RR100 Weapon and Shield graphic updates

Straight from the PTS I present the Black Orc RR100 weapons. I love the Deathbringa of Mork and it's glowy red particle effect (as a side note, green glow = offensive, red glow = defensive so it's easier to tell the type of weapon equipped). There's no shield particle effect and the RR100 two handers have the same skin as do both shields. I guess they have time yet to change that so no rush, but hope they will have different looks.

How to convert block rating to block chance

I wanted to work out how much block the RR100 shields would provide (potentially saving me renown points on block rating) so I worked it out quickly. It's probably already posted on Warhammer Alliance or on another blog somewhere but meh... was too lazy to look for it and brain needed a work out.

10 block rating on a shield = a 0.57% chance to block

This is a rough number but it works out pretty much dead on what block chance you get.

Tactics, Renown and +block% items add on after the block rating is worked out, so a 500 block rating shield with +2% block bonus would give you a base block chance of 30.5%. If you had a +10% block tactic on that would then give you 40.5% block.

Edit: Thank you to Anonymous who posted the following in the comments. It's the actual formula and gives you the exact block rate, even if it is a bit more numbery

The calculation works for characters that are level 40, as the equation factors in level per block rating.

Block Rating / (((Level * 7.5)+50)*5) = Block(*100) = %

So for example, at level 40 this works out to be Block Rating/1750.

Werit shows us the new Black Orc shields

Got home from vacation yesterday and sadly contracted Nurgles Rot so having to take the day off work as my head fills up with snot and blood. In the meantime though Werit has kindly posted the new shields you can get at early ranks. Much the same as Werit said, the target one is my favourite. Hopefully I'll be able to get onto the test centre over the next couple of days.

http://www.weritsblog.com/2010/08/136-black-orc-shields.html

Cheers Werit!