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Animate the shield's delay.

Here on Java, there is something like a 0.2 delay after activation before the shield actually starts blocking anything.

A problem I have with it is that there are nearly no ingame ways of learning that: With the current animation, the shield raises almost instantly, and so I would expect the shield to become effective _at least_ as soon as the animation ends. Coming from a background of games where parrying at the last moment is not only a feature, but the preferable choice, it was very confusing at first when mobs could just hit me through the shield for no apparent reasons. When I started suspecting there was a delay, I even thought of it as a lag-induced bug rather than a feature.

Even today, I still have a hard time getting a grasp over how much time I will need to think ahead before blocking.

Please, make the shield-raising animation longer, maybe more "animated" too, so that it reflects its mechanics, and so players both old and new can build a real feel of "when the shield does this motion, I'm still vulnerable.".

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    I agree, I also find that the shield animations in third person should follow the animations found in first person as it looks rather odd as it is.

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    really good idea. Especially with how other things like the sword and axe all have animations where they slowly go up, the shield should be the exact same.

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    Thanks so much for this. Cleary some troll as Mojang added this to prank and irritate players. It was funny when 1.9 first came out, but still hasn't been removed to this day.......... ): I will say though that just making the blocking instant would work well to. But having an invisible delay seems buggy and unpolished. 

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    The amount of dumb deaths I've had to skeletons and endermen because the shield animations doesn't match the delay has made me hate this feature. It's such an easy fix that it's insulting that it hasn't been already.