WoW, I was thinking of creating a thread nearly the exact same as this one a few hours ago. I was recently bragging of how since I learned to block/parry, I am nearly indestructible. I rarely ever die these days, unless it is due to my early onset alzheimers or hubris. Then I thought back to about a week ago when I came up against a 2 star Fuling Berserker. I had managed to eliminate nearly all the fulings in one of their plains garrisons, when I surgically pulled a lone 2 star Berserker, with a plan to tank him 1 on 1 with my Fenris armor, Silver Knife & Blackmetal Shield. He approached me at full health, and I timed my block/parry perfectly. The battle was a fairly quick one, involving only 2 hits. He hit me, then I hit the ground dead. I could not believe it, that Bersrker was the first enemy in historical memory to hit through a perfectly timed block/parry and to kill me in 1 hit through a Blackmetal Shield.

I was thinking through this earlier today, with the idea that maybe I did not quite time my block/parry properly (even though I knew that I did). I had full food charge of wolf skewer, bread & turnip stew, so my health and stamina were at end game levels. I can't help but consider the fact I was wearing a full set of Fenris armor, was probably the main contributing factor that I died in 1 shot. After all Fenris fully upgraded is only slightly better than fully upgraded bronze armor, and I would not recommend fighting even regular Berserkers wearing only bronze armor.