Cross-Shaft

Spear Way · tier 2 · Point

Two hands on the ash, the shaft across the blow, and the foe sent back to the point.

Mode: Oath
Used with: Spear, Shortspear
Stamina: none
Cooldown: none
Price: 450 gold
Needs first: Haft-Rap, Parry

What it does

Sworn, with a spear or shortspear and no shield: the Ring-craft's weapon guard (core.parry's RMB without a shield) holds the shaft crosswise. Its parry window grows from 0.16 s to 0.24 s, and after the window frontal melee blows are 40 % blocked instead of 25 % (1.2 stamina a point, as today). A foe you parry is also shoved out to your tip (knock 240; L x0.25; dragons are never parried) and your next spear blow within 1.0 s is a tip blow. With a shield in the off hand the oath does nothing (the shield's own parry and block rule). Needs core.parry.

Edge: Ash-Wall

After the window the guard blocks 50 % instead of 40 %.