I was struggling with this as well, and you can see it a few times in this other showcase.

I think my issue is less attack speed and more that the hitbox of Parry needs to be bigger.
I’m not super speedy on this character, but Pathfinder + Mobility support mean that i’m basically moving at normal walking speed - and that’s sadly enough to have enemies miss me a lot.

I think that a small to medium hitbox buff would already go a long way, at the very least as a Keystone with some downside like “reduced Parry debuff magnitude”.

(I’d also love Parry-related affixes or implicits on Bucklers for more AoE/range/debuff scaling/parry duration/etc., but that’s a different topic)

It’s in the lower left, but I agree. UI as a whole feels poorly implemented. I’ve always felt the UI was a bit scuffed in PoE as a whole, and that’s less to do with the physical positioning of things, and more to do with how it handles multiple interfaces on the screen.

The current implementation feels like the UI is baked-in screens on a case-by-case basis. Had the implementation been modular and layered like modern web design, it would give them flexibility to hotswap specific elements based on whatever conditions are met. This functionality of course does not need to allow player-level customization. The point is to make implementing and working with UI more streamlined so they can iterate on it easier and faster.

I was pretty happy with my build, but i specifically built around only occasionally interrupting Parry to Disengage for Frenzy Charges or throw a big Explosive Spear and let the ignited ground kill stuff in between.

The main trick was using weapon sets to swap between Parry and Damage/Burst setups. I was using Dance with Death before learning about the spear+sceptre trick for 25% more action speed, which made the swaps really quick and smooth.

In the end i had absurd damage if i bothered with a full setup; especially with scaling the Parried debuff duration and magnitude on bosses (~4s and 96% more attack damage taken iirc).

Poe.ninja if you’re curious: https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/NageIfar-2407/vaal/character/ParryTheTorch

Final gear is pretty bonkers, but i got to T15 as SSF with a pretty mediocre spear, no sceptre, no rage and no crit before switching to Trade league without much problems.

 

Oh also, the Glove rune for lucky crits is nuts if paired with Bifurcating crits, and can synergize well with the Critical Weakness Buckler for bossing.

Which is a shame because flipping around and bitch slapping monsters is fun. Just doesn’t boss well.

Huh, i was under impression that it’s the other way around: only parry bosses for that sweet 50-100% more damage taken (it also apparently hardcounters some boss moves like the infamous doryani butt laser), and don’t bother with the trash.

Playing Parry is is just a ton of learning atm, trying out which attacks are even parry-able and which mobs are especially dangerous.

It’s a surprising amount of attacks and abilities actually, but some really build up your bar (rares and bosses ofc, but also some white mob attacks), and some feel like they should be parry-able but aren’t (fuck Xesht man…).

Overall it’s nothing i would learn in Hardcore for sure - i died a lot while experimenting :D

Stun bar would at least give immediate and easy to spot feedback, and thus help with learning as well as surviving.

Swift Interruption is pretty neat; sadly the rest of the cluster isn’t great. Duration nodes are also really low numbers.

Honestly my biggest complaint about the skill tree. Outside of crit I feel like other theorycrafts i’m wasting 20-30 points to get something minor. Like trying bleed in 0.3 and I spent 37 points to get incise or whatever crap online…

How so? Are you referring to the Abasement notable?

I would love to make a CI Parry spellcaster character eventually, but i’m not sure if all of the puzzle pieces are there quite yet.

I’m actually fine with melee Parry range by default tbh, just need better ways to scale range and AoE on gear and support gems, and a hitbox change to reliably get monster attacks to actually connect.
Calyra’s should get an actual arcing lightning to show which enemies you actually parried though.

That’s the weird thing: I didn’t make a list (and it’s been a while), but i’m 99% sure that i occasionally was able to parry certain red attacks.

As for non-parry-able stuff, Xesht and a few other bosses are definitely the main offenders, though mainly because he doesn’t have any attacks that can be parried, not even a default attack.

Def does not feel like you are supposed to sit there and hold it up forever no matter what.

I think with my investment of two affixes, very solid Evasion + Deflection, half of my Pathfinder Acendancy and an entire weapon set dedicated to Stun threshold and Parry in general i think my playstyle is fairly ethical.

Especially since i still have to interrupt it to attack.

Oh yes, i assume it would be the same as life and mana bars right now.

I mostly agree with their reasoning for being careful with that tbh. But there are a few pain points that definitely need improvement.