Shields,shield skill and shield proc

[Smokenttp]

I would like to start a civilized discussion about shields in generaland offer a couple of sugestions if i may. Well i started playing with shields a while ago and never really realized how powerfull they where (keep in mind i never touched pld before so bear with me in there) , but they have one major flaw, that is their activation is soley based on shield skill as far as i know.Of all jobs that have native shield skill war would be the only secound choice for shield usage but even in war it ranks only on C meaning the other jobs will have a floored shield block rate. shields have a huge potential in the game but only plds can utilize it to its full extent because its just not worth using a shield on lets say blu or drk wich has no native skill but can equip some good shields or even jobs that have some skill like bst or rdm. i belive the shield skill could use some revamp at least in activation rate for blocking. making a job trait for this would be a good start. other ideia would be make shield block rate based on some other stats beside shield skill. i fell shields have a huge potential of making some more jobs fill the tanking role in a party (i belive a war would be actually able to tank alot better if wearing a shield but the activation of the shield block gets in the way) but are being severely underused.
sorry about any grammar mistakes andwhat do you guys think?

[Mifaco]

Blood tanking is obsolete, as is the traditional 6-man EXP party. No need to change it.

[Smokenttp]

since i have not been in either voidwatch or legion i will not be able to give an insight on blood tanking, but even if you are at low man or even solo a shield would defenitly help, think about this perspective , as a blu i might be taking around 100 damage without any further buffs on an easy prey , a pld with a decent shield can floor most of those hits on the same monster to around the 20 mark damage making the monstyer indeed an easy prey. take the shield of the pld and you start to see those numbers grow closer to the 100 again, the shields can make that much of a difference as far as i could see , even tough i didnt reaserched alot with then. i know its just a cakewalk to just level a job to 30 and put it into aby for an 1 day instant lvl 99 job but i still think it might be a valid option trough the game.

[Ziyyigo-Tipyigo]

Any new adjustments to shield use will probably go one of two ways:

1. Improving it for overall will make Ochain & Aegis game-breaking.
2. Bringing other shield users closer to the Ochain/Aegis standard will cause very loud outrage among Ochain & Aegis holders.

In general, level 75 endgame was built around "Aegis or change jobs," while Abyssea and the road to 99 only changed that to "Aegis, Ochain, or change jobs." There has been much noise made about shields and their use in other threads (particularly where paladins are involved, naturally), but the devs have seen fit to leave everything as it has been since the introduction of the Ochain in 2010.

I wouldn't hold my breath.