No one (with a brain and does math) is advocating absurd things like skipping big ilvl upgrades to avoid parry. Just as most reasonable people aren't advocating dropping literally thousands of HP to wear str accs to avoid parry and gain fractions of a % more damage. Don't paint it as if that's the case.

Parry is just the least desirable of any stat we can wear for all the tons of reasons already gone over 100 times on these boards. So people avoid it. Just like smn tried to avoid skill speed in 2.x like the plague. Yes it still does 'something' but it does SO MUCH LESS than the alternatives that you take an opportunity cost for every point of parry you have equipped. If you are ignoring ilvl or piling str accs at this point all to avoid parry, you don't understand how the game works very well. By the same token if you are seeking out parry thinking it makes you safer, then you also don't understand the game very well.

Simply trying to keep your acc and skillspeed levels while gathering the highest ilvl you can after a new patch as we are now leaves very, very little room for being picky. Once you have multiple options of max level gear, go crazy. But acc, SS, and ilvl upgrades come 1st. How you have multiple sets of gear when every piece you get should be replacing an old one at this phase makes no sense. If you want to get proto midas and crafted all melded out to have 'options' have at it. But every week you will throw both of them away when you get 230 or 240 gear. If you have multiple options your using lower ilvl gear and failing anyway at this point. More 230 and 240. Less quibbling over lolparry on filler 220 gear you wear for a week or 2 max.