So Parry is great in t10-12.

Okay, so not 'great.' It still suffers from terrible scaling, is checked secondary to shield blocks, and all the other downsides that make it famously considered to be crap.

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I can't speak for t13 itself because we have yet to clear the second-to-last turn, but every other aspect of final coil thusfar has been designed in the ideal way to make parry MORE useful - nonstop high-damage attacks instead of large massive hits. Revelation in t12 and a few other high-burst mechanics are the rarity, not the norm.

What are your thoughts?

The act of parry itself was always useful. The stat scaling is the problem.

I agree, Parry is a nice and useful skill (31% DM, yes please), but seeing that it is only for AAs and Physical attacks sucks.

Anyways, are you stating that a majority of the fights, for tanks, are short, bursts of mitigatiable damage?

Real question though: I want to know if YOUR healers know the difference. I see a many PLDs with Relic weapons with Parry and ACC... I think you see where I am going with this.

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Originally Posted by Ellatrix

The act of parry itself was always useful. The stat scaling is the problem.

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Tank forum post of the year.

Tanks definitely get rocked by non-mega attacks in T11, I can see Parry being good (or more useful than normal I should say). T10 however, it still seemed like the standard "boss barely outdamages Regen + pet auto-heal" into mega-attack where Parry is so worthless.

Can't speak for T12 or T13 yet.

If this is true then it explains why both ToP and FCoB gear are filled with parry.

Confirmed - the final boss of coil is also relatively autoattack heavy with big, parryable hits.

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Originally Posted by PapaSteel

Confirmed - the final boss of coil is also relatively autoattack heavy with big, parryable hits.

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Nael/twin like in respect to average iLvL at 2 weeks in?

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Originally Posted by PapaSteel

Confirmed - the final boss of coil is also relatively autoattack heavy with big, parryable hits.

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Nael/twin like in respect to average iLvL at 2 weeks in?

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So I just watched the kill video. And it's like a Michael Bay movies. (Credit to Arthars). Those big attacks are all magical. The adds hit hard and BPs autos are no different then Naels when we were i95.

Parry won't be BiS this turn.

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Originally Posted by PapaSteel

Okay, so not 'great.' It still suffers from terrible scaling, is checked secondary to shield blocks, and all the other downsides that make it famously considered to be crap.

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I've done the math before, and the whole "block is checked before parry" thing actually works in a Paladin's favor. Let's take my i110 Parry PLD. She's got a HA shield and 600+ Parry. These provide a Shield Block rate of about 30% and a Parry rate of about 30%. Since they're about equal, I can go pretend that they're a binomial distribution experiment: of two tests with a 30% of succeeding, what are the chances that exactly one of them will succeed?

It turned out that the answer to this was between 41 and 43%. Not enough to rely on, surely, but definitely a relatively happy number.

So, yes, PLDs will technically get less benefit per individual point of Parry than a WAR. However, the synergy with the Shield allows a PLD to mitigate attacks more often than a WAR despite performing the actual act of a Parry less often. In this Tier, we'll have shields that block between 32 and 33% of the time and a max Parry between 640-660(33% rate at 650). This pops the binomial results up to 44% or so.

My opinion is that Parry will finally begin to show its colors as something that the majority of Tanks might actually want if we can push the rate of Physical Mitigation past 50%. When we're statistically more likely to block/parry than not to, it'll start to matter more.

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Originally Posted by Synestra

If this is true then it explains why both ToP and FCoB gear are filled with parry.

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Yeah, I did find it rather unusual that the devs literally made it impossible to completely avoid Parry this tier, especially with respects to reaching the accuracy cap of a whopping 560. It really does give the impression that the devs want Tanks to have Parry. Perhaps they took offense to the "all STR go!" strategies people were employing. But... if that really were the case they should have made the bosses hit hard enough that stacking VIT was truly necessary instead.

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Originally Posted by SirTaint

Nael/twin like in respect to average iLvL at 2 weeks in?

Edit:
So I just watched the kill video. And it's like a Michael Bay movies. (Credit to Arthars). Those big attacks are all magical. The adds hit hard and BPs autos are no different then Naels when we were i95.

Parry won't be BiS this turn.

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Let's not jump the shark here quite yet. It could be possible that the attacks merely look magical but can still somehow be parried. After all, most bosses in this game save the magical damage for the party and mostly unload physical hits on the Tank(the big exceptions being the Ultima Weapon and Ramuh, who solely use magical attacks). Although, this is BP, so the chances probably aren't terribly high. We'll just have to wait, observe, and get brutally murdered until we can figure out what is Physical and what isn't :)