Difference in parry hit boxes

Has anyone tested the difference in parrying with:

- Small shields
- Parry dagger
- Curved swords
- Piercing swords

Is there a difference ?

I did small parry experiments before. I usually parry with med-shields, those have short parry windows. Small shields have a longer parry animation or is it just the target shield, this needs testing. The parry knife has the longest I think.

To parry 2-handed attacks, only the initial animation seems to fully parry it. It's ending animation will only block all damage and eat you stamina.

^That's called a partial parry. Happens when you parried just too early or too late.

@OP:

I think the only difference in parrying with different weapons is the parry window and cooldown. A larger window (parrying dagger, buckler, target shield) will give you more room for error when parrying, because the parry is longer. A shorter cooldown, on the other hand, will allow you to parry consecutively faster, if you missed.

I'm not sure on all the cooldowns though. I think there's three:

- Fist-speed (fastest): bare fists, fist weapons, curved swords, rapiers, whips, most small shields, heater shield, etc.
- Normal-speed: most medium shields, the Effigy shield, maybe some weapons
- Special (slowest): applies to those weapons I mentioned above that have the larger parry window

I usually parry with Medium shields but was interested in some data regarding other parry windows.

Rapiers & Curved swords have a different parry animation than others so i thought there was something special about them.