The Problem with Paladin

[Alerith]

Alerith you can't just go by help text. Aegis Boon blocks an incoming attack and restores HP in proportion to damage taken, except you don't take any damage on the hit AB procs on. If we want all text to be literal it would have to say "restores HP in proportion to damage mitigated".

This has nothing to do with whether I agree with you or not.

Indeed, but the game has to register the damage of the attack to justify how much it heals you for. If you still took damage but it returned that damage as HP, then the whole effect would simply be "Negates a melee attack used against you."

I suppose we can both be right and it's just an argument of semantics, but everywhere I see "Block" from SE, it refers to the action of intercepting an attack with your shield. (Not saying you're disagreeing, just stating my view.)