PvP Mechanics Questions

[Lissa]

I don't think that rules it out, at all. The losing of charges and the taking of damage might be completely different mechanics. It would be interesting if Priests could equip shields because then you could test to see if a completely absorbed hit (via blocked damage) would take an IF charge or not. My guess is that it would not, just like absorbing a hit with a shield does not...

My experience has been largely the same as Conc's: Shields seem to stay up longer when you have IF active versus not having it active.

No, what I mean in what I've observed is this, the first hit that is fully absorbed is say 1000 damage, the second hit that is partially absorbed would be 600 absorbed and 200 actual damage. If IF was affecting damage reduction with the shield up with two similar attacks without crits and accounting for variance in damage range, you would not the two amounts vary by 20% in difference like this all the time (and this is what I have observered, a 15 to 20% variance between the damage taken with full shield absorbtion vs. partial absorbtion from the shield). That means that there is a mechanic that is not affecting how much damage you take.

As to Pain Suppression and what Conc has observed, possibly Pain Suppression has a different mechanic that allows it to affect shield (although it shouldn't), but a shield without Pain Suppression behind it seems to act like I posted above from what I've observed.