I am going to try to do some play testing tonight and post my results to this thread, but would appreciate input from other as well. I'd like to definitely determine whether or not the bug is actually fixed, and to what extent.

For those who don't know, previous to 1.5, Deflect arrows was bugged in such a way that it instantly granted you maximum blocking against all physical damage, not just arrows. This translated to 85% nullification of all physical damage. The implications of this made it so that shield wall, and even having points in block(other than the required points for perks) were essentially useless, since your blocking would be at the maximum cap that the game allows, by simply investing in one perk. The other implication was that the perk did not do what it claimed, which was to block 100% of all arrow damage. It blocked 85% just like it did to everything else.

All that being said, we now have two questions to answer:

1. Does the deflect arrows perk no longer affect non-arrow damage in any way?

2. Does the deflect arrows perk now make it so that if an arrow hits the shield, 100% of damage is blocked?

If either of these answers are "no", then it's not fixed.

Good luck and thanks to all testers!

So it appears that we are still taking damage from arrows. It may be that 85% of the arrow damage is being blocked, but I'm not sure. I wasn't able yet to come up with anything definitive on whether or not the perk is affecting normal physical attacks.