It took me an age to get out of the bad habit of turtling and slightly less bad habit of relying on doges from DS.
You have to accept you are going to get hit by things, and instead of a doge, think of it as a step to position yourself, and using it to avoid heavy attacks, and then counter-punch
What weapon did you start with? I think I tried all three but found the axe to be significantly more forgiving off the three
Pimpstick chain thing.
Think I'm going to restart with an axe.
I also restarted DS3 on a NG to play as a sorcerer and I'm struggling to get beyond the Curse rotted tree. Perseverance!
I played similar to my D1 character - just enough strength to wield heavy weapons effectively, then everything else into stamina and equip load so that I could still move about effectively
It took me an age to get out of the bad habit of turtling and slightly less bad habit of relying on doges from DS.
You have to accept you are going to get hit by things, and instead of a doge, think of it as a step to position yourself, and using it to avoid heavy attacks, and then counter-punch
What weapon did you start with? I think I tried all three but found the axe to be significantly more forgiving off the three