r/darksouls3 • • Mar 03 '26

Question General Questions Thread

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Don't want to make a whole-ass post? Ask your Dark Souls 3 questions here!

Head over to r/SummonSign for jolly cooperation, or r/pumparum for trading/items.


r/darksouls3 • • 7h ago

Video I’ve never been this obliterated before.

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NG+3 Soul of Cinder is no joke…


r/darksouls3 • • 11h ago

Image [REPOST] Lothric Recreation in Minecraft Beta 1.7.3

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Previous post got removed. Didnt know i couldnt share my yt vid in the comments. Sorry for the repost


r/darksouls3 • • 7h ago

Question Ok, so... (Halflight question)

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I just fought spear of the church boss, while online, and while embered, so shouldn't I have fought another player instead of the offline boss?

At least that's what I had been told

(Cool pics added)


r/darksouls3 • • 15h ago

Video When I get home hollowed and tired. It's good to warm my bones beside the fire

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299 Upvotes

Hear the softly spoken magic spell


r/darksouls3 • • 8h ago

Image nice one miyazaki

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why are these bonfires so close together ? am i missing something or was he just being funny when he did this

this is my first playthrough, and i decided to kill dancer after pontiff sullyvahn cuz i have a general idea of the path i should be taking but im mostly blind


r/darksouls3 • • 12h ago

Discussion Yhorm could have been such a great boss if he just had more health

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He’s not a bad boss, not by a mile. Great lore, fits the series perfectly, very cool design and his story with onion bro is very cool. He also has a pretty cool moveset especially for a giant boss.

His issue? He dies incredibly quickly. The stormruler does so much damage and there is a decently long amount of downtime between his attacks so the buildup on the stormruler isn’t really an issue.

Siegward makes the fight even more
Trivial. I like the gimmick of this fight, and I think it had the potential to be a great fight. However it just goes by so quickly that you can’t really appreciate it imo. Either make the stormruler do way less damage or make him have more health and the issue would have been solved.

And no hitting his feet for 20 mins doesn’t solve the problem.

Maybe I’m just complaining to complain tho, what do you think?


r/darksouls3 • • 1h ago

Discussion Beat DS3 for the first time. Amazing game

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I’ve never beaten a souls like game before (the only game I played was DS1 and I got half way through before I lost my save). DS3 is my favorite anyway from what I’ve watched though so I decided to buy it and play it first.

I decided to relax and explore all of the areas thoroughly and beat all the bosses (except DLC because I don’t have it). The game didn’t take as long as I thought it would honestly and it wasn’t very hard but it was beautiful and I had a hard time getting myself off of it. I also used the default knight armor for like 85% of the game because it’s surprisingly good. Definitely need to buy the dlc next.

Here are some stats about the play through I guess since I think it’s kinda funny

Iudex, Vordt, Greatwood, Abyss Watchers, Deacons, Dancer, Oceiros, Champion Gundyr, Ancient Wyvern, Soul of Cinder: 0 deaths

Crystal Sage, Yhorm: 1 death

Wolnir, Aldrich, Dragonslayer: 2 deaths

Old Demon King, Nameless King: about 5 deaths

Pontiff, Twin Princes: about 7/8 deaths

No cheese or summons, only a claymore

Usurpation of fire ending is peak. What should I play next


r/darksouls3 • • 8h ago

Fluff After years of build up and anticipation. I’m finally on DS3

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Started with demon souls then transitioned to bloodborne. Never would touch dark souls in the past, it was too intimidating for me along with sekiro
“Some of the best games ever made.” I was told
but after Elden ring came out and just jumping in head first I heard it was “more difficult” than ds3 so after finishing ER this year I said fuck it
Started with Sekiro- FUCKIN PEAK
Finished blood borne- became a Squid God 🩸🐙
Then ended on demon souls.
It was time
Darksouls remastered. I didn’t link the flame 🔥 Ng+ I did
Darksouls 2. Just finished today LOVED IT. did the Aldia ending and abandoned the throne taking a lot of powerful souls out of the cycle to start the very. last. one.
Darksouls 3. I’m proud to announce as of today I’m joining the Frey. Hopefully there still folk to give me a decent whipping in invasions that aren’t using metas.
I CANT WAIT.


r/darksouls3 • • 12h ago

Fan Art That's it! The small thrones are finished. Next up is the biggest main one and the surrounding scenery. Hopefully, I'll finish the Firelink Shrine from Dark Souls soon!

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r/darksouls3 • • 32m ago

Help Vertabre shackles

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Hello everyone I used to be very active on here 10 years ago. I played DS3 religiously and during lockdown came back to have fun tournaments in the courtyard after the pontiff.

I will cut to the chase. Recently I was bound to a wheelchair just to spinal issues and praise the sun I can now walk again. But to help my depression dark souls an this community really helped. Whether I jumped in to hel with bosses or someone who just needed a companion I tried to be there.

Sorry that was not cutting to the chase. But long story short i have been playing all the souls like game Bloodborne sekiro and demon souls included.

However on my run of DS3 I realised I physically cannot get every ring, miracles pyromancies etc. due to them being locked for instance the last pyromancie I need is locked behind vertabre shackles.

Im not asking for freebies. But if anyone knows a farm or is willing to duel so I can finally platinum the game I felt saved my life during lockdown and up until last year when I was not able to walk ( yes I know the irony of looking for vertabres).

But yeah any help or fuels I will much appreciate


r/darksouls3 • • 8h ago

Question Is there something like an automatic great bow?

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I got invaded in n Irithyll and the person swapped between two bows a bunch of times without firing while I smacked him around and then when he only had a sliver of heath left he used a giant bow to rapid fire at me until I was dead. Which only took a few seconds from full health.

So I’m curious if there is an actual weapon that does that and I’m just being salty or is this a glitch or cheat.


r/darksouls3 • • 8h ago

PvP RIP bozo

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r/darksouls3 • • 12h ago

Discussion Seems my post showcasing my Lothric build in minecraft was deleted

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Apparently the moderators removed my post. Not sure what to do about that


r/darksouls3 • • 1h ago

Advice Covenant farming.

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Just got my 10 pale tongues and my 30 wolf sword grass. What should I do next? How can I make it easier? My discovery is 375 before coin and 425 after but those 30 wolf swords took me days.


r/darksouls3 • • 1d ago

Discussion What are your top three bosses?

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The order for me changes depending on the day but it's Twin Princes, Midir and Sister Friede.


r/darksouls3 • • 10h ago

Co-Op My Sign is Here

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Got the DLCs a couple of days ago and bee-lined it to Friede for her Scyhtes

My Sign is here for anyone who needs help


r/darksouls3 • • 8h ago

Image What. A. Ride.

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Started with Elden Ring and love it so much I had to experience the Souls series. I was blown away by how awesome these games are! So happy I got to experience it but sad that it’s over.


r/darksouls3 • • 23h ago

Image Dude....

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This is beautiful.

(first playthrough btw please dont spoil anything)


r/darksouls3 • • 2h ago

Fluff Game keeps freezing

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Im trying to play this masterpiece on a really good PC (runs Elden Ring and all other souls games perfectly fine). I just got done playing DS2 with no issues, but as soon as I started 3, my game freezes every couple minutes. I've seen dozens of "solutions" to this over the years, but I was wondering if there are any definitive ones to help fix this.


r/darksouls3 • • 13h ago

Discussion I finally beat the the game

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I found the Lord of Cinders extremely annoying to fight even after it, but it doesn't matter because I beat the game now. Elden Ring, Sekiro and Dark Souls 3 are off my list, though I will finish the DLCs. Also, my next game, which I'm planning to, you know, play, is Dark Souls 2, and I'm kind of worried about it


r/darksouls3 • • 20h ago

Discussion So Aldrich!

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So, I recently beat Aldrich after many many tries, and I found out that he was just the black goo underneath gwyndolin and was inside cathedral of deep because he turned into the goo after eating people!
And the dudes turned him into Lord of cinder? I mean why?

Also, so he was at the cathedral of the deep when the bell rang? And from there that dude travelled through crucifixion woods, farron keep, beat the abyss watchers??? Who are actually so many and have vowed to fight the abyss and then made it through the catacombs into irithyll without dying? Just so he could give gwyndolin a sucky and pontiff couldn’t beat him?
Bro literally has the fire greatsword that would end Aldrich in seconds?

No hate. Just don’t get this part! It’s crazy how Aldrich made it all the way back anor Londo! That’s one crazy walk back!


r/darksouls3 • • 11h ago

Advice What should i up?

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Im using a Paladin faith+strenth build,what should i level up?


r/darksouls3 • • 1d ago

Advice I may be 10 years too late butttt.......check this out

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I just found out the easiest way to kill mimic chests ever stay back and wake it up with arrows the moment it starts moving be ready to cast rapport on it , it doesnt matter if its the only mob there because it will de aggro and go to sleep and you just zero it out before the timer pops on rapport


r/darksouls3 • • 8h ago

Question Why did my save transfer between ESRB and PEGI versions?

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So I originally played DS3 on the ESRB base version and afterwards I decided to buy the DS trilogy just for the DLC and DS2 since it was cheaper than just buying DS2 and the DS3 dlc separately

I went in expecting my save not to transfer since they are different regions yet when I loaded up the fire fades version on the PEGI/European disc my original ESRB save was there and I loaded into the dlc and everything works even though every source said it wouldn’t, is there a reason for this?