Does Perseverance do anything at all?

[puzzlefox]

Other than reduce your dmg that is.

[Fischer]

I was watching a streamer yesterday using the red-hilted halberd and he was able to poise through estoc's and straight swords and just trade them to death.

[Jotun]

It increases poise... which makes it awesome for FTH builds since it stacks with L2 casting of a talisman! I tested that yesterday.

[ImHelping]

Perseverance, and the talismans, have the magical ability of temporarily allowing player poise. (Which is normally turned off, lol wut).

That's also apparently the appeal of the Sunlight talisman. While it has horrible scaling for the spells themselves, apprently it has the best "I'm allowed to have poise!" buff. While the Saint's talisman buff can barely tank a rat bite.

[Lu2]

Originally posted by I'm Helping!:

Perseverance, and the talismans, have the magical ability of temporarily allowing player poise. (Which is normally turned off, lol wut).

That's also apparently the appeal of the Sunlight talisman. While it has horrible scaling for the spells themselves, apprently it has the best "I'm allowed to have poise!" buff. While the Saint's talisman buff can barely tank a rat bite.

more sad it gets.more information i gets about poise. iam already bored using ugs srsly.
its there any guide with list of hyperarmor atacks/weapon arts/buffs that actualy are helpfull with this fkn game problem

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Lu2:

Originally posted by I'm Helping!:

Perseverance, and the talismans, have the magical ability of temporarily allowing player poise. (Which is normally turned off, lol wut).

That's also apparently the appeal of the Sunlight talisman. While it has horrible scaling for the spells themselves, apprently it has the best "I'm allowed to have poise!" buff. While the Saint's talisman buff can barely tank a rat bite.

more sad it gets.more information i gets about poise. iam already bored using ugs srsly.
its there any guide with list of hyperarmor atacks/weapon arts/buffs that actualy are helpfull with this fkn game problem

I don't think so, and it's not very consistent anyways.

The closest general purpose judgment seems to be that when it comes to Ultra sized weapons, once your weapon is finally in the "Will hurt something" part of it's animation, that's usually when your armor kicks in. Though again, it's not consistent (I've heard mixed things about the Pickaxe, for example).

At least when it comes to PvE, you can make your life a lot easier keeping a low weight normal shield around for when it's time to fight rats, dogs, thralls, and other assorted "fast but weak" enemies. Let them bounce off your block like an idiot, flatten them, then go back to two handing without a shield.

Note to self. play with small shields to see how many of them dogs and rats will BOUNCE off of, rather than just get blocked.

[Chris]

It seems to activate your actual poise for about... 1.5 seconds? I've seen it used in youtube videos but my question is this... why bother? With the exception of 2 or 3 weapons, perseverence is used by weapons that all have hyper armour anyway. Just time your attacks and you can use your hyper armour to trade.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Meh:

It seems to activate your actual poise for about... 1.5 seconds? I've seen it used in youtube videos but my question is this... why bother? With the exception of 2 or 3 weapons, perseverence is used by weapons that all have hyper armour anyway. Just time your attacks and you can use your hyper armour to trade.

Primarily, so you have more of a chance in hell of nailing that Attack Miracle, since now attack miracles have garbage damage unless you hit with them at melee range.

Notice how the majority of "Activate poise actually working!" buffs are tied to talismans, and hammer weapons (Cleric starts with a mace).

The earlier mentioned red hilted halberd's flavor text is about clerics, as well.

[Jotun]

Originally posted by Meh:

It seems to activate your actual poise for about... 1.5 seconds? I've seen it used in youtube videos but my question is this... why bother? With the exception of 2 or 3 weapons, perseverence is used by weapons that all have hyper armour anyway. Just time your attacks and you can use your hyper armour to trade.

Hallebardes don't have hyper armor on 1h R1 pokes that are pretty fast. So you can basically activate poise and then go on a poking spree.
And as I said earlier, you can combinw it with casting. Also notice the red hilted Hallebarde description... it mention peoplw with faith.