I am extremely opposed too any nerfs too parry rewards, I have been very vocal about this despite being a minority my opinion has not changed, that said I do believe that the answer too the problem is not parry but feint, feinting is the punish too parry and imo it is not working, if it was not for the GB vulnerability frames at heavy start up it would be almost completely safe ( that said i'm actually looking forward too the normalization of heavy start up frames), nerfing parry rewards is lazy and while it might appease some I think there is a better way, i believe chip damage will really help alleviate some of our grief for the time being but we as a community have a chance too actually help shape this game as it appears ubisoft is actually listening too some of us, i am asking that you consider the possibility that parry isn't necessarily the heart of the def meta and help me come up with a smarter more elegant solution

my thoughts

making failed parries less safe, i.e feinting more effective. you could...

tighten up the timing on the feint input too make it more difficult too feint in response too another players feint while at the same time making feints more convincing by increasing the duration of the feinted attack slightly, so basically narrow the feint input too 100ms or less, while making the actual attack animation maybe 50-100ms short of connecting


or... separate feint and parry from heavy attack, you could make parry its own button (not my favorite) you could also change the parry input to light attack, or you could keep parry as heavy attack and introduce light feinting

you could also introduce some kind of mechanic where the game detects a failed parry attempt and would not allow you too feint

changes like these combined with the coming chip damage increase imo would make this game dam near perfect,

again i don't believe nerfing parry rewards as inevitable as that may seem at the moment is the answer, there is a reason parries are so rewarding, ganking and light spam, parry is the guard against these things, and if you nerf parry rewards these things will ruin this game and i just don't want too se that happen