Posture Damage vs. Poise (Rune Verbiage)

[Markytous]

The runes Ruq (Increase Posture Damage) and Scaeve (Increase Damage To Enemy Poise) seem a bit nebulous as to what they do. I can only assume Ruq is for Grievous Attacks/Depleting Stance and Scaeve is for making mobs "stagger" during combos? Any confirmation on this?

[Ghost]

Poise would be the amount of stagger damage you need to inflict in order to stagger them
Posture would be their meter that opens them up to a riposte

[Penitence]

A valid question. One the devs probably didn't think people would ask. They really would've been better off changing one of these words to stagger or something, if they are indeed different. The average person will look at these two words and see the same meaning, it especially doesn't help their case that they don't cover this poise in tutorials. You just come across it in these rune slots later on, scratching your head.

[Kashra Fall]

Poise= taking an attack and withstanding it. Enemies like holy bulwark stagger after 2 swings of a grand weapon. I'd imagine this makes it more common, so sometimes 2, sometimes 1?

Posture= stun bar.

[Yves23]

i understand that Poise is the stagger to put the mob / boss in execution . Posture is the ability to flinch some mobs but no stun . Perfect exemple is those ghost in Umbral : when you have a light weapon (for exemple Pieta with smite proc) you can spam light attacks but the ghost doesn t flinch but smite can stun the ghost with the relic. But if you play a heavy weapon you will see that every light attacks can flinch thoses ghosts and you can even push them off a cliff

[Ghost]

Originally posted by Yves23:

i understand that Poise is the stagger to put the mob / boss in execution . Posture is the ability to flinch some mobs but no stun . Perfect exemple is those ghost in Umbral : when you have a light weapon (for exemple Pieta with smite proc) you can spam light attacks but the ghost doesn t flinch but smite can stun the ghost with the relic. But if you play a heavy weapon you will see that every light attacks can flinch thoses ghosts and you can even push them off a cliff

Huh? literally all posture does is allow the creature to be riposted after being depleted
Poise is what handles the entirety of flinching/staggering

[Penitence]

Originally posted by Yves23:

i understand that Poise is the stagger to put the mob / boss in execution . Posture is the ability to flinch some mobs but no stun . Perfect exemple is those ghost in Umbral : when you have a light weapon (for exemple Pieta with smite proc) you can spam light attacks but the ghost doesn t flinch but smite can stun the ghost with the relic. But if you play a heavy weapon you will see that every light attacks can flinch thoses ghosts and you can even push them off a cliff

Got it backwards, they even say posture when you reach the parry/grievous strike tutorials.

[Yves23]

im sorry my game is not in english lmao but we understand the 2 mechanics somehow