Originally Posted by
MaxAstro
FWIW, my group is not using the new shield block functionality specifically because of this. Shields get damaged and repaired a lot in short spans of time (especially by PCs with Quick Repair, which most anyone who uses a shield regularly will want to take) and having to go into the item entry and scroll down every time is a step too much for us compared to just using an effect to track the shield HP.
Even just exposing the shield HP somewhere with no automation would make a big difference - defense tab of the combat tracker would be nice, for example.