Parrying / Weapons

[DuaneDibbley]

erm yes a few changes need to be made to improve the shard lots me thinks.

Parrying;
1. Parrying should NOT parry magic, thats what Magic Resistance is for.
2. At Gm Parrying you should parry atleast 70-90% of the time with a order/chaos shield.
3. Parrying in general needs to be improved :)

Weapons;
1. Need to be improved in speed / damage
2. Bard/Spear/War Hammer/ Halberd etc all need to do less damage and be a bit slower, also if the apponent is gm parry with a shield, the apponent has a high chance of parrying there hits.

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take into concideration
the shard is very boring in weapon choice atm.

oh yes and also make archery whilst riding possibvle but make it slower and do less damage :)

[Clown]

If you are parrying 70-90% of the time fights will last 70-90% longer. Theres no reason for this. Also the reason u cant shoot while riding is because then nobody would ever go near anyone to fight and all normal weapons would become obsolete.

Parrying is good as it is.

[Underwaterman]

agreed, i think parry is fine as it is, if u could shoot on rides people would just run around dragons with bows and kill them, hthats not fun

[Phelan Sowulo]

Let add realism to this, If you are moving on a VERY bumpy horse, at quite some speed, how accurate do you think your archery will be? very poor. SO standing still would be a better option.

[spookeh]

i disagree with all of duane's points apart from the first one, u shouldnt be able to parry magic

if archery becomes possible while running, then it totally replaces all other skills. unless u make it really crap, like quarter damage and one arrow per 10 seconds

shard is boring in weapon choice yes, thats because bardiche is the best weapon. so people will use the best weapon.
is that a surprise? if we nerfed bardi, then halberd or something would be better, then everyone would use that.

people will always use the best weapon available, this should be obvious to you

spear is already too weak atm, compared to bardiche.
imo, spear / bard / war hammer should all do the same damage per minute, but spear = faster but weaker, hammer = slow but powerful etc
and same with the best 1 handed weapon from each type, eg vike / war fork / some kind of mace, but cos u can parry as well they should do about 60% damage of the 2 handed

[DuaneDibbley]

spear is strong enough the others should be made weaker, and one handed weapons will get more use.