Old skills you'd like to see returned in a new fashion.

[Jeeqbit]

Bulwark is a bit of an exception though, because it was always about blocking attacks, it's just that it only increased the chance of an RNG block rather than making it guaranteed.

If you look at what they did with Sheltron, which only guaranteed a block one time, what they actually did was merge Bulwark into Sheltron by simply making Sheltron guarantee all attacks get blocked for several seconds. They never truly got rid of it, just merged it to reduce button bloat.

Because in 6.3 they wanted to move away from blocks on PLD's short cooldown mitigation so it works better against dots, it was logical to reverse the decision and put the blocks back on Bulwark, so that the short cooldown mitigation was no longer about blocking but so that PLD is left with a class fantasy ability that blocks.

That was the context and I don't think this context applies to most other jobs, but they have tried to keep old abilities alive in a new form where they can. PLD still has Sword Oath as stacks for Atonement and DRK still has Darkside as a trait on their gauge, they still have Dark Arts when their shield is absorbed and they still have Delirium that gives them Bloodspiller stacks, which used to be a combo.