Parrying

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 reduction to Stamina loss from taking damage of:

 (50% * (Effective Parry Skill / 100)).

Parrying Attacks

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.

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.

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.

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.

Codex

Main article: 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.

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).