>>715772670
>Blocking reduces damage to single/double digits
>Perfect blocking nulls damage outright
Clearly the game is trying to teach you it favors blocking over rolling. Then again so many games have 'blocking' as a feature but only reward outright dodging aggravates me. Monster Hunter's gotten better for rewarding guarding (damage boost for doing it, longer duration hitboxes and multihits you can't just parry/dodge past without getting clipped), but you can still tell the weapons with dodges/parries just outperform guards by a large gap. I want action games that actually reward for making use of the guard function, instead of it feeling like a last second concession to let less skilled people just clear content.

>>715411981
Makes you outright immune to damage via just guards. Adds more stun gauge as well. You could play the entire game without it on Normal and just spam more healing items to make up for getting hit, but the games Hard mode preventing item use outright along with limited bench use kinda forces you to get good or suffer.