{"id":31,"date":"2014-12-10T15:05:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T15:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disorder.dk\/daoc\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2014-12-10T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T15:05:36","slug":"blocking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/daoc\/blocking\/","title":{"rendered":"Blocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shield blocking is a viable PvE combat skill that is calculated as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Base chance to Block = 5% + (0.5% x Shield spec) + 3% per level of Mastery of Blocking.<\/p>\n<p>It is further modified by your dexterity, such that kobolds block considerably more often than trolls. It only works in the forward arc, its is reduced by 50% if your opponent is dual weilding 2 weapons, and is somewhat reduced in RvR with the current group code penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Large shields do substantial crush damage but none of the shield styles have bonuses to hit. Shields in keep defense are a bit more useful vs archers since the:<\/p>\n<p>Base chance to block an arrow is: 30% + (0.5% X Shield spec) + 3% per level of Mastery of Blocking.<\/p>\n<p>Engage ability substitutes all offensive actions of your character to get another 30% chance to block your opponent; in RvR this is close to useless. It is rumoured that shields can actually block enemy caster bolts&#8230; it happens so rarely that I cannot give you any numbers on the block rate.<\/p>\n<p>Usefulness of Shields in RvR is moderate.<b> <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shield blocking is a viable PvE combat skill that is calculated as follows: Base chance to Block = 5% + (0.5% x Shield spec) + 3% per level of Mastery of Blocking. It is further modified by your dexterity, such that kobolds block considerably more often than trolls. It only works in the forward arc, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5szTF-v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/daoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/daoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/daoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/daoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/daoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/daoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/daoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disorder.dk\/daoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}