I was waiting at the new gate elevator, hoping that my luck would change so I could get an arena, when I realized through my idling that my shield bar was stuck at a low value. It was about 3/8 full, and pulling the shield up showed a yellow shield (weakened) aura. I tried to shield bash once and nothing happened. My shield didn't recharge, it just stayed at this one value. I got a short recording of the shield bug in action, but my game crashed after attempting to hit the shield bash (My Fraps crashed too and made my mouse go all funky until I force-quit it, but that's not a game glitch), and when I re-logged in, I wasn't automatically placed in D27 like a crash usually would do.

A few things I didn't do but I should have done for science:
*take shield damage
*use seraphic aura

I didn't think of either of those until after the crash.

I didn't notice the shield bar being lower until after idling for a while. I would come back to wake my player up, and would usually have the supply depot/energy purchase screen or escape menu open, and if not those, the gate map.

That's about all the information I have.