How do you get out of getting stunlocked in PvP?

[Blackleaf]

Hello hello, Rather noob dark souls player here.
I've noticed that almost every time I PvP I end up getting stunlocked and can't do anything until the other person runs out of stamina.
Is there some sort of trick I'm missing here except for "Don't get hit"?
I've tried rolling when stunned or blocking but I can't really do anything at all. It's kinda annoying when I get killed the first time someone attacks because of this.

Note: I am playing on a rather bad internet connection and Dark souls 2 is running at a low framerate, I'd assume this probably has SOMETHING to do with it.

[Tard Wrangling Sevice]

Its only becuase PVP has no poise, im pretty sure increasing ADP has an effect on this. That or full havels.

[Doomvora]

i run with 125 poise and i still get stunned by 2 pokes of a rapier, it is quite dumb how much poise damage they do.

[Disko Lemonade]

Originally posted by ✘War:

Its only becuase PVP has no poise, im pretty sure increasing ADP has an effect on this. That or full havels.

Poise in DS2 ties to being stunned during actions. A higher poise means it will be difficult for someone to interupt your swing. Although, the swing will most likely be slowed.

Good for people with big, heavy weapons.

Not the good old fashioned Ds1 poise that meant not getting stunned if you rocked high poise.

[southpaw]

Originally posted by Super Kami Guru:

i run with 125 poise and i still get stunned by 2 pokes of a rapier, it is quite dumb how much poise damage they do.

poise work fine utill someone put on a stone ring

[PJ]

You gotta not get hit. That's really the only way now. Only the heaviest of heavy armors has any point, below that you might as well be naked.

[Tard Wrangling Sevice]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdVlq7OTQE Found it!

Full havels can only soak up 1 hit, and that is with the poise ring.....pvp is broken.

[Disko Lemonade]

Originally posted by ✘War:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdVlq7OTQE Found it!

Full havels can only soak up 1 hit, and that is with the poise ring.....pvp is broken.

It's not broken friend. Poise isn't about not getting stunned anymore. It's a stat that is meant to minimize how often one is interupted during any given action.

You know how sometimes you'll be happily chugging that estus while some enemy hits you 3-4 times and you don't even flinch? That's because your poise stat held up. Or sometimes in midsiwing you'll be interupted and then later you take whatever damage to the face during your swing and still are able to smack them, no problem? That's because your poise stat first didn't hold up, but did later on.

Here: http://darksouls2.wikidot.com/poise

[Carface Is My Spirit Animal]

The annoying thing I find with poise and "slower" weapons is that poise doesn't start protecting you until the active frames of the swing; if you get sneezed on during the brief wind up of the swing you are interrupted. Poise should begin to protect you the moment your press the attack button.

[Disko Lemonade]

Poise may not actually be broken, but that doesn't mean Froms new system is any better than Ds1's. They should have at least implemented something that kept ridiculous stunlocks from happening. i.e. daggers and whips stunlocking people encased in thick armor from head to toe.

Or just left poise alone altogether. But you know From, if it hasn't been complained about, they're gonna fix the hell out of it.

[DYNIA]

poise I played full heavy set and never get stun locked played once in robe with 0 poise and I was stun lock all the time

[Panic Fire]

You are stunlocked for two hits, afterwords you can roll out of it.

[Tard Wrangling Sevice]

Originally posted by Disko Lemonade:

Originally posted by ✘War:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdVlq7OTQE Found it!

Full havels can only soak up 1 hit, and that is with the poise ring.....pvp is broken.

It's not broken friend. Poise isn't about not getting stunned anymore. It's a stat that is meant to minimize how often one is interupted during any given action.

You know how sometimes you'll be happily chugging that estus while some enemy hits you 3-4 times and you don't even flinch? That's because your poise stat held up. Or sometimes in midsiwing you'll be interupted and then later you take whatever damage to the face during your swing and still are able to smack them, no problem? That's because your poise stat first didn't hold up, but did later on.

Here: http://darksouls2.wikidot.com/poise

Yeah thats true :) But i'm just saying its different for PVP, i wasnt saying the whole poise system is broken, just for PVP. Poise is way better in PVE and honestly no matter how much poise you have in PVP it wont help much, becuase then you have to deal with lag, phantom range and much more, and most of the time players trade hits and it wont matter becuase most people use katanas and fast weapons :(

[Disko Lemonade]

Originally posted by ✘War:

Originally posted by Disko Lemonade:

It's not broken friend. Poise isn't about not getting stunned anymore. It's a stat that is meant to minimize how often one is interupted during any given action.

You know how sometimes you'll be happily chugging that estus while some enemy hits you 3-4 times and you don't even flinch? That's because your poise stat held up. Or sometimes in midsiwing you'll be interupted and then later you take whatever damage to the face during your swing and still are able to smack them, no problem? That's because your poise stat first didn't hold up, but did later on.

Here: http://darksouls2.wikidot.com/poise

Yeah thats true :) But i'm just saying its different for PVP, i wasnt saying the whole poise system is broken, just for PVP. Poise is way better in PVE and honestly no matter how much poise you have in PVP it wont help much, becuase then you have to deal with lag, phantom range and much more, and most of the time players trade hits and it wont matter becuase most people use katanas and fast weapons :(

Yeah, it's definitely useless in comparison to its Ds1 counterpart. Poise, that is.

[Gus]

old sun ring

[PJ]

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