New Shield Swipe - role is reversed?

[Claymore65]

In none of the patch it mentions these changes you ppl are referring to. NONE OF THEM.
Plus, none of you are showing any links. LMAOLAMF.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...6199e5a#battle

It's in the "Battle System" section after all the stuff about new abilities.

[2.0] Player attributes have been adjusted as follows:
Skilspeed and spellspeed now affect damage over time and healing over time effects.
The effect of determination on auto-attacks has been reduced.
Critical hit rate now affects damage dealt with a critical strike.
*Certain attributes no longer affect parry or block.*

[Pileus_Storm]

I'm gonna do a blog on my character showing how ALL the attributes work.

Physical:

Strength
Dexterity
Vitality

Mental:

Intelligence
Mind
Piety

[Pileus_Storm]

Yeah but they don't mention which attributes.

[Ashkendor]

Yeah but they don't mention which attributes.

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

Makes perfect sense.

[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?

[Deathgiver]

How about this thread confirming that they accidently forgot to change the tooltip when str and dex stopped affecting parry and block Clicky

[Freyyy]

Stop feeding this obvious troll. If it's not a troll, he's at a level of "bad" that cannot be described and should uninstall the game.

[Jpec07]

Stop feeding this obvious troll. If it's not a troll, he's at a level of "bad" that cannot be described and should uninstall the game.

Aww, but Freyyy! It just looked so hungry!

I'm probably going to do that test anyway, though. Just because I'm having a hard time finding baseline data to analyze, and I don't think there's anything in Terms of Service that goes against manually parsing your own log files after the fact (...is there? o.o).

[Myric]

How about this thread confirming that they accidently forgot to change the tooltip when str and dex stopped affecting parry and block Clicky

Still won't help. He'll just come back with some other nonsense to try to justify his ignorance.