How much poise for PvE?

[SpaceGoat]

I thought the conventional wisdom was to aim for 51 poise, but now I am doing more searching on the topic and seeing loads of different poise breakpoints listed. However most of the information I can find is focused on PvP. For PvE specifically is 51 poise still the most important target to aim for or is there more to it than that?

[Sparhawk 59]

Concentrate on vigor and upgrading your weapon and its stats to destroy the bosses and mobs. Poise comes with better armour sets but they are heavier

[SpaceGoat]

Yeah, but I can play around with what armor I wear, with or without the great jar arsenal, and get various levels of poise. I am asking about that stat specifically.

[TyresTyco]

For pve? Doesnt matter. I tried it all and even with maxed poise.. the only thing you can poise through are minor hits from toothpicks. Anything bigger than a shortsword attack will stagger you.

It also depends on the weapon you use. If you use guts greatsword for example you can hyperarmor through quite some stuff if you also have some poise. It's hard to make lists for that since there are so many variables.

You have to test it for yourself.. it depends on the enemys weapons. Your poise stat.. your weapon.. etc etc.

[Nihrahk]

Just getting enough poise to tank a hit from an arrow is enough for pve. That's all I ever needed and I got through the game multiple times just fine.

[Liro Raériyo]

i hear that 61 stops a little more then half of all attacks from standard enemies in the game, past that your not gonna get much more benefit as after that you need some extremely high poise to only be able to poise through a few more attacks from some of the larger enemies.

[IvanGovnov]

51

[Baby don't hurt me]

why we need poise in PVE?
just don't get hit
dodge or block the attack

[YosemiteBear]

Originally posted by This Is Madness!:

why we need poise in PVE?
just don't get hit
dodge or block the attack

why do you need poise in pvp? just dodge and block the attack uuurr durrr

[königplatzen]

Originally posted by TyresTyco:

For pve? Doesnt matter. I tried it all and even with maxed poise.. the only thing you can poise through are minor hits from toothpicks. Anything bigger than a shortsword attack will stagger you.

That's why 51. This is the threshold, where you can poise through minor attacks.

Originally posted by TyresTyco:

It also depends on the weapon you use. If you use guts greatsword for example you can hyperarmor through quite some stuff if you also have some poise. It's hard to make lists for that since there are so many variables.

The hyperarmor usually increases poise until 60 base poise, which is good.
After that, you get negative hyperarmor, which reduces poise slightly while hyperarmoring
f.e. if you go for 100 base poise, you loose poise while hyperarmoring to like 80-90 (don't remember exactly).
It's stupid, I couldn't believe it, too, but that's what I remember.

Pvp is different, but it seems, that high poise is quite useful against smaller weapons.

[s0d0]

Originally posted by königplatzen:

The hyperarmor usually increases poise until 60 base poise, which is good.
After that, you get negative hyperarmor, which reduces poise slightly while hyperarmoring
f.e. if you go for 100 base poise, you loose poise while hyperarmoring to like 80-90 (don't remember exactly).
It's stupid, I couldn't believe it, too, but that's what I remember.

Sounds stupid, but it actually makes sense, physically.
I mean this is not a simulator obviously, but this is actually kinda realistic :D

[gungadin22000]

Originally posted by This Is Madness!:

why we need poise in PVE?
just don't get hit
dodge or block the attack

Mr. Miyagi is terrible at soulslikes.

[SpaceGoat]

Originally posted by YosemiteBear:

Originally posted by This Is Madness!:

why we need poise in PVE?
just don't get hit
dodge or block the attack

why do you need poise in pvp? just dodge and block the attack uuurr durrr

Because I am bad at the game, duh.

[KuDrIcK]

Originally posted by Baby don't hurt me:

why we need poise in PVE?
just don't get hit
dodge or block the attack

I will defend till my last breath your abbility to play however you want, but my brother in christ.
In the world where acces to magic is a choice, you choose to smack with a stick.

[BIGDOJO]

51 poise is really all you need, leaving you free for lots of fashion options with only having to include a couple heavy pieces to make it.