I agree, the Block and Parry are intended for us to use to help mitigate damage and I hope that is still the case. I am merely staying out of inexperience in the FCoBs that the mechanics should still work and was relating my before absence parse data. if the new tiers differ in mechanic mitigation, then it would be news to me. As I see it, the later tiers are obviously more difficult and having BiS gear towards Block/Parry would probably give you the best results.

Again, I do not have any figures in front of me, but I do intend to measure my efforts and report them back with what I find.

Thank you for the tier by tier move sets that are most notable.