DEX with War

[Ysarel]

You are demanding irrelevant information to irrelevant certainty.

No, I'm demanding that you provide adequate support for your assertions. If you are going to claim that every point of DEX is beneficial for a tank, you should be able to back that up. You have thus far failed to do so, instead making claims that have less to do with the data presented than your own wishful thinking and lack of knowledge of statistics.

I doubt anyone here would dispute the notion that parry rate is directly proportional to DEX and the parry stat. But did Ninjiitsu's parsed parry rate not decrease in one test when he increased his DEX by 27 and his parry by 16? Was his parry rate not virtually identical (+0.2%) to the first test in a third test wherein he increased his parry stat by a further 30 points? There are similar instances of results running counter to expectations in Hulan's data, where in several instances lowering block rate without varying DEX or parry also exhibited a decrease in parry rate where one would expect either an increase (if block is checked first; if memory serves someone confirmed this but I'd have to dig it up again) or no change (if parry is checked first). Should we draw some bizarre, convoluted conclusion from this data? Of course not. The cause is nothing more than low sample size.

EDIT: Before you attempt to twist my words around, I take no position as to whether the effects of DEX are tiered or not. I claim only an absence of sufficient information to draw a conclusion regarding this question.