Make parry more useful

[Freyyy]

A good way to encourage use of parry would be for a successful parry (by a tank in tank stance) should make the attack that follows it cost 0 TP. This has the dual benefit of helping TP management without altering other skills, work the same for all tanks and doesn't alter the balance of the tanks. Alternately let parry grant a 0 TP attack cost on success for all DoW classes and jobs. Tanks who stack Parry have a higher parry rate and so see a greater benefit, as they should.

The thing is that WAR and DRK already don't need any help TP-wise right now, and PLD can only run out if there is no downtime during the fight (which is rare). So it would still be useless compared to crit and det, and I'd also add that with the same number in the parry stat, a PLD will parry less than a DRK or a WAR because of the block getting the priority over it. So there really would be no point.

If they want to make parry really useful, they'd have to make it benefit the tank even when not tanking since most of the end-game fights revolve around both tanks alternating between MT and OT and having at least one tank spending a large amount of time not actively tanking. Which would really be difficult if they still want to name it "parry". Det and crit benefits all tanks 100% of the time, if parry stays a purely "MT" stat it would only benefit one tank 50% of the time at most. See the pattern here ? They need to completely revamp and rename the stat for it to make sense. They also could make it a quite potent "counter-attack" kindof stat to make it worth stacking over crit and det and add a mechanic tied to the stances of the tank which would do like Cleric stance does: when in SwO/Deliverance/Gritless, parry converts into Det or Crit, or 50/50. That way, a tank which isn't tanking would get more det/crit from its parry stat being converted, and while tanking it would either be in tanking stance and benefit from the counter-attack thingy, or be tanking out of tanking stance with the same det/crit boost as the OT, so the stat would be useful 100% of the time.