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The 25% Block Myth: Avoiding Crushing Blow

There always seems to have been a lot of confusion surrounding Crushing Blows, Block Rating, and Shield Block. The truth of the matter is quite simple.

Truth

If the mob’s chance to Miss + your chance to Dodge + Parry + Block = 27.60% then when you use Shield Block, you will not be Crushing Blowed.

Wait… you say you are still getting Crushing Blowed?

Well that’s because:

  1. Improved Shield Block only has 2 charges of +75% to block
  2. A fast hitting boss removes those charges quickly (ie: Prince Malchezaar)
  3. You are re-activating Shield Block too slow (ie: Lag or L2P)

So does Block Rating even matter?

Nope, not really. It’s not a bad stat to have, but it’s not exactly good either. Truth be told Warriors would have a much easier time tanking if Block Rating was replaced by Hit Rating on all of our equipment.

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4 Responses to “The 25% Block Myth: Avoiding Crushing Blow”

  1. Narshe Says:
    July 27th, 2007 at 1:38 am

    It’s not 25% but 27.60% when you are tanking bosses. With TBC gear that should be easy to obtain

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  2. admin Says:
    July 30th, 2007 at 10:32 am

    Fixed and Agreed.

    27.60% is so insanely easy to acquire that it simply happens naturally but choosing proper tanking gear.

    The big point though is don’t worry about Block rating. It’s really not that good and almost any stat takes priority over it. Hence, why I hate Figurine of the Colossus so much.

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  3. Anenome Says:
    February 7th, 2008 at 4:52 am

    Silly warriors, block-rating armor is clearly for paladins, HANDS OFF! :)

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  4. Eamo Says:
    July 14th, 2008 at 8:46 am

    If you look at the attack table the top 15% is your chance to be crushed. As soon as you reach the point that your total miss + dodge + parry + block is 87.4% or higher (which doesn’t really require that high a standard of gear) then the extra block rating starts pushing crushes off the table.

    It certainly isn’t an incredibly valuable stat but it does help prevent crushes in those weird situations. It is certainly however more of a trash/heroic stat than a raid stat but on certain bosses it can be useful to get that 15% crushing chance reduced even if it is only by a couple percent.

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