

When you use perseverance, you get a boost to poise and reduce damage by 45. It wasn't a perfect system by any stretch, and it clearly favored certain types of armor, but it was vastly superior to the almost essentially nonexistent poise mechanics we have now. The Dark Sword is one of the most popular weapons in Dark Souls 3 as of 1. What confuses me, however, is that Dark Souls 2 nearly solved the issue, but all of the knowledge gained there was seemingly ignored during the creation of Dark Souls 3.
DARK SOUL 3 POISE SERIES
The Dark Souls series has always had trouble with poise, with Dark Souls 1 being the worst offender as players frequently equipped themselves with enough poise to absorb a couple of hits with their face before proceeding to backstab the now exposed enemy. When Dark Souls 2 came out I decided I wouldn't use shields anymore, and I was fine. I ended up being a big turtle all throughout. The stat works differently than in past games and is more situational, which seems to be the reason for the confusion.” In Demon's Souls I used magic, and it was overpowered in that game I think, so I went melee in Dark Souls.

“The poise stat is working as intended and is not ‘turned off’ as some fans have theorized. Dark Souls III has big shoes to fill as From Software’s previous title, Bloodborne, took the reactive combat of previous games and cranked the speed way upputting all players (even ‘poise’ champions) on the offensive.

Dark souls 2 system was bad but at least you could poise an attack or even two depending on the armor youre wearing vs the weapon thats hitting you. The Archdrake Mace is unique weapon, in that it has the poise damage of a great hammer, the attack power of a. Unfortunately, in a brief message sent to Kotaku Bandai Namco has confirmed that this is not a bug, or even a balance oversight, but rather the correct way poise functions in Dark Souls 3. This is a serious problem because without poise heavy armor is utter trash and the game becomes 'who has the longest reach and fastest rolls' it sadly makes the pvp rather one dimensional. In fact, for a long time it seemed like it.
DARK SOUL 3 POISE FULL
Go full havels with gundyrs helm, havels ring +2, and at least 40 str and whatever vit you need to hit under 70 equip load. Official Dark Hand of the Dark Souls 2 message board. To quickly recap: poise doesn't work in Dark Souls 3 the way it did in the first Dark Souls. Endgame it depends on what you want out of your weapon.
DARK SOUL 3 POISE CRACKED
If you've played any amount of Dark Souls 3 PvP you've most likely realized that no matter what armor your opponents wear they all seem to stagger with more or less the same amount of hits, even with fast and extremely light weapons such as rapiers. Dark Souls 3 players may have cracked the mystery of poise.
