That's why the damage mitigation wasn't doing anything. :rolleyes2

I was convinced I had this update.

I downloaded a few FFXI files at the apparent date of the update. Excited to test out my new abilities (I thought I had?) I put my LFP flag up and with no immediate results, after half an hour it was too much to bare - I had to try out this update. So I travelled down to the Garlaige Citadel to try out the Sheild Mastery upgrade. I fought some Easy Preys and cast some spells deliberately so that they would interupt and watched out for Shield Blocks. Surely enough, every Sheild Block that occured went a Spell that was not interupted, I tried this lots of times.

I also tried the update, in a party against Colibri, but I didn't actually check for Shield Blocks and interuptions this time although I fought only few I was under the immpression I was getting more uninterupted spells in than usual.

After two days of seeking I finally got a party and at this point I was very anxious to try the new hate pulling capabilities of Sentinel, so I saved Sentinel, and every time I lost hate I would use it and it would pull hate back to me most of the time. Whether Sentinel actually pulled hate before, I'm not really sure. I was under the impression it sheded hate due to a merited ability for Paladin's that reduces Enmity loss for Sentinel (I wonder what would happen to that ability after the update).