Is parry a viable skill on this shard for PvM? Or PvP for that matter? Looking from advice from people that have used it or dropped it. Thanks
I'm using it right now, sort of testing it. I will say so far PvM it does give a noticeable bump to survival against non-Mage mobs. Downside is you lose the extra damage burst with two handed weapons. Still working on it, parry only at 75 right now, but I often go into fights solo against 2-4 monsters at a time and with 80 healing and 94 anatomy I'm am able to keep bandages up and not die. But my build may be different, and I'm quite new so others here prob have better info. But for me I'm testing parry and depending on how useful it is I will keep it or retrain to something else, maybe EI and MED to go with Margery
I will say against any magic heavy enemy like a lich it's better to go for DPS with two hands since they don't melee much. Any time I fight then I use two handed war hammer and can take them down quickly. I have to get into war of atrition with magic uses with shield and heal, with war hammer I take them down easy. If you're a tank agro taker in a group with people that know how to heal/mage heal they are the tits with parry cause you can survive a long time, especially against enemies that don't blast u relentlessly with magic. If shields of certain rarities could reflect or reduce magic damage then parry would be a very worthy skill
