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DODGE

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Help for dodge

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Usage: dodge

Usage: dodge [NONE|HEAD|ARMS|LEGS|TORSO]

The dodge command allows you to modify your combat strategy by trying to avoid hits from your opponents into a specific area of your body.

Standard percentage values for hitting are 50% torso, 25% legs, 20% arms and 5% head. Dodging a specific body area will make you decrease the chance of your opponent hit that area by 15%, increasing 5% to all others. To the final percentages is also taken into consideration if your foe is aiming a specific area or not.

In detail, to each of those body areas correspond other smaller areas, the ones detailed in 'armour' command (HEAD is composed by head and neck, ARMS by arms and hands, LEGS by legs and feet, and TORSO by torso, back and belly). This means that when you dodge hits to your torso, you are avoiding hits to torso, back or belly (you can only dodge a general body area, not a specific one), and the damage made is higher or lower based on what you are wearing as armour at that area. It is a good idea, so, to analyze your weak and strong body areas based in armour you are wearing, and dodging the weaker one.

Do not forget that critical hits are more likely to happen in head and torso.

To see what area are you currently dodging, just type 'dodge'.

Besides a command, dodge is also a skill. To read a bit more details what this skill is about, type "help combat_skills".

See also: fighting, gladiatorial_combat, wimpy, consider, shape, kill, stop, critical_hits, death, aim, style, combat_skills, briefcombat, protect, unprotect.