Tanking Mitigation (Passives)

[Rassiel]

First:

And Parry is the rate of when you parry and block is how much damage you'll parry.

Unless I misunderstood (Entirely likely at 2am CST) that's what it seems like you said here.

I'm not denying that "Parry" as a stat increases Parry rate, no where in my statements do I say this is not the case. I Do however point out there is otherways to increase that rating.

Once again, your Block Rating isn't solely determined by your shield type (It does affect it majorly) but Dexterity apparently affects both ratings as a pure statistic.

Let me clarify; listed in the Tooltip for Dexterity I noticed that it makes specific mention of Parry and Block rates being affected by its increase/decrease.

The point of this thread was to explore the possibility of why Dexterity which apparently contributes to both mitigation activation rates wasn't more prominent on armor and such.