Blocking Mastery?

[Graymane-Dunedain]

<p>I acquired Blocking Mastery a couple of days ago and I am dazed and confused.</p><p>The description of Blocking Mastery states that it increases my chance to block by 24%.</p><p>When I open the Persona panel I see in the right hand column bright green text declaring that my chance to block is increased by 25% (was at 1% prior to acquisition of Blocking Mastery).</p><p>However, when I hover my cursor over the text for Avoidance in the left hand column I see NO INCREASE WHATSOEVER in my blocking percentage in the breakdown of the Avoidance stat.</p><p>What gives? Did I get a 24% increase in my chance to block or didn't I?</p><p>Is it just not being reported properly in the breakdown of the Avoidance stat.</p>

[altuslum]

<p>Block chance used to be Shield Effectiveness.  Thus, the 24% increase to your block chance is a 24% increase to shield effectiveness.  It increases the effective protection value of your shield.  If you aren't using a shield it won't have any effect on your avoidance.</p>

[Graymane-Dunedain]

<p>Of course I'm using a shield.</p><p>In spite of the fact that I'm using a shield I see no increae in the block percentage listed under the breakdown of Avoidance.</p>

[Azurro]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The block chance shown under your avoidance is your base without the bonus added to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>To calculate you real block chance after bonus it’s</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Avoidance Block Chance * (1+Block Chance Bonus) Capped at 70%</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So if your avoidance block chance is 24% and your bonus is 25% your real block chance is <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.24*(1+.25)= 30%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It’s fairly easy to get your bonus over 60% but the higher your Avoidance Block Chance is the better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>To can work backwards to calculate what your avoidance block chance needs to be to hit the 70% by using the formula</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Avoidance Block Chanced Needed = .70 / (1+ Current Block Chance)</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Block is uncontested in that it the mobs level doesn’t matter when calculating your chance to block.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Parry is contested in that the higher the mobs level the less effective it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>So for instance tanking parry is useful but if your raiding parry just isn’t worth it until after you hit the 70% block cap.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At least this is how I understand Block to work.</span></span></p>

[Lethe5683]

<p><cite>Azurro wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Block is uncontested in that it the mobs level doesn’t matter when calculating your chance to block.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Parry is contested in that the higher the mobs level the less effective it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>So for instance tanking parry is useful but if your raiding parry just isn’t worth it until after you hit the 70% block cap.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">At least this is how I understand Block to work.</span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #993366;">Mobs level does affect block chance, but the mobs accuracy and offensive skills do not.</span></p>

[Azurro]

<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Are you sure about that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I don’t see a significant difference in my block chance between mobs of different level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I do see a huge change in Parry chance as mob level increases or you move from Heroric to Epic.</span></span></p>

[Lethe5683]

<p><cite>Azurro wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Are you sure about that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I don’t see a significant difference in my block chance between mobs of different level.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I do see a huge change in Parry chance as mob level increases or you move from Heroric to Epic.</span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #993366;">Yes I'm sure.  The difference will be very small though.  Other types of avoidance like parry are going down more because they are affected by the mobs level and their offensive skills rather than just their level.</span></p>

[Rahatmattata]

<p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #993366;">Mobs level does affect block chance</span></p></blockquote><p>You are wrong. Give any level 1 character a shield and take some pulls on level 90 epic guards in town.</p>