Parrying

The Parrying skill allows players to block melee attacks or PvM spells 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

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).