Serious discussion: 3.2 Materia slots, Tanking, Parry and You

[Violette]

Accidentally deleted the post I just wrote, so I'll blaze through the math for you:

Current parry rate at 23% would give you a rough passive defense over unlimited attacks of 4.6% (0.23*0.2=0.46).
Increasing that to 29% parry gives you a rough passive defense over unlimited attacks of 5.8% (0.29*0.2=0.58).
That's an increase of 1.2% for 200 points of parry. (Against physical attacks only).

150 points of crit would give you roughly 22 points of strength (effectively) (almost 2 weapon damage, so difference of wpn damage of 2 ilvls on tanks. AKA HUGE) (Assuming crit is worth approx 0.153 of 1 str, 150*0.153=22.95)
More crit > bloodbath heal more, IB/SE returns more, Clemency/Equil heal bigger (assuming crit)
More det > same, but lesser (though more predictable)
More SS > More often, less effective for BB than others.

Tl;DR Crit/Det/SS give more to tanks defensively over time than parry.

Parry is trashtastic.

[Grux]

I think I somehow assumed the 6% increase in parry rate to be an overall mitigation.
Guess I was blinded by the large chunk of parry points we could add (153-204) to our current parry (750ish).

Thanks for the clarification.

[Alistaire]

Parry is trashtastic.

I think I heard a mic drop. /endthread

edit: oh, except the other major point I don't see mentioned: any big hit that matters, healers have to assume you're not gonna parry. A big hit parried is a big fat useless overcure.