bulletproof item at the cost of wood and iron which only takes up left hand feels like a bad implement

bulletproof pillar at the cost of 2-3 dirt blocks exist

Pvpers would literally just shield spam their way to the banner, and melee pvp would become unstoppable again.

To address your comment Torque, a pillar of dirt can be blown up, circumvented from even a short angle, and any other number of things. To circumvent a shield you need to go nearly 45 degrees. And your shield won't be destroyed by an explosion. So no they are not equivalent at all.

good luck building a pillar of anything while in combat and you are getting shot by 10 people at once (one shot drains like 1/3rd of your health) and you cant shield. I am not an autopotter I cant load pots into my hotbar in a split second to heal from such high damage that does more damage than what one heal pot recovers (which is good but leave a way to defend ourselves). Shields always have dura cap anyway.

also if you are worrying about close combat having sword supremacy, be content with the fact that pistols can delete you in close range if utilized properly. Happened multiple times today and since couple of days

Blocking some damage is reasonable. 25% sounds fair. I don't agree with fully blocking damage.

make it 50% in all honesty since multiple people usually focus one guy and u realistically cant keep up with the constant potting

25% sounds ok, but shields must also take a lot LOT damage on hit by gun so they cant be abused (ex. 20 dura points) so you can use it to refill but not to be immortal. 50% is a little too much IMO

agreed ,why should every guns nerf get rejected or ignored obviously guns are overpowered and unfair legit require no skill at all to kill someone ZAIFY DON'T LISENT TO THESE BOTS THEY WANT TO RUIN THE SERVER !!

Instead what about making shoots from diffrent guns drain durability more like

from gewher, springfield, mosin it would rain 30 per shoot.

while in machine guns 2 per shoot.