Fellow warriors of light,

I'd like to bring back some discussion on a type of materia most unused - the yellow materia (elemental materias have seen more uses in SBing, so yeah).

So entertain me on this thought.

Historically, we know that the Bladedance was the worst melded materia into your accessories.
Why? Because the mitigation % was too low.
But was it because the mitigation % was too low compared to Crit / SS etc?
Or was it the case that there are only a few open slots for pentamelding parry into your accessories that made it not as worth as the other two?

As we know it, by 3.2 we will begin to meld substat materia slots on gears.
Well this opens up 17 materia slots in total.

So from a previous post: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...gated%29/page8

It would seem that:
1) Base parry is 10%
2) With tanking gears - you'll get around 12-13%

So parry rate is at 23%.

The consensus is that 35point of parry ~ 1% of parry.

With 17 slots open, we're looking at:
If we use Bladedance IV - 17*9 = 153 points. 153/35 ~ 4% additional parry.

With current gear, it brings us to 27%. 27% chance to reduce incoming damage by 20%.

If we use Bladedance V - 17*12 = 204 points. 204/35 ~ 5.82% additional parry.

With current gear, it brings us to close to 29%. 29% chance to reduce incoming damage by 20%.

Not a bad deal. Don't you think? Especially when combined with the additional health from vit gear (thanks to vit adding damage to tanks come 3.2).

With vit gears and perfect melded Bladedance, our effective mitigation will be substantial.

Am I right?