I would like to get some information about skills, which are works with shield block percentage. Shield Bash for example says: "Charge at your enemy, bashing him and all nearby foes. Deals325%weapon damage plus300%of your shield's Block Chance as Holy damage." My question regarding for the part:plus300%of your shield's Block Chance.It sounds quite silly, that, if I have a shield with 34% Block Chance, the damage will be 325% Weapon Damage + 102. The bonus from block chance seems quite low, if not irrelevant. Can somebody explain this? Thank you.
Fyric is 100% right, the wording on the tooltip is godawful, but when the change went live it was explained by a blue.
Basically you gain X% of your total block chance as additional weapon damage for the ability. I have to agree though, it's REALLY not much, it's only really worth it if you're going to stack block and get capped out at ~75% (or did they remove the cap, can't remember...). Of course the obvious point there is if you're GOING to use the block based moves, you're probably going to be stacking block
Fyric is 100% right, the wording on the tooltip is godawful, but when the change went live it was explained by a blue.
Basically you gain X% of your total block chance as additional weapon damage for the ability. I have to agree though, it's REALLY not much, it's only really worth it if you're going to stack block and get capped out at ~75% (or did they remove the cap, can't remember...). Of course the obvious point there is if you're GOING to use the block based moves, you're probably going to be stacking block
But shield bash at least uses only shield's block chance,not your total from other items so it doesnt matter how much your total block chance is.
Wording in the tooltip suggest it is indeed only the % on the shield, making the ability very costly for it's damage, considering most people won't get more than 30% block chance equaling 415% damage, hardly more than sweep's 400% at 2/3 the wrath cost.
The problem is... It might just be me, but I DO see a marked damage increase using Shield Bash after using punish (15% increased chance to block). I'll try testing again with my Justice Lantern (+14% block) compared to without it, see if that makes a difference.
Because I seem to recall back in beta when it was changed from Block Value to Block Chance them saying it was TOTAL block chance, but you're right the tooltip does imply that it's shield block value only.
Fyric is 100% right, the wording on the tooltip is godawful, but when the change went live it was explained by a blue.
Basically you gain X% of your total block chance as additional weapon damage for the ability. I have to agree though, it's REALLY not much, it's only really worth it if you're going to stack block and get capped out at ~75% (or did they remove the cap, can't remember...). Of course the obvious point there is if you're GOING to use the block based moves, you're probably going to be stacking block
Well there is a cap of block chance at 75% however you can get more block chance (but it doesn't let you block more) but it does increase your dmg!!!
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I would like to get some information about skills, which are works with shield block percentage. Shield Bash for example says: "Charge at your enemy, bashing him and all nearby foes. Deals325%weapon damage plus300%of your shield's Block Chance as Holy damage." My question regarding for the part:plus300%of your shield's Block Chance.It sounds quite silly, that, if I have a shield with 34% Block Chance, the damage will be 325% Weapon Damage + 102. The bonus from block chance seems quite low, if not irrelevant. Can somebody explain this? Thank you.
Basically you gain X% of your total block chance as additional weapon damage for the ability. I have to agree though, it's REALLY not much, it's only really worth it if you're going to stack block and get capped out at ~75% (or did they remove the cap, can't remember...). Of course the obvious point there is if you're GOING to use the block based moves, you're probably going to be stacking block
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Because I seem to recall back in beta when it was changed from Block Value to Block Chance them saying it was TOTAL block chance, but you're right the tooltip does imply that it's shield block value only.