Hey ya'll,

I am currently playing a high parry fighter, who gets his tail stomped alot. I think I found out some of the issue...even though I am equipped with two blades...I am only able to parry one attack from a monster. Does this sound right to you all?

I was able to test it today on two zombies in the boggs quest. Each zombie gets 1 attack per round. My character fights with two blades and should be able to parry each attack (providing that the parry score is high enough vs. the attack). It seem that the first attack from the zombie I am able to parry, the other simply rolls against my AC. Additionally, I am only able to rispote attack once per round.

Any of you have any insights to this skill?

Domare

I THINK this is how it is: Attacks in NWN are divided into three "waves" per round. If you have say 5 attacks, your attacks in one round will go 2/2/1. The problem with parry is that you can only parry one time per wave. This means you have at most three parry attempts per round. So if two people with one attack, swing at you in the same wave, you can only parry one. :/

You can parry as many attacks per round as you have attacks, only the trick is:

You can only parry a single opponent, namely the one you're fighting. If you fight several foes at a time, everyone that you are currently not facing will plainly ignore all your pathetic parry attempts.

Well, yeah you're supposed to parry as many times as you have attacks but if everything you're fighting attacks like 1/0/0, and your attacks go 1/1/1, you can still only parry once per round.

I think Dagam is close to the truth, I've had the same issue as you when I've done PvP in the past. Even though I have three atacks per round and mean to parry two one attack per round opponents, I only parry one of the foes.

In addition to Dagam's issue (WTG by the way):

When you do a Riposte attack, it counts as an actual attack, meaning that if you have two weapons, you can parry twice, or parry once and riposte once.

Totally broken.

This is how parry worked for me-

You can parry as many attacks you have, not every attack. So if you have 2 attacks and your enemy has three, you can only parry 2 maximum. The roll is their AB +1d20 vs your parry + 1d20. If you roll 10 higher than their roll, you get a riposte at your maximum AB. For example, if you have +10/+5 ab, you'll roll at +10 against their AC.

You also enable parry mode and begin parrying -everything- around you. So if two things attack with 2 attacks each, and you have 2 attacks, you'll parry both of their first attacks, then you'll be a sitting duck for the second attacks.