u/DaftFunky

I started playing this game a week or so ago when I noticed it was included with PS+ and I'm having fun for the most part. One area I have questions about is enemy poise/posture breaks, my own poise/posture breaks, and damage reduction numbers.

I mix and max different armor pieces and for the life of me I can't really tell a difference when fighting enemies and how 1 arrow shot can stagger me out of a charged R2 attack wearing armor with 800 dmg reduction or just wearing cloth armors. If I get surrounded by 2 or 3 tiny little gargoyles I am lucky to get any attacks in while trying to dodge their stupid devasting attacks.

I also get 3 shot quite easily wearing heavy armor by those frost crossbowmen in the Fief and I am just baffled on how all this is calculated?

Should I be investing in a greatshield to tank hits? Do shields every hit 100% damage reduction? The first thing that put me off shields was the super low dmg reduction on them.

I’m in Sunless Skein. I have exhausted all dialogue between Winterberry and Byron. Winterberry wants to keep the pendant for her self. I can’t buy it. I am reading a guide that says kill the Skinflayer boss but don’t use elavator but to talk to Byron and Winterberry in Skyrest to complete it. They are not in Skyrest. They are still in Sunless Skein with the same dialogue. I have no idea how to continue this.