Parry  

I have a Kobold I plan to make a Savage. Savages fight with hand to hand weapons. Can they parry when using hand to hand? I did not want to spend points on it if I could not use it. Thanks!

parry is very good as a secondary skill. However, I find the best way to prevent the enemy from hitting you is still to kill them fast.

Wardens get trainable Parry too!!! =)

2 handed weapons dobbels your chance of parry !

may i just ask ...what color was those 3 heros for you mate :D ??

I'm getting mixed answers on parry. One of my merc friends In the game says he got parry at 10. But the board(though the board can be wrong) says its at 17. Please assist. Oh and ZOIDS rocks all your faces!!!!

I'm play a merc. and when I first was able to train parry at level 17, I had saved up points for it. I raised it immediately to Parry 7.

Then I went hunting in Salisbury Plains. I started parrying all colors of creatures like mad! I was taken back. After about 10 minutes I started counting them. Within one hour's time of game play (not conitnual combat -- but close) I stopped counting at 60 parries. That averages to a parry every minute! In some battles I would parry orange mobs four times in a row. Mind you, this was at parry level 7.

So of course I pumped up my parry as high as I could on my next level. While I didn't seem to parry as much on higher mobs as I did in the Plains, I was still completely satisfied with the results. Currently I am at Season 27 with a parry score of 20. I can solo oranges since I parry about 1/3 of their attacks each combat. Blues and yellows are a joke for me as I hardly ever lose any health due to the amount of parries I do.

Parry does not seem to be as effective in RvR and a few have told me the rumor that Mythic screwed parry skill up in that it doesn't activate against combat style special moves. Can anyone confirm this?

In any event, I plan on raising my parry skill even more and will probably put some Realm Skill points in it as well. Parry is pretty much the only defense a merc. gets since they dual weild (no shield) and only get the paltry Evade I. I suggest that all mercs. invest heavily in parry if they wish to play more on the defensive side of things. You'll still dish out tons of damage!

Im a 10 armsman with sword, shield, and parry specs so i will be as defensive as possible also
solo is easy when you block and parry half the attacks. :)

Hi, i am a lvl 12 merc specing dw and slash. I probably have a really stupid question but i will ask anyways. How do i do combination moves? I have cross slash and bloodletter but i dont know how to use them correctly. One never follows the other. I also have twin cutter and orbitz but i still dont know how to combo them.

Im a lvl 9 merc and I still dont have parry. Is this a glitch or do we get it at a later lvl? Can someone help me wth this problem?

ok you all seem to have missed one point

the whole thing changes "IF" you are getting hit by more than 1 thing at the same time

also way back in beta 2 one of the devs said that your dex was in the formula

so you dont have the total formula

and it is not a strait % to miss it takes in to account the skill of the attacker and his dex too


also when your health drops it lowers your skills effect too

and they clearly said the closer to your lvl a skill gets the better it works and the lower the other guys skill the better it works

every time some one swings at you there are at least 6 formulas interacting with over 12 variables to decide if it hit and what damage it does if it did and even when you block perry mob#1 it will make mob #2 and #3 have a better shot at it

so none of the math on this page is even close

i know its a bit late but i read thru the posts and found a troll trying himself in maths. he assumed the following 'formulas'
Parry only--
Skills: Axe(50)
Parry(49)

Chance to Parry: 49 * .5 + 5 = 29.5%

Total defensive ability: 29.5%

--Shield Only--
This will give you the same 30% defensive ability as above, taking into account only blocking and not the effects of the Shield Styles.

--Shield + Parry--
Skills: Axe(50)
Parry(35)
Shield(35)

Chance to Parry: 35 * .5 + 5 = 22.5%
Chance to Block: 35 * .5 + 5 = 22.5%

Total defensive ability: 45%
this is wrong cause the possibility that either blocking or parrying occurs must be seen as two happenings and cant be counted together. The correct formula in terms of probability calculus must be:
1-0.775^2= chance of block (which is 39.2 % which doesnt differs really from the figure above)

Conclusion 1.Trolls cant calculate
2.Im dooing too much maths
3. Forget all the calcs, just enjoy the game