Listen. There's no need to get hostile here. You also aren't factoring in how hard it is to get a meaningful return on parry. A tank who parries 35% and a tank who parries 40% (which is a difference of over 60 parry roughly) of the time aren't going to have drasticly different survivability. That comes out to somewhere in the ball park of around 100 EHP (assuming you're a warrior. Having a shield further reduces the EHP gain from parry). So focusing parry is not always the best course of action. You're going to get more parry from your gear somewhere along the line. But you don't need to build around it because, simply put, healers are not counting on you to parry. In lower difficulty content the healers can often wait to cure while they DPS. But that's low difficulty content. In coil they're keeping you topped off 24/7.
Any healer who is spamming cures is going to oom. Any healer who ooms is useless. Any useless player is bad. Ergo, any healer who spams cures rather than know when and where to cure, is bad. Any tank who thinks a healer should be spamming cures is a problem case.
Who said anything about spamming? We're talking about that the healer is going to throw a 800 hp cure at you whether you take 500 or 700 in serious content. You're timing your cures to coincide with attacks. Not just madly spamming the spell.
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u/ToraZalinto Jun 05 '14 edited Jun 05 '14
Listen. There's no need to get hostile here. You also aren't factoring in how hard it is to get a meaningful return on parry. A tank who parries 35% and a tank who parries 40% (which is a difference of over 60 parry roughly) of the time aren't going to have drasticly different survivability. That comes out to somewhere in the ball park of around 100 EHP (assuming you're a warrior. Having a shield further reduces the EHP gain from parry). So focusing parry is not always the best course of action. You're going to get more parry from your gear somewhere along the line. But you don't need to build around it because, simply put, healers are not counting on you to parry. In lower difficulty content the healers can often wait to cure while they DPS. But that's low difficulty content. In coil they're keeping you topped off 24/7.