Asura.Envious said:
Yes it increases your chance of blocking, but are you going to sit there and tell me that SE wasted resources on making the server be able to differentiate between what's a reprisal block vs what's not?
It's most likely something simple such as increasing the block rate % by X amount, skill up is treated as normal on blocks under reprisal effect.
Can't imagine it being more complex than that. Never really did a skill up strat for shield though, capped it tanking Gods in sky lol