Parrying

Summary

• Players may parry melee attacks with shields as well as with two-handed weapons and wrestling weapons
• Weapon parrying will result in the weapon taking durability damage similar to shields, albeit at a reduced rate
• Players with both 80 Magery and 80 Parrying or greater may cast spells and meditate with a shield equipped (meditation rate will still be affected by the shield's meditation penalty)
• Players with 80 Parrying and 80 Tactics or 80 Wrestling can use a Codex of Parrying
• Armor rating provided from shields is (50% * Shield Base AR) + (50% * Shield Base AR * (Parrying Skill / 100))
• Provides a (50% * (Effective Parry Skill / 100)) reduction to Stamina losses that occur due to taking damage

Parrying Attacks

Parrying Melee Attacks

• Chance to parry a melee attack is (50% * (Parrying Skill / 100))
• Successfully parrying an attack from another player or creature will reduce its damage by 75%
• Successfully parrying an attack from another player, while wielding a two-handed weapon, will reduce its damage by only 50% however

Parrying Spells

• Players have a (25% * (Parrying Skill / 100)) chance to parry a spell cast by a creature
• Successfully parrying a spell from a creature will reduce its damage by 75%
• You cannot parry spells in PVP

Taunt

• Players may attempt to Taunt by typing [Taunt or by shift-clicking themselves and selecting the "Taunt" entry
• Players can elect to target a specific creature to taunt, or they may taunt all nearby creatures by selecting themselves or the ground
• If the player successfully passes a Parry skill check, they will perform a Taunt
• Players can only make one Taunt attempt every 15 seconds

Directed Taunt

• Lasts for 15 seconds
• Drastically increases player's 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's 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 Shield Codex

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

Shield 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	Has a 2% per rank chance to reflect any spells cast onto player, and reduces Spell Damage taken by 4% 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

Note that after about 0.5% of Skill gained, a monster will stop giving parry skill gain requiring you to get new ones.