Parry: How would you improve it?

[Violette]

Interesting that you should say that. WAR actually does have access to such a skill as a cross-class: Haymaker. It just doesn't get used because it's linked to a dodge proc (and most tanks tend to trust dodge even less than they do parry), and because it remained on GCD even after Shield Swipe was switched over to oGCD.

It would be interesting to see what happened if they made it oGCD in keeping with Shield Swipe. Featherfoot doesn't boost evasion as much as DA DD, but it has an interesting synergy with Haymaker, and there seems to be a broader selection of attacks that you can actually dodge after Heavensward. This is something that you could potentially even implement in this expansion series with a few tweaks.

........So they don't have access to a parry-driven proc.
While Haymaker on a Dark Knight could be usable, on warrior it's got no place compared to provoke/conv/awareness/internal release and flash/second wind. Dodge itself is not a rewarding defensive statistic, unless it's possible to be stacked past 50% (aka where it becomes comfortable), at which point it plain outstrips every other stat. And Shield Swipe is a gcd.

So yeah, not really. As Gray said, passive defensive is pretty boring to play with (hello 1.0 paladin), so adding ANOTHER ONE to the mix to depend on will exacerbate the issue.