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<p>New page: &lt;pre&gt; As I promised earlier today I&#039;ve spent some time today having guild mates attack me in order to test out the effectiveness of block. My current template is 4-0-04 marksman, master ...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&lt;pre&gt;<br /> <br /> As I promised earlier today I've spent some time today having guild mates attack me in order to test out the effectiveness of block.<br /> <br /> My current template is 4-0-04 marksman, master rifleman, 0-0-0-4 brawler, master pikeman (I also have 2-0-4-0 medic &amp; novice scout, but that's not really important to these tests). This provides me with +103 ranged defense, +72 melee defense and +195 block (capped to +125).<br /> <br /> I split the tests into 2 sections, with 3 subsections to each:<br /> <br /> Rifle vs Rifle<br /> Rifle vs Polearm<br /> Rifle vs Polearm (using CoB)<br /> TK vs Rifle<br /> TK vs Polearm<br /> TK vs Polearm (using CoB)<br /> <br /> My opponents for the tests were a master rifleman for the ranged tests and a 2-4-4-3 TK for the melee tests.<br /> <br /> On to the results:<br /> <br /> Rifle vs Rifle<br /> 120 shots fired<br /> Shots Blocked: 11<br /> Shots Missed: 5<br /> <br /> Rifle vs Polearm<br /> 120 shots fired<br /> Shots Blocked: 16<br /> Shots Missed: 11<br /> <br /> Rifle vs Polearm (using CoB)<br /> 120 shots fired<br /> Shots Blocked: 56<br /> Shots Missed: 8<br /> <br /> TK vs Rifle<br /> 120 punches thrown<br /> Punches Blocked: 37<br /> Punches Missed: 0<br /> <br /> TK vs Polearm<br /> 120 punches thrown<br /> Punches Blocked: 26<br /> Punches Missed: 10<br /> <br /> TK vs Polearm<br /> 120 punches thrown<br /> Punches Blocked: 70<br /> Punches Missed 9<br /> <br /> Thanks to Owem and Yteb for helping me with these tests.<br /> <br /> Whilst I did block ranged attacks, at best I blocked only around 9% while holding my rifle going up to 13.3% of them outside of CoB with a polearm equipped and still under 50% of them using CoB.<br /> <br /> Against melee attacks I blocked over 30% of the time with my rifle equipped, but only slightly over 20% of the time with a polearm equipped. Using CoB I blocked nearly 60% of the time.<br /> <br /> +125 block vs melee while holding a rifle does seem to be pretty effective and does somewhat offset the to-hit modifer although since block allows 50% of the damage through I'd have still taken a lot of damage in any real engagement. I'm slightly disappointed that I blocked less vs melee using a polearm, though thanks to the +26 polearm toughness modifier I would have taken less damage.<br /> <br /> +125 block vs ranged is pretty ineffective outside CoB.<br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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