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Thread: Is Counterattack a parry and riposte?
I believe it is just a parry. They just ran out of names so they came up with counter attack lol.
Dont quote me on it though.
No I mean it really.
Don't.
Counterattack is supposed to return unblockable damage to the attacker (i.e., one free normal shot). I do not know if it is supposed to prevent incoming damage.
What it does right now is simply act like a dodge, preventing damage, but doing no damage to the attacker in return. At least, I have never seen any damage returned.
Sotaudi wrote:
Counterattack is supposed to return unblockable damage to the attacker (i.e., one free normal shot). I do not know if it is supposed to prevent incoming damage.
What it does right now is simply act like a dodge, preventing damage, but doing no damage to the attacker in return. At least, I have never seen any damage returned.
From looking at your template theres probably a reason why youve never seen any damage returned. heh heh Your defense mods are probably through the roof. I have seen counterattack return damage to me quite a few times. But then again Im just a Master Doc/Master Swordsman too. I dont use a defense template.
To really find out duel someone using normal attacks no specials, you will see that counterattack does do some damage. I dueled a fencer frind with no specials and i was doing more damage even though my toon wasn't animating the action.