Parry and Recoil

The mods have always treated parries as small recoils, i.e. pushing the weapon away or stopping it as you mentioned. I can only see parries sending a character reeling backward or forward if they were off balanced or at far higher levels of parry, especially for higher-leveled monsters (or characters) going up against lower-leveled characters or monsters.

I hope that answers your question well enough~

Think of it this way: Illfang is hundreds of times larger than all of the players. Let's see you go up against a giant and you will probably be sent flying back from the recoil of a parry, too.

Parries would be overpowered if used against a weaker player. Otherwise, I wouldn't considered parries overpowered so much as stronger if the player already had little balance. With this idea in mind, we might be able to make a skill in the future that allows for stronger parries, too.

It was an exaggeration, Shi. But exaggeration or not, that foot can still send a player reeling, and certainly a Sword Art.

As mentioned before, parries will not send a player flying back unless it is either a higher leveled player going up against a far lower leveled one or in the case of Illfang, it is a boss and they are both a)extremely power and/or b)also quite large.

I mentioned that earlier when I said it is possible to send a character reeling if they were off balance, i.e., bad footing or even no footing when used in mid air. It can be stronger but not necessarily extremely over powered by a normal player, especially at these early levels. In the case of Illfang, then yes, he can and most likely will send a player flying back if hit in that scenario.

In regards to Parry, I'll use an example. Shi can't make his own parry stronger against another player by forcing himself to be off balance. It would make sense that the recoil from the parry would effect Shi more than the opposing player if the opposing player has his/her two feet firmly planted on the ground and Shi doens't.

Keep in mind that an 'overpowered' parry will only send a character reeling back if they were imbalanced or not stable. At higher levels, parry will obviously grow stronger over time, too.

I hope that answered your question!