@ks3v3n - I see what you are sayin there. For me, having around a 42ish% chance to parry an attack mitigating 13% is cool, when RNG doesn't allow me to block mitigating 38% of the incoming dmg. The way I look at it is i have three tiers of dmg mitigation. Tier one is block / dodge (1st check). Second tier is parry (second check if block/dodge are missed). Third tier > punchies to the face (checks fail-eat it son!). ^.^

I like what you said about the 25% vs the almost 40% blockrate. It is a good point that I don't think many tanks fully understand. If you choose to go with the 25% then bulwark becomes invaluable and need to do a little work to get parry up for it to be beneficial. If you choose the 40% route then there really is no need for bulwark as it's benefit is diluted a bit and parry is still a valuable asset.

Just my views as a fellow pld. I think tonight I will go home and test some things.

I will be switching back to a kite shield as soon as I can get my hands on that High Allagan....a ways off for sure.

Syn