Quote Originally Posted by Ceodore View Post
But I do feel like I have put a nail in the coffin on some of the rather grandiose ideas that have been suggested thus far.
You really haven't, as far as I've seen.
You've only said that giving parry more value would pigeon-hole tanks into getting VIT accessories. The ones who support such ideas have come in saying they don't think that's a bad thing.
Your only response to that is that you think it is.

You only pointed out something that was pretty much common sense and taken by most as granted.
Most want parry not to be completely useless.
The ones that want parry to be an amazing mitigation stat want tanks to have a more defensive meta.

Really, all you presented was your opinion on the matter and talked about having to wear VIT accessories if parry got buffed as some kind of big revelation to the people who clearly want to be focused on defense (or pigeon-holed as you put it).
You didn't present any cold hard facts, you presented your feelings that you don't want to be pigeon-holed.
So feelings were there from the start, and there really is no right or wrong answers here except what players want enough in the end.

Personally, I want more variety in gearing. But I don't want it to come from switching between str and vit.
I'd rather if the tank meta was about defense, but it's more varied than it is.
If not with added tank stats that gives more interesting effects, at least with making crit and det affect mitigation and/or defensive cooldowns in some way.

At the very least, sacrificing for offense should be a more significant choice. Losing Parry should make a noticeable dent in survivability.
That might be an issue with fight designs (damage isn't consistent, just spikes at Tank Busters).