Quote Originally Posted by Brodek View Post
I've been reading some of the stuff posted, but I have a question, how much parry is too much? Right now i got 507 (still working on gear) but I dont know if there is a soft cap on parry for coil, since that and the Ex primals are the main high end raids
I do not think there is a soft cap on parry, as there doesn't seem to be a soft cap on any other stat. At 583 parry my parsed parry rate and the amount it says I parry for have continued to increase. The most available is near 620 or so I think, and I would assume it keeps giving returns.

Most people, including myself, have been told that parry rating only affects the amount of parries while strength determines how much you mitigate. Personal testing, however, has shown that increasing parry while strength remains the same has resulted in me parrying for more. At the base str of a i90 pld with 30 in vit and 583 parry rating, I mitigate 24% of damage.

Also, since the game has been shown to check parry before block, (ie it checks to see if you parry, if that check fails, then checks to block), I doubt a higher block rate shield would help much. As your gear improves your parry rate gets quite high. Accordingly, your combined parry + block mitigation rate is very high.