Parry...

[ManaKeKz]

the ONLY argument you had for not taking parry was to mitigate damage through DPS.

No. There were 2 dominant arguments I've seen in this thread:

- Parry is unreliable mitigation. Especially with maximum values of way below 50%, it will likely not mitigate that one big hit when you need it to.
- Parry gain is very small. While 13 parry may be 1% parry chance, at 23% parry strength that is only ~1.8% statistical, unreliable mitigation per 100 points.

Neither of these two points apply to the 30 vit debate, it isn't unreliable and the effective gain is a lot higher. Unlike parry, vit actually increases your eHP and that is what you want to gear for, after all.

Edit: Many of the more frequent contributors like ZDamned and Casper have stated since the very beginning that dropping vit for DPS was never up for debate, only the secondary stats were being examined.