GGG: "Let spell block be something all characters can accept admission to"... The aberration amid what the development acclamation was civil apropos spell block and what we in actuality got in the application addendum is extreme.

Making something added attainable implies adopting the attic that the boilerplate shield/staff wielding appearance attains, which is reasonable.

That acutely did not happen; all the now advanced body enabling but now 1-alch spell block uniques, like Adventuresome Defence, Stone of Lazwhar, Rathpith Globe, etc, accept abject spell block values.

Spell block is now something that alone builds with an acute and big-ticket bulk of investment will affliction about, as incremental block is worse the beneath of it you have.

Incidentally the change to the Gladiator advantage is a nerf to any body afterwards max block (for instance you could get 60% block + 70% spell block with rumi's before, now the added spell block is useless).

This isn't something the majority of players will affliction about and that's why the nerfs are so astounding.

Does anyone anticipate that max block builds were assertive the meta or arbitrary for the bulk of investment they required?

My suggestion: Go advanced and accumulate the ethics in the application addendum on all those body enabling spell block uniques by 1.5-2x, and you will achieve what you've adumbrated in the manifesto.

I played a xirgil's occultist endure league, it was already abreast absurd to hit max block application a agents afterwards either a LOT of adventuresome aegis jewels, or a Rumi's.

My body had T1 Shaper Ammy Block, Rainbowstrides, and one RD jewel. With some alembic capability and a able-bodied formed Rumi's I was just about able to hit max block.

With the bureaucracy I accept now and LEGACY spell block numbers I alone hit 50%, in actuality acceleration the bulk of accident I yield from spells, not including the Xirgil's aftereffect traveling off beneath frequently.

Anyone searching to use spell block needs so abundant added investment, Adventuresome Aegis is almost, if not completely, necessary. This goes even added so for agents builds, which already had an acutely harder time capping.

Honestly, I'm in actuality accomplished with them nerfing block, it is an acutely strong, if not the strongest, arresting mechanic.

I accept to say though PoE trade currency, I am aghast that they did not reflect, and in actuality accompaniment the adverse of what they did in the development manifesto.