Saber, I just want to say that I appreciate your efforts to get the parry system restored to its pre-patch state. It sucked that the system was bugged or broken in the first place. However I have to get credit where it is due. You guys listen to the community and got it fixed pretty quickly. I wasn’t expecting a fix this fast. Thank you. I very much appreciate your efforts to fix the problem.  

 As I do agree that it seems like we are the “playtest” for the patches, you all responded in more than timely matter and set things right. I think this boast well for the future of this game. Really, thanks you. 

Except it isn't in the pre-patch state.  

It's definitely better than it was at the start of 5.0, but it is definitely NOT where it was prior to 5.0.  

I am consistently missing parries that I easily hit prior to 5.0.  It seems the common factor is having to fast parry - it's like the response isn't there like it was.  The whip warrior is a perfect example.  I NEVER missed one of those parries prior to 5.0 - and now I will miss at least one in his flurry.

dataminers showed the developers LIED, 5.1 is NOT back to 4.5, they just increase the Fencing weapon bonus a little and hoped no one would find out