Quote Originally Posted by Jpec07 View Post
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.
Some attacks look magical but are actually physical. Revelation in T12 comes to mind.

This is the only point I can kind of understand--but even so, wouldn't it still make sense for the MT to equip Parry to smooth incoming white damage? Especially when DPS is only an incidental goal of tanking, doesn't it make more sense for a Main Tank to do whatever is within their power to have the greatest chance at reducing incoming damage as possible? DPS secondaries are also not useful for period of outgoing damage where the boss cannot be attacked, while Parry is/might be.
I remember a thread awhile back posting the actual numbers for how much parry you had to stack to see a noticeable difference. It's ludicrously high. We're talking several hundred parry for a 5-6% change in overall mitigation. It's just not worth it.

Not trying to argue, just really trying to wrap my head around this, because it seems completely backwards to me.
Trust me, it's ass backwards to me too. I came to this game straight off tanking in a couple of other games, so I was fully VIT statted at first and had Acc/Parry on my Novus. At some point I became aware of the more aggressive tank meta and swapped up my gear, dropping a couple hundred Parry in favor of Crit/Det. I didn't say anything to my static's healers and they didn't notice a thing.