I don't understand why they allow crusaders to use towers now, but still have kites with lower stats. Other than making crafted kite shields completely useless now, what other purpose is served by not having the stats be the same between crafted kites and towers? If they made them with better stats a lot of people might use kites for roleplay purposes, or even if block was lower, perhaps a boost to INT or AGI could compensate, but it would have to be a really nice boost.