@jpec -

The biggest reason why parry suffers in this community also has to do with the ridiculous amount of it you need to equal 1% more parry. Why put 35 points into parry for an abysmal 1% growth, when you could add the same amount of CRIT to a PLD and get a growth of 5 in your main stat (for damage purposes)? While yes Parry is RNG based, it scales horrifically, and there are wiser ways to spend your limited number of slots.