Quote Originally Posted by ZDamned View Post
I did some testing in Turn 4 last night over and over and over again, and I found that with 620 Parry vs 504 Parry, I still took overall the same amount of damage.
Unless each of those fights lasted the exact same amount of time and you were being attacked by the exact same number of enemies each time for the exact same amount of time, looking at overall damage taken for the length of the fight isn't going to be an accurate judge of mitigation. Even DtPS isn't entirely reliable because there isn't a constant amount of pre-mitigation DPS due to variations in target uptime and number of attacks within a given run. If you want to get an accurate gauge, you need to get some controlled circumstances, like finding a nice big NPC to wail on you for 10 minutes while getting healed by a friend. Any other test is going to be questionable because the number of attacks thrown at you isn't controlled.