Buff shields.

[Sapphidia]

Maybe they should make parry double dip its effect. Have it work like crit does now - the parry rating affects your chance to parry AND BLOCK at the rate it currently does, and also have a minor impact on the strength of block and parry.

It would be nice to think that if I decided to stack parry on my gear for whatever weird reason (maybe if the meta changes so tank DPS isnt so important) that having 400 parry on gear would not only give me 8-9% more parry chance, but also 8-9% more block chance and bump my parry from 20% to 24% and my block from 29% to 34% or something. Something fairly concrete so you actually notice a difference.

That said, whilst I wont disagree that I wish shields were stronger, I think we can all agree that paladin mitigation isnt exactly bad, and if paladins are in need of buffs then buffing their RNG-based physical mitigation even more isnt the best place to target them!

[Awful]

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I'm with you on this one it sucks that there's no benefit to having tanking stats and having them do nothing and there's not any defensive stats besides parry. Too bad there's no stat that increases evasion as well it'd be nice to see dodges besides having blind up but that might be too OP. Double dipping would help tanks a lot as it does make a noticeable difference to want tank stats where the meta we have now we avoid them, maybe have crit on gear convert to parry?Idk if it'd help can't really think while at work lol.

I just miss the old days seeing myself when I was a pld tank block for 35% and parry for like 29% and shrug off all the enemies physical attacks...the good ol days!