Parrying

Description

The Parrying skill gives players a large chance to dramatically reduce the damage of incoming melee attacks and spells, while wielding either shields or two-handed weapons. Additionally, players can use Parrying to Taunt creatures, turning their aggression toward the taunting player (and away from allies).

Players may parry melee attacks with shields, two-handed weapons, paired weapons (wrestling/dual wielding) and parry daggers.
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 (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

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

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

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

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

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

Players will receive bonuses against creatures based on what "setup" they have for weapons/shields occupying their hands
These bonuses will be listed as (Setup) in the [stats page
These bonuses only apply to non blessed weapons/spell books

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

Skill	Activity
0-50	Train from NPC
50-80	Passively when damage is dealt to the player while in the New Player Dungeon while a shield or two handed Weapon is equipped
80-100	Gather low level Creatures (graveyards or pets in cities for example) and let them hit you Have another character hit you with a training weapon (much slower).