How do I build a good 'stagger lock' character?

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I have started a stagger lock build on Dark Souls 2, and I am not doing so well. I am using two daggers and power stance.

I want to be able to stagger lock anything that is not completely immune to the effect. I intend to have high damage output, but I know I will need a lot of upgrading.

What can I do to build a good 'stagger lock' character?



Best Answer

well, stone ring is the first item you need for staggering since you stagger the enemy when your poise damage is higher than your opponent's poise also heavy weapons like clubs, hammers, ultra greatswords usually have more poise damage than daggers.
also as an extra fact if you're going for a melee build that'll spam on opponent you should have high poise in case of attacking same time with your opponent so I advice you to use ring of giants +2 too




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What is the point of stagger lock?

Stagger Lock is a weapon auto-ability, which prevents the wielder from staggering an enemy. The character can still raise the chain bonus up to the stagger limit, but can't bring the opponent past the stagger threshold, meaning the other allies in the party will have to do it.

How do you stagger in Dark Souls?

Whenever you're hit by an attack, that attack/weapon has an invisible "poise damage" value, which decreases your poise bar by that amount. Consecutively receiving attacks will continue to decrease the bar further. When it hits 0, your character will stagger.

What causes stagger ds3?

According to the Dark Souls 3 wiki, player's have a certain invisible poise value that decreases each time they're attacked, based on the poise value of the weapon hitting them, and if their poise-value decreases to zero, they'll be staggered even if it's in the middle of an attack animation and they're wearing heavy ...



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