>>720076416
The biggest thing they never tell you is one stat called ADP (adaptability), it's a stat that controls a few major things, like roll iframe, casting speed and a few more obscure and very specific things, if you don't know about it, you will probably ignore it and never level it up making the game 100 times harder for yourself. Another more unintuitive thing is that strafing attacks is vastly superior to rolling in DS2, like it's insane, this is of note because you're hardwired to roll when to dodge when playing Dark Souls (unless you really know what you're doing).