Combat Change :: Parrying update
Read this if you care about parrying

1. The weapon

2. Your skills in various things

3. Your posture in combat

However, unlike dodge which takes into account how many people were attacking you, and penalizes you for being attacked by lots of people-- parry did not. That has now changed.

You will receive a small penalty for each person who is attacking you. The more people attacking you, the higher the penalty will stack, making it harder for you to parry.

This is a relatively minor tweak to the code but it could have implications for large fights, especially ones where the 'tank' would run in first and attack, drawing all the enemies to attack them, and then everyone else came in, went kamikaze and wiped the foes out.

That tank better have some ace armor, because they won't be parrying at the same insane level they were before. It was a good strategy and can still be implemented, but it will have to be done with more care and thought than it was previously.

Questions?

-- S

You are right! This is definitely a thing that happens. Mainly it is due to the nature of the way combat works. We don't know at the start of a fight if it's against one person or many persons, due to not being able to classify the actions of players (or even NPCs) that are in the room that haven't already joined in combat.

http://www.sindome.org/bgbb/game-discussion/new-game-features/npcs-will--possibly--request-aide-200/ is us taking a step in the right direction when it comes to intelligent combat. There are lots of improvements to be made, but we now have, at the core of responding NPCs, a better system for dealing with these things.