Paladin's block seems to be bugged.

Currently, Paladin's block percentage seems to cap out at 16% instead of 20%.

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Originally Posted by TheForce

Currently, Paladin's block percentage seems to cap out at 16% instead of 20%.

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Block is a scaling mitigation during levelling it will be sub 20% but will level off at 20% once using end game shields.

Block Rate and Block Strength has not increased on shields between level 90 and 100. I'm hoping it's a bug and not an intended nerf as paladins aren't blocking as much as they used to.

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Originally Posted by Espon

Block Rate and Block Strength has not increased on shields between level 90 and 100. I'm hoping it's a bug and not an intended nerf as paladins aren't blocking as much as they used to.

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This is a common process during levelling encouraging getting the highest level shield available at each level if you want to get as much blocking out of it.

At each level cap (50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100) the power will be normalized to 20%. This process is as old as ARR and is a nice reminder that we used to have shields with different block power and rate.

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Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

This is a common process during levelling encouraging getting the highest level shield available at each level if you want to get as much blocking out of it.

At each level cap (50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100) the power will be normalized to 20%. This process is as old as ARR and is a nice reminder that we used to have shields with different block power and rate.

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Uh, no. I'm referring to the fact that level 91 to 100 shields still have 1267 Block Strength and Rating, just like level 90 shields.

Notice the difference between the level 80 and 90 shield. Now look how it doesn't change between the level 90 and 100 shield. This is why paladins only block 16% damage in level 100 content compared to the usual 20% when max level.

https://i.imgur.com/M2VfLPN.png

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Originally Posted by Espon

Uh, no. I'm referring to the fact that level 91 to 100 shields still have 1267 Block Strength and Rating, just like level 90 shields.

Notice the difference between the level 80 and 90 shield. Now look how it doesn't change between the level 90 and 100 shield. This is why paladins only block 16% damage in level 100 content compared to the usual 20% when max level.

https://i.imgur.com/M2VfLPN.png

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I stand corrected, that's an issue indeed. My bad.

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Originally Posted by aodhan_ofinnegain

Block is a scaling mitigation during levelling it will be sub 20% but will level off at 20% once using end game shields.

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The problem is it doesn't normalise at 20% at level 100 with level 100 equipment.

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Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

This process is as old as ARR and is a nice reminder that we used to have shields with different block power and rate.

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I remember that! Smaller shields like bucklers had a higher block rate but less block power, and larger shields like tower and kite shields had lower block rates but high block power if i recall correctly.