sadly its kinda weak late game. It doesnt scale well enough. I mean, unless like 12k a hit is good enough for you, but since at lvl 100 your auto atk is stronger it becomes pretty useless.

You have tested this on a 100 maxed all the way? Curious on your end game crit damage / chance %. Just feeling like it would be great end game. MY engi only level 12 though.

You think 12.5 x shield defense, which at best is going to be 250, is great end game damage? even at 250% with charges when they fix it? Interesting, you have fun emptying an entire mana pool just to kill a single creep.

lvl 100 engineer 15/15 shield bash .
i crit for over 12000 dmg normal dmg are like 6000-8000 with my maxed shield bash i got over 300 focus with all items attribute enchanted and base 150 focus, 30 % crit chance , my shield has 189 physical armor if i remember right . in my opinion shield bash is worth the points in it i do sufficient damage and in aoe and it build charge very easily , better than dynamo field in my opinion to build charges .
but it is nice to combine it with high damaging spell which i have do .

This post was edited by Stortcher on Oct 12 2012 07:17am

im combining shield bash the shield skill that casts fire , idk its name and the skill drawed with hand that gets enemies to you and weakens their phisical armor , im 60 lvl elite engineer and it worked fine to kill everything , i suppose it will be the same in maps
Edit: i think the only way to increase it is finding cool phis defense shield , geting some pts on defansive masteries and using a skill that weakens as i wrote.

This post was edited by drakonko on Oct 13 2012 01:09am

now i crit for over 35 k with shield bash and i got 79 chance to crit . like over 400 focus and i only got physical armor gems in shield *2 and shield base physical armor is 189 , i don't got the old master q shield which i need for again more dmg i can reach over 40 k dmg with this shield .
i take seismic slam which does 2200 * 16 ticks = 35200 dmg so when seismic dot bring slowly down ennemy i shield bash into and i add gun bot in my build so it's again fire and forget like seismic slam ,ennemies drops like fly .

i got easy charges for forcefield i got plenty of resistances, 18900 life , just over 400 focus with enchant , and pandectos ring (50% fire dmg)

excepted combined dmg is like over 100k when you combine all the skills .

This post was edited by Stortcher on Oct 14 2012 01:47pm