Quote Originally Posted by Malamasala View Post
Would have been interesting if someone had numbers about if there was some kind of 7-8% damage reduction on blocks/parry from STR as well. If that happened often enough, it would seem to be better than increasing your HP.
There is! http://valk.dancing-mad.com/?page_id=227 This shows the table of how much % of damage you block from a blocked attack, based on your strength + shield's block value. Your % chance to block is based off your Shield and a tiny contribution of Dex.

As you can see, you need a LARGE amount of extra strength to make even the remotest difference to mitigation there. IF you happen to hit a breakpoint of block amount with 30 Strength, it will only increase blocked amount by 1%. Sadly, whilst strength as a whole is a reasonable stat, the mitigation you gain from 30 points in Strength seems to be less than 1%, so right now you cannot think of Strength as a mitigation stat. It's purely damage/threat.