Please Remove or Repurpose Parry

[Ralvenom]

As a tank it doesn't really matter to me either way. They can keep the parry and I will just keep avoiding it as much as possible.

It's attitudes like this that show ignorance on what Parry actually does. "OH, NO! RNG! AVOID RNG!". /facepalm

[CGMidlander]

It's attitudes like this that show ignorance on what Parry actually does. "OH, NO! RNG! AVOID RNG!". /facepalm

Lol what?
Knowing how much parry sucks ATM, it'd be more ignorant to not avoid it.

It's random physical mitigation that no longer scales with STR, in a game where the only things likely to kill you are predictable tank busters and/or magical damage that you can't parry, that you will prep cooldowns for anyway.

The parry stat itself scales poorly and has a negative impact on your damage output because of how secondary stats are allocated in gear. (A piece that doesn't have parry will have crit/det/skspd instead, or accuracy, which allows for shifting of gear pieces elsewhere to hit a certain accuracy goal)

[Syzygian]

Lol what?
Knowing how much parry sucks ATM, it'd be more ignorant to not avoid it.

It's random physical mitigation that no longer scales with STR, in a game where the only things likely to kill you are predictable tank busters and/or magical damage that you can't parry, that you will prep cooldowns for anyway.

The parry stat itself scales poorly and has a negative impact on your damage output because of how secondary stats are allocated in gear. (A piece that doesn't have parry will have crit/det/skspd instead, or accuracy, which allows for shifting of gear pieces elsewhere to hit a certain accuracy goal)

TBs are indeed predictable and easily mitigated which is why i find this mentality hilarious. If you die to a tb you or your healers or both are bad and/or not paying attention. If you die to anything else it just sucks/was bad rng.

[Exodus_Kenpachi]

You should ALWAYS gear for what's best for the encounter, not just gearing for what's best for dps. Anyany who thinks gearing for what's best for dps "all day errday" BECAUSE EVERYONE DOES IT is dumb.

I don't think you understand the way parry works in FF14. Nor do I think you understand how tanking effectively works.

There is not a single encounter, primal, levi, or raid in FF14 where you would gear yourself for parry over DPS. Not. A. Single. One.

Any guide in which tells you to stack parry as a MT should be looked at with a grain of salt.

[Ralvenom]

I don't think you understand the way parry works in FF14. Nor do I think you understand how tanking effectively works.

There is not a single encounter, primal, levi, or raid in FF14 where you would gear yourself for parry over DPS. Not. A. Single. One.

Any guide in which tells you to stack parry as a MT should be looked at with a grain of salt.

When did I say you stacked it? Never. Quit putting words in my mouth, so to speak. And quit questioning guides that you clearly haven't read. All I said was, it is STILL useful, despite what the idiots say.

[FallenWings]

Lets leave the name calling back at the playground now. DPS is universally good (in 99% of cases) whereas having a better chance at being better at tanking a certain damage type is not usually worth the cost of the former. More DPS is better MT and OT.

[Syzygian]

I favor parry on my left side while using str/melded right side. Ive yet to suffer considerably lower numbers than other tanks i've raided with. DPS secondaries just aren't that great on tanks unless you're a war and have an ss quota to meet. I'll fully admit to my bias however as i main drk and get ogcd dps returns from parrying.

[Ralvenom]

I favor parry on my left side while using str/melded right side. Ive yet to suffer considerably lower numbers than other tanks i've raided with. DPS secondaries just aren't that great on tanks unless you're a war and have an ss quota to meet. I'll fully admit to my bias however as i main drk and get ogcd dps returns from parrying.

And it is worth noting that getting to that 530 SkS quota isn't terribly hard. /shrug

What they probably should do for all tanks is that parry should have a "riposte" mechanic, in that it does dmg to the enemy every time (say potency 40 or something) you parry. Also, they really need to redo how parry is gained. Right now, the only reason to really have parry is because it's on your BiS gear anyway.