I agree. I knew once I saw the description of the different weapon types, that fencing weapons would  no longer be the same. Just in a post I made describing how it sucks to take on multiple enemies with fencing weapons now. Why change? They should had left fencing weapons alone. Ok, take 10% damage away, but why mess with parry and the pings of the parry? It feels like you can no longer parry multiple enemies back to back.