Can we get an official explanation on what parrying is?

[Wind-Krysvein]

As for Tenacity doing nothing...I must admit I don't do any raiding so Materia slotting is an afterthought to me cause it's just all extra but I take far less damage when I slotted as Tenacity as my priority stat (Cause I know nothing of materia and just wanted something) I've noticed not only do I take less damage...but my regen or even clemency if I use it on someone else is pretty much a Benediction.

People did the number crunching for it, and the difference in damage reduced and HP healed was definitely not that astronomical. I'm obviously not calling you a liar or anything, but whatever's boosting those numbers for you definitely isn't Tenacity.

...unless they've boosted the stat at the release of Endwalker. Haven't heard anything about that sort of thing happening, but who knows?

[Renalt]

...unless they've boosted the stat at the release of Endwalker. Haven't heard anything about that sort of thing happening, but who knows?

That could very well be it. I've never had the need to use materia before and I got bored and had a ton of crystals to turn into materia so I was like..."Eh time to see what materia is about" and I was on my tank and saw what Tenacity did so I was like "Neat...Load me up". I noticed a big difference. However this was after 6.1 so maybe there was a boost.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

Are these numbers accurate for people? Cause on my PLD when I Parry it's for 19% blocked. As for Tenacity doing nothing...I must admit I don't do any raiding so Materia slotting is an afterthought to me cause it's just all extra but I take far less damage when I slotted as Tenacity as my priority stat (Cause I know nothing of materia and just wanted something) I've noticed not only do I take less damage...but my regen or even clemency if I use it on someone else is pretty much a Benediction.

https://www.akhmorning.com/allagan-s...ity-stat-tiers

Even if you min-maxxed as much TEN as possible and got up to like, 2500 ish TEN, it'd still only be 12% damage reduction (keep in mind though, it'd be closer to 10% effective mitigation over using other stats, since the BiS that minimizes TEN still gets about 1.8% mitigation from the TEN it does get), and do about 1.1% more healing with Clemency. What you're likely seeing is noticing when Clemency crits, which heals a huge amount to a non-tank. Especially if a healer happens to be healing the same target in the same moment, it'd look like a benediction. I'm also pretty sure TEN has zero effect on the healing incurred by the regen on Holy Shelltron/Intervention, since those are not technically counted as 'outgoing healing' which TEN affects. I could be wrong though.

Now that being said, 10% isn't nothing to snuff at. That's effectively the equivalent of 2/3 a parry on every attack, with the bonus of it effecting magic as well as physical damage. But while strong, it's not carrying a tank if they never use their CDs or suck at using their healing tools.

Which is ultimately the problem with TEN - the damage mitigation is never needed even on week 1 savage or in Ultimates, and its offensive capacities are weaker than even DET, meaning it fails on both its purposes, resulting in its 'avoid like the plauge' pit it dwells in right now.

[Renalt]

AH you are indeed right about that. Dunno how I mixed that up.

[KageTokage]

I think parry has an additional caveat that you can't do it while casting, which also used to apply to blocking until the devs realized that didn't mesh with the magical part of PLD's rotation (At least prior to them gaining the passive that makes their spells have no cast time).

[Maltothoris]

Indeed, the issue with TEN is the same as PIE. They are literally sandbags that you want to avoid as much as possible.

[Wolwosh]

I remember the days you could meld parry. Nobody did

[Lunalepsy]

There is literally nothing in game or on Google that isn't about the thing removed in 4.0 besides a Reddit thread that vaguely explains it along with PLD Block. And THAT is just that you randomly have a chance to block physical damage...

But for those that are curious and don't actually know... (because recently I told someone who started playing in HEAVENSWARD about it for the first time who never noticed it, and I started playing in Shadowbringers!)

All classes can parry and have the same rate of doing it (20% chance), it lowers the damage of any random physical attack by 15%. Why is this never explained anywhere in the game or on any official websites?

It's a legacy stat that has become meaningless.

[Canadane]

Parry had an ingame description back when it was a stat you could affect.

[SentioftheHoukai]

How about nothing? It's literally nothing. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Oblivion. Zero-Sum. Cessation.