DLC armor sets have awful stats

[toughnails]

I'm so mad that like 80% of the DLC armor sets are straight up trash, with really low poise and negation. PEOPLE ARE TAKING RL150+ CHARACTERS TO THE DLC, why the hell do all these awesome looking sets feel like random starter sets you'd pick up in Limgrave??

The key art set, Oathkeeper Knight, has 42 poise, for Christ's sake! FOURTY TWO, it's straight up inferior even to the basic Knight set (51 poise) you buy 2 hours into the base game. Why do this? What's even the point? You'll look at it once, go "huh, neat", and then put it into storage to never use again.

51 poise is the absolute minimum you'd want for PvE, and by the time you're in the DLC, you'd have at least 27 END, so there's no reason to wear rags ever.

[Hoob]

Originally posted by rlh445:

Originally posted by Hoob:

Poise is if you ever intend to trade hits, people all the time are running naked in the game and still winning

Goat talisman exists

Theres a fat as hell high poise set in the dlc

Are you trolling?

yea unfortunately this dlc seems targeted to make you trade with mobs lol. 'hit R1, they swing'. the best set of armor in the dlc you get an hour in after beating blackgaol knight

Thinking like that will prevent you from enjoying the game properly

[Kevin Ryan]

Putting aside that the tools are there to ensure you can reliably make trades if dodging isn't your strongest suit ---- I have to mention that no souls veteran will tell you that armor is worn for stats.

Fashion is the true endgame. Has been for 13 years now.

[toughnails]

Originally posted by Kevin Ryan:

Putting aside that the tools are there to ensure you can reliably make trades if dodging isn't your strongest suit ---- I have to mention that no souls veteran will tell you that armor is worn for stats.

Fashion is the true endgame. Has been for 13 years now.

The whole point of STR builds is interrupting enemy attacks during their windups, which you need poise for. If your poise is low, then it's YOU who's gonna get interrupted.

It's called counter damage and there are whole builds around this mechanic, using the Spear talisman. How familiar are you with the game?

[Kevin Ryan]

Originally posted by toughnails:

Originally posted by Kevin Ryan:

Putting aside that the tools are there to ensure you can reliably make trades if dodging isn't your strongest suit ---- I have to mention that no souls veteran will tell you that armor is worn for stats.

Fashion is the true endgame. Has been for 13 years now.

The whole point of STR builds is interrupting enemy attacks during their windups, which you need poise for. If your poise is low, then it's YOU who's gonna get interrupted.

It's called counter damage and there are whole builds around this mechanic, using the Spear talisman. How familiar are you with the game?

I love how you're asking me that as if there aren't a myriad of ways to boost poise that aren't exclusively tied to armor and as if I don't have nearly 500 hours played.

Hyper armor is also a thing which is why, depending on the weapon or skill you're using, you might not necessarily need high poise to avoid getting interrupted (hence the fashion comment).

Of course you'd also need knowledge of which kinds of attacks will break through that hyperarmor and that falls under the umbrella of game knowledge which comes from practice.

Anyway, if you need poise, you can get poise. A lot of it.

Not sure what all the whining's for.

[Toast]

It’s all about the fashion souls, stats will always be secondary

[Eastersimulator]

Originally posted by Toast:

It’s all about the fashion souls, stats will always be secondary

except for mages. The nerds will throw away any form of self dignity and HP to deal a percentage more demage and then get oneshot by a rat or something. Those losers.

[Morton Koopa Jr.]

I don't really look at stats unless I'm trying to decide between options I'm already picking for fashion.

I'm loving the dlc armors.

[Vvv]

I do wish they balanced the poise more, luckily for me my fav armour is the tree sentinel set so i get nice fashion and high poise.

[Gabiru The Brave]

Dude, Solitude Set is like the first armor set you're likely to find in the DLC, it has 96 poise, and is arguably a better damage trading armor than the bullgoat armor, and it comes with a pretty sweet greatsword to complete the look.

[Nemerlight]

you guys use armor for stats?

[Darkstorm]

Originally posted by Forest:

>good stats
>fashion

You can’t have both. It’s the rule of every single rpg ever.

Night cavalry set, looks cool CHECK 51+ poise CHECK

Originally posted by Nemerlight:

you guys use armor for stats?

There are two stats that matter when wearing armors, poise and equip load.