There's no real reason to point out the lack of shield other than to note the use of parrying and dodging. There's no sense in telling everyone that as just a broad statement when Warrior already exists and has no shield. Warrior also doesn't have a focus on parry or dodging (especially the latter, unless you want to count Featherfoot) so it's weird that they would bring that up. Also, if we're going to call that quote irrelevant, then I don't know why you bothered to include that DRK will wield the power of darkness.

Anyway, regardless of DRK being parry focused or not (it doesn't really matter, we'll find out when the expansion drops and I wouldn't really put all my chips on DRK being parry focused either), the rest of my post still stands. Parry is garbage at the moment and the fact that tanks aren't stacking the tank stat MUST show that. If they're going to look into Skillspeed which at least has some merit, then they should definitely be looking into Parry, especially when they're going to bring it up as a focus for, if not just DRK, then WAR and DRK.