Bubble Shields

About

The Bubble Shield is a personal force field usable by all living entities. It primarily serves as a damage sink over health like Absorption. It will also block harmful potion effects, at the cost of some shield health.

Non-Player Entities

The general shield used by living entities acts as a basic health buffer. It does not have any internal cooldowns. Any leftover damage upon breaking the shield will bleed through to the entity's health.

Players

Player bubble shields are more advanced and are much more effective at protecting you from threats. This shield has an internal cooldown of 1 second between shield health loss from either attacks or blocking potion effects. The bubble shield automatically recharges to your Shield Capacity after 5 seconds of not taking damage or blocking effects. Some upgrade modules can overcharge your shield. Shield health from these sources will not naturally regenerate.

Shield gating

Player shields will always fully negate damage, even if it is greater than the shield health. When your shield breaks, you will be invulnerable to damage for 3 seconds (barring any invulnerability-bypassing damage).