Quote Originally Posted by Pizzaparty7 View Post
Regardless of how good or bad parry is, what else would you gear for? Speed requires more than you can realistically get to make a noticeable change. Crit is nicer on WAR to be sure but for PLD, base crit rate is so crap that you're gonna need a lot to see a big impact. Determination is good but takes a lot to add a little. Parry is 1) readily available on most tank gear and 2) itemized to a large amount of the accuracy pieces. Whether it is a meaningful form of mitigation isn't important, if your raid needs more damage, it shouldn't have to rely on the tanks to carry the dps check.
I'm pretty sure exactly zero people are suggesting that tanks should gear to help pass DPS checks, because that is silly. More that in the grand realm of theory, being able to gear your damage up to shave a reasonable amount of time (like 30 seconds) off a battle could be more mitigation than parry if it turns out parry really is as ineffective as has been suggested. Obviously the bad itemization in this game makes that unlikely anytime soon, but who knows!