How much Poise for a STR build?

[psheue]

I love big weapons, but I've only used them without heavy armor and I wanna see if it's fun to focus on trading hits with them. What amount of poise should I aim for? For the most part, I'll be using UGSs and Great Hammers. Thanks!

[Remedy]

There is no poise! You're welcome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywdjQPy3jmw

[40+13x-3=17x-363]

https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/5ckxjf/indepth_poiseguide_v108/

[psheue]

Originally posted by EU.GaSeR:

There is no poise! You're welcome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywdjQPy3jmw

Well, I'm aware that it doesn't work like it used to, but it does work with HA; I remember plenty of times in which I traded hits with other players using the same weapon class as me (but with heavy armor) and I always was the one that got staggered and they always got to finish their combos.

[Miromett]

50~55 poise will enable you to trade hits with any weapon really. The only thing that matters at that point is how much damage you do.

[Artek [General]]

50 poise and a two-handed greathammer will pretty much make you unstoppoble as long as you keep swinging.
The Havel's is a still a king of poise. Only very few attacks can stagger him, and those are R2 attacks of very heavy weapons.

Generally speaking you need at least 35-40 poise. It will allow you to poise through light-medium weapons.
Combined with UGS or Great Hammer... Maybe you'll be able to tank a greatsword. MAYBE.
And maybe one-handed UGS. Maybe.

[Miromett]

Another thing... most hammer type weapons ( aside from being really stable weapons as far as poise health goes )

will have some variation of -perseverance- which is an Art that activates your HA frames for the entire duration of the effect. Basically it makes you impossible to stagger.


This isn't always the case though. Fully charged attacks from great - class weapons may be able to stagger / break your poise entirely.

[XOLiD]

I seem to do fine with Morne's Greathammer and ~35 poise.

[psheue]

Thanks for all the replies. I went through the spreadsheets of poise breakpoints (thanks Lolimancer) and it was so boring but useful... Anyway, I'm going to try a 50ish poise build with Ledo's GH to see how it goes.