thank you for fixing parry skill up rates

[Ayrlie]

Parrying skill up video, post July 2012 patch

[Vivivivi]

Yes, thank you! Parrying skills up now like most other combat skills. I have had capped evasion for a very long time making it even more difficult to skill up parrying... so much so that I leveled corsair to 99 simply because it has a high parry skill and lower evasion skill. I took my corsair out last night and easily made it to level 300, and am now gaining skill ups even on my thief (but more frequent with corsair).

[Monchat]

good news yeah i got a few skillups yesterday doing random merits. too bad parry and guard are both super useless compared to evasion.

[Rosina]

good news yeah i got a few skillups yesterday doing random merits. too bad parry and guard are both super useless compared to evasion.

not really a capped parry can save your butt. I used to cap my parry on my dnc pretty often before this switch. It was a pain in the butt tho. Between eva and parry getting hit a decent bit. I just rerolled back on bahamut and my parry caps nearly every level. I noticed i get hit way less now since my parry gets capped alot.

[Monchat]

not really a capped parry can save your butt. I used to cap my parry on my dnc pretty often before this switch. It was a pain in the butt tho. Between eva and parry getting hit a decent bit. I just rerolled back on bahamut and my parry caps nearly every level. I noticed i get hit way less now since my parry gets capped alot.

there is so much all job + eva gear and almost nothing for guard and parry ( whats more they are capped). I wear +130 evasion I believe on monk in eva set up and mnk is a job with B skill.

[0nionKn1ght]

good news yeah i got a few skillups yesterday doing random merits. too bad parry and guard are both super useless compared to evasion.

Parry is monumental when your evasion fails. You literally negate the damage done, which means you can negate any weapon swing, including big skull crushing moves from NM's too. The reason Parry is often ignored is because people don't have it skilled, meaning it rarely, if ever, procs. Mine is now proccing 1/5 swings on my THF/DNC, and getting faster too. It's great to see you deflect an attack with your own weapons. It is very noticably improved.

[scaevola]

Yeah, it's easy to forget that while parry and guard, evem capped, were pretty useless at 75 against anything that mattered, the stuff that mattered was all 10 or more levels higher than you. That's less likely to be the case for most players now.

That said, I'm not anywhere near capped and I would be surprised if capped guard/parry felt any different than it does now; reserving judgment but not planning on going out of my way to speed them up.

[Demon6324236]

This might actually make them more noticeably useful, if only for jobs with Tactical Guard/Parry.

[svengalis]

good news yeah i got a few skillups yesterday doing random merits. too bad parry and guard are both super useless compared to evasion.

Even with parting being so low it still has come in quite handy at times guarding is mnk only I think and now that it actually skills up it might be useful to.

[Monchat]

Even with parting being so low it still has come in quite handy at times guarding is mnk only I think and now that it actually skills up it might be useful to.

I know. I plan on capping parry and guard too (I was capped on both at level 75). My complaint is this: on a job like monk you have guard@ A+ skill I believe and evasion B+. If i want to improve my defense i chose either guard or evasion. but evasion is checked first, and caps very high (80%), while guard is checked after and caps @20%. Guard equipement is not common while evasion gear is very common on the ah for example. Evasion will always be the most efficient way to mitigate damage on mobs you can evade (less than 7-8 levels above you).