Quote Originally Posted by pilot View Post
I am well aware of the parry boost that came along with steadfast. Its not like we had parry materia back then either. What in the world was the numerical value of + parry from steafast? Plus six hundred? Plus three hundred percent? Come on, its not even close now. Parry trait with +8? Am i supposed to be looking forward to an additional +10 parry trait at level 62?

So you're not interested in a frontal cone AoE with a 10 second cool down that procs off of parry? Overpower is the AoE we're missing. Half of mauraders AoE capacity is based on parry! You dont add a second parry weaponskill and move provoke from gladiator to marauder and then tell me this low parry rate is working as intended.

I should not expect parry to take a dive like it has, Lienn. "It just sux now n that sux" is not what im trying to hear <_< lol

When sentinel was removed and shields block rate adjusted, every gladiator cried out in unison "WTF". Where are the marauders that give a damn?
Well, IMO it will be exactly like happened to GLA...they changed it and that's ir...not reverting it anymore. But here you will have less crying because the game is being tuned in a way where only ARC, GLA and mages will be needed. In a manaburn world there is no space for the dude with foam axe.

Also, it's not like overpower would make any difference in the current class setup...you have the parry action meant to be used against clusters of mobs, but you don't have the way to lure them to the cone AoE anymore. I think most of people actually is waiting right now because WAR is right around the corner and they promissed some additional balancing somewhere between 1.21 and 1.22 for both jobs and classes...maybe they have something planned for WAR regarding parry since, unless the new WS have 3000 TP (probably will.../facepalm) it can take the empty spot left by storm path.

IMO we should just wait 1.21 for now. Maybe the parry rate drop was planned exactly because was balanced based on features that aren't ingame still, like AFs and jub-specific traits.