....as long as we balance them around grievous wounds.
One side will always draw the short straw in a match.
If you value the influence of your skill you should also be against any shield counter items that could soon appear.
This balance is based purely on statistics and individual games will never be good.
Just wanted to throw in a difference between heals and shields:
Unless the healed target has overheal (which also has a maximum), heals are ineffective if you heal more than the target is missing. Shield stacking can be really problematic because that can reach 100% of a squishies maximum health when they have more than one source of shielding. I agree that grievous wounds are not good for the balance of heals, but I think shields need that counterpart even more than heals.
