As a measure of how easy it is to counter, you'd notice that Riluo's original post doesn't raise damage as an issue. That's because it no longer works on him, and I've personally stopped trying (except to harass and hope it provokes a mistake).
No biggy, my main goal from the post was actually to give a breakdown of the numbers and the mechanic, and to demonstrate that it doesn't actually matter whether you take 50pct, 44pct, or 20-30pct. Because parry blocks entire blows, the damage it mi…
@Aarbrok : The context to the so called 'snark' is that I consider Draiman one of my better friends in this game. I'm sorry you felt the need to call me out. It do…
I'll also add that kai strike isn't hidden (in fact it is easier to detect which limb is targetted), or even unblockable damage. It's deferred damage. If you are waking up from it with a mangled break, you're not paying attention.
'Smart parry' just means conditional parrying. just like how you have a priority list for curing affs, you should work towards the same for limbs. E.g. if infernal seal is on, parry head.
@Aarbrok : if damage is your issue, what Trager said about parrying addresses it. Don't worry about 'smart parry' and that jazz just yet. I parry manually against K…
It is genius, yeah. The underlying point of raids has always been to see how many guards you can kill so you can cost the target money. I was impressed when I found out the statues weren't actually to make the guard numbers look slightly larger, but…
Yeah, I meant it metaphorically. I've done those too.
The flavour is very different from when someone is mouthing off, and then you walk in, guards beating on you, and you just walk up to the fella and beat him to pulp.