[[CDB|Main]] / [[:Category:Skills | Skills]] / [[Fighting]] / [[Defensive fighting]]
'''Defensive fighting''' style significantly increases your parry chance and so prevents you from getting hit too muchreduces movement penalty. However, but also this style lowers your attack speed , damage, and so the chance that you hit your enemyaccuracy in exchange. Defensive fighting is best used with a [[sword]] as these weapons have a high parry change and possibly a [[shield]] to increase the blocking chance even further.
When fighting an [[animal]] with a group, the fighter taking the damage (the [[tank]]) usually uses defensive fighting to minimize injury, while the other players use [[normal fighting|normal]] or [[aggressive fighting|aggressive]] mode.
Defensive mode has no defense movement penalty for running around.
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