Sentinel armor of the golden tree and the mask that gives you 2 strength points plus the talisman you have 101 poise exactly to resist a light attack with a colossal sword

We need the stone ring in ER

DS3 had it mostly right. In DS3, poise is a way to get heavier, slower weapon attacks through with some thought and timing. In ER stacking poise is a way to completely ignore your opponent's attacks and just facetank trades. It's virtually a PVP-only stat; 89 poise, which requires one or both of some of the heaviest armors in the game and bullgoat talisman, is still not enough to tank a hit from a dog, let alone a common soldier with a greatsword. But it's a popular pvp benchmark. So now that lighter/faster weapons can benefit from poise in PvP without having to invest much of the build to do so, particularly thrusting swords, there's very little reason to use big heavy weapons that demand stat investment and are still too slow to confirm enough hits.

There are gamers that complain, thinking “I can’t be bad, must be the games fault”, then there are gamers that just get good.

So many complaints on poise, nasty noobs.

thanks for spewing a bunch of math into the article in the least readable way possible

I just wish the system worked more consistently for trades. Either works pretty well, or I get staggered no matter the poise. I know everyone hates on DS3 poise but they had the right idea by giving heavier, slower weapons "invisible" poise boosts. I don't need to have DS1 poise but it's really annoying losing so many trades to greatswords while using colosssals.

This page is horrendously outdated. On top of that, blaidds set is now 60 poise, not "exactly 51"

@Dec 20: There is no Poise in PVE, only Stance. Certain weapons cause different staggers in PVE. It's usually the bigger weapons only who can stagger knights but whips who only deals slightly higher poise/stance damage than daggers will stagger knight type enemies.

I’m a fan of poise in this game, it’s no Dark Souls 1, but it’s nice, certainly feels better than DS3.

@Jan4

Halberd and Reaper's R1 you'd need 125 poise to tank.