Fencer Archive

We're supposed to be masters of skill and finesse at high level Fencer. Wht not have a skill to reflect that, allowing us to parry and deflect melee attacks. I'm thinking of Parry being a skill mod that you get throughout the Fencer tree, much like Combat Equilibrium is now. The higher your parry mod is, the more chance you have of parrying the opponent's attack. If an attack is parried, the attack has the same effects on its user(downtime, HAM cost), except it has no effect on the fencer. At a third or fourth tier box(can't decide) a fencer gets the ability to automatically counterattack out of a parry. This attack would be very hard for the opponent to dodge and would deal damage to a randomly selected HAm bar.

I believe that each of the 3 weapons elite classes is supposed to have a different ability. The heavy swordsmen have + to Counterattack, the pikemen + to Block, which is practically parry, and we get bonus to Dodge. Block and Dodge are practically the same I think, they both negate the attack. Best thing for Counterattacks I can think of is to get a skill enhancer with high bonus to it.