Adjustments to gaining Parry Skill...what about Guard?

[Horadrim]

You can get guard pretty easy in abyssea altep, just agro tons of those mandies and have a good rdm backup with phalanx II merits. It's the fastest way I've seen.
Still more guard skill gain would be nice, but if you up that, you'll need to up shield too to be fair.

Difference with Shield is that the job that needs it most gets it almost accidentally. The primary issue with Guard is that you can only get it on two jobs which are almost never getting hit unless they're doing something wrong or soloing.

I'm not a wealth of knowledge on mnk but isn't guard useless anyway? Capped or not.

Nickles are mostly useless except for those few times you happen to be 5 cents off from a soda in a vending machine.

That said, its better to have it capped than to not have it capped since you have it -- it may not help a ton, but the few times it happens to help -- it can pretty nice.