Are Projected Shields Good For Anything?

[DaetherX]

The shields that project a shield wall forward when you crouch seem objectively bad from my experience with it. I was wondering if it had any good uses.

For a long time I was using the shield from the doctor quest because it has the +5% HP regen on it, even passing up shields with much better stats all around. I hate needing to search for hp pickups and/or having lower than max HP. (excluding the 20% reserved portion from 1 rank of thin red line)

Then I found one in Crazy Earl's eridium vending machine that was amazeballs on max shields, shield regen, and had an annoint that nova's several thousand damage whenever I enter/exit Iron Bear!

It also has the "feature" of projecting a shield wall every time I crouch.
It seems like the only thing this does is guarantee I "get hit" and drain my shields whenever I duck behind cover to reload, because it projects the shield wall in front of the cover and is so big that the 80% of shots would have missed now hit me. And for some reason some hits drain my HP even though I still have shields, I'm guessing it has to do with some damage type... unless the shield projection removes the shield from you and I'm being hit from the side.

Anyway, I was wondering if there was any instances/situations where these shields are useful? Only thing I can think of is your ally's shield breaks you can crouch and cover them for a few seconds until they regen theirs. Generally there's more than enough environment cover to hide behind though.

[LT2483]

Projected shields protect from DoTs, provided they are blocking the attack which would inflict said DoT. Also, the projected shield has a damage reduction bonus, so if all the attacks are coming from one direction, it might last longer.

That said, it makes you unable to defend from the sides/behind, and the shield is easier to hit, so will take more damage. So unless the projection has a worthwhile special effect, like the firewall, they just aren't worth it.