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How good/useful is Block Penetration?

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#1

how does this stat work?

does it reduce the chance of enemy blocking your attack with shield (so I guess it’s works only vs players because I don’t see on tosbase block on monster stats) = pure PvP stat since only players wear shields

or

maybe also it works as some kind of armor penetration (more useful in PvE also) so this way it increase damage dealt?

atm only SPR gives block penetration and few items but on kToS now STR is also giving block penetration and Swordsman class gets most of block pene from STR (I read that swordie gets 1,5 block pene for 1 str point while others 1:1)

so with this and for example catacombs blade as corsair with 200+ STR (1str:2dex build) and 20 SPR (from max petamion) I would get 518 block penetration… is that overkill if it’s only works VS players with shields?

#2

Players can only block with shields or abilities that temporarily allow you to block like stoneskin. You can’t really get enough block pen to break through stoneskin, unless you go a heavy STR build with the new block pen from STR, but that’s probably not worth it considering how effective CON is in PvP. However it can still be useful against pure CON wizards with a shield. Some mobs block regardless of visually having a shield or not. So block pen is situationally useful in PvE and PvP.

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#3

god damn now I don’t know if I should stick to Magas Sword for muh crit dmg (I want to make crit machine corsair/shinobi) and hp or get cata blade to have less problems with shield+plate armor users in pvp :expressionless: