You know reading some of this stuff made me think...

It'd be kind of nice if, in addition to VIT/DEX affecting Shield Block Damage/Shield Block Rate, STR/MND would somehow be a secondary modifier for those shield traits respectively (if SE is hellbent on keeping STR/MND the primary stats for GLD/PLD rather than, yanno, changing it to STR/VIT which would probably make more sense).

I mean, every weapon has a primary/secondary modifier. Why not shield?