Why Avoid Parry?

[Rhais]

This is part of the reason there are less and less tanks and healers these days. SE needs to find a way to give DPS a 3-fold job to balance it out or remove DPS stances from tanks and healers and removing 1 item from each of those lists (which is honestly what I think SE needs to do).

If anything there are more tanks and healers, not less. Though if they removed tanks and healers ability to contribute dps I think you would see the amount of people playing them drop quite a bit.