Why Avoid Parry?

[fm_fenrir]

Not sure how accurate this is. I've seen parry come up on a number of magical attacks, and based on what I've seen from other posters, it seems to affect both physical AND magic. Evidence is purely anecdotal, though.

As far as I knew, you could only parry magical "auto" attacks, like ice sprite Blizzard casts. I'm also not sure that was confirmed, or if it still works in Heavensward--I tried to get some parries with Keen Flurry against a sprite, and didn't get a single parry out of a 6 minute encounter.

Anyway, stacking parry is bad because you could have determination or crit rate instead. Instead of a chance of 20% mitigation (massive nerf from 2.55), you can have a 100% mitigation by getting rid of the source.

[Jpec07]

Anyway, stacking parry is bad because you could have determination or crit rate instead. Instead of a chance of 20% mitigation (massive nerf from 2.55), you can have a 100% mitigation by getting rid of the source.

DPS is not viable mitigation unless the change in damage output from killing the mob sooner is greater than the damage that would be reduced by putting those stats into mitigation. It's not 100% mitigation, it's only the amount of damage that you shave off the end of the mob's life (and in my experience, tank DPS doesn't help with that in 99% of the encounters in this game). If 250 Parry mitigates .5%, but you killing it faster cuts out one auto attack that would account for .3% of the mob's damage output, Parry is the superior stat for tanking.

Now, if that autoattack would be more like 1%-2% of the total damage? Then okay, DPS stats are better.