I feel exactly the same. Especially with the reduction in the effectiveness of parry strikethrough now I've dropped my parry cloak that I loved to run for the influence cloak. I loved the 3 pc Genesis for the 3% reduction and also was running full Dom for the reduction there. I swapped back to 3 merc/3 dom and 2 genesis - and noticed I was not being parried anymore than usual, and there was definitely no drop in my damage at all...lefze wrote: Very recently picked up my melee dok again, only thing I can say is that absolutely nothing seemes to have changed. WS is still simply too hard to stack to be worth it, and the loss in raw damage from strenght/increased parries on your attacks just seems like a gimp. Even dropped the use of BL cloak/jewel for the ws bonus, just doesn't feel worth it at all with the loss of strenght.
So after the changes, I think the only take away is that parry reduction is fairly pointless... WS is not able to be stacked to be relevant, and with the removal of CW - you have to throw in some points into disrupt now to not explode as BW's are stronger than ever and your M2 cleanse becomes a must use as in it is the only morale I ever use now... But yeah, was curious if anyone else noticed a difference with the parry strikethrough? all I can really tell is - get str over 700, play with someone who has an armor debuff (or don't play at all b/c our damage is a joke without it), and keep crit at or over 20% and your damage will basically be the same regardless of what you do lol...