Shields: Why take Grant Cover instead of Maneuvers?

[Shocktacular]

I've been wondering this for a little while now, but I keep forgetting to ask.

If you have the extra pool power space, why would you take Grant Cover instead of just taking Maneuvers?  Grant Cover doesn't help your character, just your teammates, while Maneuvers helps everyone.  I could understand maybe taking Grant Cover on a tank who already has a lot of defense, or maybe taking both, but if you could only take one why Grant Cover?

[Frozen Burn]

Grant Cover gives way more Def to your team than Maneuvers.  Ideal is to take both.  But if you can only do one... you have to decide if you want that little of Def from Maneuvers for yourself, or if you don't need it and you want to give your teammates a bigger buff.

[Onlyasandwich]

You don't take Grant Cover for it's defensive value - you take it because it is an important element in your Defense Debuff resistance. It also provides modest Recharge Debuff resistance as well, which is quite useful.

 

You can certainly take Maneuvers on top of that, but I wouldn't forego Grant Cover on any Shield character. The DDR especially is very important.

 

[Troo]

Grant Cover

You are able to use your shield to defend nearby allies. Any teammates who remain nearby gain a bonus to their defense. (NOTE: The defense bonus from this power is only applied to nearby team mates, but not yourself.) Additionally, while this power is active, the user and his team mates will gain some resistance to defense and recharge rate debuffs.

[Shred Monkey]

On 2/19/2022 at 3:50 PM, Onlyasandwich said:

You don't take Grant Cover for it's defensive value - you take it because it is an important element in your Defense Debuff resistance. It also provides modest Recharge Debuff resistance as well, which is quite useful.

 

You can certainly take Maneuvers on top of that, but I wouldn't forego Grant Cover on any Shield character. The DDR especially is very important.

 

 

This is 100% the answer to your question. 

[SeraphimKensai]

With grant cover, and stacking AD you can get around 88% DDR as a Tank. DDR is super important to preventing cascading defense failure.