Currently Protect is rather heftily bugged in two respects, 1, Protect Deflect ALWAYS provides the max level of success, preventing all physical attacks regardless of skill, 2, Protect Cover does absolutely nothing.
Examples:
Protect Deflect is SUPPOSED to give the Protecting paladin a chance to hinder and or stop an attack via STANCED parry/shield vs attackers skill. Varying levels of success included Complete failure to hinder the attack, slightly hinder, hinder, greatly hinder, stop the attack, Max success Stopping the attack, and giving the attacker a RT and Balance penalty.
The problem right now is Protect Deflect is ONLY giving the max level success. As an example, I pit my ~450 HT against ~200 shield, note the bonus RT (and balance hit took me from adeptly balanced to solid)
* Littleguy2 swings his tower shield, obstructing your strike from reaching Littleguy1!
[You're solidly balanced with no advantage versus Littleguy2.]
[Roundtime 5 sec.]
Protect Cover is broken in the other direction. Its supposed to place the Protector in the way of the attack, taking it upon himself, contesting only his stanced Parry/Shield, with a bonus from soul state. The Protectee was always completely guarded, however a Protector would take the full attack, with attached consequences including death.
However, at the moment it does absolutely nothing, Example:
Samsaren positions himself to intercept your strike against Littleguy2!
< Awkwardly, you feint a steel scepter at Littleguy2. Littleguy2 evades.
[You're off balance with opponent in better position.]
[Roundtime 1 sec.]
If someone could take a look at Protect and give it some much needed lovin' I would be greatly appreciative. Additionally, when Protect was released in the past we were told it would be setup to also contest TM based spells, once certain combat hooks were setup for it. If someone could look into such while fixing this ability that would be stellar.
Thanks,
Samsaren
