I said this somewhere else before but shields, and especially spread adlo, are in a weird spot simply because it is often fine to not even use them and just heal the incoming damage. The amount of damage you mitigate with them is so minor that you will have to spend resources on healing the party anyway.



This is one of the reasons why I thought the old spreadlo was fine the way it worked. You invested additional time and potency lost into gambling for that crit spread so you wouldn't have to spend time healing after the aoe. Now your spreadlo shield is marginally better than a succor which means you not only spend more time deploying the shield but you have to heal the group afterwards anyway.