Warrior - Shield wall - comletely useless

I wanted to play an thorns/shield build. But the game wont let me. The thorns nodes are utter useless and were changed since beta (not to speak about nerfing). There are almost no thorn modifiers on gear (especially shields and armor).

I just aquired shield wall and it plain sucks. it does nothing by itself, just standing there behaving like an ice wall. BUT you need actually a second skill to "shatter" it to do some damage. And the damage is laughable consindering you have to "build up" that combo. If i compare that to ice wall with sorc/with or merc ice bolt/scatter .. its nowhere near that damage. Also i noticed that some enemy projectiles (flame spitters) simply bypass it / go through it. completely useless and waste of skill gem.

plz fix.

I agree those skills are far too weak.. and uninteresting.

I have the same observations. Right now shield wall is usless, you can't even use support for instant maximum walls casted because it's not spell. Please think about adding additional synergy with different shield skills, for example allow shockwave to destroy those walls in addition to slams, it will create some synergy with resonating shield. Right now people who want to play shield builds can't unfortunately, but I have lot's of hope for the future :).

bump
same here i understand block hit prevent damage
there is thron damage line on shield, but certain logic, it should represent physically a Thron who hit the monster before monster hit us, and so before block :)
but thorn should be activate when block even a little %

then a warbringer with nice block could make nice damage and take more aggro in party
and have a good clear speed in solo too
plz add a %