Power Stance by» 14 Apr 2014 09:01You've been waiting for it (I hope!), here it is: All You Need to Know about the Power Stance. Specifically: weapons compatibilities and movesets (I'll skip over the basics, like how you need to hold the triangle button to enter the power stance or that you need 1.5x the base wielding stats to be able to Power Stance a weapon, etc.
Also: you only need to meet the Str and Dex requirements to Power Stance, not Int or Fth when applicable).- First off, generally speaking, when you Power Stance two weapons, the weapon in the right hand will determine the Power Stance moveset. However, there is a certain weapon class hierarchy at play. As such, some weapons classes, even when they are in the left hand, will override the right hand weapon's moveset and will instead determine the Power Stance moveset.- As far as Power Stance movesets go, there are essentially two types of compatibility, classified according to the resulting moveset: weapon and class specific moveset or bash movesets. The main distinction between the two is that weapon and class specific movesets will change depending on which hand two different weapons are wielded in, whereas bash movesets will result in the same moveset regardless of which hand either weapon is in.
I say weapon and class because most weapons of a class will have the same Power Stance moveset, but there are exceptions within each weapons class that have a unique Power Stance moveset. Also, bash movesets, plural, because there is more than 1 type of this moveset. Further detail:- All Bash movesets don't have the same swing angles, neither do they all have the same swing speed. They all have the same attack patterns, though, which are simultaneous swings of both weapons and single-strike attacks (1 button input = 1 attack, as opposed to combo moves that hit more than once per button input). They do, however, take the same amount of stamina to execute (with 40 Endurance, you can execute 2 L1 attacks and finish with an L2), no matter the size of the weapons you are using.
There are a few different types of Bash attacks, and the main difference between them is their swing angle and attack speed.- Similar to Bash movesets, certain weapons classes share the same Power Stance movesets. I will not group them according to the same class, however, because doing to might end up being misleading when considering using a weapon with a unique moveset. For example, the spears and lances have the same moveset, but saying that using a straight sword with a lance would end up with the spear moveset could be confusing if you're using a lance with a unique moveset. Instead, saying that using a straight sword with a lance results in the lance moveset implies that, if the lance has a unique moveset, that is the moveset the combination will result in.I won't go into descriptions of movesets, I'll just list what resulting moveset, according to weapon class, you'll get from using the Power Stance. I will however make a distinction between the Bash moveset speeds (all speeds-slow (S), medium (M), and fast (F)-are estimates, due to my testing limitations-namely: observation only!).
The weapon class being tested (in capitals, underlined) is the one in the right hand, the one in the left hand is the one listed below it, and the resulting moveset is in italics. Note to those who are wondering why this article reads like a blog post and doesn't cover the basics, despite being called 'All you need to know': it's because it was originally written as a forum post, addressed to a very informed audience. It was copied here, with permission of course, but was never written specifically with the intent of being a fully fleshed out tutorial for beginners. That's also why the formatting isn't prefect, and why there's weird editorial notes at the bottom that don't refer to actual edits made on this page-they were made on the forum post. That being said, I'd be happy to flesh it out and add information for beginners and change the tone to be appropriate for a wiki, but I wrote this so long ago that I don't even remember any of the information I'd need to fill in anymore!
But this is a wiki, so anyone competent can and is very welcome to edit it. (The reason why I'm writing this now out of nowhere after all these years is because I was recently contacted regarding the spreadsheet, and I decided to track down where people might be accessing it from.). I'm glad there's something this in-depth to help me understand it better. Originally, I thought that they had to be the same type of weapon, but then I use power stance with a Greatsword, and a curved Greatsword. It was the ancient dragon curved Greatsword, which I call a curved Ultra Greatsword. Mainly, because of its moveset.
It acts like an Ultra Greatsword, and a curved Greatsword, so I think it should be a curved Ultra Greatsword, but that's just me. Anyway, I power stance these two things, and figured out that there might be more combinations, and it's nice to see an article with lots of data.
The Malone Antegrade Continence Enema or MACE has been used for decades in children and adults who have difficulty either passing a bowel movement or who have chronic leakage of stool (accidents). You may also hear the procedure referred to as a Malone procedure - after the physician who popularized the method. How does the MACE work?The MACE works by emptying the colon of stool using water (similar to an enema) which is infused through a catheter (tube) in the colon, rather than from below.
The water in the colon acts like a river that pushes the stool downstream. A MACE is particularly useful for people who have poor rectal tone and cannot hold in the contents of an enema from below. Will the MACE work?Stool accidents may still occur, but usually only during the initial phase while we figure out the correct amount of fluid and the timing of the water instillations. By adjusting the amount of irrigation, and the timing, you should not have another bowel movement until the next time the enema is administered. This is usually done once daily. What is the typical water instillation schedule?A catheter will typically be left through the ostomy for the first 2 to 3 weeks after surgery.
Arrange folders by month. Starting 2 to 4 days after surgery, you will be instructed to flush it daily with 100 ml of tap water or saline. After this time period, your physician will typically remove the catheter and have you begin to place a catheter into the stoma (opening) daily and flush with water or saline.Amounts will vary, depending on your size, from 500 ml to 1000 ml. Most irrigations occur once daily; however, some people will need two irrigations a day. Irrigations are given using a gravity flow bag that attaches to your catheter.In the first two weeks, irrigations are given with a 60-ml syringe, which will be provided to you prior to discharge from the hospital. Typically, once a day, instill 50 cc's of luke warm (body temperature) tap water or normal saline.
Use a 60cc syringe to plunger the water slowly into the MACE catheter. It is recommended that you sit on the toilet for the procedure.
There may be no stool results with the first few water instillations you do.Enemas will be increased every fourth day by 50cc's. Your doctor or urology nurse will give the schedule to you.Once the amount has reached 200cc's, you may use an enema set for easier infusion. You will be instructed on how to prime the tubing (flush it with water) so air is not infused into the bowel, which can cause cramping. The tubing has a roller clamp that regulates how fast the water is infused. The height of the bag will also determine how quickly the water is infused.
If cramping occurs, slow down the infusion and make sure the water is not cold.The amount of fluid needed to get a good result varies from patient to patient. The amount of fluid typically needed for a good result ranges from 250cc's to 1000cc's.
Stool accidents can occur while adjusting the enema amounts. When should you follow- up after the surgery?You should be seen in the office 2-3- weeks after surgery. At this time, the MACE catheter will be removed and you will be instructed on how to insert and remove the catheter yourself. Regardless of how often you perform the enema, you will need to insert the catheter through the MACE stoma twice a day. The first passage of the catheter per day will be to irrigate and flush out the bowels. The second passage of the catheter in the evening will be only at the skin level and is done to help keep the stoma open and from scarring.
How do you perform the water instillations into the MACE?. Pass the catheter 2-4 inches in the stoma. Infuse the fluid. Remove the catheter.
Clean the area around the stoma with mild soap and water, gently pat dry. The catheter may be re-used. Wash the catheter with soap and water and allow it to air dry.When should you use the MACE?It is best to use the MACE the same time every day.
Pick a time that is not rushed for you. You will need approximately 20-45 minutes.
In the beginning, the irrigations may seem difficult to give and to fit into your daily routine. However, as you become more comfortable with the process it will become a fairly straightforward routine. You may still have to alter your diet or take stool softener medication. What if the constipation is not improving or I am still soiling?Adding 30 ml of mineral oil into the MACE 20 minutes before each irrigation may be helpful. Other additives that can be helpful are Miralax 17gm (a capful) in 240cc water 20 minutes before irrigation or 60 cc of glycerin in 60 cc water. What symptoms after surgery are concerning?.
Fever 100.5 degrees F. Increasing tenderness at the surgical site. Increasing swelling or redness or tenderness around the incision or stoma.
Any unusual drainage or odor from the incision or stoma. Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or constipation which is not improvingFind a Urologist by:. Last Name. Specialty.
We are sharing an extensive guide for you below, going through each weapon attack, but you can get the basics here.Weapons in Dark Souls 2 have sweet spots. These are the parts of the weapon that make the most damage when they strike the opponent. Of course, every weapon is different, and so some weapons have easier to use sweet spots than others.
Now, if you parry a weapon at its sweet spot, the parry becomes easier to do.You can use this knowledge best for setup parries. You want to be a few steps apart from your enemy, not close up, for the parry to be most effective. You can setup parry any R1 spam as long as your distance is correct. Also, it’s easier to parry after your opponent’s third or fourth swing. Of course, you are better off parrying the second swing since players do not frequently go for three or four swings, but the timing is stricter.You cannot parry jumping attacks or guard break attacks, save one special fist type jump attack.In terms of parrying weapons, if you plan to do no blocking, you want to use a parrying dagger.
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Other weapons match the parrying dagger’s abilities, but you will have to test them out to figure out which ones work best for you. If you want to do predict parries and setup parries, small parrying shields are your best choice. If you only want to do setup parries, use medium shields. Fast weapons like longswords can also do setup parries, but are harder to parry with compared to medium shields.
Greetings,Does a Beat used to make a Parry follow the same rules that a Beat used as preparation of a Attack would follow?For example: Both fencers are in lunge distance. Fencer A takes small advance and lunges. Fencer B beats for parry but hits the forte and guard of Fencer A blade. Is this a valid parry?Thank you,posinegt.85Attacks by beats on the blade:1.
In an attack by beating on the blade, this attack is correctly carried out and retains its priority when the beat is made on the foible of the opponent’s blade, i.e. The two-thirds of the blade furthest from the guard.2. In an attack by beating on the blade, when the beat is made on the forte of the opponent’s blade, i.e. The one-third of the blade nearest the guard, the attack is badly executed and the beat gives the opponent the right to an immediate riposte. Click to expand.The US Referee Commission (USRC) migrated their website over to a subsection of the USA Fencing website a short while ago.The Referee Handbook isn't in any of the, or sections.However, as well as; presumably, the April 2012 version is the latest/last version.Though, as Mac A. Bee pointed out, the Referee Handbook section makes no mention of how the location of the beat affects priority/ROW, as the relevant rule was a sabre-only rule until relatively recently; it was added to the foil section of the USA Fencing Rulebook, and was absent from the foil section of the USA Fencing Rulebook (and, I assume the timeline was similar for when the change was made to the FIE rules).
Sure you can. I have done it, and seen it done, many times.That is one of my complaints about the rule on beats done on the forte.
Those can in fact move the opponent's blade quite considerably, as you can see if you watch an action in slow motion. Sabre blades ( and foil blades ) are not terribly substantial and they bend and whip and undulate in all sorts of interesting ways when struck or even when moved vigorously. I have done beats on the forte and gotten one-light touches. That should not happen if the opponent's blade were not pushed aside by the beat.PS To head off another lengthy multi-page argument about how the refs or I are breaking rules, I will add that really you are right, I am wrong, this has never happened to me and it's all in my imagination. How to install world of warcraft mods. Again, you are right.
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You are right. Let's move on. Click to expand.'
In foil and sabre, it is very important for the referee to differentiate between the beat and the parry. Whenever there is a meeting of the blades, the referee must decide which fencer is then able to have the right of way.It is equally true in foil as it is in sabre that the parts of the two blades that meet are critical in deciding whether the meeting is a beat or a parry. If one fencer’s weak foible part of the blade meets the strong forte part of the opponent’s blade (not a mere grazing of the blades), it is a parry by the opponent. If it is the strong that meets the weak, it is a beat.This determination is not as easy as it may sound.
The referee requires extensive experience to make this judgment. This is especially true as all meetings of blades are not always a weak on strong. The referee should generally give priority to the offensive fencer, the fencer who initiates the contact, where it cannot be distinguished if the action is a beat or a parry.' Sure you can. I have done it, and seen it done, many times.That is one of my complaints about the rule on beats done on the forte. Those can in fact move the opponent's blade quite considerably, as you can see if you watch an action in slow motion.
Sabre blades ( and foil blades ) are not terribly substantial and they bend and whip and undulate in all sorts of interesting ways when struck or even when moved vigorously. I have done beats on the forte and gotten one-light touches. That should not happen if the opponent's blade were not pushed aside by the beat. 'In foil and sabre, it is very important for the referee to differentiate between the beat and the parry.
Whenever there is a meeting of the blades, the referee must decide which fencer is then able to have the right of way.It is equally true in foil as it is in sabre that the parts of the two blades that meet are critical in deciding whether the meeting is a beat or a parry. If one fencer’s weak foible part of the blade meets the strong forte part of the opponent’s blade (not a mere grazing of the blades), it is a parry by the opponent. If it is the strong that meets the weak, it is a beat.This determination is not as easy as it may sound. The referee requires extensive experience to make this judgment. This is especially true as all meetings of blades are not always a weak on strong. The referee should generally give priority to the offensive fencer, the fencer who initiates the contact, where it cannot be distinguished if the action is a beat or a parry.' Source: 'The Beat Versus the Parry', USFA Referee's Manual.
Click to expand.Interesting. That language is no longer in the USA Fencing Referee Handbook, version 1.2 (April 2012).In practice, I read 'the beat versus the parry' section as a discussion about separating a possibly ambiguous action. As I said in another thread, 'Two fencers do 'things.' Two lights are on the box, and the referee has to figure out what happened.' That section (in both the old Referee's Manual and the newer Referee's Handbook) is useful when both fencers make an initial action on the blade and both hit.
The referee has to make sense of what he saw, and that section helps you determine whether it's a beat attack, parry-riposte, simultaneous beat attacks, or something else.But if we look at posineg's question, he said, 'Fencer A takes small advance and lunges.' We already know that this fencer is attacking, and since he didn't say anything about a beat or other preparation on the blade, I'm assuming that it's clear that Fencer A is not attempting to beat the opponent's blade. Fencer B is responding to that attack with an attempted parry-riposte. We don't need the 'beat vs. Parry' discussion because it's not really relevant here. It's already clear what the (attempted) actions are. The question is whether Fencer B's execution is so incorrect that we'd give the touch to A.Currently, even if the Fencer B's parry hits the lower third (forte) of the attacker's blade, it's still going to be called as a parry-riposte.
It's clear what the fencers are doing here, and the rules for the parry don't actually require it to contact the foible of the opponent's weapon. As long as the parry finds the blade, we consider it sufficient to stop the attack.I'm more concerned that posineg said that Fencer B, 'hits the forte and guard of Fencer A blade.' In saber, I'd definitely call that as a countertime action for Fencer A, but that's largely because we don't want to give Fencer B a 2-for-1 action that parries the attack while attempting to stop-cut the wrist at the same time. But even in foil, if someone tries to parry but smacks his blade right on the opponent's guard, I think that that's probably one of the few cases where you could argue that it's not a successful parry. I can't think of an example where there's a clear attack (i.e., no attempt to beat) and a parry that finds the blade before the hit, but the parry hits the guard.
Imagining it, I guess it would still depend on whether it looks like the defender deflected or controlled the attacker's blade at all. As a fencer or coach, I'd expect (greater than 50% chance) the referee to give the touch to Fencer A. As Fencer B, I would definitely not use a video challenge on that call. But if we look at posineg's question, he said, 'Fencer A takes small advance and lunges.'
We already know that this fencer is attacking, and since he didn't say anything about a beat or other preparation on the blade, I'm assuming that it's clear that Fencer A is not attempting to beat the opponent's blade. Fencer B is responding to that attack with an attempted parry-riposte. We don't need the 'beat vs. Parry' discussion because it's not really relevant here. It's already clear what the (attempted) actions are. The question is whether Fencer B's execution is so incorrect that we'd give the touch to A.
Click to expand.I would argue that, in most cases, it is.Consider the following:. Fencer A is completely still - not advancing or retreating, not extending or withdrawing the sword arm, not making any fencing actions (or, indeed, any movement) of any sort. Fencer B advances, and executes a beat on A's blade, with B's foible landing on A's forte. A and B simultaneously and immediately extend/lunge, both hitting the valid target.Rule t.85.2, in the foil-specific section of, states, 'In an attack by beating on the blade, when the beat is made on the forte of the opponent’s blade i.e. The one-third of the blade nearest the guard, the attack is badly executed and the beat gives the opponent the right to an immediate riposte.'
Under t.85.2, this phrase is to be given as A's riposte, as B's action is so badly/incorrectly executed that the point is to be given to A, even though B was the initiator of the action and the initial aggressor & A had not taken any proactive action to claim priority/ROW beyond extending immediately after being subjected to a (poorly-executed) beat by B.Consider, also,. Click to expand.That action being given as Dubrovich's riposte after Blaze's beat lands on Dubrovich's forte is contradictory to the common adage that 'you can't parry a beat' (and the related phrase, 'beat beats a parry', AND the paragraph from the Referee's Manual following the one I had previously emphasized, which asserts that 'the referee should generally give priority to the offensive fencer, the fencer who initiates the contact.'