Making Block viable on Insane/Madness

[HousePet]

Shields already do an always active defence, its their stats. Block should remain as a tactical activate.
However, it should be possible to block an unlimited number of attacks per turn by default.

[bpat]

Shields already do an always active defence, its their stats. Block should remain as a tactical activate.
However, it should be possible to block an unlimited number of attacks per turn by default.

This sounds like a good idea since it would make the Eternal Guard prodigy less essential but still good. I'd be happy for some of the power of the prodigies and Riposte to be moved to the Block talent and available by default.

[Doctornull]

Shields already do an always active defence, its their stats. Block should remain as a tactical activate.
However, it should be possible to block an unlimited number of attacks per turn by default.

This sounds like a good idea since it would make the Eternal Guard prodigy less essential but still good. I'd be happy for some of the power of the prodigies and Riposte to be moved to the Block talent and available by default.

The prodigy could also scale up powers which Riposte and Block also do.

Like, by default Shields could block their block value or 30% of an attack, whichever is more. With the Prodigy, that expands by +20% (to 50% of an attack). Perhaps Shield Wall expands that by another +10% at 5/5.

[Isotope-X]

The easiest way would be to make Block an instant activation, thus removing the need to sacrifice a turn to use it. Or, if that would be too powerful (as I suspect), perhaps it could take up half a turn or something along those lines.

[Doctornull]

The easiest way would be to make Block an instant activation, thus removing the need to sacrifice a turn to use it. Or, if that would be too powerful (as I suspect), perhaps it could take up half a turn or something along those lines.

Even with the current implementation, I can easily get a turn advantage by using Block.

I gave an example of how to do this up thread

[HousePet]

Reducing the cost of using Block, when the problem is that Block isn't worth using, doesn't help the situation.

[bpat]

Shields already do an always active defence, its their stats. Block should remain as a tactical activate.
However, it should be possible to block an unlimited number of attacks per turn by default.

This sounds like a good idea since it would make the Eternal Guard prodigy less essential but still good. I'd be happy for some of the power of the prodigies and Riposte to be moved to the Block talent and available by default.

The prodigy could also scale up powers which Riposte and Block also do.

Like, by default Shields could block their block value or 30% of an attack, whichever is more. With the Prodigy, that expands by +20% (to 50% of an attack). Perhaps Shield Wall expands that by another +10% at 5/5.

I like this, it makes the prodigies less essential but still great. I'd personally like to see the prodigies merged with Block able to tank an unlimited amount amount of hits by default like HousePet suggested, but unfortunately that seems unlikely.