Parry skill gets extremly hard to lvl after you hit 320 skill or so even with the abyssea method spent a total of 4 hrs the other day skilling fighting 15 mandys at a time sam/dnc and got a total of .7 combined skill from each time I got a skill up. I'm glad they can finally find some time to address this issue with the skill up rate. To the poster above Thf and Nin are horrible choices to use to try and skill up parry with since it gos through all the same checks as guard, their Evas to high to get a decent proc rate let alone a decent skill up rate.