Quote Originally Posted by Donjo View Post
Actually, it could be argued that Parry is more beneficial for PLD than WAR when you combine it with your Shield properly. For example:

A 110/115 Kite Shield confers a block rate of approximately 30%.
600 Parry confers a parry rate of approximately 30%

It is known that an physical attack goes approximately like this: Attack! -> Check block -> If block fails, check parry -> Get hit.

Thus, PLDs are banking on the probability of either block or parry reducing the damage of an attack. If you can keep both of these rates equal, then the properties of a binomial distribution begin to apply. When both rates are at 30-31%, then your actual chance of at least one of them proccing is 40-42%. I certainly can't name a number, but there's a point where adding Parry for a PLD confers benefits beyond the shield. Once you hit it, each point of Parry is technically worth less but you're climbing to higher numbers than possible with just one.
So your 30% parry in that scenario is really amounting to 10-12% boost from having 0% parry and just shield blocking. No, PLD does not parry more than WAR. At absolute *best* it would parry exactly as much as WAR, and that's if you went pants-on-head retarded mode and didn't wear a shield.