Talk:Parry

With regards to the way this formula interacts with someone who has no weapon ranks, or in a potential situation where their weapon ranks are negated somehow, you will still get the "+ Stance Bonus" DS.

The formula was pulled from play.net and is accurate. It was further tested to show that with 0 weapon ranks you do not get any DS from your stats or weapon enchant.

However, again, you still get "+ Stance Bonus" DS. This has been tested and confirmed, at least in the situation of 0 weapon ranks. I personally feel that the "+ Stance Bonus" DS is best indicated in the evade DS formula, because you always get that DS regardless of 0 ranks in dodge, but because of how long standing this has been, and because it still results in accurate DS calculations (albeit perhaps confusingly), it was decided by myself (after consulting with others) to leave it alone and instead just add notes about the interaction. There is also the off chance that moving it could result in bad DS calculations while Bound/Webbed/Stunned/etc but that is a faulty state for DS calculation as is, plus "+ Stance Bonus" isn't affected by stats or skills and so it should never be considered for how someone might train their character with regards to DS.

This is the reason I made a change to the verbiage regarding "no weapon ranks = no parry DS." WINTERDAWN (talk) 15:47, 8 April 2019 (CDT)