Sword Rogue Tech Attack Idea: Spend Mana/Adre to anim-cancel parry with an attack

I don’t have that many hours on sword rogue so take my observations with a grain of salt.

Currently the Parry mechanic seems quite punishing. This is not necessarily a bad thing because the upside (riposte) is big, but combined with it currently being not much usable against half of classes (ranged) and not even very good against an actual melee achetype (warrior guard breaks the parry easily with many attacks), the parry mechanic just feels… bad.

So, I came up with the idea of adding a Tech Attack to the sword subclass, allowing trading a resource (Mana/Adren) to effectively cancel the Parry animation and possibly doing some kind of attack out of it.

This would help to alleviate the risk in using Parry while not removing it completely, while adding another layer of skill expression:

1. Resource management

2. Cancelling bad parry

3. Juking with parry

4. Additional attack type (tech)