In your opinion, how well will parry and riposte add balance to the professions that can use them?
obviously, melee, physical profs with the leaders being
Keeper
MA
Shade
With other melee profs having the option to expore these skills, but likely will not be able to master the skills like the three above:
Melee adventurer
Enforcer
Melee MP
Melee doctor
(SoFC crat? :P, piercing evil agent? :O )
There are many calls for keepers to have an adjustment to perks. Personally, I don't see that gaining these (new) skills will replace the need for perk changes for keepers, especially at TL2-5, however, I do see them as possibilities to reduce the amount of damage taken through a novel new method.
The question is, how effective will they be in mitigating damage?
In my opinion, these are supplementary actions, which the top three profs were originally designed for, and, therefore will only add incrementally to their defences, and in a meagre way to their offences.
In my opinion, they do NOT replace the need for subtle perk changes for keeper (condensing HM line, amalgamating AoR and Blessing).
Nor do they replace the obvious necessity of MA's to have properly balanced checks on Flower of life, UwoS, and a few other sought after changes for a more balanced profession.
I cannot speak for shade, although, by the sever lack of active TL5 shades, I would presume there is a significant lack of balance due to the obvious downfall of either offensive or defensive spirits.
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