I wish FROM would just stop with their mindgames already and stated what it's about. It's just crazy that even with the huge amount of work people have poured on finding usefulness of a single stat in an RPG like this, they still haven't found it yet.
For what it's worth, someone at From explained to Bandai Namco how Poise works, so the ball's in their court how they (as western publishers and community managers) choose to handle it.
As I understand it, Poise isn't "disabled" like a lot of people believe; it's just not a passive thing like it was in Dark 1.
It activates when you perform certain heavy/charge attacks and weapon skills, which gives the "hyper armour" effect.
The actual Poise stat in your character status screen determines how much "hyper armour damage" you can take before said attack is broken.
So the description is accurate, but the balancing is off, which makes it come across as disabled/broken. (A good soul in the story/lore thread politely calls it "undercooked".)
Edit:
It's frustrating, because there's only so much From can say to its audience (both Japanese and worldwide) without treading on anyone's toes.
But then some website comes along (who shall remain the Nameless King of Clickbait) "quoting" From and holding them to the Profaned Flame of the internet.
I mean, the developers are accountable when something isn't implemented successfully, but the subsequent balancing act is a delicate process.
You can't just "fix" one thing and expect nothing else to be broken, especially if you're simply activating a variable in a system file.
