Quote Originally Posted by Synestra View Post
Well to compensate CD reduction they could always lower block % from 60% to 55-50%, that should be reasonable tradeoff.
I agree. It's not the only trade off that they could have done, as well.

Like every problem facing Pld's, there are multiple ways in which SE could have made adjustments to make it agreeable. Even the idea of having sword and shield effects depending on the type equipped would have been fine, especially because it was the direction they seemed to be going in before they decided to homogenize all of the Pld gear. Instead, they choose to put their heads in the sand and ignore it. I was really hoping that they were going to come up for air in 3.2 and address some of these long standing issues, but I kinda knew that they wouldn't.