Current parry has no immediate effect on how you mitigate damage. Nor you actively rely on it to make your life easier. It is inconsequential not to get parry even. Like what was said before, the only skill affected from Parry is Reprisal and it's not even close to break or make in most of the situations. Parry so bad you have Raw Intuition to get full Parry rate. Bulwark and Dark Dance don't even compare to Raw Intuition. And then you have Parry which is just too far from ideal. Saying Parry COULD have a noticable effect is just a stretch. You are welcomed to test again how reliable Parry is to save your ass every single time.