Quote Originally Posted by RhazeCain View Post
Regarding parry: How far are you willing to lower your defense in order to up offense? Personally, I like tanking the hardest content out there, so I keep a lot in parry. Switching to Crit/Det in some situations would be respectable.
You should not notice a significant difference when dropping parry, seeing as the only tank damage that "really matters" in this game are "tank-killer" moves from bosses like Mountain Buster, Death Sentence, Ravensbeak etc or a lot of rapid hits (boss+add at same time intended to be duo-tanked, mass dungeon pulls). "On average"-type mitigation like Parry doesn't really matter because good healers pre-heal and pre-healing is pretty much always done with the intent that you have to heal as if you weren't going to parry/block anyways.

Foregoing parry isn't really lowering your defense by much at all.