Poetic (Ironworks) Gear

[TheodoreMcIntyre]

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I don't see how that makes it really useless.
Assuming that this is the correct order the stats are checked in, it doesn't make parry useless. It just increases the chance that you'll mitigate damage overall. (Ex; 10% chance to block + 5% chance to parry = 15% chance to mitigate damage)
The only real case for it being detrimental would be if Parry were checked first, resulting in less mitigation if parry rolls a success, but that would be silly game design and so I don't think SE did it that way.
I think most people agree that Parry's main obstacle as a stat isn't the order it's checked in, but rather its scaling.

As far as the Ironworks gear goes, I really like it. I like having Parry heavy gear, even if it doesn't make a /huge/ difference, I still do notice myself parrying more, and that makes me happy. And the rest of the secondary stats aren't awful either. Not too much skill speed/accuracy, unlike the whole unweathered noct set which had almost 4x the skill speed and a little too much accuracy for the time, I think. The augmented Ironworks set is alot better than the unweathered noct set, I think.