This will make or break the game.

As long as I can fight as a buu-girl again.

Except the statement came from the publisher. Now, we can assume they contacted From in order to confirm, but at the same time I’d like to hear it from the horse’s mouth. That probably won’t happen. Still the statement flies in the face of actual data mining. I’d like to think if poise did anything at all that the…

Not when the game is clearly and obviously meant to be played for what it is a combination between Bloodborne and Dark Souls

There are tons of items that reference “increasing poise” or altering it in some way, not just as some form of weapons art that temporarily turn it on or off. This is just some community manager or some representative trying to put out a fire without understanding the situation.

Players: “We think this stat might be broken, tell us what it does.”

It’s like...for years you’ve been selling this chocolate cake at your bakery. Everyone loves it, tastes great. Then one day, you stop selling chocolate cake and now you sell vanilla cake...but you still call it chocolate cake.

If you’re staggered, you can’t attack—it interrupts your animation. Poise means you aren’t staggered, which means you can attack even though someone has hit you.

100% this. It’s bad communication on From Software’s part, and they should be called out for it. Same with the mysterious bannings on PC.

Thanks for the non-answer, From Software.

Honestly, this is my biggest problem with the series. Obtuse design, even intentionally so, is still bad design

“It’s more situational...”

Then maybe letting people know how these situation works would keep them from complaining. The way they’re speaking it seems like it IS a useless stat and they just don’t want to acknowledge. I understand they’re known for being cryptic, but there has to be a point where letting people know…

“That’s how poise is supposed to work”