Tuning down Parry a bit:
- The penalty for parrying especially heavy weapons has been increased in cases where the defender's weapon is much lighter than the attacker's weapon.
- The 'natural' (unarmed) attacks of very powerful (large in size, high in level) NPCs are slightly harder to parry with lightweight weapons.
- Polearms in general are harder to parry with one-handed swords, axes, and maces
- Flourintine has been reduced in efficacy
(2/20/15) - It is slightly harder to parry with a weapon that is significantly higher level than you.

http://forums.carrionfields.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=47&topic_id=127&mesg_id=127&listing_type=search


i think there was another post somewhere by Daevryn mentioning that this downgrade mostly impacted giants. i'll try to find it.