Parry Tools (parrying dagger - buckler - main-gauche)

The Main-Gauche was a very welcome addition to Elden Ring, where the Buckler and even more so, the Parrying Dagger, barely distinguish themselves as useful tools above slapping the parry Ash of War on any dagger or small shield. If I knew how to edit animations, I would change the parry frames, but alas, I've reached a compromise. This mod provides a series of buffs to these 3 weapons on the basis of each one having a particular strength and weakness compared to the other two. Note that although certain aspects of each tool will be weak compared to each other, all 3 still received an overall buff across the board. This is particularly to make them a better choice over any other tool that you can put the parry AoW on. They are as follows:

The Parrying Dagger will have the highest guard boost (the amount of stamina drained when blocking an attack - or partially parrying). Though it's active parry frames are paltry, being able to easily recover from the more forgiving partial parry will mark the strength of this weapon. No more will just barely missing a parry drain your entire stamina bar! This seemed appropriate because of the shape of the crossguard - even if you don't execute the parry, you should be able to easily glance a blow off or catch it with those guards. Of course, its weakness is that its actual absorptions are still pretty low, it's merely a dagger after all.

The Buckler will now be the most defensive. As the only shield of the bunch, it makes the most sense for this one to be the best at blocking damage. Simple as. It's guard boost received a very minor buff as well.

The Main-Gauche's strength actually already exists in vanilla - it has the most active parry frames. Because of how much its guard covers the hand, it also received slight buffs to its defense. It's weakness is that it boasts the lowest guard boast of the 3 tools, which shouldn't be as much of a problem since the parry window is more forgiving.

The specific stats will be listed here below:

Parrying Dagger

• []Guard boost has been increased from 15 to 67

  []All the elemental absorptions (not physical) have been reduced from 20 to 15, on account of this being easily the largest buff in the mod.

  Buckler

  • []Guard boost has been increased from 45 to 50

    []Elemental absorptions have been increased by 50% (30 to 45 for most, 16 to 24 for lightning)

    []All status resistances have been increased from 19 to 28

  Main-Gauche

  []Guard boost has been increased from 16 to 30

  []Physical Absorption has been increased from 38 to 48

  []Elemental absorptions have been increased from 22 to 27

  [*]All status resistances have been