Is Shield OP?

Shield is broken. I don't know broken like the game has survived. So can I play with shield as is? Absolutely. But it's a, you know, it's way worse than some of the spells that they're changing. We'll see if shield, how shield changes in future, in future iterations. The idea that gives you plus five to your armor class for an entire round too much. They've dialed back on some of the mechanicy kind of bits of this. It feels like even better to me is just teaching DMs how to do role playing. That instead of putting these regimented kind of process in place, sticking this in the dungeon master's guide as