>>718861023
>In DS3 they go to far in the other direction, shields just become useless.
Git gud
>Even in elden ring shields are significantly worse than rolling
Git gud

>>716066762
>Which you can just reactively roll through like it's nothing
No you can't, your placement is every bit as important actually. You are full of shit

>>713000816
Armor in Souls games is good
It's Dark Souls 2 (fake Souls game), that botched it completely

>>712619569
>Staggering bosses
>Actually blocking actively in combat
>Pressuring the enemy
Ds2 wished it could

>>712593009
Dark Souls 2 improved the RPG systems by... Making shield and armor useless and locking builds to singular damage types that you are incentivize to use as one and only strat by buffing on infusions?
Dark Souls 2 is an awful "RPG". You are better off using Fire buffed Fire sword against Fire bosses to DPSmax than actually adapt and smartly differentiate your toolset
Oh boy, how do I love Havel set in Dark Souls 2 reducing damage taken of 1/10th by midgame because it worls off flat damage-defense subtractions

>>712519976
All mods are always bloated trash full of overlaps and unnecessary extra stuff