MV - Parry Chance (Shield Block ext.)

Extend the defensive capabilities of your actors by allowing them to parry incoming attacks. Requires Shield Block to function.

Features:

• New action result - parried (target.result().parried)
• Set a base parry rate
• Add an additional parry rate based on a simple or complex formula
• Weapons provide an additional parry rate
• Enemies can have a different base rate than the default, to simulate equipment
• States can also add more parry rate
• Configurable parry rate rules for dual wielding (more info below)
• Custom reaction when a parry happens
• Set individual skills to be allowed to be parried or not
• All physical skills can be parried by default
• New in v1.05
  • Expertise is a new xparam that can be put on equipment, classes, enemies, and states which lowers the effective parry rate of a defender.
  • Parry Piercing is a new effect that can be placed on states, weapons, skills, and enemies which reduces a defenders parry rating by a percentage.

Description:

For those not quite in the know, a parry is a block made with a weapon instead of a shield. A successful parry will show a short visual, and reduce the damage of the hit to zero, cancel any added effects on the skill (such as poison), and (if set) hide the damage popup for that hit. This works very similarly to blocking using the Shield Block Plugin, with several exceptions:

• Anyone can parry, as long as their parry chance isn't 0, and they aren't incapacitated.
• An actors (or enemies) parry chance can be based on their other parameters
• Parrying always reduces all damage to zero
• Parrying doesn't require a state in your database to determine if an actor can parry or not.

Modes:

Multi-Weapon Parry calculation mode is a plugin parameter that changes how parry rate is calculated by actors who are dual wielding. Most parameters for dual wielding actors are simply added together, but that might not necessarily be what you want for a powerful defensive parameter like parry, as it can quickly stack up too high and make your project unbalanced if left unchecked. There are several modes included:

• Individual: Each attack made against an actor is checked twice, once for each weapon, the individual checks use the base + added parry rate + the parry chance of the weapon held in that hand. The default parry reaction effect includes the ability to show the offhand weapon instead of the mainhand weapon in the case where a parry was caused by the offhand. Because this mode checks each attack twice, your base and added parry rates are twice as effective.
• Additive: The parry chances for both weapons are added together, and then added to your base + added parry rate. Each hit is only checked once against this value.
• Average: The parry chances for each weapon are averaged, and then added to your base + added parry rate. Each hit is only checked once against this value.
• Highest: The highest parry chance between your two weapons is chosen, and then added to your base and added parry rates. Each hit is only checked once against this value.
• Mainhand Only: Only the parry value for your mainhand weapon is added to your base and added parry rates. Each hit is only checked once against this value.
• Offhand Only: Only the offhand parry value is used in the calculation above. Each hit is only checked once against this value.

Added Parry Chance:

The additional parry chance plugin parameter is a codebox, in which you can input just about anything to determine a bonus parry amount that updates in real time in game. The default value gives you a small boost to parry chance based on your atk value. This value is calculated on both enemies and allies as well. If you use a value not available to an enemy, it will fail, however, so keep that in mind.

Using the additional parry chance, you could modify parry rate based on any of the following:

• Direct or indirect correlation to other battler parameters (hp, atk, def, agi, etc)
• Equipped armors/weapons, or combinations of each
•  Bonuses for being unarmed
• States, or combinations of states

Notetags:

<Parry Chance: x> Gives a weapon, enemy, or state x% parry rate. This value can be negative. Enemies with this tag use it in place of their base parry rate, which is the default parry rate parameter.

<Parry Animation: x> The animation that plays on an enemy when they parry an attack

<CannotParry> Skills with this tag are not able to be parried, even if they are physical skills. Enemies with this tag will be unable to parry.

<CanParry> Skills set with this tag can be parried, even if they are magical or certain skill types.

YEP_StatusMenuCore Additions:

If you are using YEP_StatusMenuCore, there is a scene on the status menu where you can view a customized list of exparams and sparams. Traditionally, added params that have been added by the shield block plugin could only really be seen in the game by editing that plugin, or using the DualWield menu extension plugin, which not everyone owns. I have included a small script that adds block chance, block percent, shield piercing, and parry rate to this scene. Add this script anywhere after the YEP_StatusMenuCore plugin.

Advanced:

Like with the block state, you can heavily customize what happens when a parry occurs. This react effect is stored in the plugin parameters, and by default, it plays an animation over a parrying enemy, and does a weapon swing + sound effect over an actor that parries. You can edit this parameter to cause other things to happen, plugin calls, healing, state adds, etc.

Plugin Dependencies:
Ramza_BlockChance.js is required for this extension to work. The plugin will throw an error if it doesn't detect a working copy of it in your plugin manager. This extension must be loaded after it.

YEP_BattleEngineCore.js is required for the shield block plugin to function. This extension needs to load after it.

YEP_BuffsStatesCore.js is also a hard requirement for this plugin to work. Parry Chance needs to load after this plugin in order for the react effect plugin parameter to work. If you crank parry rate to 100%, and still aren't seeing any parries, check your load order.

Example load order:

Terms of Use:

• You may use this plugin in free or commercial games
• You may use this plugin in as many projects as you like.
• You may not share this plugin, or the demo project with anyone else.
• You may modify this original script in any way you see fit, but you may not claim full ownership of the resulting edited file.
• You may share edits you made to this script publicly, but only as standalone extensions to this plugin, meaning that your modifications cannot be used without also owning this plugin.

<custom select="" effect=""> // Check if this action is a skill and targets an opponent. if (this.item() && DataManager.isSkill(this.item()) && this.isForOpponent()) {   // Create a pool of blocked Skill TYPES.   var blockedtypes = [];   // Add the skill type ID's to that pool.   blockedtypes.push(2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14);   // Create a pool of blocked individual skills.   var blockedskills = [];   // Add the individual skill ID's to that pool.   blockedskills.push(1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 208, 209);   blockedskills.push(56, 125, 300, 407);   // Check if the skill type or skill ID matches.   if (blockedtypes.contains(this.item().stypeId) || blockedskills.contains(this.item().id)) {     // If it does, then store the skill's original success rate.     this._formerItemSuccessRate = this.item().successRate;     // Now drop the skill's success rate to 0.     this.item().successRate = 0;     // Start an animation to show the spell shield occurred.     target.startAnimation(53);   } } </custom>  <custom deselect="" effect=""> // Check if there is a success rate stored. if (this._formerItemSuccessRate !== undefined) {   // Restore the skill's success rate.   this.item().successRate = this._formerItemSuccessRate;   // Remove this spell shield state.   target.removeState(stateId); } </custom>