New combat manuever - parry/deflect

[stickman]

I was thinking something along the lines of Parry or Deflect.

I have always thought it was silly that people have to invest in unarmed combat in order to dodge for when you dont use shields. infact I use to take my shield with me when i mined because its my only means of defence.


if someone with 500 melee 1 unarmed and a sword without a shield gets hit by some noob with 10 melee... the noob will cut through his dodge and hit for damage.

In actual fact the expect swordmans would most likely deflect the attack and then stab the noob through the chest.

So i was thinking of a manuver such as parry/deflect. it would use 50-75% of your melee skill and it could have a secondary effect like making your opponents attack take 25% longer to recharge if you successfully deflect it. i guess it would reqire you to swear a sword aswell.