At first I was a little apprehensive about shield skills going only to the gladiator.

*If* Shield is for gladiator only then they can raise (across the board) block rate and defense w/o having to worry about casters becoming unbalanced.

*IF* shields are wieldable by any 1 handed class, maybe Glad will get traits that greatly increase block rate and defense.

We'll have to wait and see for part 2.

I have faith in this dev team, they've done everything right so far. (in my opinion)