A new idea for parry that might be better.... ?

Jonathan, hear me out, I have an idea for parry. And parrying can give you a 3 second buff to do more damage (10%)?

Instead of bucklers giving you block chance have it give you a parry chance. And make it auto parry attacks, like you auto block hits. And have the block% passives in the tree give more parry chance. So, you run into a group of enemies, and you auto parry (like block chance) depending on your parry chance. I'm sure you can do a lot more with it, but it's an idea.

Here's my idea;

Add Support: Timely Defences


Parry/ Active Block can only be raised for a half second, and have a half second recovery.
Upon Parrying/ Active Blocking an enemy, they are Heavy Stunned at a lower effectiveness.
When Heavy Stunned by Parry, enemies have Exposed Weakness, amount scaling with the Evasion Rating on your Buckler.
When Heavy Stunned by Raise Shield, enemies have Armour Broken, scaling by the amount of Armour Rating on your Shield.

Stun recovery modifiers also affect Timely Defence Recovery.

Skill Effect Duration does not affect Timely Defences.

Parry and Active Block are unaffected by skill speed modifiers.

I just don't like the idea of holding down a button or pushing it at a specific time, id rather have it always active like block chance, and if you build into it you get a higher % and maybe even more of a damage boost, as long as you cant get to 100% like block, you wouldnt have 100% uptime but it could make a difference to your build getting more damage or maybe defenses if they make it work that way. (when you parry you get 5% more evasion for 3 seconds).

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DecalMan#3074 wrote:

I just don't like the idea of holding down a button or pushing it at a specific time, id rather have it always active like block chance, and if you build into it you get a higher % and maybe even more of a damage boost, as long as you cant get to 100% like block, you wouldnt have 100% uptime but it could make a difference to your build getting more damage or maybe defenses if they make it work that way. (when you parry you get 5% more evasion for 3 seconds).

I don't really see the point of adding another passive block when you can just use a shield with a spear, and the double accuracy one is bis unless you want to spend 40 div+ for a unique sceptre.

Parrying already debuffs the enemy for more attack damage btw.