Quote Originally Posted by Seku View Post

Because iirc blocks were up to about 30% even in FCoB. But it seems now that the 30% will only be seen with the tower shields. 20% seems to be the norm for the hybrid. I haven't used a small shield yet but I assume it would block for about 10%. In either case it would seem that tower shields may be the new best thing due to shelltron and balawk
Those were with 130 'balanced' shields. Lower tier towers were blocking for similar--basically the increase is small per level but there is creep where at first towers are hitting 28-32% (and can eventually get up to 40% ) but generally fall out of favor because 1) the game rarely rewards towers 2) balanced shields get up near 30% in higher ilevels and have substantially better rate. Bucklers are very seldom given out as paladin rewards for tomestones of any sort, and are generally dungeon drops.