Quote Originally Posted by Babzy View Post
This is definitely something that can happen. I think I was working around with stats on ariyala earlier and if strength still has at minimum a .8 weighting to vitality (sheer speculation and it could be higher or lower) than you will see Strength accessories in certain slots that are say... accuracy/parry fending pieces when you can't use anymore accuracy. That being said this entire possibility goes to shit if you drop strength to around the .5 vit = 1 STR (1:2) mark. at that point you could have nothing but the fully allotted vitality on the accessory and the strength still wouldn't be better due to stat weights.
It would be interesting if they added a Riposte mechanic of some kind - your next autoattack after successfully parrying an attack is given an additional 25-50 potency (maybe more). Giving it some DPS value would help greatly

It's too early to speculate on this, but I guess I just really hope they do something to make it better. A 30% chance at 20% mitigation when wearing full Parry gear means roughly 6% overall mitigation on physical attacks - and that's a drop in the bucket with how slow damage in FFXIV goes out.