Parrying

Summary

• Players may parry melee attacks with shields as well as with two-handed weapons
• Weapon parrying will result in the weapon taking durability damage similar to shields, albeit at a reduced rate
• Armor rating provided from shields is (50% * Shield Base AR) + (50% * Shield Base AR * (Parrying Skill / 100))
• 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)

Parrying Melee Attacks

• Chance to parry a melee attack is (50% * (Parrying Skill / 100))
• Successfully parrying an attack from a creature will reduces 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 reduces its damage by 75%

Shield Taunt

• 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
• Requires at least 80 Parrying to attempt Removed: Patch 26/27

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 their aggro towards that creature for 20 seconds
• The player will then have a 30 second cooldown before they can make another Taunt attempt
• 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 15 seconds before making another Taunt attempt

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 their aggro towards 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

Training

• Parrying is trained through combat, primarily with a Shield equipped
• Up to 50.0 skill can be trained by a NPC Battle Trainer
• Skill gains for Parrying up to 70.0 are accelerated in the New Player Dungeon
• Gain chance seems better with a creature but there seems to be a limit on how much Parrying you can gain from each creature
• There is no limit on gains sparring with another player
• 50-70 With a shield equipped let many creatures hit you in the New Player Dungeon. Kill them if you no longer gain from them
• 70-100:
  
  • Method One:
  • Head to a graveyard with minimal or secluded casting mobs
  • Round up as many zombies and skeletons as possible. Let them all hit you till you don't notice gains
  • Kill them and repeat as needed
  • Method Two:
  • Purchase Wooden Training weapon from any NPC Provisioner vendor
  • Equip the Wooden Training weapon on a 2nd account character and attack the character who is training Parrying
  • Then toggle War/Peace on the character training Parrying

Notes:

• If both characters are not in the same guild the attacker will be flagged a criminal
• You will need a way to heal the character training Parrying