Can you parry with another weapon than the daggers?

[bitmapkid]

I just tried the 2-handed axe and it doesn't seem like I can parry anymore. What am I missing?

[null]

IIRC shields can parry too (Hold RMB and click LMB at the moment of attack), but I haven't used it for a while, so Idk if it's just as reliable in cancelling damage. I mean that daggers can parry almost everything, while shields might be blocking and take proportional stamina damage.

Other weapons can't parry.

[Prometheus]

Shield's doesn't get iframes and you take the stamina hit relative to the power of the blocked hit. In practice its dramatically worse than dagger parry as parry can do pretty much any hit while bosses will stamina dump you in a single hit much of the time.

[null]

Originally posted by Promethian:

Shield's doesn't get iframes and you take the stamina hit relative to the power of the blocked hit. In practice its dramatically worse than dagger parry as parry can do pretty much any hit while bosses will stamina dump you in a single hit much of the time.

So shield parry gets processed like normal block and the counter attack is just an optional follow up?

Nice to know. Kinda sucks now that the role of tanks and healers is less useful than ever.

[bitmapkid]

Thanks for the replies.

I guess I'll stick to daggers for now then because the parry mechanics are what really got me hooked to the combat in this game.

[Prometheus]

Shield blocking is not different from how it was before this version. Blocking for the most part has been bad against pretty much everything but known light singular hits or big explosions that are hard/impossible to avoid. Like Archon's pulses in final phase or the arena blast if you don't kill the adds against the monk council. Incidentally the big explosions barely hit your stamina relatively when blocked.

Also yah daggers are pretty much overpowered because the superior defensive option. They used to be worse, the maximum flourish attack, the big spin, used to be 100% iframes.