the rats are giant and literally throw their whole weight at you with that attack, it would be like getting tackled by a cow.

The small ones are definitely not a cow the Big Daddy rats yeah that's a cow but there is Pitbull size rats that can see through boxes and evolved intelligently enough to spring premeditated traps

They say it does. But I’m often wondering why I get stunned/staggered in PvP all the time, but that player wearing a robe can immediately attack me, or roll, after I’ve landed a great sword light attack, before I can get swing a 2nd time. I can get stun locked w/ a 75 poise, but PvP’ers seem immune to this effect no matter what they’re wearing. Bad enough the roll is ridiculous. Both the poise and Roll systems make PvP very unappealing.

pvp is different on its poise and hit ratios even now you need 81-90 poise and hitting 100 no longer matters much hitting the max poise is barley enough for heavier weapon light attacks. Most weapons can either break poise first hit or by the second hit.

you can just throw poise out the window. forget about it even exists. they keep ruining it with every new game

that is how it should be

Exactly. If I have way higher poise with heavy armor on and I try to trade with someone while I am using a greathammer I should be able to 100% of the time. But nope, my active poise just doesn't kick in sometimes and I get stunned. I miss ds1 sometimes.

The game is about speed and reach.

Scythes deal the same amount of poise damage as halberds meaning you need 93 to tank one-handed and 103 to tank 2-handed R1 attacks.