Requesting Data for Parry RATE (not amount mitigated)

[Syzygian]

My position on Parry is always going to be a welcoming one during progression. Reprisal is too powerful of an ability to risk not having the highest uptime possible both for you and your raid (high Reprisal uptime is what closes the gap in passive mitigation between DRK and PLD, since DRK doesn't have a shield. An MT DRK should aim to be taking that -10% less damage at least 50% of the time). I would NEVER meld Parry, but I will take Parry pieces with the best of them as I gear up. Once you hit a hard enrage and/or DPS check then I start looking for pieces without Parry. I did this with my left side gear even back before 3.2 when I was wearing all STR/melds on my right side.

And to all the people that are going to... well... not agree with this, I have this to say: tank BiS is a myth. Yes you get a DPS BiS but that isn't until long after progression (unless you're filthy rich and were able to buy a full set of 220 crafted and meld it out this tier - the fact that that is even a thing is a can of worms that deserves its own thread, but I digress). A tank's job is not mitigation or DPS so much as adaptability. We are the most changeable job-type in the game gear-wise. There's a different gear set for every boss in every raid tier. Even Layla speced for Parry in T12. Parry on tank gear is far less offensive now given that we can easily meld DPS secondaries to those gear pieces.

The worst tank is the tank that is a one-trick pony.

***(This is from a DRK perspective and DRK has personal DPS, personal mitigation, and raid mitigation gains from Parry. For WAR, Parry well and truly is pretty darn useless. For tanks that are their de-facto group OT (not that there is a such thing in current content with all these swaps), its also pretty useless. And PLD has a shield which usurps Parry rolls. So take Parry's minute benefits with a grain of salt and no matter what gear you wear, always aim to hit your DPS ceiling within that gear set.)

THIS ALL HAVING BEEN SAID... Parry is still not a good stat, and the scaling revealed in this thread is pretty damning. It could be so much more than it is. But, that doesn't mean it isn't helpful when you're learning encounters and getting your ripe little tank cherry brutally popped by whatever hellish curbstomps/donkeypunches a given boss has in store for you.