What Is Poise In Dark Souls 3

For other uses, meet Poise (disambiguation).

Poise is a game mechanic in Night Souls.

General information [ ]

Poise affects how difficult information technology is for a character to exist staggered. The higher the poise someone has, the more hard information technology is to stagger them. Large, heavy armor sets such every bit Havel's Set are known to grant the highest poise, while light cloth sets grant the lowest poise, no poise at all. The Wolf Ring grants boosted poise to players and is the only ring to practice so.

Players with high poise tin still be staggered by weapons, but tin accept more than hits before this happens.

Mostly, large and heavy weapons can stagger the near hands. A claymore should have no trouble staggering someone wearing low-poise armor such as the Maiden Prepare. Conversely, smaller and speedier weapons such every bit the Bandit's Knife accept problem causing stagger.

Non-character and non-humanoid enemies have poise, as well. Mostly, larger and tougher enemies avowal college poise than smaller enemies. Certain enemies simply cannot be staggered, although these are in the minority.

Overview [ ]

In PvE, poise is useful when facing strong enemies that hit difficult and often, especially for tank classes that practise not have the ability to dodge due to being weighed downwards by heavy equipment.

In PvP, poise is essential when fighting confronting large weapon builds, which are very common. Non utilizing loftier poise runs the run a risk of existence caught in a stun-lock combo which could be anywhere from very damaging to lethal. Poise is less useful against small weapons users, but some poise is still of import equally being stunlocked by small weapons is perhaps even more than fatal.

Loftier poise is non always a good thing. Wrath of the Gods, for example, is a miracle that causes heavy damage and stun. People with depression poise will simply become blasted off their feet, and benefit from invincibility frames while they are getting up; on the other mitt, people with high poise volition get staggered, setting themselves up for another attack.

Notes [ ]

The highest possible poise is achieved past wearing the full Havel's Ready, and equipping the Wolf Band, totaling 161 Poise. This is not including the uncountable poise granted by Havel's Greatshield and Fe Mankind, which both actually alter staggering mechanisms, rendering most attacks incapable of staggering the user. Exceptions include attacks which normally "pancake" the target, knock them skyward, or knock them back, such as Swell Hammer stiff attacks, the Dragon Bone Fist's stiff attack, and Greatbow arrows, respectively.

The Poise benchmarks are:

Poise (P) value	Resists first attack of
P ≥ 8 (6 for Fist weapons/1-handed resists)	All Rapier 2h R1s All Dagger 2h R1s All Fist weapons R1s
P ≥ 31 (21 for 1-handed resists)	All Curved Sword 2h R1s (and R2 in the case of Shotel) All Shortsword 2h R1s All Katana 2h R1s (including Washing Pole) All Smashing Scythe 2h R1/R2s All Whip 2h R1s All Large Spear (Partisan/Throughway) 2h R1s All Small Spear (Silver Spear/Winged Spear) 2h R1s All Halberd/Pole 2h R1s
P ≥ 53 (36 for 1-handed resists)	All Curved Greatswords 2h R1s All Greatswords 2h R1s All i-handed Hammers 2h R1s All 1-handed Axes 2h R1s
P ≥ 76 (51 for 1-handed resists)	All Ultra Greatswords 2h R1s All Great Axes 2h R1s All Great Hammers 2h R1s

If you wear Havel'south Gear up with the Wolf Ring, y'all'll have 161 Poise. Thus, you'll resist a few two-handed Zweihander R1/RBs before you get staggered. It's difficult to say how many exact hits y'all'll resist since we don't know how much Poise damage each weapon does.