Shield Skill Gear?Follow

I've been reading through the shield skill posts and nothing seems to answer my question. I've been told there is a hard cap or whatever on shield skill so once you go beyond it there's really no point. Typically I go pld/nin macro haste gear for shadows then swap back to a solid tank build relying on shield blocks. My skill is beyond 300 with torque knights earring and boxers mantle and other such pieces. Is there a point when i should stop using shield + gear and just leave other gear on for more hp or def?

I use a set tanking build i default to with def shield and hp. I use haste for casting to put up shadows. Some mobs spam aoe's and such and drop shadows faster then i'd like for those instances i enjoy having the gear on to block attacks. If however the gear no longer benifits the skill i wouldn't mind just not bothering.

Some mobs like lolgenbu i never need my shield we blink everything for the most part. Other mobs like faust i can't keep shadows up and have pretty much stopped trying. Since we do both mobs in same run i can't /war for one and /nin for other so that's when i gear for blood tanking.

Yes that was my main question is 300 the hard cap or they just talking out their ass?

As for gear options im pretty limited im new to endgame don't have atonement or joyeuse for it. But knowing stuff like this will determine my priority for lotting gear.

Ah ok thanks for that input that seems to be more along the lines of what I'm looking for which might lead to more types of gear change macro's. XD

To be more specific, I wear my Gallant Leggings +1, Shield Torque, and Buckler earring for recasting Utsu:Ichi when shadows are DOWN (it's a separate macro, not in my ichi cast macro). However, as a counter example, I would not swap in Koenig schaller (the 4 or 5 haste you can wear in that slot are too valuable for recast to give up).

When I'm recasting Ichi with a shadow left or when I'm casting Ni, I replace Dusk Boots (no Aurum yet) for Gallant+1 to lower the recast (unless I'm already at recast floor from double march+haste).

As others have said, if shadows are up for any significant amount of time, I basically try to maximize acc and haste. However, some things I tank, I'm recasting shadows or flashing about 90% of the time so I don't even bother with the acc gear macros - just haste or shield skill depending on whether I'm casting with shadows up or down. Sometimes there really is no such thing as "Idle" time.

I'd be willing to bet that there is a formula involved in shield block rate, and even probably a "soft cap", much as there is for other combat skills. However, no one has figured it out to my knowledge.