Materia choices for Glad?

[Evaddaragon]

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... Wha... ? Maybe not when fighting Ifrit, but come on, I HAVE seen it when I was soloing mobs while leveling or fighting mobs in beastmen strongholds. I totally swear I have. >.> Gladiators CAN parry, but obviously, I've seen it far less often than blocking.

Altough I wouldn't put parry+ materia on my gear because of that. There are plenty of better options already stated by others I'd say.

I actually went for the following myself :

Weapon : VIT
Shield : HP + MP
Head : MND
Body : HP
Hands : HP
Waist : Enmity
Legs : STR + DEX
Feet : HP

[Stufoo]

... Wha... ? Gladiators CAN parry

No, it is impossible to parry if you have a shield equipped.

[Evaddaragon]

Well I beg to differ. I HAVE seen it. Granted, it was a "partial parry" last time I noticed, and it was when I was doing solo levequests, leveling my GLA in the 40s a few days after 1.20 went live. The chat log did say : "You partially parry the (monster)'s attack, taking (some) damage." I didn't negate it completely. Since then, in order to lighten my chat log and see more easily what my LS says, I've removed battle info from my chat log, seeing as I can easily see when I do a shield block, whereas I don't have anything parrying-related, so I don't bother.

Unless it was some weird bug ? But I know I've seen it and am not making it up.

I'm not trying to really start a debate though, because regardless if I'm right or not, I'm never, ever, putting any parry+ materia or considering parry+ stats on a piece of gear for GLA. There are plenty of other options that are of better use.

[Stufoo]

Well I beg to differ. I HAVE seen it.

Sorry for taking so long to get a response to you all about this. This isn't actually a bug, as with the changes made in patch 1.19, you can only focus on blocking when you have a shield equipped and will be unable to parry.

Also, partially doesn't mean anything in the combat logs. There's no such thing as a partial block or parry, though low block power shields can technically fail even when they do trigger, based on the monster level. "Partially" is just flavor text for when things don't do zero damage.