Balancing WAR: A Game of Graphs

[Gamemako]

With respect to Burst I dunno, I just don't feel 20 seconds is really a "burst" timeframe, maybe my issue is with the terminology.

I will see if I can address that in an edit some time soon.

I think I might have confused you with my relative words also.

Ha, you're totally right, I read it wrong. I would have expected WAR to take 31.6% more damage at 5% blocking advantage. Your builds are identical for STR, though? Possible that you're comparing two different block/parry strength windows? That would increase WAR parry reduction.

But my parse showed me blocking 21.9% of non-miss attacks, (202 Blocks of 869 hit, 45 crit attacks. Should be a contribution of ~5.5% damage reduction.

About what I was expecting. I don't have any data for HS+1, either, though. I doubt the ilvl90 a huge departure from the ilvl80 shield.

Also my testing with Rage of Halone had a contribution of ~8% damage reduction

That's more than I was anticipating. I will have to find more data on that regardless.