Parrying

Summary

• Players may parry melee attacks with shields as well as with two-handed weapons and martial manuals
• 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 equipped (meditation rate will still be affected by the shield's meditation penalty)
• 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

Shield Taunt

...Exact cooldown between taunt attempts with/without parrying skill need confimation...

• Players may now perform a Shield Taunt by double-clicking a shield they have equipped and targeting a creature (for Direct Taunt) or targeting themselves (Area Taunt)
• Players may also activate Shield Taunt by using the [Taunt command if they have a shield equipped

Directed Taunt

• Upon making a Directed Taunt towards a specific creature, a Parrying Skill check is made
• On a Parrying Skill check success, the player massively increases the target's aggression toward the player for 20 seconds
• The player will then have a 20 second cooldown before they can make another Taunt attempt. patch April 2,2020
• For the next 20 seconds, the player's equipped shield receives a 100% bonus to it's AR value when determining damage reduction
• On a Parrying Skill check failure, the player must wait 5 seconds before making another Taunt attempt. patch April 2,2020

Area Taunt

• Upon making a Area Taunt (by targeting themselves), a Parrying Skill check is made
• On a Parrying Skill check success, the player massively increases the aggression toward themselves for all creatures within 12 tiles for 10 seconds,
• The player will then have a 30 second cooldown before they can make another Taunt attempt
• For the next 10 seconds, the player's equipped shield receives a 100% bonus to it's AR value when determining damage reduction
• On a Parrying Skill check failure, the player must wait 15 seconds before making another Taunt attempt

Codex

Main article: Weapon and Shield Codex

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

Shield 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	Reduces Poison, Bleed, and Disease tick damage by 8% per rank
Stance	Testudo	Damage Resistance increased by 1.5% per rank for each creature currently aggroed onto player up to a maximum of 5 creatures
Stance	Mirror	Has a 2% per rank chance to reflect any spells cast onto player, and reduces Spell Damage taken by 4% 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	Has a 10% chance per rank to reduce any Poison, Bleed, or Disease tick Damage to 1

Training

Note that after about 0.5% of Skill gained, a monster will stop giving parry skill gain requiring you to get new ones.

Skill	Activity
0-50	Train from NPC
50-80	Passively when damage is dealt to the player while in the New Player Dungeon
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 but uncapped).