Parry

Parry
Parry Passive Gives a chance to parry enemy melee attacks.
Properties
Class	All
School	Physical
Cooldown	None

Targets of melee attacks can have a chance to parry each incoming frontal attack. A successful parry nullifies the attack (for the attacker it is like a miss) and reduces the swing timer of the defender. It is a passive ability which does not require any action to be used. Most melee classes get this ability — warriors at level 6, hunters and paladins at level 8,rogues at level 12, and Death Knights start with parry. Shamans have a 20 point Enhancement talent called [Spirit Weapons] which grants them the parry ability in addition to threat reduction on their attacks and spells.

Functionality

• If a character or mob has a parry chance, it's always active and can take effect on every incoming frontal melee attack.
• If applicable, the parry chance is added to the attackers attack table.
• Originally, the only stat which increased the chance to parry was defense (0.04% per point). However, with the addition of Death Knights, 25% of their strength is added as parry rating (it is important to note that a Death Knight's high parry rating is one of their mitigation mechanics.)
• Some classes can increase their chance to parry with talents (either direct or via defense).
• Similarly items can directly increase the chance to parry or indirectly via defense.
• Attacks from the rear cannot be parried. Mobs sometimes do so anyways - this can be due to a bug or because they turn very quickly in place.
• After a successful parry, the defender's swing timer is reduced (or even reset), resulting in an increased damage output (for details see Formulas:Parry). While tanks like to profit from this effect, melee damage dealers should attack from behind whenever possible, both to increase their own damage and to avoid causing unneeded damage to the tank through the enemy's parries.

Enhancements

Enchantments

Enchant Weapon - Blade Ward This item is not yet in Wowpedia. Contribute it using the Item Boilerplate. Look up in: ω þ Adamantite Weapon Chain Use: Attaches a chain to your weapon, reducing the duration of Disarm effects by 60% and increasing your Parry rating by 15. Does not stack with other similar effects. Attaching an adamantite weapon chain causes the item to become soulbound. Requires Level 21 Sell Price: 1 80

Gems

Mists of Pandaria Gems

Color	Name	Effect(s)
Red	[Flashing Serpent's Eye]	+20 Parry
	[Flashing Primordial Ruby]	+20 Parry
	[Flashing Pandarian Garnet]	+16 Parry
Orange	[Fine Vermilion Onyx]	+10 Parry	+10 Mastery
	[Splendid Vermilion Onyx]	+10 Parry	+5 PvP Resilience
	[Stalwart Vermilion Onyx]	+10 Parry	+10 Dodge
	[Fine Tiger Opal]	+8 Parry	+8 Mastery
	[Splendid Tiger Opal]	+8 Parry	+8 PvP Resilience
	[Stalwart Tiger Opal]	+8 Parry	+4 Dodge
Purple	[Defender's Imperial Amethyst]	+10 Parry	+8 Stamina
	[Retaliating Imperial Amethyst]	+10 Parry	+10 Critical Strike
	[Defender's Roguestone]	+8 Parry	+8 Stamina
	[Retaliating Roguestone]	+8 Parry	+6 Critical Strike
Cogwheel	[Flashing Tinker's Gear]	+38 Parry

Cataclysm Gems

Color	Name	Effect(s)
Red	[Flashing Queen's Garnet]	+20 Parry
	[Flashing Chimera's Eye]	+16 Parry
	[Flashing Inferno Ruby]	+16 Parry
	[Flashing Carnelian]	+12 Parry
Orange	[Fine Lava Coral]	+10 Parry	+10 Mastery
	[Stalwart Lava Coral]	+10 Parry	+10 Dodge
	[Splendid Lava Coral]	+10 Parry	+5 PvP Resilience
	[Fine Ember Topaz]	+8 Parry	+8 Mastery
	[Fine Hessonite]	+6 Parry	+6 Mastery
Purple	[Defender's Shadow Spinel]	+10 Parry	+8 Stamina
	[Retaliating Shadow Spinel]	+10 Parry	+10 Critical Strike
	[Defender's Demonseye]	+8 Parry	+4 Stamina
	[Retaliating Demonseye]	+8 Parry	+8 Critical Strike
	[Defender's Nightstone]	+6 Parry	+5 Stamina
	[Retaliating Nightstone]	+6 Parry	+6 Critical Strike

Northrend Gems

Color	Name	Effect(s)
Red	[Flashing Dragon's Eye]	+20 Parry
	[Flashing Cardinal Ruby]	+20 Parry
	[Flashing Scarlet Ruby]	+16 Parry
	[Flashing Bloodstone]	+12 Parry
Orange	[Stalwart Ametrine]	+10 Parry	+10 Dodge
	[Stalwart Monarch Topaz]	+8 Parry	+8 Dodge
	[Stalwart Huge Citrine]	+6 Parry	+6 Dodge
Purple	[Defender's Dreadstone]	+10 Parry	+8 Stamina
	[Defender's Twilight Opal]	+8 Parry	+6 Stamina
	[Defender's Shadow Crystal]	+6 Parry	+5 Stamina

Outland gems

Color	Name	Effect(s)
Red	[Flashing Crimson Spinel]	+20 Parry
	[Flashing Living Ruby]	+16 Parry
Orange	[Stalwart Fire Opal]	+5 Parry	+4 Dodge
	[Splendid Fire Opal]	+5 Parry	+4 PvP Resilience
Purple	[Defender's Tanzanite]	+5 Parry	+6 Stamina

Notes

Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street, the Lead System Designer, posted about the upcoming changes in Patch 3.2.0 on the official forums. It was in response to some carefully researched numbers showing how overall avoidance was being lowered, and disproportionately to various tank classes:

Re: Avoidance Change | 2009-07-13 20:50 |  Ghostcrawler

The main goal of the change was to make parry not so much less attractive than dodge as an avoidance stat. Since tank avoidance is so high already, we wanted to do that by nerfing dodge a little, not by buffing parry.

This hurts druids slightly more than other tanks, but the emphasis is on "slightly." This is not the big druid nerf that some forum posters have predicted. We will continue to evaluate tank survivability and threat generation based on PTR tests with " Patchwerk" to decide if druids need to be nerfed or DKs buffed or look at Prot warrior dps or anything else.

This is also not the big avoidance "come to Naaru" that some posters predicted. Overall, we think avoidance is too high and the game would work better with lower tank avoidance, but suddenly dropping everyone's avoidance by 20 or 30% would be a very big change with many ramifications for healing and gear among other things. It would also feel like a big nerf to the many players who didn't understand why it would be better for the game in the long term. But I still expect it is coming at some point.

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Patch changes

• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Parry Rating: The amount of parry rating required per percentage of parry has been reduced by 8%. This is before diminishing returns. Combined with other changes, this makes dodge rating and parry rating equally potent before diminishing returns apply. Parry still diminishes more quickly than dodge.
  
• Template:Patch 4.0.x/Cataclysm In Cataclysm, a successful parry will provide a 50% damage reduction on the strike you parry as well as the next one. It still essentially prevents one attack from hitting you, but ensures you are still hit by a full strike.

See also

• Combat
• Combat rating system
• Formulas:Parry