Yeah, blockrate hasn't gone up. Blockrate on gear in general has been nerfed, from my observations generally cut in half. One of the better higher end shields post 1.19 have 75% blockrate, which is still low compared to 85-100% blockrate shields prepatch. They basically gave us autoblock at the cost of lowered blockrate. As Stufoo pointed out, they just changed kind of the way Gladiator operates. We're a bit thicker overall and less reliant on our blocking. I'm 50/50 on the change, but it is what it is.