Quote Originally Posted by Syzygian View Post
Parry, like it or not, mitigates tens of thousands of damage in a fight with consistent physical damage, albeit unreliably. If your healers are overhealing all that... yeahhh.... =/
All incoming damage on the tank as well as on the raid are scripted in this game, this means that healers are preparing and pre-casting their heals depending on what damage are incoming. A tank parrying an attack means that RNG decided that he took 20% less damage than what he should have, but healers couldn't pre-emptively assume that the tank was gonna parry. So they prepare a heal considering that the tank doesn't parry, which ends up in overhealing because he took less damage than expected. It doesn't hurt, but it is useless. Parry is completely useless. It's just nice when it happens during "oh sh*t" moments where something went bad, or when you're a DRK and you get to apply Reprisal or a Low Blow procs. Still, it's not worth investing on it even for a DRK.