General

Parry is an excellent skill to have for both PvP and PvM. The parry skill is used to block melee/ranged attacks with a shield or, at a reduced rate, with a weapon. A characeter with GM parry that succeeds in his/her parry check, will absorb all damage from that attack, even if the attacker used a special attack. The number of hits that you block does not depend on the shield type used, but your parrying skill. Your block chance is 30% at GM parry , and 36% at legendary parry (the percentage chance to parry is always 1/3 of your parry skill). "At gm you have a 30% chance to block attacks, which makes a hit do 0 damage, and if your opponent was attempting a special move, they still lose the mana for it but the special doesn't go off due to being parried." -Wargrind

Skill Training

With some assistance, you can get 100 parry in about 5-10 hours. The fastest way to raise this skill is by fighting multiple enemies. Preferably animals that have a low dmg output.
Wear as much armor as possible (70 physical resist is a must). A set of dull copper plate will do the job. Expect to repair it quite often (at a high parry rate, about once every hour). You're going to need a healer (preferably GM+ healing/anatomy, with 100+ dexterity to ensure a fast bandage time) and thousands of bandages available. It is said to have 100 strength, but if both you and your healer are healing. Its advisable to achieve GM or higher parry before you grandmaster skills that affect your evasion skills (anatomy+evaluate intelligence, melee and wrestling) since that will allow you to gain faster. Try to have at least 8 targets hitting you at one time to maximize your gains.

When you start, remember to tab out and tab in again (stay in warmode but try not to kill the animals).

What monsters to fight when, and where they spawn :

Skill Level	What to do	Where to do it
0-32	Buy from Npc	Warrior guild in brit
32-40	cats and other small animals	Jhelom Farms
40-60	boars, pigs and random animals	Jhelom Farms
60-73	cows and bulls	Jhelom Farms
73-106	hinds	North of sacrifice shrine in Ilshinar, Delucia or Moonglow
106-110	great harts	North of sacrifice shrine in Ilshinar, Delucia, or Moonglow
110-120	bears (grizzly/brown)and wolves	North of sacrifice shrine in Ilshinar, Delucia, or Moonglow

If you have high wrestling/melee skill everything changes a bit:

Tips & Tricks

• If your a mage, use the protection spell while training.
  
  
• Using different kinds of weapon does not help skill gain
  
  
• Dont forget about skill decay
  
  
• If you go too long without a parry gain, just disam and rearm your shield
  
  
• If you have Necromancy, use Horrific Beast for hit point regeneration
  
  
• Have a tamer tame animals you can gain from. Get all the lifebars up and let all the hinds stand on each other. stand next to the hinds,
  release them and then instantly attack them. This way your able to get attacked by more then 9 animals at once.
  
  
• Always carry backup shields with you when you PvP. Macers have been known to break shields.
  
  
• Sheep are the magical animal, though I could only get 8 at a time I went from 31.9 (bought) and im still steadily gaining into 92 right now just from sheep
  
  -ofthedove
  
  
• -Always carry backup shields with you when you PvP so that macers won't destroy your only shield.
  
  
• -Having parry on your mage template(pvp) is highly recommended with AoS -Watchout for old Invul shields (pre AoS) with high resist(34), and verite imbued spellchanneling shields (14 resist).

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Version 1.0: 05/01/03 -Initial Draft.
Version 1.0: 08/09/03 -Wargrind/Special Move Info.

Information Gathered from: Old UOPG Guide, Old Phazer Skills Guides, Cifer, personal experience, UOStratics, UOPG Readers, and other sources.