Poise is a measure of how resistant your character is to being staggered and interrupted while performing actions.

To be fair i love dark souls series to bits and will always do but i am at heart a pvp'r and well this is why this is so important to me i dont mind the fact that they are trying to use a different way of doing things but Fromsoftware you done goofed.

There has been multiple posts of this on reddit and youtube videos alike. basically what my problem is, is that i love the pvp in this game and always will but due to the fact that "Poise" is in the game but actually Disabled in the config files is stupid to all great weapon users or ultra great weapon users have faced this problem and it goes as follow's regardless of what you wear and or have equipped if you decide to use a larger weapon than a rapier or straight sword you will loose out to the fact that they can stagger your character mid swing with a tiny poke of a rapier or a faster attack of a "Long sword"

This i feel cripples the game something fierce and forces everyone to use the smaller faster weapons. And that is something i feel is stupid if u wanna switch it up or have some fun in pvp with other weapons because you will again just plainly loose out to someone with a faster weapon (if they know what they are doing of coarse)

So my plea here is to just ADD poise like it was in DS1 or just actually enable it in the config file. (you get softbanned from the online play if you do) 

Thanks for your time and hopefully we can make a change

will leave a link to another page that can explain the problem better. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4h15b4/for_those_who_still_think_poise_has_an_effect/

and again i love the games and would like nothing more than to see pvp come back to its former glory not just parry and back stab fishing.