@Juances, Devilites, Gun puppies, and tree monsters attack at a distance.

I think the best way to fix it is, if the sheild gets hit by a projectile it breaks instantly. Also as he said before, if the spikes hit something, the sheild health goes down. You bump constantly and you might lose your sheild after killing one enemy, but now your without a sheild to fight the rest.

It's useful when you get swarmed by all those greivers and wolvers. I'd also recomend that the 5* has a special effect where if the sheild breaks, it makes a small knock-back spike explosion.

Lag please. We got shard bombs for that.

@Shotjeer, It would make no sense if you were the enemy that swung down with your weapon and got injured for hitting it. If I was a dust zombie I'd actually touch the sheild and get hurt. Mecha Knights and Lumbers use weapons, so they are away from harm when they attack unless your driving the sheild right infront of them. Anyway, the sheild must have a disadvantage to counter its advantage so it won't be over powering the other sheilds. The thorns on the sheild are meant to withstand physical attacks, but they can't handle flying balls of raw energy. I suppose another sheild could be made with reversed propperties. I'd call it a reflector sheild which kind of looks like a big mirror. If a projectile hits it, it gets repelled backward and can damage enemies. (Great for fiends and gun puppies) However, if a monsters hits it physically, the glass shatters and it is no good for awhile. An old fashioned spike sheild can handle the combat of the battlefiend, but is terrible against modern shooting technology. (It crumbles) Where as a magical mirror can turn those projectiles backward, but is too fragile for physical abuse.

Also my names are somewhat similar too.

3* Prickling Plumbum - It's an alliteration with both words starting with P

4* Puncture Debaucher - This actually has a bit of a rhyme to it. Not perfectly, but I think it looks nice.

5* Flora of Thorns - And of course, both the O's sound the same when said.

@Juances I got an idea! What if the sheild functioned like a miniture spike tile. The spikes wouldn't break, (unless the sheild does,) but every once in a while spikes will pop out of the sheild to be used. Then after awhile they'll retract back into the sheild for awhile and the cycle continues. We could say that the down time when the spikes are in the sheild decreases as the sheild increases star level. That way combat is a bit more random and not as easy to abuse when the spikes are in.

Just as we said before with the spikes. Each time it reflects it still does a little damage to the sheild. That sheild would probably break after destroying one turret, and most of them time that turret usually comes with other turrets or monsters. As for the rocket one I'd say it would merely bounce off and try to hit you again, good for not trying to get hit, however if it explodes near the sheild it would break. You should also read my new an improved spike sheild idea that I sent to Juances in my last reply.

@Shotjeer
This is what I think:
Upon shield bumping (and doing damage due to the spikes) a monster, one of the 6 spikes will break off. Once all of the spikes have shattered, a small loading sign (maybe a spinning energy sign?) will appear in front of the shield. When the loading sign turns completely blue (lets use the energy sign as an example), one of the many spikes will "regenerate". Upon going to the next depth, all of the spikes will regenerate.

It's called "balance" :P