Parrying

Description

• The Parrying skill gives players a large chance to dramatically reduce the damage of incoming melee attacks and spells, while wielding either shields or two-handed weapons. Additionally, players can use Parrying to Taunt creatures, turning their aggression toward the taunting player (and away from allies).

Summary

• Players may parry melee attacks with shields, two-handed weapons, paired weapons (wrestling/dual wielding) and parry daggers.
• Weapon parrying will result in the weapon taking durability damage similar to shields, albeit at a reduced rate
• Players with both 80 Magery and 80 Parrying or greater may cast spells and meditate with a shield (meditation rate will still be affected by the shield's meditation penalty)
• Players with 80 Parrying and 80 Tactics or 80 Wrestling can use a Codex of Parrying
• Armor rating provided from shields is (50% * Shield Base AR) + (50% * Shield Base AR * (Parrying Skill / 100))
• Provides a (50% * (Effective Parry Skill / 100)) reduction to Stamina losses that occur due to taking damage

Parrying Attacks

Parrying Melee Attacks

• Chance to parry a melee attack is (50% * (Parrying Skill / 100))
• Successfully parrying an attack from another player or creature will reduce its damage by 75%
• Successfully parrying an attack from another player, while wielding a two-handed weapon, will reduce its damage by only 50% however

Parrying Spells

• Players have a (25% * (Parrying Skill / 100)) chance to parry a spell cast by a creature
• Successfully parrying a spell from a creature will reduce its damage by 75%
• You cannot parry spells in PVP

Taunt

• Players may attempt to Taunt by typing [Taunt or by shift-clicking themselves and selecting the "Taunt" entry
• Players can elect to target a specific creature to taunt, or they may taunt all nearby creatures by selecting themselves or the ground
• If the player successfully passes a Parry skill check, they will perform a Taunt
• Players can only make one Taunt attempt every 15 seconds

Directed Taunt

• Lasts for 15 seconds
• Drastically increases player's Aggro to the targeted creature
• Provides an Effective Armor Rating bonus of (25 * (Effective Parry Skill / 100)) against all creatures

Area Taunt

• Lasts for 15 seconds
• Drastically increases player's Aggro to all nearby creatures
• Provides an Effective Armor Rating bonus of (25 * (Effective Parry Skill / 100)) against all creatures

Weapon Setup Bonus

• Players will receive bonuses against creatures based on what "setup" they have for weapons/shields occupying their hands
• These bonuses will be listed as (Setup) in the [stats page
• These bonuses only apply to non blessed weapons/spell books

Type	Setup	Bonus
One-Handed (1H)	Melee with No Shield	+20% Accuracy
	Melee with Shield	+10% Accuracy, +10% Damage Resistance
	Ranged with No Shield	+20% Accuracy, +25% Melee Damage
	Ranged with Shield	+10% Accuracy, +25% Melee Damage, +10% Damage Resistance
	Spellbook with No Shield	+30% Meditation Rate
	Spellbook with Shield	+15% Meditation Rate, +10% Damage Resistance
Two-Handed (2H)	Melee	+25% Melee Damage
	Ranged	+50% Melee Damage
	Arcane Staff	+10% Arcane Mana recovery Chance
Paired (Pa)	Dual Wielding, Wrestling	+10 Attack Speed

Codex

• Players with 80 Parrying and 80 Tactics or 80 Wrestling can use a Codex of Parrying to further reduce damage taken.

Main article: Weapon and Parry Codex

Parry Codex Stances and Finishers
Type	Name	Description
Stance	Shield Bash	Increases Damage Resistance against player's combatant by 3% per rank and has a 4% per rank chance when hit by melee attack from combatant to Hinder them for 3 seconds
Stance	Warding	Increases Damage Resistance by 2% per rank and reduces Poison, Bleed, and Disease tick damage by 6% per rank
Stance	Testudo	Increases Damage Resistance by 3% per rank with bonus increased to 6% per rank if player is within front arc of target
Stance	Mirror	Increases Damage Resistance by 2% per rank and reduces Spell Damage taken by 6% per rank
Stance	Bulwark	Increases Damage Resistance by 5% per rank if player has been stationary for 3 seconds or more
Finisher	Last Stand	Has a 5% chance per rank to reduce any damage taken to 1
Finisher	Barrier	Damage Reduced by 1 per Rank (to a minimum of 1)

Training

Skill	Activity
0-50	Train from NPC
50-80	Passively when damage is dealt to the player while in the New Player Dungeon while a shield or two handed Weapon is equipped
80-100	Gather low level Creatures (graveyards or pets in cities for example) and let them hit you Have another character hit you with a training weapon (much slower).