How does shield work in pvp?

Tharos

In last Lord of Thunder event, I won quite a few times without being attacked for a while. I reached 800 points, and for the first time in this game, I was #1 in my bracket. So I decided to celebrate this and use a 8 hour shield for the first time (thus securing my first patch covers, since I was not aiming at xforce. And in fact one or more people finished with more points, but I got my patch).

While shielded, I connected to the game to check the leaderboard and had some "you were attacked" popups. How can it be?
Event if I lost 0 points, I thought I cannot be attacked while shielded.
Once, I thought my defensive team may have won, because I won some points. Am I able to won points once shielded?

So my question is: how does shield work?
I thought that I will "disappear" from the matching system, and take part in no battle, but I was obviously wrong.
Does it "only" makes me avoid losing points, but still winning?
What happends to the people attacking me: are they winning 0 points, or they can't have a way to know I am shielded?

Unknown

You disappear (mostly) from people hitting skip. But if someone had you in their queue while you were unshielded you will remain there to be attacked. If one of your opponents chooses to retaliate against you (and by acquiring 800 points you have a long list of potential retaliations), they still can.

You just won't lose any points. You can gain points if they failed to attack you.

You can see the amount of points they gained in parantheses next to their name.

Unknown

Shield protect your points against other player attack. If you cant understand this, your reading comprehension is pretty poor.

JamieMadrox

Justdangit wrote:

Shield protect your points against other player attack. If you cant understand this, your reading comprehension is pretty poor.

A new player asked for confirmation on a game mechanic that they weren't clear on and wanted more insight in to and your first instinct was to attack their intelligence?

If this is how you live your life then your people skills are pretty poor.

Tharos

Thanks for the explanation! I understant what the shield description stated, that's exactly why I bought one. I was just surprised to still win points.

GumisK

Bear in mind, that in some rare cases you might lose points even when shielded. This happens mostly when shield yourself while being attacked by another player. If the fight is already in progress when you put up a shield, the game will probably count that fight as happening before the shield started acting. I've had such issues before, not often, but frequent enough to let you know that you may encounter the same problem.

Unknown

charlesjbarry wrote:

Justdangit wrote:

Shield protect your points against other player attack. If you cant understand this, your reading comprehension is pretty poor.

A new player asked for confirmation on a game mechanic that they weren't clear on and wanted more insight in to and your first instinct was to attack their intelligence?

If this is how you live your life then your people skills are pretty poor.

I do admit my people skill are really poor. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed and was in a bad mood. Sorry for any hurtful feeling i may have cause.

GumisK wrote:

Bear in mind, that in some rare cases you might lose points even when shielded. This happens mostly when shield yourself while being attacked by another player. If the fight is already in progress when you put up a shield, the game will probably count that fight as happening before the shield started acting. I've had such issues before, not often, but frequent enough to let you know that you may encounter the same problem.

This happen because the game is slow to update on the main event screen. Always check your point on the Leaderboard before you shield as that is your real/actual point and position with consideration to all attack that just finish.