Talk:Caestus (Dark Souls II)/@comment-25358405-20150212122119/@comment-75.174.85.32-20161206061309

Poise got a huge nerf in DS2. In DS1 poise restores to full after 5-10 seconds of not getting hit. In DS2 it can take several minutes for poise to fully restore. Also with the way status resist is handled armor became a lot less useful in 2, don't get me wrong having good status resist is still amazing but not nearly as amazing as in 1 (in 1 status resist was a "you can handle this much buildup" and in 2 status resist became a flat buildup reduction with each point representing 0.1% reduction