If Parry Is Removed

[Alistaire]

One option would be to replace it with some balanced number of damage resist like this:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...m/dacdfdb4ea4/

Beef up those numbers and just lump em all together in one "damage taken" stat to cover physical and magical, and they might get used.

[TalentedTrack98]

I don't feel like they'd actually take out parry but instead buff it somehow.

But for the question I think one thing they could do is make reprisal dark artsable, as in make it so that reprisal is only able to be used under the influence of dark arts; that is if they still chose to even lock it behind something else. But in this situation they would need to increase the time it's on cooldown plus scrap its connection to dark dance or else you essentially give your dark knight a virus.

[Canadane]

One option would be to replace it with some balanced number of damage resist like this:

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...m/dacdfdb4ea4/

Beef up those numbers and just lump em all together in one "damage taken" stat to cover physical and magical, and they might get used.

There's already such a stat. Well two. Defense and M.Defense.

[Khalithar]

I posted this in the other threads about parry and I'll post it here to. I don't care what they do with it, either make it useful or get rid of it entirely. At this point I just want them to do SOMETHING with it.

[CookieMonsta]

Before everybody goes out on a limb, please check out this thread for some mathematics of Parry so you can make informed decisions
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...nce_data_dump/

IMO Parry needs to be changed, however, I'm leaning towards a quasi offensive stat where it gives you a chance to either reflect damage (which will be hard to code and balance) or some kind of counterattack similar to Vengeance.

[seekified]

Before everybody goes out on a limb, please check out this thread for some mathematics of Parry so you can make informed decisions
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...nce_data_dump/

IMO Parry needs to be changed, however, I'm leaning towards a quasi offensive stat where it gives you a chance to either reflect damage (which will be hard to code and balance) or some kind of counterattack similar to Vengeance.

Saw that thread last night, most interesting theorycrafting read I've had for a while. Very thorough confirmation of what everyone's been saying all along. I too would like to see parry used for an automatic counter or some mechanic common between all tanks that makes it useful. The established raid meta says that DPS is king and I don't see this changing (until perhaps 4.0-4.1 if they really wanted to), so for tanks to stop sighing in defeat every time they see a piece with parry, something else needs to happen.

[Ultimatecalibur]

The actual problem with the Parry stat is that it is competing with four other stats that increase outgoing damage (i.e. Acc/Crit/Det/SkS) when it only has a very minor influence on that number for only one job.

Increasing the chance of reducing a physical attack by 20% from ~10% to ~36% is actually pretty good. It is roughly a a 5.4% reduction in average damage taken from physical attacks, but few would trade a 9% increase in damage dealt for it.

If Parry was competing with defensive stats rather than offensive stats (say if each tank piece had Str, Vit, 2 of Acc/Det/Crit/SkS and 1 of Parry/Blunt Res/Pierce Res/Slash Res) then Parry might have a chance.

[Brannigan]

There's already such a stat. Well two. Defense and M.Defense.

Defense/M.Def is completely controlled by class and item level. You never choose to take more or less of it. Much like STR/VIT (except with STR materia on accessories), it might as well not even be listed on the item. If parry offered bonus constant mitigation you could choose to take it or not.

[Kotemon]

No, but
1. Parry will never <...snip...> parry magic attacks....

It bugs the hell out of me that we can Parry an explosion but we can't parry a large solid rock being thrown at us by a healer.

I honestly don't know the number formula. I'm always assuming its similar to XI skill formula. Where the actual number is like accuracy in relation to content. To low and you get almost nothing. While anything over the rate cap is a wasted stat. That one ability from Warrior may not even rely on the parry value. While adding a Reprisal reset or counter damage would make it more functional in 1 on 1 fights with Dark. It just adds to Paladin's issues with the stat where it has the least practical use. Unless it 's made to RNG-deal counter damage (likely never to happen).