Dark Souls III “Poise is working as intended“

So apparently, being almost entirely random and independent from what you wear is intentional. And this is how you withstand attacks without breaking form. The quotation marks in my title are the words from a Namco Bandai Spokesperson responding to Kotaku’s Patrick Keplek. According to the same article, linked below, poise is a “situational stat, which seems to be the reason for the confusion“