Too much skill speed on Fending armor

[Hundred]

The Parry hate is exaggerated. Parry's biggest weakness is the presence of magical damage which if I understood Yoshi correctly will only be more prevalent going forward.
Parry comes on defensive gear but acts as additional mitigation overtime. Probability works out that you can expect average mitigation of 1% mitigation for every 5% chance to parry. Ultimately maxing at 20% @ 100%.
The average mitigation is reliable, the 20% on a hit that you want isn't. Crit is the same way doesn't make the stat poor if it works out math wise.

My own avoidance of Parry is being unsure if 3.0 changed the rate which I assume it did and the presence of magical damage directly hitting its value.

[SirTaint]

All secondaries are in a bad spot right now. I rock 540 SS and its still too slow to matter.

Parry is HORRIBLE and should not be compared to crit.....crit is always in effect, parry is seldom. Crit is 50%+ damage that is always useful. Parry is 20% reduction that is seldom useful. (Regen tics for more then parry mitigates)

At this point in gearing you want ilvl on the left, and then gear for as little VIT as an encounter calls for on the right, fill the rest with STR.

[skyzong]

Equilibrium with berserk can heal you for absurd amounts of HP and without it still amazing.

I don't get it. Won't Equilibirum heal you for the same potency regardless if you have Berserk on or not? Am I missing something here?

[Launched]

There isn't enough skillspeed on tank gear.

I don't get it. Won't Equilibirum heal you for the same potency regardless if you have Berserk on or not? Am I missing something here?

Equilibrium is affected by attack power. STR gear and Berserk affect it. I get healed for around 3.5k in VIT gear, 4.5-5k in STR.

[Whiston]

There isn't enough skillspeed on tank gear.

Truth.
With the hive axe, I had to very selectively upgrade my other gear in order to maintain my berserk window.
I'd take more if it was available.

[skyzong]

Equilibrium is affected by attack power. STR gear and Berserk affect it. I get healed for around 3.5k in VIT gear, 4.5-5k in STR.

Oh wow, you're right. Tried it out and got healed for 7k. This is very good to know. You'd figured this is something they would add on the ability description.

[Ultimatecalibur]

One thing to remember is that we are only on week 5 of the expansion. We are barely off the baseline for level 60s.

4 new gear sets (PvP, Esoterics, Crafted and Alex Savage) are getting added in 3.05. We need to wait and see how those turn out before complaining to much about itemization.

[Faytte]

Actually something kind of interesting.

The more magic damage is scaled, the weaker paladins will be, which seems kind of sad because even by SE's wording, they do less damage than other tanks because of their great mitigation. But when so much damage is magical, your damage debuff, 1 equipment slot and 2 abilities are basically ignored. I can understand it if their damage was similar---but its not, and its noticible with their threat compared to other tanks.

[SirTaint]

Yeah PLD is in a bad place right now.

Offensively they are behind and defensively they are just on Par. If a mob has a major physical tank buster PLD would be a head but for this round of savage PLD is left wanting.

[Madepossible]

I love skillspeed <3 better than parry imo as OT!