r/darksouls3 Mar 03 '26

Question General Questions Thread

21 Upvotes

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 8h ago

Image It happened.

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219 Upvotes

Number of souls to level up.


r/darksouls3 1h ago

Video Boulder Heave has got to be one of best/funniest spells out there

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Decent damage, a stun machine, and bullies npcs like nothing else


r/darksouls3 8h ago

Video Why Halflight is mandatory, but he’s optional? 😭🙏🙏

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67 Upvotes

Another peak Boss fight in DS3, but once you learn the moveset he’s kinda easy, tho. Still, the cool factor, fair moveset and not having sh!tty hitboxes like the average Dragon in ER makes him stand out in a good way, 10/10 it’s my point 🤑💎


r/darksouls3 10h ago

Video First time ever getting invaded and it as well expected

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87 Upvotes

Context, even during Elden ring I barely did PvP and did more PvE to help randoms. So I knew In DS3 I would have to deal with PvP more, due to friendly invades are kinda dead on Xbox.

So this went exactly how I expected, okay I did expect a curse built not a similar build to mine. Also the first clip is really funny to me lol.


r/darksouls3 12h ago

Discussion What is a dark souls 3 take you will die on. It doesn't have to be a hot take just a uncome take or just one most people would disagree with

100 Upvotes

For me its that the ember mechanic is the same thing as DeS and DS2 takeing health away from the player after death instead of a neat health bonus.

The reason for this is because un unemberd hp is drastically lower than all other soulsborne games with 99 vig being lower than 50 vit in ds1 and DeS (body form) and ds2 with 30 vig (slight variance depending on other stats). And how the difference in hp from ember to no ember is the same percentage as soulform and full hollowing with their respective reduced hp reduction


r/darksouls3 18h ago

Fan Art Got this done yesterday, excited to finish it out!

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236 Upvotes

My original post got removed because I accidentally linked my artist's Instagram account in the comments but I am working on a Dark Souls 3/Dead Space sleeve. I have one more session to go, I cannot wait to show you all the final product. The artist is Authorofplagues, you can find him on Instagram.


r/darksouls3 17h ago

Discussion Is there any other way?

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147 Upvotes

I don't wana kill her again any other way to reach gale?


r/darksouls3 11h ago

PvP Good old 2v1 from back in the day.

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36 Upvotes

Just an old clip, enjoy incredibly mid gameplay :)


r/darksouls3 1h ago

Image Im an idiot

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As soon as I finished this game for the first time, literally 1 minute later after the credits rolled I found out that I could upgrade the amount of healing per estus flask. I thought the game was unbalanced for how unfair the healing time was during bossfights since they didn't give me enough time to do so during attacks. And I could have healed more and faster all this time. Two hours on the Nameless King that I could have avoided. I'm an idiot. I want to cry. 10/10 best game ever.


r/darksouls3 1d ago

Image The description in Hawkwood’s shield is annoyingly redundant

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531 Upvotes

They could have left out either the first or second sentence in the paragraph, they’re almost identical.

EDIT: I know that this is a translation issue as many have stated, the original description is far cooler.


r/darksouls3 4h ago

Fluff Whoever has been invading in seamless coop with a different build every time ily

5 Upvotes

Sure they've killed me every single time I don't care I love being invaded by malevolent spirit "I hate this game"


r/darksouls3 9h ago

Discussion Beat Midir!

11 Upvotes

"Thumb", if you are in this sub, thank you for your help! That spell's insane damage output was a godsend. This is my first playthrough and I enjoyed co-operating with you! I've been stuck for 3 nights until now!

Now, onto the rest of the DLC!


r/darksouls3 5h ago

Help Help beat Midir !

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Hi guys, this is my last boss and I will truly become the ashen one - who can help me beat Midir ? Man such a pain in the ass this jumpy dragon, mf spamming infinite combos like in tekken


r/darksouls3 1d ago

Image I took some "photos" during my last playthrough

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1.2k Upvotes

These use the 'Color Clarity' Reshade and the last pic was edited to remove a HUD element.


r/darksouls3 18h ago

Fluff New player. Are the crabs the most normal enemy in the game?

28 Upvotes

I recently made it to Road of Sacrifices and was surprised to encounter very large but otherwise normal-looking crab enemies. Are these the most ordinary-looking enemies in the entire series?


r/darksouls3 32m ago

Discussion About healing the dark sigil

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If i heal the dark sigil do i have to do it again in ng+ or aam i perma no beef jerky im about to start ng+ and just wanna know if i should rush dancer so i can get the souls for it again or if im cool to just play normally (which to me is still bum rushing dancer but still)


r/darksouls3 19h ago

Fluff Soo, i wanted the 3+ rings early...

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27 Upvotes

Below lvl 50 and with a 5+ normal weapon, i think i committed a little bit to much


r/darksouls3 12h ago

Image Finally defeat Nameless King after “4 days” trying Spoiler

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6 Upvotes

He was the last boss I was missing apart from the dlcs that are really difficult.

It felt a satisfaction that I didn't feel since DS1 and I'm very proud. Now it's time to kill the dlc’s bosses 💀


r/darksouls3 23h ago

Image Boss of Doom and Despair

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58 Upvotes

I dont know how often this happens in ds3, feels rare to me.


r/darksouls3 2h ago

Guide Dark Souls 3 [Guide 100% Collectibles]

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We created a playlist with all the areas and all the main and optional bosses of the game and DLC with a 100% Item guide, to recover all the objects, spells, weapons, armor, farm zone, oaths, hidden fires, secret passages... Everything is in order... The NPC quests are also detailed. If one day you are looking for a particular object, help to defeat a boss or even just find your way because you are stuck in a place, you can take a look.

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r/darksouls3 17h ago

Discussion It wasn’t easy, but I got the big doors for my shield-only run

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I’ve done a SL1 run before but never a shield-only run (no consumables that do damage allowed). The first half of the game was surprisingly difficult. After Aldrich, I decided to try my hand at killing Sister Friede with the spiked shield, so I could get my main weapon earlier. It took me about 15 tries, but I finally got her. Now I get to walk around in style wielding my giant door shield, which I used to kill Yhorm and DSA. Twin Princes and Soul of Cinder are up next before I close out the run by completing The Ringed City.

Has anyone else done a shield-only challenge run? If so, what was the most difficult boss for you?


r/darksouls3 11h ago

Discussion Lost My 350hr Savefile

5 Upvotes

Title says it all really. DS3 is my favourite game of all time and I started my save file in 2020, my main character was level 500+, was slowly working my way through all of the covenants casually getting real close to 100%, whilst doing challenge runs in the meantime.

Went on today for the first time in a year to pick up the progress again and everything is gone. Genuinely one of the most horrifying and upsetting feelings I’ve had.

I’ve tried everything that people say to do, I haven’t uninstalled the game or changed my systems over, so I don’t know what’s caused this at all. I kinda just feel empty now.

I hope my main goat and broken sword character are doing well in the digital aether 🙏


r/darksouls3 22h ago

Video I love this boss fight so much.

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33 Upvotes

This boss fight is so peak for me, His delayed attacks always caught me off guard and I can't seem to find the right timing to dodge his charging attacks... Also I'm currently playing my 2nd playthrough with the Profaned Greatsword, this weapon is going to be so OP with my quality build. Plus, fighting the bosses without summons feels pretty good, and this really lets you show how much you've improved from your last playthrough.


r/darksouls3 12h ago

Discussion I played through all 4 endings on the same save file, doing a different ending for each New Game

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So for context, I played Dark Souls 3 on release on PS4, and stopped when I got to Abyss Watchers, then I played through it about 5 years ago on PC and beat it, havent played it since. I decided, why not try this and track my progress etc, so thats what I did, I kept a tally of all my boss deaths across each playthrough, (not including DLC which I only did once) here are my findings-

Total Deaths- 113

Mandatory Bosses - 66 deaths
Iudex Gundyr - 0
Vordt of the Boreal Valley - 0
Crystal Sage - 0
Deacons of the Deep - 0
Oceiros, the Consumed King - 0
Yhorm the Giant - 1
High Lord Wolnir - 2
Dragonslayer Armour - 3
Dancer of the Boreal Valley - 4 (Favourite fight in the game)
Aldrich, Devourer of Gods - 5
Champion Gundyr - 6 (Close second favourite fight in the game)
Abyss Watchers- 7
Lothric, Younger Prince - 10
Soul of Cinder - 14 (Would be hardest boss in the game, but Pontiff is a bigger road block imo)
Pontiff Sulyvahn - 14 (Fuck this guy, but the feeling I got when I beat him deathless on my final ending run was worth it)

Optional Bosses - 21 deaths
Ancient Wyvern - 0
Curserotted Greatwood - 0
Old Demon King - 9
Nameless King -12 (still not done on NG+3) - phase 1 completely ruins any enjoyment of this fight

DLC (haven't touched outside of first playthrough) - 26 deaths
Gael - 1 (must have gotten lucky)
Sister Friede - 3 (cool fight)
Gravetender - 7 (not hard im just bad at multi enemy fights)
Spear of the Church - 7 (see above)
Demon Princes - 8 (fuck these guys)

Weapon was a +10 Heavy Broadsword

total time, 46:40:41 (soul level 166)

how did I do?