Quote Originally Posted by SeraviEdalborez View Post
If a parry or block made the difference, your healer is a goddamn robot.
A single parry, probably not. But many parries can add up, especially when the bulk of your healing is from HoTs or mitigation buffs rather than straight healing casts. Those little bits add up over time. You have to stop thinking about it as if a single parry/block matters, and think about parry/block as a "critical defend". You wouldn't criticize a DPS for stacking crit because "If you're relying on a single crit to make the kill, you're doing it wrong." or something along those lines. You'd say "Is that the best way to increase your DPS?"

I'm not saying parry's always absolutely the best secondary stat for tanks. I'm just saying that it's not as worthless as some people here are saying it is, and that there are times when it's significantly better than DPS stats (like, as I mentioned earlier, during big pulls in dungeons where there's zero benefit to increasing your DPS, and statistically, all the parries will add up to a significant amount of damage mitigated over a short period of time).