Stormblood and the off-hand equipment slot

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I haven't seen much of the endgame/HW content, but wouldn't that mean removing the player's choice between block strength/rate? Simplified, sure, but removing some of the variety we get (and we don't often get very much of that).

Block strength/rate have been identical to each other on any given shield for good long while. Couldn't tell you offhand what ilvl it started, but either way there'd be no problem just making a new stat for the PLD main-hand called "Block" or some such and just converting the existing stats to it.

There is one reason, and one reason alone why this won't happen, Glamour. It is a massively backwards step to combine the sword and shield and force people into combination pairs that they maybe don't like. I have glamoured shields that I don't like to be paired with swords that I do, and that system works. Their solution to the problem was to have swords and shields always drop at the same time in loot tables, and that is IMO all that needs to be done.

You glamour concern would be easily fixed with the glamour log the community has been collectively asking for since forever, just saying.