by Little_Mike » Sun Jan 06, 2013 10:16 am
When you purchase gold shields or receive them from offers, it gets put into a shared pool which all your characters can use. If you make purchases on a character and it does not have enough gold shields, it will start using shields from your shared pool. What you did was you noticed you had one amount on a character, but then went on another character and started using gold shields from the shared pool. When you logged back in the first character, you noticed your amount went down. This is intended so that when you purchase shields, you can use them on all characters.