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Make explosions disable the shield

Its good that shields block explosions, but this feels too overpowered. For example, if a player is fighting a group of mobs, and a creeper explodes, it usually kills all the other mobs with it, and the player can still use their shield. If the explosion disabled the shield, they'd have to be careful and decide whether or not it would be worth it to let the creeper explode and kill the other mobs, at the cost of having their shield temporarily disabled. It could also have pvp uses as well, as the explosions from fireworks would be a new way to disable another players shield from afar.

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    I think it would be better that explosions could take more durability from shields. An explosion dissabling a shield has no sense, all the hit from the blast is absorbed by the shield. Why an axe can dissable a shield? because an axe gives a solid strike rather than a shockwave. However, may be taking 10% of damage could be a thing.

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    This is a decent compromise, though in my opinion it's not really necessary because 5 damage reduction already makes a creeper survivable in normal mode.

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    What if the shield does not protect the player from explosions? I think that's a better idea for PvE.

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    Disabling the sheild doesnt make sense, I would prefer the sheild taking higher amounts of damage from explosions though

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    It makes sense, because not only you nerf an overpowered thing without removing its functionality, but also this would be realistic, since a person would be stunned by the explosion itself.

    Also, it doesn't make shields useless, just a little bit less overpowered on that aspect.

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    I think there should be some kind of penalty for blocking Explosions, whether it be this, or you take some damage, or something else.

    I'm not a huge fan of loosing more Durability, as I feel like that's something that's harder to notice, and might not make that big a difference.

    Blocking 5 Damage actually isn't enough to survive a Creeper explosion if the Creeper is right next to you, and you don't have good enough armor.

    (scratch that last one actually, I didn't notice they said in Normal mode. I only ever play Hard mode, so I dunno what the Damage is like otherwise)

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    I agree, it should disable it for the classic 1 second, but for durability, I think explosions should deal durability based on how close you are to the blast, like how explosion damage is calculated.

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    I think I'm gonna go with disabled shield and loses large amount durability. I mean both

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    How does this effect PvE? All the mobs are getting exploded
    Super . Shields aren't overpowered

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    I think that a good complementary idea for this post would be that when a shield blocks an explosion the player is pushed back, since it would be what would happen in real life, it saves you from suffering physical damage but the force of the blast wave of the explosion continues to affect you

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    Without this shields are overpowered for blocking explosions, maybe it will also work with other types of explosions not just TNT.