Parry: How would you improve it?

[Soraki-Muppe]

What I would do, pretty sure SE will not though.
For pld: make parry and block add to physical defense, war: make parry add to physical defense, drk: make parry add to magical defense. Then remove the proc relations from skills that demands a parry or block to be used and instead have them on a normal cooldown.
My reason for wanting parry to be a static value is simple, as long as it is rng I will refuse to use it. Even with a 40% change to be used, there is still a 60% change that it will not work when needed to.
As for the skills that increase parry, auto-parry or auto-block, make them reduce damage the same way. DRk, reduce damage by 10% for that time, WAR reduce damage by 20% from front and leave the side thing as is, PLD reduce one physical attack by 20 or 25%.

[keyburz]

I ran a test and took ss of chat, and counted it up, I will post ss as soon as i can figure this out. (its 33 ss, so I need to figure out how to make this an album)
Results were: Eating hq peperoncino brought me to 1045 parry. 219 parries out of 623 hits, which is about 35.15% Not as high as I thought with 40.

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this needs some pro ms paint skills

[Jpec07]

I ran a test and took ss of chat, and counted it up, I will post ss as soon as i can figure this out. (its 33 ss, so I need to figure out how to make this an album)
Results were: Eating hq peperoncino brought me to 1045 parry. 219 parries out of 623 hits, which is about 35.15% Not as high as I thought with 40.

this needs some pro ms paint skills

This shall be a fun project in coming weeks. Thanks!

[Launched]

I ran a test and took ss of chat, and counted it up, I will post ss as soon as i can figure this out. (its 33 ss, so I need to figure out how to make this an album)
Results were: Eating hq peperoncino brought me to 1045 parry. 219 parries out of 623 hits, which is about 35.15% Not as high as I thought with 40.

this needs some pro ms paint skills

Aren't 6th Legion Vanguards level 59? From what I remember in 2.x, you had a higher parry/block/dodge chance against things a lower level than you. No idea if that's what it's like in Heavensward, I haven't cared enough to check.

[keyburz]

it is done

[Yuni_Queen]

it is done

Parrying seems to be really high with 1000 parry. However, i am not sure, if this 35.15% is not same as base-parry-for-tank + Dark Dance (i am sorry for DRK POV, but i simply am too stupid to make counts with shield for PLD)(WAR has Raw Intuiton, so not sure, if they care lol); but surely maxed parry (i suppose you have full 230 set, or melded parry in all slots, otherwise ignore this part of sentence) has immpresive parry rate. 35% is not staggering, but surely worth improving rather than erasing this stat from the game. The less you have to change, the easier it is to control balance that will change.

35% constant chance for 20% mitigation is close to what we call reliability! :3

PS Your determination to make all this hard work is worth a tank achievment. "For the Parry-chan!".

[keyburz]

Parrying seems to be really high with 1000 parry.

Yes you are right actually. Actually I started running the test with 997 and was counting it for a couple hundred, and I noticed it was coming out less then 30%. Then I decided to eat the food and suddenly its was noticably higher throughout the test. Could be a fluke, could be some kind of glitch? Because my stats were pushed over 1k with food. I have noticed the same thing while slowly melding my gear. I push the stats past 1k and it magically parries a LOT more then it should normally receive from such a small bonus.

im missing body, axe, and the accessories are melded with str 5 and 4 parry4s, so realistically its as high as this will ever get. Overmelding the hat alone was so many tier 5 materias. Could get the 230 pants for like... 2 parry gain xD

[Yuni_Queen]

Could be a fluke, could be some kind of glitch?

I doubt glitch or bug, but i certainly would like to see SE answering this interesting question on next LIVE letter if possible.

If 1000 is a cross-line for a sudden jump in parrying, it may not be the fix, that is needed, but tanks melding parry a lot. Thou pushing 1000 would still require full parry melds, and i still don't want to have one-stat-meld meta.

[Jpec07]

The currently accepted theory is that Parry converts at 35 points to a percent, so 1000 points in Parry would convert to roughly +28.5% Parry rate. Natively, iirc, tanks have 5% Parry rate (don't quote me - might be 10%), so 1000 points in Parry should translate to a total of ~33.5% Parry.

I have speculated that Parry behaves similar to Accuracy (really, that all stats do), such that different encounters have different coefficients to affect their effectiveness--but unfortunately I lack the data to investigate or confirm. If this were the case, 1000 parry could be ~+40% against the Curator in Fractal Continuum, but could only represent ~+20% against A8S. Mind, this is completely speculation, so I have zero confirmation; all I can say is that such a function would not surprise me in the least.

[Shurrikhan]

The currently accepted theory is that Parry converts at 35 points to a percent, so 1000 points in Parry would convert to roughly +28.5% Parry rate. Natively, iirc, tanks have 5% Parry rate (don't quote me - might be 10%), so 1000 points in Parry should translate to a total of ~33.5% Parry.

I have speculated that Parry behaves similar to Accuracy (really, that all stats do), such that different encounters have different coefficients to affect their effectiveness--but unfortunately I lack the data to investigate or confirm. If this were the case, 1000 parry could be ~+40% against the Curator in Fractal Continuum, but could only represent ~+20% against A8S. Mind, this is completely speculation, so I have zero confirmation; all I can say is that such a function would not surprise me in the least.

If that's the case, 1000 parry is already giving an average of over 5% physical mitigation. That's nothing insignificant. It's just unreliable.