight specifically it was that became notorious for this (I didn't raid back then -- had a crappy comp) but I know a lot of groups would deploy two domes around a blm or two so they wouldn't have to move. I think this was back when sch was crazy strong and ast was crazy weak. Everyone just brought two sch's along. It's a been there, done that thing.