Originally Posted by
willriker
He was at either 220 or 230 parry in testing. PLD cap Parry rating is 210. so at very least, its somewhat of an aproximation of what a PLD would see for pary results if he/she stacked AGI. Do I think that its worth it for a PLD to stack these skills? Not really, there are very few fights where PLD would see decent results form this stat selection.
Another thing i am satified with, is that Brutala confirmed that as an enemies level decreases you will see more shield block activations while keeping the shield skill constant. This was only conjecture before, unless i missed a test. The only other test i have seen on this determined that it takes 300 shield skill to reach the activation rate cap on EM-DC enemies with a size 3 shield. That tester left it to conjecture that lower level enemies would require less shield skill to reach this cap. By the same rational, higher level enemies would require more shield skill to reach the same cap.
Brutala, thank you for clearing up that issue. Most of us knew this to be true, but noone really went out to see how much of a diferance it actualy is. While this test did not provide a defined amount of shield skill to reach the % cap per enemy level, it did verify the general trend that was just a geustimation before.
Though that bit in your post about the day of the week/moon phase having an effect on shield block activation rates is kind of interesting. Thats a whole differant issue though... and while i agree that something weird might be giong on with this, it would only be proven to be true with a sample size large enough to eliminate the enherent dificulty that arizes when dealing with programmed random occurances.