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I disagree a bit with your distaste for spells being uncommon. I think that the rarity system gives a really nice way for DMs to give casters meaningful rewards, which I didn't feel was really the case before. You are then subjected to your DM's judgement about which heavily world-affecting spells they want you to have access to, but that should probably be the case anyway.
For what it's worth, in the first level adventure of Doomsday Dawn the shield block was so good my DM was mad. It was especially good against creatures that deal low amounts of damage with debilitating effects added on if it does damage, ie poison. I haven't looked sufficiently at the Bestiary to know if there are similar monsters at higher levels, who do little damage but have paralysis or very damaging poisons added on. I do think shield block is meant to be used frequently, though, since if you look at the Fighter, they get one feat (Quick Shield Block) that specifically allows them to shield block once for free each turn. |
