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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 4594866" data-attributes="member: 71571">In that case he can't avoid being attacked.  But given his choice is a fighter and someone else, the smart money is on taking the hit from someone else.To help visualize it, ask yourself what the 'care' is in shifting that makes it avoid opportunity attacks.  It isn't moving slowly, that makes you -more- likely to get smacked by an angry man swinging a weapon at you.What it probably represents is the fact that you're not walking away, you're taking a quick step while your attention is on defending yourself.  In the case of weaponplay, that means you're actively parrying, dodging, and otherwise interacting with his weapon in such a way that most combatants don't get an easy opening.Well, if you're clanging your weapon (read: spell shielding, or whatever your character's defense fluff is) against his, that's a clue that you're there.  And if he feels you backing up, his training does allow him to get his last swap in, because unlike others, he is -explicitly- trained in finding an opening in that situation.However if you stop parrying, and stop giving him that clue to your position, suddenly he's fighting totally blind.  He can't answer your movement because he cannot sense where your weapon is, and thusly, you can escape.</blockquote>