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 • • 6h ago

Video let the enemies work for you sometimes

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r/darksouls3 • • 3h ago

Video killing slave knight gale as a black knight (ng+6) no flaskk

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i have to cut the video to be a 1gb
the rings are
ring of steel protection(+3),ring of favor (+3),chloranthy ring(+3),lloyds sword ring and red tearstone ring at the end of the fight
level 217
black knight armor set and black knight greataxe +5
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what do you think!! lmk


r/darksouls3 • • 19m ago

Video I WANNA CRYYYYYY. This is too stressfulllll

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r/darksouls3 • • 46m ago

Video I was not expecting that..

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r/darksouls3 • • 17h ago

Image Statue in Chongqing, China, reminds me of the Undead Settlement from Dark Souls 3

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r/darksouls3 • • 1d ago

Image Fire Keeper cosplay of mine (with some 'fire.png' in my hands lol)

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r/darksouls3 • • 16h ago

Discussion First time DS3 run after 2 years of Elden Ring and I am shocked

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I played Dark souls 1 years ago and It was so hard for me but I finished all bosses.

I played elden ring for 2 years with some breaks between + DLCs and It was so hard to finish it for me with some bosses (DLC bosses, Malenia and some others)

So I have started Ds3 2 days ago and I am shocked, this is the first time I am having too easy time with a souls game.

I have first timed like %80 of bosses and others like 2-3 times It took. Only boss that pissed me off was Pontiff and his shityy clone all others were very easy but fun. I havent player the DLC bosses yet tho.

Btw the atmosphere of Dark souls 3 is just amazing, there is an element of horror and hopelessness, I dont know , the feeling of a dying world is better in this game. Elden ring has similar concept too but DS3 did it better.


r/darksouls3 • • 5h ago

Fan Art Black haired fire keeper doodle :p

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r/darksouls3 • • 21h ago

Image First time seeing this with 2k+ hours ?

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Does this mean we might get an update soon? I’m so confused lol


r/darksouls3 • • 47m ago

Co-Op Someone to co-op ds3 ? [PS5] 😎

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Hi! I'm on a NG.

Password : 1234

Send a message please 👍


r/darksouls3 • • 16h ago

Help Wtf is this Spoiler

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How do i even get past these guys, the shouting one just spits fire when i get to him


r/darksouls3 • • 5h ago

Advice Good hollow infused weapons

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As we all know by now, status in this game is almost useless since most bosses are either heavily resist or immune, and bleed procs dont do much damage, instead I've opted to get pure damage from scaling

On my luck build character I've already gotten to 99 luck, and although anri's straightsword is fun with over 500 AR, it's just not fun anymore after using it on every boss

Unfortunately, I'm noticing that some of these weapons dont scale very well with the hollow infusion, so I'd like to ask if there are any weapons that are actually good on a hollow infusion.

I'm not very hopeful, and I dont expect to get anything near the 270ish scaling damage on anri's straightsword, but I just want something better than the 80 I'm getting on the hollow reinforced club to finish off Gael and find something else to do with my time


r/darksouls3 • • 1d ago

Video Handmade fallen Knight cos.

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I tried to capture the melancholy, loneliness, and exhaustion the Fallen Knight from might have felt before his death..


r/darksouls3 • • 16m ago

Help WTF is going on with my DS3

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I’m on pc if that means anything


r/darksouls3 • • 1d ago

Image Saw this while looking for draksouls skins

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What drove someone to make this I’ll never know


r/darksouls3 • • 1d ago

Video Wild way to end my last DS3 boss fight

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r/darksouls3 • • 1h ago

Discussion Phased through an elevator while using dark sign?????

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ive never seen this happen also when i tried too make it happen again it didnt work. anyone know anything about this?


r/darksouls3 • • 1h ago

Discussion Finsihed both DLC and therefore all bosses - first playthrough

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Soooo, both DLCs down too. As always, plain spear with no effects "shreds" bosses (there weren't even yellow damage on Gael LOL).

Midir and Friede added another two 4-attempt fights and Gael broke the record and died in 7. Overall liked all bosses besides Gravetender duo cause...it was the most "oh there's boss?" moment.

Loved Painting DLC whole, didn't like levels of Ringed city that much and mostly I have those stupid ass respawning summoning giants to thank, like wtf is even that WHY THEY RESPAWN. I didn't mind the first one, but second one in the swamp...*sigh*. Cleared out all of it to collect my items in peace, got killed by dragonslayer armour (???) and saw that THIS DUDE IS BACK. Also turtle enemies were annoying and I guess dudes near the beginning of Dreg heap, those blue guys. Ringed knights were cool tho and locusts were interesting. Big guys with machetes can be staggered by arrows, so they all became hedgehogs. Loved Lapp's questline, hilarious ending.

That's kinda it, Midir is cool, Gael is awesome, Demon prince I really liked, Friede was a bit annoying with her dodges, but I got used to it by third attempt. Halflight was a strange af mess, but it was at least fun. Just how I said, Gravetender duo exists and I'm okay with them (pretty pointless tho).

Soooo....time to true 100%? TIME TO TRUE 100% YAY, my favourite farming era!

I have all 7 attempts of Gael fight recorded out of fun, interesting to see learning process heh


r/darksouls3 • • 1h ago

Advice NG+ build help

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Coming back to it after a handful of years, have my main character at level 121 with “meta” and non “meta” weapons maxed out for dex, strength, int, and faith builds (black knight great axe, gales sword, moonlight, whatever nameless kings sword spear is called, guts great sword, and some random but fun weapons on top like but not exclusive to gotthard’s teinblades).

I want to hop into ng+ finally (beaten it about 5 times but back when helping folks with bosses was easier), anyone have strong opinions on most fun specs?

Any opinions are greatly appreciated, just wanted something fun until I likely swap specs when I can.


r/darksouls3 • • 12h ago

Fan Art Welcome home, Ashen One..

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A piece I drew for Sonnenlieds fanart challenge, designing their characters as the ashen one and the firekeeper! Dramatic lighting is one of my favorite things to do


r/darksouls3 • • 12h ago

Discussion Just beat Wolnir for the first time, how am i looking?

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First playthrough, first time on the souls series(Elden Ring being my first souls game) how am i looking? Jesus those catatcombs were ROUGH


r/darksouls3 • • 59m ago

Discussion Does anyone have a spare firelink greatsword on Playstation?

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Figured id post here considering r/pumparum is dead basically. Anyone on psn have an extra unupgraded firelink Greatsword they would be willing to donate?


r/darksouls3 • • 3h ago

Advice Weapon infusion

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I don't really like asking for advice but the weapon infusion in dark souls 3 is confusing. All i want is extra damage so why when I try to switch from a raw to heavy infusion with 25 strength the damage is less ? It's frustrating i really like this game and a lightning infusion isn't worth it till about 40 faith or am I wrong. I feel like I have just wasted the extra levels in strength thank you.


r/darksouls3 • • 1d ago

Image I'm playing again, I just got to the second DLC and I remembered this interesting fact that Midir can be seen even earlier, literally at the very beginning of the entrance to the city

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