>>712999369
>that was my experience
And that's wrong, you actually get to see the 30% extra absorbtion even with common mobs
>>712999528
>Yes you can
No you can't. Even with 15 Vitality you can med roll off Lothric Knight set
>You get nothing with a fat roll build
Fat roll is very viable and usable, from having low profile to generally needing to dodge a lot less in Dark Souls 3 when you can actually use hyperarmor and interrupt the enemy reliably.
>>712999604
ADP is not needed because the enemy is retarded and exploitable enough that your 9 iframe dodge is still usable and you will still dryhump them a lot so they miss like cretins. Shields are trash as anything but tools to abuse shit enemies or to complement getting behind the enemy back aka the only real strategy of Dark Souls 2, because you sure as hell are not facing them head on, not with the weak ability to interrupt enemies or with the massive delay on raising the very shield due to not having ADP.

>>712846072
reinstalled it just to prove I'm right