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Sword "Parrying Mode"

Right now, swords and every other tool is useless in combat.  Everybody just uses axes. Yes, using a sword has some upsides but overall it's usually the better option to use the axe. This is why I think swords should get a new unique ability.

Right clicking with a sword should put you into the "Parry Mode".  Your character will hold their sword in front of them, sort of like the blocking animation from 1.8/1.7 and flash yellow for 2 seconds. If they get melee attacked by any weapon in this time-frame, they'll automatically block all damage from it and be able to strike the opponent right away without waiting for a cooldown, dealing extra damage and knockback.

This would also work on projectiles, but would be much harder to time correctly, reflecting it but not towards the target.

If you fail to parry any attack, you will be stunned for 2.5 seconds and the parry mode will have a longer cooldown of 8 seconds. The normal cooldown is 5 seconds.

If holding a shield in the offhand, it'll still parry and bypass the shield's block ability.


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    Bypassing the shields blocking is not a good idea. If you want to block with the shield and not with the sword, you would have to switch to a different hotbar slot, which would be annoying. 

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    True. I'm thinking you should only be able to block if parrying is on cooldown. Then again you could just switch to the axe if you wanted to block which I don't think would be much of an issue especially when switching weapons doesn't reset the cooldown anymore(in the snapshot at least).

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    I think it could just me used to block 1 or 1 and a half heart

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    I think If anything, the sword's parry mode should be overridden by the Shield's block when The player crouches, that way you can still block with a shield while the parry mode isn't obsolete, The question Is how phones and tablets will be able to use It, especially with my / virtuousstorm15 's Idea of special attacks.

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    It really sounds like more of a mod and less vanilla

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    if crited when in parry mode, your next cooldown should be longer.

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    Great idea, it would be nice to see more mindgames and rock paper scissors mechanics in pvp. Although, I feel like the parry state should be shorter, as it might be a bit annoying to have to wait 2 seconds when you succesfully read a parry - although, it might feel weird having a 2.5 second stun after a shorter parry time.