#0 - June 24, 2009, 3:12 a.m.
The failure to scale does 1 major thing. Changes the power level of block depending on the target's swing damage. So it must either be too powerful against weak attacks or not powerful enough against heavy attacks.
What does the change do? It makes block better Where it was already good. Now any instance where wearing block value gear, such as trash tanking, heroics, or PvP block will become even more powerful.
While it remains poor where it was already poor, hard hitting boss tanking. This area is dominated by EH, as shown by players willing to give up mountains of avoidance for molehills of EH. Even with the changes, The best EH peice is still the best peice for the slot. If the best EH peice happens to have SBV on it, then a small buff occurs, but no where near as large a buff as occured in the SBV trash sets.
TL:DR: The doubling of bonus SBV on items has the effect of increasing the power gap block has. You have made block notably more powerful in low end or weak hitting content, while resulting in no significant change in high end content.