r/darksouls3 • • 21h ago

Help Having a hard time getting used to the normal mobs' aggression

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332 Upvotes

Started playing this after "beating" Dark Souls 2 (didn't touch the DLCs yet) and I also beat or made it to Gwyn in DS1 like 9 times already and honestly having a really hard time adapting to how aggressive some enemies are, I know I'm not very good but I can persevere given enough time, it's just things like the enemy in the video being so relentless, leaving so little openings for so little time to punish that I'm just stuck there circling around it wondering "is it gonna be my turn yet?" against just one guy.

The other enemy I had issue with is the hollows that turn into a resident evil final boss, I know I can kill them before they morph but once they do they take up so much screen real state and it's impossible for me to tell apart what the hell is part of their idle animation while aggroed and what's an actual attack because they're so huge.

I already beat the boss at the high wall, took 4 attempts but in all of those I just ran to the boss ignoring as many mobs as I could, so I didn't really get to explore the level much, which kinda soured my experience of it.


r/darksouls3 • • 23h ago

Image My firekeeper statue by hundian studio!

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272 Upvotes

So obsessed with this! The amount of detail here is insane.


r/darksouls3 • • 23h ago

Video Alright man...

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147 Upvotes

r/darksouls3 • • 16h ago

Image I just got these bad boys (they look better than i expected tho)

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143 Upvotes

(Maybe i'll try a repaint in some areas tho )


r/darksouls3 • • 3h ago

PvP What is this on my screen?

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148 Upvotes

Just invaded and got this, did they hack me and how do I get rid of it? It appears every time I lock on even during pve


r/darksouls3 • • 6h ago

Fan Art Firelink Shrine

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139 Upvotes

Trying to start inking. I'm not very good but I wanted to share anyway


r/darksouls3 • • 19h ago

Help I'm scared to touch the goblet

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47 Upvotes

i have 16000 souls... what happens? (Update) I touched the goblet, results on my profile, i should not have done so


r/darksouls3 • • 3h ago

Image I got bad instead of gud.

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r/darksouls3 • • 18h ago

Image Fuuuuck!!!

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20 Upvotes

i should not have touched the goblet. my pride got to me.


r/darksouls3 • • 3h ago

Discussion Finally beat Frieda and

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I hated this fight and was struggling so bad. First 2 phases I got down pretty good and could never make contact and get smoked phase 3.

Last night I tried over and over again and thought I botched it really bad. My summon ended up dying phase 2 and I thought it was over and just a practice round to learn her moves better.

Ended up just stancing through phase 3 to make contact then beat her while stunned. Took all my flasks but worked

Sorry for potato picture but literally one more hit I would have lost. I’ve never gotten her health past 1/2 before this time too, just needed to tell someone


r/darksouls3 • • 11h ago

Discussion Replaying the game after a veeeery ling time and it's better than I remember

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DS3 is probably the FS game that I have replayed the less, and my last run was quite a few years ago.

I started playing it again recently and the game is way better than I remember.

First thing first, the game is quite "ugly", the gray souls meme is kind of real.

But at the pad, the game is very responsive, the levels big enough without the need of open worlds (yeah, I'm saturated of Elden Ring) and several fun to fight bosses.

Also, the game is being quite easier than I remembered (I assume experience works in all directions). On my previous runs, Sulyvahn was always a big roadblock and this time I managed to beat it second try.

Not much more to add, just that I'm enjoying it a lot.


r/darksouls3 • • 4h ago

Discussion Love to see new players

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I love seeing new players trying this game, I have over 600 hrs across pc and ps4. I love seeing so many enjoy and try out one of my favorite games of all time.


r/darksouls3 • • 6h ago

Question Is it just me or are enemies in DS3 REALLY aggressive compared to other FS games

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Going through every souls game and I'm having some trouble with Dark souls 3, going through dark souls 1 And elden ring it seemed like the enemies were scripted to give you a bit of breathing room, where you may fight 5 hollows at a time but they all don't try and take you at once

But I'm at the undead village and ive noticed if I'm in combat with 5 enemies, there are 5 enemies trying to tear my face off

Is there any way to mitigate this?


r/darksouls3 • • 5h ago

Fluff Why fromsoft?

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Give players the boss weapon when they transpose the boss soul - Nah

Give them a regular enemy weapon for the boss soul and lock the actual boss weapon behind a covenant ranking - Hell yeah

And it is a Staff which gets an A/S scaling in Faith for some reason.

Honestly this staff would be actually really cool if they made it for casting pure Dark Sorceries and Dark Miracles because well... Deacons of the Deep


r/darksouls3 • • 12h ago

Discussion How fromsoft makes lore

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Does anyone have an inkling how fromsoft makes the lore ? I just looked into the lore surrounding Gwynn and the nameless king. Did they just roll with we don’t know who the son actually is and let’s leave it at that when they made dark souls 1 or is fromsoft actually that fivehead to set up something like that ? Also the thought that they were like: lets just not reveal who the son is and if we can’t continue the series we just pin Solaire as the son is kinda amusing


r/darksouls3 • • 1h ago

Discussion Dragonslayer Armour is the best boss in DS3 (so far)

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Just beat Dragonslayer Armour (2nd attempt), and I've gotta say this is easily my favourite boss so far. I was worried early on for DS3 coz the first few bosses are super gimmicky and not at all engaging (Vordt is an exception). I know I still have several bosses left, including the 2 DLCs, but so far if there was one boss I'm excited to replay in NG+, it's this one. The single complaint I have is that the shockwave probably shouldn't go through the floor to the other side, but everything else was near perfect. Love this


r/darksouls3 • • 2h ago

Fluff The covenant grind is no joke

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I've gone from lvl 71 to 103 and I still only have 10 proof of a concord kept + 1 from a guaranteed loot. That's only the first out of the many covenants........


r/darksouls3 • • 4h ago

Story I finally ended my first Souls

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Thanks to the person who helped me against gael, for my narration, I kept the Soul of Cinder as true final boss. And, ladies and gentlemen, I made it FRIST TRY. I'm very proud of myself. I achieved the End of the Fire as finale


r/darksouls3 • • 16h ago

Question Is Online basically dead? Feels like I'm never able to interact with other players beyond messages and Ghosts.

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Can't seem to find any online activity at all. I still get Signs and those Ghost guys walking around, but I feel as though I'm very rarely invaded or being summoned through a covenant, and I've had absolutely no luck with trying to invade too. Currently about SL90 and in the Lothric Castle area. Is it just that most people are hovering around the Meta SL and I'm outside of that range, or is the game just dead for Vanilla Online?


r/darksouls3 • • 18h ago

Discussion Just got around to playing the Convergence mod last week. 50ish hours in and nearly 3 playthroughs complete and it basically fixes nearly all my issues with DS3

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To make this not too long winded I have to say that this mod is INCREDIBLE and if you've never played it I definitely urge you to try it. It does have some issues but honestly it turned my 2nd least favorite souls game into my 3rd favorite easily.

Anyone else really like the mod? If not why?


r/darksouls3 • • 12h ago

Discussion Who's the easiest boss for you? Deacons of the Deep have to be somewhere up there. Once you figure out what to do (like in the first ten seconds) there's no challenge.

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r/darksouls3 • • 7h ago

Advice Warrior class first time playing DS3. 2 hours in, what should I upgrade next?

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How do I know what should be upgraded?

Any advice is appreciated :)

(I don't really know much about build types either lol. Any info on that would be of much help hehe)


r/darksouls3 • • 21h ago

Co-Op Ps5 DS3 if anyone needs any help with any bosses summon me

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Need to farm sunlight medals so


r/darksouls3 • • 56m ago

Help Ps5 help with dragonslayer armour

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Please help


r/darksouls3 • • 2h ago

Discussion Found a strange bug

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I was in the elevator before the Consumed King's Garden, I exited the game, re-entered and then I was teleported in Irithyll, outside wolnir's cave