Quote Originally Posted by Raldo View Post
Don't forget that STR is also a modifier for the amount of damage mitigated by a shield block, or at least it used to be. GLD/PLD just has a lot of stats to choose from. I can't really chime in on anything else here because I don't play GLD/PLD, but I do recall the block rate to be absolutely abysmal while I was leveling it.
You're right, bonus 1 is MND, bonus 2 is STR. But that's supposedly only auto attack damage.

The thing of it is, from testing I've seen done for PLD specifically MND shows the highest yield of actual change in combat offensively.