The Care and Feeding of Warriors: But hitting buttons is fun!

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3-19-2010 @ 1:56PM

GrumblyStuff said...

If I remember correctly, it boosted shield block chance by 75% for a rather short period of time (5-6 seconds?) for maybe... 2-4 hits with talents.

The reason you spammed it was because back then, mobs three levels over your level (ie, raid bosses) had chance that their melee attacks would be a crushing blow which was 50% more damage. If your dodge, parry, block, and chance to be missed chances were over some number (102ish % I think), that meant the hit could not be a crushing blow. This was before block value through str was useful ('twas 1 bv from 19 str?) so the amount blocked wasn't nearly as important as removing crushing blows.

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