Hey, just wanted to ask if we could get a confirmation on whether or not this is happening? I sure hope it does, unless you want parry deprecated to a useless skill again which is what I thought 3.0 was supposed to address.

If it is, what kind of penalty will we take to effectiveness? Will skill-set placement determine the size of this penalty? Seems like it should, given how armor works. IMO, if it does go through, the penalty should be something reasonable that makes it worth using.

If not, is this the role of defending? How much does defending influence blocking? Does defending skill influence hindrance when armor x is more than 10% lower than evasion, or whatever arbitrary number the penalty starts at? Can we get some approximate numbers here? It's so hard to tell when the combat messaging gives almost no relevant information about close contests vs complete denials.

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>>Hey, just wanted to ask if we could get a confirmation on whether or not this is happening? I sure hope it does, unless you want parry deprecated to a useless skill again which is what I thought 3.0 was supposed to address.

Nope, I decided parry will remain completely and utterly useless. Try something else.

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>Nope, I decided parry will remain completely and utterly useless. Try something else.

Lets try a polite request:

Will Barbarians/Paladins still retain the ability to parry ranged weapons. And with the current combat plan, would you consider adding abilities/spells that would allow parrying arrows and/or spells?

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>The combat messaging does indicate how close you came to success on attacks and defense attempts. You barely dodge, you completely fail to dodge, etc. The ferocity of the attack messaging also changes depending on how skilled of an enemy you are fighting.

There might need to be some tweaking done on this messaging, still. It is messaging partial blocks and parries but is treating them like complete blocks and parries.

While I think parrying from missle range should be feasible. I don't think it should be in any way efficient.

>Nope, I decided parry will remain completely and utterly useless. Try something else.

Wow... I'd hate to ask anymore questions when trying to understand the changes of 3.0 if this is going to be the response.

> Considering how the original question was phrased, I cant really fault him for it.

Text is difficult to read emotions from. And I read Gorteous' question and it didn't seem in any way deserving of a response as it got.
I know I have a hard time putting my thoughts and such in text without someone else assuming that I'm being pissy or got an 'attitude' when I'm completely far from it.

He answered in a second post but the first post of the GM was completely uncalled for, IMO.

>>Text is difficult to read emotions from.

It goes both ways. I think your reading more into Kodius's post than is meant.


>>the first post of the GM was completely uncalled for, IMO.

Considering the attitude and demands that he's been dealing with on the forums for the past 2+ months I don't think anything was said that was out of line. Gort's one post may not of been excessively rude (but was rude IMO) but his posting style, and how he's been demanding of changes, I'm sure has weighed on Kodius's, and other GM's, patients.

You need to remember that the majority of the GM's are volunteers, and see little to none of the money you pay to play this game. If you (general) are rude or demanding to them, they have no real inclination to be nice to you. They may even decide that dealing with the few bad customers isn't worth their time, and stop coding.

>I think when you play a text game you're expected to be a little more cognizant of your approach to written communication.

About half of the IG players and 1/5th of the forums posters write like they failed 3rd grade math, let alone english. So I don't expect much any more.

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