Thread: Patch 6.21 Job Adjustments Overview:

Originally Posted by xAFROx

Uneducated question here: didn't they update pld back in shb to be able to block magic attacks? With how frequent sheltron is, wouldn't that mean they have a fairly solid point of mitigation despite having less personal mitigation buttons than the other tanks?

They changed it back in Stormblood to allow block to work on magic damage. The problem with block is every other restriction that still exists.
Block does not work if you character is "incapable" of blocking at the time, this means while you're casting anything (granted this pretty much only applies to hard cast Clemency nowadays) or if you're stunned/frozen/paralyzed/or in any other way incapacitated.
Block does not work on any damage over time effects, this is especially bad in the current tier because almost all tank busters leave a dot, making the block portion of Holy Shelltron entirely useless outside of the initial hit.
Block does not work on any critical hit, they simply ignore both block and parry. (this is only really an issue in dungeon trash pulls since bosses can't crit anymore)



These restrictions were completely fine when block was able to mitigate more damage more often.

Back in Stormblood your Shield's Block Strength and Block Rate kept increasing with higher itemlevel shields to a point where block would have a ~35% chance to proc and mitigate ~35% at the end of the expansion. You were also able to make yourself immune to critical hits for 15 seconds via Awareness.


In ShB however SE capped Block Strength and Block Rate to 20% and Awareness was removed from the game, making Shelltron nothing more than every other tank's 20% mitigation but worse since it still suffers from those old downsides on top of PLD not generating any oath gauge when it can't attack anything.