Quote Originally Posted by Daega View Post
Do you even PLD? It was my main before 3.0 and I can 'reliably' say I blocked almost every other attack. Oh, and if that failed there was parry as well.
That was mostly in counter to Tila's comment of "The difference is that paladin has a lot more passive defense on top of shield oath that the DRK does not have. Parry buffs are kinda shit and too RNG. Thats pretty much the big issue with DRK: to much randomness, when fights need the class to be dependable. A raid cant rely on crossing their fingers that the DRK parries the right moves, or the DRK has reprisal ready for the big hits."

If a raid can't rely on the DRK to parry the right move or have reprisal ready, then how can they depend on the PLD to use their passive defense to block? Outside of Sheltron (which is a great ability, and something I still say DRK's need something similar to) you can't rely on block any more than you can rely on reprisal.