New Shield Swipe - role is reversed?

[Pileus_Storm]

I mean, I guess they could've removed the effect of Intellect and Piety on blocking.

Makes perfect sense.

What would Intelligence and Piety have to do with blocking? That wouldn't make sense. Intelligence and Piety are mental abilities not physical abilities. I don't think they did it. I'm still receiving the same affect I did in 2.0 in this 3.0 update.

So maybe it's the gear defense that's triggering block? I'm gonna test it out since accessories account for 1 point of Defense and Magic Defense. If I remove my aiming accessories my character should still block as much without the aiming accessories?

I'M NOT AFRAID TO ADMIT WHEN I'M WRONG...

[Ashkendor]

What would Intelligence and Piety have to do with blocking? That wouldn't make sense. Intelligence and Piety are mental abilities not physical abilities.

It looks like your sarcasm detector needs a battery change there, chief.

Outside of the Block Rate and Block Strength stats on shields and the Parry stat wasting space on our armor, the only attributes that ever had an effect on block/parry were STR and DEX. We already know that the effect of STR has been removed because we only have the base reduction. My damage reduction went from 35% on those back in 2.55 to 21% now. People have linked you back to the patch notes where it was stated that certain attributes (plural) no longer affect parrying and blocking.

What, you're going to tell me that maybe Block Rate doesn't affect blocking? Or Parry doesn't affect parrying?