Sad day for shields

[Cookymon]

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Scale percentage return on raw numbers with class level (clvl) or content level/difficulty, introduce hard cap (whathaveyou - 75% or so).
At a clvl X, 100 raw points of rate/strength might give 1% raw return to actual number of strikes blocked/damage reduced.
At a clvl X+Y those 100 raw points might only give 0.8%.

Since expansions like to raise raw numebrs massively to make you feel way more powerful that scaling is probably not linear. The same raw numbers that provide you a sweet one in three strikes blocked in 2.0 RND EX dungeons will thus only give you one in five in current higher end content or something.

Now consider we get a new fancy i190+ or some such shield. It won't break lower content in any instance for
a) synced lower level (everything not undersized party) raw numbers are toned down
b) non-synced lower content (undersized party) is designed, drops wise etc, to be wtfroflstomped

[Cookymon]

Addendum:
1000 characters is a way to low count to type a comprehensive reply which is why above looks so gimped. Who in the name of Hydaelyn thought 1000 characters is enough for a non-syllabary language?