BBI Faithful and parry

[______________Kailyn]

Holy smokes!!!

I am a pistol adv (apprently a dying breed with the new melee adv loving that happened with the SOL Fires). Using BBI Faithfuls (the buffed pistol for adv's) I am now getting parried, I would guess 10-30% by all mobs. Worst was a pistol weild engineer mob parrying 50% of all my attacks, including 2 flings.


I never noticed fling being parried before and used to be able to count on it as damage on the mob. Not so any longer. I would say that parry rate is closer to 30%...but without logs (combat logs) to parse I can't give straight answers.

Can we please finally get BBIs on ranged init and dodge??

[_____________Borrace]

BUMP! HOW ABOUT AN ANSWER ON THIS?

[Jayde]

There are a number of threads about this on the Advent board...

BBI's still use Melee Init...no doubt about it. This is making an otherwise viable Advent pistol being about half its real value. Very unfortunate.

-Jayde

[80dsk01]

"Parry
A very useful skill for melee combat specialists, as it will enable them to prevent incoming attacks from melee and martial arts. The higher the skill, the higher the chance. Depends 50% on strength, 20% on agility, and 30% on sense."

hehe Funcom...
btw, I hope that gun don't use ammo 'cus what it looks like now you must be slapping the gun in their faces to make the mobs able to parry.

My guess is that the parry skills of the mobs was raised because of our loved MA crit buffs went self only, a nerf to make MAs do less damage wich hits other melee classes as well.