Not really. It merely means you get a few more uses out of it. Like your gear and weapons are more like talismans that other players can choose to brandish to remove charges.

Of course, in a much more limited fashion as you need to be fighting that combo.

It's a joke that you say 'have a gang ready' at the repair shop. Like that is killing the Kuo-toa King for a boiled shield which is designed to be very easily cleaved because of its power threshold.