Ramuh.Zaknafein said:
Asura.Yunalaysca said:
Ramuh.Zaknafein said:
Boxer's is usable by all jobs which is nice. Has 2 useful thf stats to it also.. sounds like the winner to me. Even if you take the eva vs eva skill at face value the +10 parrying seems to put it over the top.
as pointed out to me by birth, any mob that is worth a damn that you would actually benefit from parrying, parrying rate is floored to 5% no matter if your skill is capped or not.
Any links to some testing for the math on that?
There hasn't been any conclusive tests showing how much parry/shield(shield being somewhat an exception, since it's proc rate is much higher)/guarding increase per skill level, or how it's relative to enemy Lv. It's that minimal of a gain.
Even vs too weak mobs you won't see a fantastic parry rate, capped or not. Bump that up to Even Match or higher and parries are few and far between, +10 skill isn't going to change that in any noticeable way,
especially against enemies worth killing. 5% seems about right, enough to see it every so often, but not enough to be incredibly useful. It's nice when it happens, but I wouldn't forfeit +evasion in favor of +parrying if I wasn't already capped, and even then...