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I saw this video a few days ago. Pretty funny idea.

BakonBitz posted...

He buffed himself with a bunch of flasks, health, and used heavy armor while being overencumbered, so he had a fairly useless dodge roll.

Poise is broken enough in DS1 that this is actually a completely legitimate strat. I did a run where I was over encumbered for as much of the game as possible (aka I rushed the stone armor right after the asylum) and basically face tanked everything except BoC and Gywndolin and it was one of the easiest runs I've ever done in those games. Barely anything has the DPS to outpace your healing capabilities even before you get the Rite of Kindling and it doesn't use stamina so you can just swing away then heal while your stamina recovers and repeat.