Can anybody tell me why I suck at parrying? I'm at chapter 4
doing hunts to build up some cash and buy some consumables.
The press "button" to block shows up and I press the appropriate button (L1 for me), but it's basically a crapshoot if it actually works. Did I misunderstand the tutorial? it's really my biggest complaint about the combat. The other being that friendly fire for magic is a thing. It makes me never want to use it in the heat of battle, usually I'll open combat with it, let enemies burn/freeze/zap away then start combat proper. I pumped a bunch of AP into magic thinking there had to be a "no more friendly fire" node but I haven't seen it.
Other than that I'm really enjoying the game. The story has me interested (though I'm slow rolling due to the announced patch), outside of my above gripes I love the combat.