Parry

Parrying is the epitome of badass. Parrying is when you deflect an enemy's blow with your own weapon, and is an incredibly useful skill to have. When a character parries, you can see them thrusting their own weapon at the opponent's in order to deflect it and save them the damage. Parrying has been used in many different games, and has been portrayed as incredibly badass in every single one. If you mess up a parry, you're going to get wrecked.

In order to fully understand how kickass parrying is, I will post a link to you that is a video from a different game, but does put emphasis on how incredibly radical you are if you've mastered the skill known as parrying.

Link in question: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ElsA0rSGqjc

For Shamans to be able to parry they have to put at least 21 points in Enhancement, and I don't think that's fair. I'm Elemental and it's not fun to walk around feeling like I'm not as badass as all the other Shaman. :(

Parrying also resets your weapon swing cooldown, making you hit almost instantly after you have parried someone's attack.

Edit: Reviewing this in hindsight, it appears Warhead is indeed right on his reply to this comment: It's not "almost instantly", as I put it, but it's a significant reduction in swing time. See his comment below mine for more information.

18.978102189781021897810218978102... parry rating is equal to 1% parry chance at level 70.