Parry is useless. Can we change it?

[Nektulos-Tuor]

I thought they were aware of the fact that parry wasn't very good and they were going to buff it in the expansion. But they nerfed it!?!? (strength doesn't boost parry amount, which makes the parry stat weaker) And since they're apparently going to have more magic damage in raids, parry is even worse!

Parry is just such a bad stat right now.

• Point for point, the damage reduction is very weak, and it's completely random whether it does anything when you need it.
• It only works against physical attacks, it's completely useless vs. magic.
• It's completely useless if you're playing as an offtank where you're not getting hit much.

You probably can't do much about #3, but #1 & #2 should be addressed. Parry rating should increase the amount you can parry. With a greater focus on magic attacks, it needs to be useful against them. Change the stat name to something like "deflection" (or i don't know, whatever). This stat should increase your parry rating AND your magic resistance to all elements.

Then you'd have a stat that was at least useful. Right now it's junk.

I wouldn't mind it so much if FFXIV had a system to "reforge" stats into other stats.

Turning all this useless parry into critical hit rate for example.

Parry by itself is not useless, no one who has been tanking for a long time hasn't had their life saved by a lucky parry at one point, it's that the stat is pointless to invest it because it has very little evident effect on parry rate and parry itself is useless for any mitigation check in the game unless the rate is 100%. Mitigation checks are never total mitigation over time, which is the only way parry stat will have an effect you could plausibly observe, but in bursts so you can help the healer keep up. You can't have RNG mitigation for burst checks, you want a hard cooldown not a maybe it will work cooldown.

And having skills that proc off parry like Reprisal just make that skill inherit the flaw of rng mitigation. It otherwise might be a decent debuff to use before tank nukes but since you can't 100% control when it procs and can't even hold the proc for more than a few seconds it's turned into passive mitigation you pop whenever.

When I said Parry was useless, I never meant parries themselves. Base Parry and the 20% Parry Potency is fine. Just the stat itself, the base is fine without the stat - period.

Parry (the stat) is a bad piece of garbage that needs fixed/changed

Strength should affect both parry/parry potency...