My Pally just got Holy Warrior spell, so I decided to give it a go in the Young Brocket Deer area. When cast, I set my custom stance to Eva 100 Shi 100 Par 62 Att 0. The evasion gets checked first, followed by the shield, right? If both fail, shouldn't my parry pick up the remainder of the attack? I'm still getting hit saying that I "partially blocked the blow with my shield" or something along those lines. Shouldn't it be that I partially block it with my parry stick since that's my last line of defense at this point? Thanks-in-advance.


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>>Epoch: I set my custom stance to Eva 100 Shi 100 Par 62 Att 0. The evasion gets checked first, followed by the shield, right? If both fail, shouldn't my parry pick up the remainder of the attack? I'm still getting hit saying that I "partially blocked the blow with my shield" or something along those lines.

1. Evasion
2. Shield or Parry (whichever is more effective)
3. Shield or Parry (whichever is less effective)

The messaging can be deceptive, however.

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>>DR combat is set-up for two defenses, so the attack will contest evasion and then shield like you said. But it will ignore your parry.

This is incredibly not true. Shield/Parry just don't reduce the OF by much when compared to evasion, when they partially succeed.

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>>MartinCoty77: DR combat is set-up for two defenses, so the attack will contest evasion and then shield like you said. But it will ignore your parry.

If that were true, you wouldn't gain any parry experience, but:

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You are currently using 47% of your evasion skill.
You are currently using 100% of your shield block skill.
You are currently using 100% of your weapon parry skill.
You are attacking with 100% of your offensive skill.

* Driving in like an unbeatable force, a fledgling forest gryphon snaps its sharp beak at you. You partially block with a shield azure bearing a gryphon argent sajant.
The beak lands a brushing (0/23) strike to your abdomen.
[You're invigorated, energetic, incredibly balanced and in dominating position.]
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Learned: Heavy Plate, Light Edged, Multi Opponent, Parry Ability, Shield Usage, Evasion, Light Chain, Heavy Chain, Light Plate

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I do believe that's what happens, but as was mentioned earlier, you're only going to see a message for the defense that absorbs/deflects/avoids the majority of the blow.

Just for the sake of asking, you didn't have anything in your right hand during that time, even just occasionally?

~Katt

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A gestalt draugen swipes a hooked leonine claw at Silus. The claw lands a solid hit that cuts deeply into his groin!

The other suggestion, sort of unrelated to your original question, is make sure you use SR in addition to HoW. It's a pretty nice boost to defense in general.

~Katt

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A gestalt draugen swipes a hooked leonine claw at Silus. The claw lands a solid hit that cuts deeply into his groin!

<< am I missing something somewhere...how do you set stance to 100/100/47? thats 247 stance points...my 106th circ barb only has 190 stance points...just curious >>

Holy Warrior spell.

Sorry for the double post but for clarification, HoW gives 60 extra stance points.

~Katt

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I'm curious how that will work with Combat 3.0 when Parry gets to act as 60% Evasion against ranged attacks :P

Impenetrable wall much?

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>>Looks like they're not stancing attack down, either:

You're right, I was referring to the original poster, not Isharon. Sorry, my mistake.

~Katt

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A gestalt draugen swipes a hooked leonine claw at Silus. The claw lands a solid hit that cuts deeply into his groin!

LOL!! Consider it not noticed!


~Katt

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A gestalt draugen swipes a hooked leonine claw at Silus. The claw lands a solid hit that cuts deeply into his groin!