I played an invoker to hero back shortly after the whole "Elemental paths" came in with touches and shields and whatnot.
I liked how I could parry with the elemental touches up. I even improved in parry with it up. I might be wrong, but I think it even mentioned in the helpfiles that you could parry with the touches.
I recently have played my second invoker to hero ranks (one of the billion or so invokers so far this year)...and I have noticed a severe lack of parrying with the touches.
I got my parry to upper 80's by using practice weapons but even with my parry that high, I parry with touches about as often as a rank 1 mage parries (once in a blue moon)...especially against mobs which I dodge more often than I parry (without the dodge skill).
Was this a conscious change? why did you decide to change it? Am I smoking purple crack?
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