Paladin's stake skill

[Faelon]

Now I am confused, I had it in my head that wisdom helped shield block.

[Slade]

Parry: Str/Wis
Dodge: Dex/Int
Shield Block: Con/Wis
Set Parry: 2h. switched over to dex I thought
Counterbalance: 1h
Riposte: 2h, overbear, type adv, reflex
Blur: Int
(Un)Holy Armor: Weight
Protection: Cross Align

[crazyhorse]

The hell do you read THAT helpfile, and where can I get it? I really dont like how information like that is so hard to obtain.

[Master]

The only time I've seen the stats for Parry, Dodge, or Shield Block is in the Combat section of the website.

[Mandor]

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[Ergorion]

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[crazyhorse]

Mandor, if you get hobbled and immediately flee, you will get away every time.

[Mandor]

in my experience, nope.

[Olyn]

[crazyhorse]

Your experience is stupid.

Lol, I keed I keed, I joke I joke.

This is the case. Period. Same with dirt kick flee lag. Hobble isnt there to be a kill all end all.

I "KNOW" that this is the case. Your experience is flawed in some way.

[Faelon]

Have to agree with my brother here. Don't know why you have been gimped by it, but you aren't fleeing fast enough. Do you spam commands? Lag yourself out before they hobble? Best time to hobble is right after they lag themselves for a round and a half, so they can't flee out RIGHT after, because they will get away, stumble or not.

[Davairus]

Meh.. you guys are dumb sometimes. I would post the code for parry if I thought you would bother reading it.

Lets review parry.

1. weapon types

These fall into offensive and defensive categories, and mainhand and offhand. A whip would be greatly difficult for your victim to parry, but would be pretty difficult for you to parry with. A dagger would be more effective in the off-hand, for both offense and defense. The weapon you choose determines the pace of the fight. Its important to take this into account when you meet a different class.

There is a table posted somewhere.

2. weapon advantages

This is simple - blade/shaft/segment, like rock paper scissors, with weapon ward to prevent the whole thing from troubling you. This means a mage with a mace and a weapon ward is doing good on parry.

3. foreign weapon types

This is your penalty for not learning a weapon. If you can't learn dagger at your trainer, then people with daggers effectively get a weapon advantage worth of offense for attacking you with one. This stacks with #2. If I recall right, its also blocked by weapon wards, making it very important to keep this up all the time vs warriors, and also very useful to do so. That would have to be tested out by you guys, since I can't recall offhand and don't intend to look into it, so have fun.

4. strength

The strength works both ways. A higher strength means being able to parry better and being effective against the parry defense, in the same way as hitroll. High strength fighters are therefore a clear problem for mages.

5. hitroll

Hitroll lowers the enemy chance of parrying your attacks.

6. Wisdom

This boosts your own parry only. While this is obviously not as effective as strength, you might want to keep in mind that a gnome has a 25 wis, making his parry pretty super.

examples:
Gnome mages are the best "tank" of the mages, because of this. Lots of hp and a big parry. An elf ranger may not have lots of hp, but he would have good avoidance because of his big int/wis, and a lot of other benefits from 24 dex. A halfling ranger doesn't really look as good vs physical damage but has the resist. The half-elf stats lend themselves well to tanking but offensively they suck. Keep that in mind.

[Mandor]

23 dex, dav. 24 is drows.