Indeed...Couple with Antaues Wards and your good! Does anyone know if slideways/slideshot stacks? I find they work well enough in QP against shottys, especially since as a Titan I am always charging, they don't expect the shield/reflection, have had a few good plays with it but it's not consistent compared to say, the One-eyed mask (something I can't seem to live without in cruci after playing with my hunter+ Fortracer

Lost damage potential requires an actual baseline for comparison. Since the class has always been this way since release (COTM) - you can't really make that claim. What you could claim is you would like to have a more damaging node in place of the current.