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

Fan Art My Twin Princes Cosplay

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Hello, I've posted this cosplay on here like 3 times and everytime I got accused of AI, frustrating, anyways...I've posted it 3 times because I've remade it 3 times, once every year. Im a costume maker, cosplayer and designer, this costume is entirely handmade. All of the armour is made out of EVA-foam, I did an "historical inspired" gambeson to put underneath the costume, handsewn hundreds of belts and leather linings, hours of embroidery on Lothric's clothes, as well as the sword is resin infused and has animated LEDs that I coded myself. There is hundreds of tiny details in this costume. Im a small artist that wants to one day be known for my work, and it's hard to promote myself in such a loud and oversaturated world if you could support me and give me a follow on my instagram @_bansheecosplay to give a bit of engagement that would be amazing, and I also do comissions. Thank you! Pictures are edited to add fire and snow effects NO AI WAS USED


r/darksouls3 • • 1h ago

Question Any MILFS Around

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r/darksouls3 • • 12h ago

Discussion What should I level up next?

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Full strength, if I put points in endurance will I get more green bar or no?

Anyways, I don’t think I get any more values investing in strength, so what should I do next? I think im on NG3+


r/darksouls3 • • 35m ago

Fluff got my first tattoo today !

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im honestly really happy with the way it turned out


r/darksouls3 • • 12h ago

Video Used to have fun with Mr. Gael

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37 Upvotes

I miss this game😩


r/darksouls3 • • 15h ago

Video Hitless Midir from my first SL1 challenge run! (sub 3 minutes)

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61 Upvotes

r/darksouls3 • • 1d ago

Fan Art The birthday cake I made for my son

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But is it art? Or is that the only flair that fit


r/darksouls3 • • 2h ago

Discussion Most optimal build + path to platinum ds3?

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I already played and finished the game once on xbox like 2 years ago, and because of the poor framerate (locked at 30fps unlike ds1 and ds2 with 60fps felt like shit) i didn't play again until now that i got a pc.

Just to make sure i don't have to do more NG+ than necessary (something that i don't like, when i just finish the game i start over with a new character new build etc.), what are the main things i should not miss and make sure to get done like quests, items, covenants... thanks!


r/darksouls3 • • 40m ago

Advice twin prince 2nd phase is pissing me off

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the magic barrage and lorian teleporting is just too much. what am i supposed to do in order to dodge this


r/darksouls3 • • 13h ago

Image Opps in the walls

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Tried to get off an elevator halfway up and…


r/darksouls3 • • 23h ago

Question Why Does Midir follow the Champion of Ash?

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I’ve noticed he always follows the player through The Ringed City until you fight him on that bridge and knock him down into his boss arena. Is there a specific reason as to why he follows you around?


r/darksouls3 • • 6h ago

Help Having issues with invasions on PC constantly failing. Help ;-;

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Currently I'm in the cathedral of the deep, I've been playing through the game fairly well so far, I've beaten it before on Ps4. I want to 100% the game, basically. So I want to rank up every covenant. Don't wanna grind so I've been doing invasions and summons to try and max them out asap while still progressing. I've gotten my soul level and weapon upgrade levels to the right zone for maximum summoning and invasions for this area... But I can't invade anyone. I use the red eye orb, it almost instantly finds someone, there's a big wait, and then it says it can't connect.

I've had two successful invasions over two days of trying. I've looked around and done the port forwarding thing, zilch. No help at all. I had zero of these issues on Ps4, I went and redownloaded it, speedran to this exact point with this *exact* build, and I was getting consistent invasions constantly. I don't wanna waste ages grinding enemies just to rank covenants up, so if anyone could help me I'd really appreciate it.


r/darksouls3 • • 1d ago

Video I finally managed to beat slave knight Gael hitless at level 100

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This is actually my third time doing this today. The first time I wasn't recording as I did not think I could do it, second time I forgot to show my build but third time's the charm. This was done with the boss arena mod where you can choose which boss you want to fight in the Firelink Shrine (you warp back to it after beating a boss, hence the message at the end).


r/darksouls3 • • 1d ago

Discussion Finally .... What the fuck just happened lol. How many tries did he take y'all?

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r/darksouls3 • • 12h ago

Question Which people at fromsoft designed the box arts for DS3 and by extention the souls series?

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I've always liked the box arts for the soulsborne games (except for the western DS1 box art), has fromsoft credited the people who made it? It's good shit


r/darksouls3 • • 14h ago

Help Nameless king NG++ help

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I'm on PC and really struggling with nameless king on NG++ and could use some help


r/darksouls3 • • 23h ago

Fan Art I drew my Dark Souls 3 build. This one might be best looking one. DS3 have the most fashion souls potential fr.

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https://reddit.com/link/1xgya6o/video/tmhmdcyij1yh1/player

Dancer helmet, Artorias chestplate, Darkwraith leggings and gauntlets with Onikiri/Ubadachi.


r/darksouls3 • • 7h ago

Question Need some guaidance

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I just beat sister friede can somene tell mr where i need to go now, please and thank you.


r/darksouls3 • • 8h ago

Help Want to make a spellsword style build for PVE, need some advice

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I've just gotten to Irythill and I want to change things up. My very first character was a supposed to be a spellsword but I gave up on it since all the spells kind of sucked early on unless I missed something obvious. Now that I've gotten a few hours in though, I want to try doing some magic again but I'm not sure where to start.

Pyro, Faith and normal magic all seem cool but I'm looking for a setup where I can have some nice weapon buffs as well as strong magic spells to hit tougher enemies with. Basically, I want a set up where I can use a buffed weapon as my normal damage dealer and a really strong spell as a 'heavy attack'. Any thoughts on how I'd make that happen? My starting class is warrior but I'm not sure if that matters at all.


r/darksouls3 • • 1d ago

Video Souls of fire while cosplaying

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I played a bit faster than the original, but i guess it’s ok (I played without seeing)


r/darksouls3 • • 1d ago

Video What could possibly have happened?

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r/darksouls3 • • 5h ago

Question Can someone help me get sunlight medals please?

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I need to get rank 2 in warriors of sunlight but it’s proving quite time consuming. Is there anyone in NG+ that could help me earn some medals, it would be very much appreciated.


r/darksouls3 • • 23h ago

Help i’m abit stuck with ashes of ariandel

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so i just completed the game and i bought this dlc to get some more things to do, upon arrival, i’ve been a tad lost
i spoke to some women in the ariandel chapel who told me to go back to where i came from, which was very nice of her.

from there i found a little town, the corvian settlement, which i wasn’t sure if was the right place.

without spoiling to much, could someone give me a rough direction to where i should be going to advance in the main story?

thank you in advance :)


r/darksouls3 • • 19h ago

Question How much should I be investing in leveling a single weapon? Feeling like I'm stuck with the same build with no way to get another weapon to the same level.

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Early on I pivoted from my Herald's spear to an Astoria Straight Sword because I had a hard time with the slow speed and getting hit mid swing. I'm now directly post-Yhorm with it at +7 with a Deep infusion. Flat damage alone, it is the strongest weapon I have, even beating out most soul-transposed weapons I've gotten. I'm muddling through, but it's definitely keeping me tied to a pretty boring play style, and I'm finding it hard to rationalize practicing with other weapons that aren't as leveled.

Part of this is certainly that I'm not very good at this game, and so I'm prioritizing being able to hit multiple times before rolling over my ability to parry or use other weapons skills. That, plus any other weapons base damage output being lower, makes it tougher to diversify.

Then, and maybe I just need to be researching farming more, but idk how I'd even upgrade another weapon more. Every next bigger type of titanite I get has gone into this weapon. Idk where I'd even get titanite chunks at this point, I think every drop I've gotten to this point has been a unique drop or find, not one from a farmable enemy.

PLEASE be nice to me, I know I'm late and out of the loop on this game, I play after my kid goes to bed and I can't be an expert here.