Parrying

	Combat Skills :: Anatomy | Archery | Fencing | Healing | Mace Fighting | Parrying | Resisting Spells | Swordsmanship | Tactics
	Classes :: Warrior :: Warrior | Updates Anatomy | Archery | Fencing | Healing | Mace Fighting | Parrying | Resisting Spells | Swordsmanship | Tactics

• [UOR] The chance to successfully parry a physical (melee or archery) attack and the amount of damage absorbed upon a successful parry will now depend on the type of shield the character is using and her parry skill. The AR rating of a shield will determine it’s effectiveness. Shields with low AR (such as a buckler) will increase your chance to successfully parry a melee attack but will only absorb a small amount of damage. Using a shield with high AR (such as heaters and chaos/order shields) will allow you to absorb more damage but will not successfully parry a melee attack as often. Your parrying skill will increase both your chance to parry and the damage absorbed.
• [UOR] As an example, a fighter with 100.0 parry using a buckler will successfully parry a physical attack approximately 86% of the time. However, the shield will only absorb about 10 points of damage her successful parry. By contrast, a chaos shield used by the same warrior will allow him to successfully parry a physical attack about 36% of time, absorbing approximately 48 points of damage. All other shields scale in between these two shields.
• The AR displayed in your status window is based upon your Parrying skill and the Base AR of the shield, as follows: ([Parrying × Base AR] ÷ 200) + 1.
• The maximum displayed value will not exceed half of the Base AR of the shield.
• All shields will reach their maximum before you GM your parrying.
• [Specific NPC Commands] Order and Chaos shields are only available to members of the appropriate guild. If you are a member, go to Castle British (Order) or Castle Blackthorne (Chaos) and ask a guard there for your “shield”. The shield will disappear if equipped by a character not in an Order/Chaos guild. Virtue guards will carry the appropriate shield.
• The following table displays the minimum parrying necessary to gain whatever AR bonus.

		A R  B o n u s
		AR	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
S h i e l d	Chaos	32	0.00	6.3	12.5	18.8	25.0	31.3	37.5	43.8	50.0	56.3	62.5	68.8	75.0	81.3	87.5	93.8
	Order	30	0.00	6.7	13.3	20.0	26.7	33.3	40.0	46.7	53.3	60.0	66.7	73.3	80.0	86.7	93.3
	Heater	23	0.00	8.7	17.4	26.1	34.8	43.5	52.2	60.9	69.6	78.3	87.0
	Kite, Metal	16	0.00	12.5	25.0	37.5	50.0	62.5	75.0	87.5
	Kite, Wooden	12	0.00	16.7	33.3	50.0	66.7	83.3
	Metal	11	0.00	18.2	36.4	54.5	72.7	90.9
	Bronze	10	0.00	20.0	40.0	60.0	80.0
	Wooden	8	0.00	25.0	50.0	75.0
	Buckler	7	0.00	28.6	57.1