DARK SOULS III HYPE: 5 LIGHT vs. HEAVY ARMOR

LIGHT ARMOR & HEAVY ARMOR

What are they, and which should you be using?

Well, as you can see in the images above, as randomly generated on the Fashion Souls App, the 'weight' of armor isn't exactly as clear cut or black & white as "Light & Heavy." Some armor is heavier than others, but is still inter-changable with each of the four slots, 'Head, Body, Arms & Legs.' Lighter armor pieces normally consist of models resembling robes or leathers, while heavier armor peices often has models that look like big suits of metal that helps resist being stunned with a stat called 'poise.' Ultimately, you can exchange them to look as stylish, practical, or even as ridiculous as you want. Most of the armor pieces in the Souls Series have extremely imaginative design features to them, be it shape, colour or texture, dark souls armor is by far my favorite out of any fantasy setting. I can't really think of any kind of RPG that lets you wear an armor made entirely out of skeletons.

The most important part though, is only wearing as much equipment as you are comfortable with. 

As mentioned on the Wikidot Dark Souls Wiki has an article on rolling which covers the subject in great detail, "The higher your percentage, the slower your stamina bar will recover stamina. The change appears to be linear. The higher your percentage, the shorter your roll distance." Effectively, your ability to dodge roll is dictated as such. Although, it also mentions that your weight only affect distance you travel when you roll. It has no affect on iFrames or roll duration, but can definitely be useful to know that you can tailor exactly how far you want to roll. You could go super far with a 10% burden, or deadly close at 70% to close in for those roll-backstabs. Regardless, your entire roll takes about 25 frames to complete unless you go over the 70% margin, so pick your equipment load carefully, using tools such as the Dark Souls II Character Builder.

Equip Load	Rolling Distance (Out of Maximum Possible Distance)
0%	100%
10%	95%
30%	90%
50%	80%
70%	65%
100%	65%
120%	60%

Keep in touch, because very soon, you'll be getting a post about POISE AND HYPER-ARMOR; so keep posted and make sure to follow @SoulsHype on Twitter for updates on more advice to consider bringing to Dark Souls III.