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The Parrying skill allows players to block **melee attacks** using shields, **two-handed weapons**, **wrestling weapons**, and **parry daggers**. Successfully parrying reduces incoming damage and mitigates stamina loss.

Mechanics

Players may parry melee attacks using:
- Shields
- Two-handed weapons
- Wrestling weapons
- Parry Daggers
Weapon parrying causes the weapon to take durability damage (similar to shields) but at a reduced rate.
Players with:
- 80 Magery and 80 Parrying can cast spells and meditate with a shield (meditation rate is still affected by the shield's meditation penalty).
- 80 Parrying and 80 Tactics or 80 Wrestling can use a Codex of Parrying.
Armor rating provided from shields is calculated as:

 (50% * Shield Base AR) + (50% * Shield Base AR * (Parrying Skill / 100))

Provides a (50% * (Effective Parry Skill / 100)) reduction to Stamina loss from taking damage.

Parrying Attacks

1. 1. Parrying Melee Attacks

Chance to parry a melee attack is:

 * (50% * (Parrying Skill / 100))

A successful parry:

 * Reduces melee damage by 75% from creatures or other players.
 * Reduces melee damage by only 50% when using a two-handed weapon.

1. 1. Parrying Spells

Players have a chance to parry incoming spells cast by creatures:

 * (25% * (Parrying Skill / 100))

A successful spell parry:

 * Reduces spell damage by 75%.

Spells cannot be parried in PvP.

Taunt

Players may use the Taunt ability by:

 * Typing [Taunt]
 * Shift-clicking themselves and selecting "Taunt"

Players can:

 * Target a specific creature for a Directed Taunt
 * Taunt all nearby creatures by selecting themselves or the ground

Taunt requires a Parry skill check and can only be attempted once every 15 seconds.

1. 1. Directed Taunt

Lasts for 15 seconds.
Drastically increases player aggro to the targeted creature.
Provides an Effective Armor Rating bonus of:

 * (25 * (Effective Parry Skill / 100)) against all creatures.

1. 1. Area Taunt

Lasts for 15 seconds.
Drastically increases player aggro to all nearby creatures.
Provides an Effective Armor Rating bonus of:

 * (25 * (Effective Parry Skill / 100)) against all creatures.

File:Shieldtaunt-direct1.gif

Codex

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

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	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	Reduces spell damage taken by 7% 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

After gaining approximately 0.5% skill, a monster will no longer provide skill gains, requiring a new training target.

Skill	Activity
0-50	Train from NPC
50-80	Gain passively when taking damage in the New Player Dungeon
80-100	Gather low-level creatures (e.g., graveyards or city pets) and allow them to attack you. Use a second character to attack with a training weapon (slower but uncapped skill gain).

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 [[Category:Skills]]
-==Summary==
+The '''Parrying''' skill allows players to block **melee attacks** using shields, **two-handed weapons**, **wrestling weapons**, and **parry daggers**. Successfully parrying reduces incoming damage and mitigates stamina loss.
-* Players may parry melee attacks with shields, two-handed weapons, wrestling weapons and [[Parry Dagger|parry daggers]].
+==Mechanics==
-* Weapon parrying will result in the weapon taking durability damage similar to shields, albeit at a reduced rate
+* Players may parry melee attacks using:
-* 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)
+** '''Shields'''
-* Players with 80 Parrying and 80 [[Tactics]] or 80 [[Wrestling]] can use a Codex of Parrying
+** '''Two-handed weapons'''
-* Armor rating provided from shields is (50% * Shield Base AR) + (50% * Shield Base AR * (Parrying Skill / 100))
+** '''Wrestling weapons'''
-* Provides a (50% * (Effective Parry Skill / 100)) reduction to Stamina losses that occur due to taking damage
+** '''[[Parry Dagger]]s'''
+* Weapon parrying causes the weapon to take '''durability damage''' (similar to shields) but at a '''reduced rate'''.
+* Players with:
+** '''80 [[Magery]]''' and '''80 Parrying''' can cast spells and meditate with a shield (meditation rate is still affected by the shield's meditation penalty).
+** '''80 Parrying''' and '''80 [[Tactics]]''' or '''80 [[Wrestling]]''' can use a '''Codex of Parrying'''.
+* Armor rating provided from shields is calculated as:
+  (50% * Shield Base AR) + (50% * Shield Base AR * (Parrying Skill / 100))
+* Provides a <code>(50% * (Effective Parry Skill / 100))</code> reduction to '''Stamina loss''' from taking damage.
-==Parrying Attacks==
+== '''Parrying Attacks''' ==
-===Parrying Melee Attacks===
+### '''Parrying Melee Attacks'''
-* Chance to parry a melee attack is (50% * (Parrying Skill / 100))
+* Chance to parry a melee attack is:
-* Successfully parrying an attack from another player or creature will reduce its damage by 75%
+  * <code>(50% * (Parrying Skill / 100))</code>
-* Successfully parrying an attack from another player, while wielding a two-handed weapon, will reduce its damage by only 50% however
+* A successful parry:
+  * '''Reduces melee damage by 75%''' from creatures or other players.
+  * '''Reduces melee damage by only 50%''' when using a '''two-handed weapon'''.
-===Parrying Spells===
+### '''Parrying Spells'''
-* Players have a (25% * (Parrying Skill / 100)) chance to parry a spell cast by a creature
+* Players have a chance to parry incoming spells cast by creatures:
-* Successfully parrying a spell from a creature will reduce its damage by 75%
+  * <code>(25% * (Parrying Skill / 100))</code>
-* You cannot parry spells in PVP
+* A successful spell parry:
+  * '''Reduces spell damage by 75%'''.
+* '''Spells cannot be parried in PvP.'''
+== '''Taunt''' ==
+* Players may use the '''Taunt''' ability by:
+  * Typing <code>[Taunt]</code>
+  * Shift-clicking themselves and selecting '''"Taunt"'''
+* Players can:
+  * '''Target a specific creature''' for a '''Directed Taunt'''
+  * '''Taunt all nearby creatures''' by selecting themselves or the ground
+* Taunt requires a '''Parry skill check''' and can only be attempted '''once every 15 seconds'''.
-==Taunt==
+### '''Directed Taunt'''
-* Players may attempt to Taunt by typing [Taunt or by shift-clicking themselves and selecting the "Taunt" entry
+* Lasts for '''15 seconds'''.
-* Players can elect to target a specific creature to taunt, or they may taunt all nearby creatures by selecting themselves or the ground
+* '''Drastically increases player aggro''' to the targeted creature.
-* If the player successfully passes a Parry skill check, they will perform a Taunt
+* Provides an '''Effective Armor Rating bonus''' of:
-* Players can only make one Taunt attempt every 15 seconds
+  * <code>(25 * (Effective Parry Skill / 100))</code> against all creatures.
-===Directed Taunt===
+### '''Area Taunt'''
-* Lasts for 15 seconds
+* Lasts for '''15 seconds'''.
-* Drastically increases player's Aggro to the targeted creature
+* '''Drastically increases player aggro''' to all nearby creatures.
-* Provides an Effective Armor Rating bonus of (25 * (Effective Parry Skill / 100)) against all creatures
+* Provides an '''Effective Armor Rating bonus''' of:
+  * <code>(25 * (Effective Parry Skill / 100))</code> 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
 [[File:shieldtaunt-direct1.gif|link=]]
+== '''Codex''' ==
-==Codex==
 {{Main|Weapon and Parry Codex}}
-* Players with 80 Parrying and 80 Tactics or 80 Wrestling can use a Codex of Parrying to further reduce damage taken.
+* Players with '''80 Parrying''' and '''80 Tactics''' or '''80 Wrestling''' can use a '''Codex of Parrying''' to further reduce damage taken.
 {{ShieldCodex}}
-==Training==
+== '''Training''' ==
-Note that after about 0.5% of Skill gained, a monster will stop giving parry skill gain requiring you to get new ones.
+* After gaining approximately '''0.5% skill''', a monster will no longer provide skill gains, requiring a new training target.
 {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
-! Skill
+! '''Skill'''
-! Activity
+! '''Activity'''
 |-
-| 0-50
+| '''0-50'''
 | [[Skills_%26_Stats#Trainable_Skills_from_NPCs|Train from NPC]]
 |-
-| 50-80
+| '''50-80'''
-| Passively when damage is dealt to the player while in the [[New Player Dungeon]]
+| Gain passively when taking damage in the [[New Player Dungeon]]
 |-
-| 80-100
+| '''80-100'''
-| Gather low level Creatures (graveyards or pets in cities for example) and let them hit you<br>Have another character hit you with a training weapon (much slower but uncapped).
+| Gather low-level creatures (e.g., graveyards or city pets) and allow them to attack you.<br>
+Use a second character to attack with a training weapon (slower but uncapped skill gain).
 |}