The blessing reads as follows “This weapon blocks both melee and ranged attacks. Additionally, Block cost is reduced by 3%”
This for some reason doesn’t apply to sniper fire which I would consider a ranged attack.
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Luckily you can dodge while blocking and the force sword has unlimited dodges. I found out that deflector doesnt work on snipers the hard way.
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That might be because sniper shot destroys your entire stamina and still puts some damage on top of that. Though I admit, I never tried to block sniper shot, so you may be totally right that something is off.
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With my current build despite still missing some more block efficiency i can block a crusher hit and be left at ~87% peril
Crusher slam is stronger than a Sniper shot
Despite that, sniper shot still goes through block, straight to health, it’s easy to tell when you get shot while reviving a teammate
Maybe a bug, maybe by design pierces through block, but point is you can’t deflect sniper shots with deflector Force Sword + Kinetic Deflection
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According to multiple bug report posts on this forum, it’s not considered a bug, but a feature. If it’s a feature though, I would suggest writing that into the perk description:
This weapon blocks both melee and ranged attacks (except unblockable/sniper).
Or something to that effect.