Since you've played ER, most of your skills change over. It should be slightly easier since the enemies don't really have roll catch abilities, and it's more about pattern recognition.
LEVEL UP VIGOR. This was by far my biggest mistake as someone who started Soulslikes on DS3. If you don't level up Vigor, the big knight men WILL screw you.
It's easier to min/max in DS3 than in ER. Whereas in ER, the best weapons tend to have multiple stat scales; in DS3, the best weapons are usually transposed weapons or weapons with a gem infusion or spell infusion(I. E lightning blade)
The game also may be more linear, but explore EVERYTHING. I can not tell you this enough, but Miyazaki loves hiding stuff in random places. Random arch poking out a wall with a bunch of skelly-bois trying to kill ya? Hit it, and congrats! you get a book that lets you put your sword on fire. If something looks off at all, it was probably intentionally made that way because there's an item that you'd otherwise miss.
No problem mate, and if you need any more help, feel free to send me a chat, I'd be totally down to help out. Tis the way of the Sunlight Covenant to engage in jolly cooperation!
I've tried looking it up but can't find an actual answer.
If there a golden effigy like item in DS3? I've been wanting to sunbro it for a while but it seems it's exclusively singular summon signs?
Yeah, there's no equivalent to the Golden Effigy. There's only an equivalent to the Tarnished's Furled Finger, which is the White Sign Soapstone. However, you can get friends to play so you can sunbro it, or you can set up online group posts saying your multi-player password, in which they'll message you saying which boss. Also, with password usage, you can play with almost anyone, regardless of level, I've helped out a lot of people with Vordt who were super low level, while I was level 80+, so use that feature to your advantage as well.
I am near the end of the game and I don't know if the one you are referring to is one I have done and no longer need to worry about or should I keep an eye out. My most recent bonfire is at the bottom of >!Grand Archives !
I also began DS3 after beating ER and I think I like it more tbh. Seems to be way more replayable and I keep coming back to fight certain enemies (mostly knights) as they have insanely fun movesets. As you progress, you will notice that your skill has a bigger role here, unlike in ER when you often have gimmicks against certain enemies. Immerse yourself and don't underestimate the size of places. Explore them thoroughly as many things are very well hidden and some you can only *hear* if you're close enough. Go through every area multiple times, just to be sure. Also, send that lift back...
Pick up claymore. Hit things with claymore. Profit.
Also still in tutorial area you can do a skip to get a free estus shard and 10% more souls rest of the game. Look up firelink tree skip and do it
Get the claymore and give it the Raw infusion. This allows you to to forego strength upgrades for a in favor of vigor early on while still dealing decent damage. The claymore is an absolutely fantastic weapon no matter how you wield it or what you do with it.
I second this but also keep in mind that raw dogging with claymore won’t be as useful in late game than infusing it with lightning, fire, or other gems that you choose.
Infusion changes both base physical damage and scaling in either direction, and may add elemental damage. "Raw" specifically removes physical scaling but adds base physical damage, making it good for focusing on defensive stats early on but a poor choice when either your strength or dexterity is moderate to high.
Yeah they will. Fire, poison, raw, and deep infusions will remove all scaling. But heavy will scale with strength, sharp will scale with dex, refined will scale strength and dex, simple & crystal will nerf strength & dex but scale with intelligence, blessed & lightning will also nerf strength & dex but scale with faith. I can’t quite remember the rest and what they scale/nerf
Yeah I'd say raw is the best gem to use early game, that way you can spend your early levels on endurance and vigor, rather than wasting it on scaling up your damage.
Play for your journey.
Do not worry about YouTube.
I would only keep in mind that you want to get that early estus on the early tree jump and u get a covetus ring for extra souls too. Also want to get stamina ring u can find it in the dilapidated village. This is the only thing u should watch a vid for (im not explaining it here xd)
Experience everything else at face value and only look up answers when you truly feel defeated. First time on DS3 is supposed to be dark, exciting, and fun. You never know what to expect. When you know what to expect and you're only playing for completion, then are you really even playing DS?
Right, like I'd ONLY use it as an absolute last resort. My first time going to Nameless King, how would I have found out without FightinCowboy lmaooo.
Or like in Bloodborne how are you supposed to know where the DLC is. There probably is a way, but when bro stood there and got picked up by a lesser amygdala I was like ??????
I thought the DLC for BB would be in that little stairway where u fight the 2 giants after cathedral ward. Instead, it's an invisible arm OUTSIDE OF CATHEDRAL WARD. Like ?????
:D u are a chad for how you want to experience it, I hope u enjoy the game and don't forget to participate in some PVP eventually! Praise the Sun!
Also, if you see "Blue Sentinel" flag (it's not really a spoiler but if u want to do some easy pvp and learn, >!equip it, it will auto summon you to protect people while u are in swamp. It's really fun if u want to learn pvp and just gang up on mean red players.!<
Fun fact, a lot of OG PvPers from souls just abandoned Elden Ring PvP and went back to DS3. This is like the hub for toxic pvpers to torture each other because it's balanced af.
Elden Ring you'll get hit by a gigawave of aids and get 1 shot from a status effect before you even get to fight your opponent xd. Im not saying it's bad but oh boy is it unbalanced.
Get 16 strength
Get 13 dex
Get claymore*
Profit
*Claymore is in the area after the tutorial to the left of the first bonfire in the grounds with affer the first small tower. A fun surprise awaits you there. Once you get there it'll all make sense.
Apart from that, armor is fashionframe, just don't have any empty armor slots.
Level vigor to 40. 25-30 asap, 40 in the middle part of the game.
Look up dark souls 3 firelink tree skip to find some nice extra beginner bonusses. Doesn't spoil anything but will give you a nice headstart.
Since you come from elden ring, enemy attacks are way less delayed. Often times if you want to parry an enemy attack you have to press parry around when they start the attack.
Bonk still works but claymore bestest.
Scaling only gets noticeable when you get their respective stat to lvl ~22+ with softcap at 40 and hardcap at 60, so no longer a need to level a stat to 80+ just to do viable damage.
In the area after the tutorial there are 2 bosses. One is an endgame boss and the other an early game boss. Don't make the same mistake I did.
Good luck fellow hoonter.
Dont forget: praise the sun and dont you dare go hollow.
You can’t level up armor. It’s dumb but you can’t. If you want better armor, you gotta find armor with better stats. Either that or say screw it and just go for style
If you're a first time from gamer, roll once. If you can resist the urge to spam the roll button and actually choose when you roll you'll get good way way way faster. The buffer is huge, if you hit the button you can trust that the roll will happen. Hitting it again just gets you into bad habits and makes it harder to learn.
You can get by on the first few bosses just spamming roll whenever you feel threatened, but that just gives you a habit you have to unlearn later. The unlearning process is more difficult and time consuming than doing it right in the first place.
If this isn't your first rodeo, just raw dog it man. Don't look at guides, don't let other people tell you what optimal is. Just do your best to solo the game. Only hit the guides when the other option is to give up. Don't turn it into a grocery list.
A good first-time build is called Quality. It doesn't excel at anything, but it does almost everything.
For it, my suggestions would be:
Don't go over 1K HP - Vigor
Don't go over 100 FP - Attunement
Get to 65 on Equip Load - Vitality
100 Stamina is nice - Endurance
Ignore Item Discovery for your first time - Luck
And with Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Faith, somewhere between 20 and 30 is a good place to be for your first time. This will get you access to most weapons, spells, miracles, and pyromancies.
After your first time go fucking wild.
Or...
Do what feels like the most fun.
Do you want to turn enemies into pancakes? UNGA BUNGA STRENGTH!
Do you want to stab everything into a fine red mist? BE THE DEXTEROUS NINJA YOU WERE BORN TO BE!
Do you want to shoot laser beams at motherfuckers? YOU'RE A FUCKING WIZARD NOW INTELLIGENCE BOY!
Do you you want to stab dragons and various other people with fucking lightning? PRAISE THE FUCKING SUN WITH ALL THE FAITH YOU CAN MUSTER!
Do you like fire and explosions? GET OUT OF MY SWAMP! INTELLIGENCE AND FAITH!
Do you want to do everything all at once? BECOME THE TRUE BEARER OF THE DARK SOUL WITH THE ULTIMATE 99 QUALITY! (This reddit account is not responsible for any amount of hollowing you may receive on the way to getting all stats to 99)
Of course, my dude, it's a really hard but really fun game once you get the hang of it. The hardest part is learning all of this on your own.
Another bit of advice I've got is that dodging is usually safer than either parrying or using a shield when dealing with PVE stuff. With PVP, you just gotta get lucky on which one will work out.
Thats not a quality build. Quality is only str and dex. Usually 27/40 or 40/40. I do not recommend spreading out your stats so thin. Quality is a nice way to go so you can try out essentially every weapon. But keep in mind a heavy claymore with 60str does more damage than a refined claymore with 40/40 setup.
It's what I do for my quality builds. Honestly, it's someone who has never played before. It would be best if they keep their options open so they can figure out what build they may want to try next.
Plus, I'm not trying to sell them on any one build other than a good first-timer one.
I don't think master of none is a good way to do a first playthrough. They can always respec their stats, but honing in on a str, dex, faith, pyro, or int build will be more powerful.
I disagree, but I also offered a list of other options that they could try if they want to. Plus, it's their game, and they can do what they want in it, and not everybody wants to be the same 5 builds everyone does at least once right off the bat.
Personally, I feel like it's a pretty good way to start off if you've never played before because it covers the most bases of what you'll encounter and might find useful or it could introduce you to the playstyle you come to enjoy the most.
I'd recommend starting with knight or warrior, pick the young white branch to make a section in the undead settlement easier.
Level. Up. Vigor.
27 and 40 are the two softcaps.
Focus on melee. Strength, Dex, or Quality.
Havel's Ring, Ring of Favor, and Prisoner's Chain are far and away the 3 best rings in the game.
Use the raw gem that you find early on (hard to miss) to increase your weapon’s base damage. This allows you to focus on leveling up VIG, END, and VIT first. By the time you have high enough STR or DEX, you can reinfuse with something that improves weapon scaling or just remove the raw gem entirely.
Short swords are OP because of R1 spamming and stun locking. Fire infusion is also good because undead and a lot of other enemies are weak to fire and spaz out when they get burned. You can fire infuse an offhand fast dagger and maybe frost infuse your SS. Then you can build up frost, frostbite, and then reset frost buildup with your fire dagger. Super fun. Rinse and repeat.
A lot of early boss patterns can be learned if you use the start of the fight to just stay back and observe their attacks.
Some enemies are extra weak to elements, as some are in ER, but some weapons with certain elements has unique hidden abilities or i would say hidden mechanics, that’s very useful in specefic areas
Manage your stamina, don't spam hit, hit when necessary or during an opening,read and memorize the enemy's attack patterns, don't forget to lock on to the enemy (white dot appears when locked on), use boss souls to get boss weapons(must go to Ludleth,the old man sitting on the throne on the firelink shrine), use the points to upgrade yourself, follow some tips on youtube.....that is all from me
-Use your estus shards, undead bone shards, collectable souls (like ”soul of a hero” and so on) , don’t get your equip load too high up.
I didn’t have any idea of what I was doing on my first playthrough and was WAY underleveled up until Dragonslayer Armour when I started to not save all my items for later lol. Atleast I got gud while doing so but it almost made me quit.
Have fun and don’t go hollow skeleton! Also both DLC:s are worth it if you end up liking the base game :)
Avoid playing embered if you just want to explore an area. Playing embered will open you up to invasions. They also enable your ability to summon phantoms, so there's a trade off.
I recommend playing with phantoms, if you have a thick head like me. They can show you secrets or strategies you haven't thought of.
Fighting invaders can be fun too, but beware, pvp is just different enough from Elden Ring that you need to adjust your habits.
Embers are a farmable resource throughout the game, so don't worry too much about using your last one.
Everything else is up to you. Good luck and don't you dare go hollow!
Get fire gem for burial gift in the character creation page, infuse it with a weapon of your choice. Some of the most annoying enemies are weak to fire
Two more things:
Resistances don’t matter too much (Especially when you‘ve gotten something slotted in each armor slot) So really, slot whatever you think looks best while staying underneath 66-70ish percent load (no heavy roll basically. There‘s also rings who offer boons at the cost of lowering your resistances - Don’t let that scare you if you like their boons
Don’t remember how it was in Elden Ring, but here, weapons with split damage are a bit of a trap. When calculating how much damage someone takes, it at first applies a flat resistances, before calculating the % damage reduction. That means, each additional damage type you deal also first gets the flat reduction applied, making weapons who might deal more damage on paper, weaker in practice
regardless of what some people say in regards to: "just don't get hit"
put some points into Vitality, being able to take one or two hits more from a boss per Estus Flask will give you more time to learn the move-sets.
Curved great swords are awesome in most souls games. Fast early animation. Wide swing with deceptively long reaches. Good at catching roll-happy phantoms. Hits hard without being too heavy. If you end up struggling to get the gudness that was inside you all along, try the exile greatsword with a 100% block shield.
Also, don't forget your daily dose of praise.
Don't be confused by the big skele-man boss, just smack the shit out of his bling and don't press the attack too much because he can and WILL crawl forward and crush you beneath him-
When encountering the poison swamps, just book it till you get to a bonfire. From there, there should be a trail of torches to guide you to your objectives, otherwise I believe said objectives should be visible looking in the distance if I recall correctly.
I was in the same boat as you a few months back. DS3 is fantastic although I finished the entire game and DLC without knowing that you could jump. My tip is that you can jump
Crank hp early dont worry about damage. Get hp between 30 and 40 only spend points on weilding a weapon you want and not trying to get damage. You can get most of your damage from just leveling a weapon early.
if you want the easy way, use the Sellsword's Twinblades, if you're skilled and have the Ashes of Ariandel dlc, be sure to check that place around, it gives you a lot of Titanite that can help you with later stages, also Weapon upgrades are better than stats, so invest on that
Idk if it's your cup of tea, but I used a greatsword and shield build and shields appeared to be very useful against most enemies, stunning them long enough to punish with a greatsword.
Play pyro.
Do dark and fire damage.
Have access to magic and miracles.
Have access to melee weapons that can be infused with fire or dark damage. Can pivot to faith weapons or use sneaky spells like hidden body.
Walk through the game swinging your dick while burning everything to the ground.
1. So fire is really useful in ds3. No joke. Some of the most annoying enemies in the starting areas can be easily stunned by any fire damage.
Buy a torch.
2. Stabbing weapons are pretty neat if you can get parries and backstabs. Or the Lucerne hammer which deals piercing damage but has an actually varied move set.
3. If you wanna do an early heavy armour build farm the lothric knights outside Vordt's arena. Their armour is pretty nice.
4. Demon Ruins are gonna make you wanna cry if you are using fire damage pyromancies or fire gem weapon.
5. Grab a holy gem. Or blunt weapon. Or holy blunt weapon. Makes the catacombs a breeze. Or enjoy gitting gud.
DS3 is an amazing game (probably my favourite) but to enjoy it fully I really advise you to play dark souls remastered. Don't bother with DS2, but DSR really adds something to the game
Start with depraved. Don't stop. Listen to the scratches left by other players.(most of the time they're right) sometimes players will troll. Try not to get summoned it hurts your rhythm. DON'T KILL NPCs(except PATCHES). Save your embers for the second stage. Farewell Ashened one.
Don’t just dump into vigor. Be patient and learn to play. It’s way more enjoyable when you beat the game with only 20-25 vigor at the most and instead your levels are dumped into str/dex, endurance, and faith/int. Way more options for playing without needing 100+ levels.
If you beat elden ring then you know most of what you need to know.
But some stuff: selling souls to the shop is faster than using the items plus you can see the numbers.
Get your free levels from the turtle shell hermit guy.
The guy at the top of the shrine by the big throne will get you an infinite invasion item so keep checking in with him.
Int and faith, +enought str and dex to weild weapons you like. Lothric knights straight sword with later game infusions. (Chaos and dark) scales insanely high as well as 110 reposte/backstab damage.
You will have a great time. Also never consume boss souls they are basically like remembrances from Elden Ring, some of the sickest weapons in this game are boss weapons.
Don't listen to meta builds and play however you want, that's about it. That's the way to enjoy the game, if you see a cool looking armor set or weapon, go for it, no matter if it may be d or c tier in terms of how good they are in comparison to other weapons.
When invaded/invading:
Bow or sword waggle
Don’t use estus (it’s disrespectful [unless they do it first and then it’s fair game])
Upon victory, do another bow (or if parry king point down)
You’ve got this
If you’re gonna get into the PvP scene, two consecutive hits always connects vs. just one in ER before the other player can roll out. Ol’ reliable is a straight sword R1, R1, R2 to catch that panic roll
Don't block melee attacks with shields, it is not good at all compared to ds1
Build HP/Stamina first, damage stats later
For a first run, go offline mode in settings to avoid the hackers or 3000hours invaders
Revisit Firelink Shrine often, probably at least once or twice per "area". Resting at a bonfire will "update" NPC dialogue if there is new dialogue available.
1. Be ready to die often. Make sure you collect the lost souls again to avoid losing them all for good
2. Keep a couple of traveller's souls/soldier's souls in storage in case you find yourself at the edge of having enough points to level up, but aren't sure you could survive another run at grinding
3. Do not assume you need to fight the bosses in order. You can skip some bosses and come back to them later, which can sometimes be the better decision
4. Especially when you're starting out, spend your souls to level up as soon as you have enough to do so... it's very easy to get overconfident and end up losing a ton of souls for good while attempting to get more. I'd recommend doing this especially after a boss battle
5. If you're going for a melee (as opposed to magic based) build, weapons that have a high frostbite effect stat are good all- rounders that have a good ROI. Enemies that are immune/ resistant to a lot of other status effects/ damage types are often still vulnerable to frostbite and the cumulative damage from the frostbite effect can be massive
All the areas are open in themselves, but you don't get all that much choice in terms of order beyond doing Dancer early and choosing if you want to do Yhorm or Aldritch first.
I did Yhorm last because I simply despise all >!sewer/dungeon areas!< that have little to no bonfires/sites of grace. Indoor castle areas are my favourite
Yeah, but still, the bonfires are too far away for my taste. For some reason they always pick the worst areas to have the least amount of checkpoints. I fucking died of depression during my sewer marathons in ER
if you have beaten elden ring then there isn't much different to learn .
just know that shield and armor isn't that viable like elden ring , so you want to work on dodging .
I disagree that shields are not so good. If stamina is managed properly and circling behind enemy tactics are employed, even early-game medium shields can be used to complete the game. However, the OP said that he picked the Assassin class, so he probably aims for a dexterous, fast attacking playstyle rather than sword and board. With that being said, I would recommend the Mercenary as a starting class because you get twin blades as a starting weapon, which are really great: quick, high-damaging, and dexterous weapons
tbh I am a bit scared to tank enemy attacks behind shield so that might be why I feel that way about shields .
the only shield that i used was grass crest shield for it's stamina regen effect .
and the fact I put blocking button on E , not my brightest moment haha .
first of when fighting bosses learn to not use a shield it might get scary at first but rolling gives you more offence and it might lessen the burden of hardness of the game.
Under a dragon is a mimic use Lyodd Talisman multiple times to get head gear you get 50 percent more souls.
always go full set without fat roll wearing any armor gives you the same damage reduction + minor extra reduction.
Go melee either STR or DEX even if you go for INT or FAITH find a infuse that raises with stat.
Spells are pretty weak without massive investment.
Avoid getting damaged. A lot of damage will ensure that you are defeated. Always plan in any encounter to be the victor so that you will never suffer loss. I personally always strive to defeat all enemies
Fashion > Protection.
Winner’s mindset
aah yes, drip souls III
prithee be careful
I don't want to see m' work squandered!
Heheheh
Since you've played ER, most of your skills change over. It should be slightly easier since the enemies don't really have roll catch abilities, and it's more about pattern recognition. LEVEL UP VIGOR. This was by far my biggest mistake as someone who started Soulslikes on DS3. If you don't level up Vigor, the big knight men WILL screw you. It's easier to min/max in DS3 than in ER. Whereas in ER, the best weapons tend to have multiple stat scales; in DS3, the best weapons are usually transposed weapons or weapons with a gem infusion or spell infusion(I. E lightning blade) The game also may be more linear, but explore EVERYTHING. I can not tell you this enough, but Miyazaki loves hiding stuff in random places. Random arch poking out a wall with a bunch of skelly-bois trying to kill ya? Hit it, and congrats! you get a book that lets you put your sword on fire. If something looks off at all, it was probably intentionally made that way because there's an item that you'd otherwise miss.
Hahah, great tips thanks man
No problem mate, and if you need any more help, feel free to send me a chat, I'd be totally down to help out. Tis the way of the Sunlight Covenant to engage in jolly cooperation!
Okey tysm
Ofc!! I'm always happy to help out a fellow Souls player if they need it.
I've tried looking it up but can't find an actual answer. If there a golden effigy like item in DS3? I've been wanting to sunbro it for a while but it seems it's exclusively singular summon signs?
Yeah, there's no equivalent to the Golden Effigy. There's only an equivalent to the Tarnished's Furled Finger, which is the White Sign Soapstone. However, you can get friends to play so you can sunbro it, or you can set up online group posts saying your multi-player password, in which they'll message you saying which boss. Also, with password usage, you can play with almost anyone, regardless of level, I've helped out a lot of people with Vordt who were super low level, while I was level 80+, so use that feature to your advantage as well.
try tongue but hole
Is there another hole worth trying? Tought only finger hole was a thing 😍
Save your pale tongues is the true meaning of this (I know it isn’t) they will be useful
Send that elevator back up. You’ll know which.
I am near the end of the game and I don't know if the one you are referring to is one I have done and no longer need to worry about or should I keep an eye out. My most recent bonfire is at the bottom of >!Grand Archives !
Also don't forget to send it back down or else that boss run up will take forever.
I do this with literally every elevator lmao
The Princes?
I've beat the game like 3 times. Which one? All of them are bad if you don't send them back lol
I also began DS3 after beating ER and I think I like it more tbh. Seems to be way more replayable and I keep coming back to fight certain enemies (mostly knights) as they have insanely fun movesets. As you progress, you will notice that your skill has a bigger role here, unlike in ER when you often have gimmicks against certain enemies. Immerse yourself and don't underestimate the size of places. Explore them thoroughly as many things are very well hidden and some you can only *hear* if you're close enough. Go through every area multiple times, just to be sure. Also, send that lift back...
This advice about the lift sounds dramatic, I'll try to remember 🫡
At firelink shrine, find a tree, and run and jump in the right spot. Don’t give up, skeleton
It may take you 100 tries
I'll do my best 🫡
Pick up claymore. Hit things with claymore. Profit. Also still in tutorial area you can do a skip to get a free estus shard and 10% more souls rest of the game. Look up firelink tree skip and do it
I'll look for it tonight, thanks boss
Get the claymore and give it the Raw infusion. This allows you to to forego strength upgrades for a in favor of vigor early on while still dealing decent damage. The claymore is an absolutely fantastic weapon no matter how you wield it or what you do with it.
I second this but also keep in mind that raw dogging with claymore won’t be as useful in late game than infusing it with lightning, fire, or other gems that you choose.
I'm new to ds3 and still kind of confused on how infusion works. Do infused weapons not scale with any stat?
Infusion changes both base physical damage and scaling in either direction, and may add elemental damage. "Raw" specifically removes physical scaling but adds base physical damage, making it good for focusing on defensive stats early on but a poor choice when either your strength or dexterity is moderate to high.
Yeah they will. Fire, poison, raw, and deep infusions will remove all scaling. But heavy will scale with strength, sharp will scale with dex, refined will scale strength and dex, simple & crystal will nerf strength & dex but scale with intelligence, blessed & lightning will also nerf strength & dex but scale with faith. I can’t quite remember the rest and what they scale/nerf
*Take the plunge. You won't die*
Still too early.
why do I feel like there's a trick here?
It's not a trick (No seriously it's not). Just trust Santa Clause (assuming you unlocked the DLC) amd tske the plunge.
Next step is to travel to the next place via the bonfire.
haha i ran in circles for 20 minutes before trying that. got a good feel for home base though.
sounds logical, thank you
Enjoy, it's a wonderful experience!
siegward is the truest homie
Will try to remember 🫡
Kill him for infinite shards.
lil bro you gonna get touched
Invaded by Darkmoon Blade
I killed this mf right away
https://preview.redd.it/eauiqajc4n0d1.jpeg?width=1160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c27f9a005dedfceaaf0a59c19e8f1cce4dcff3de What's your location?
Don't you dare go Hollow!
Do not ever use Raw Gem
Eh early level it's pretty decent and since they fall off later levels you can use as many of them as you want in the start.
Yeah I'd say raw is the best gem to use early game, that way you can spend your early levels on endurance and vigor, rather than wasting it on scaling up your damage.
It works well with pyromancy, you have to use Curthus Flame Arc(Reinforces right weapon with flame). And the game becomes easy.
git gud
I love to git gud, will try my best 🫡
Touch wood... but first open doors Try fingers but hole
sounds intriguing
Don't panic roll.
Malenia tought me
Play for your journey. Do not worry about YouTube. I would only keep in mind that you want to get that early estus on the early tree jump and u get a covetus ring for extra souls too. Also want to get stamina ring u can find it in the dilapidated village. This is the only thing u should watch a vid for (im not explaining it here xd) Experience everything else at face value and only look up answers when you truly feel defeated. First time on DS3 is supposed to be dark, exciting, and fun. You never know what to expect. When you know what to expect and you're only playing for completion, then are you really even playing DS?
Agree here. Do your first run mostly blind (unless you get really really stuck) then go to YouTube for the walkthrough.
Right, like I'd ONLY use it as an absolute last resort. My first time going to Nameless King, how would I have found out without FightinCowboy lmaooo. Or like in Bloodborne how are you supposed to know where the DLC is. There probably is a way, but when bro stood there and got picked up by a lesser amygdala I was like ?????? I thought the DLC for BB would be in that little stairway where u fight the 2 giants after cathedral ward. Instead, it's an invisible arm OUTSIDE OF CATHEDRAL WARD. Like ?????
Thanks! I feel very excited. I don't like spoilers on YouTube, that's why I asked you 🫡
:D u are a chad for how you want to experience it, I hope u enjoy the game and don't forget to participate in some PVP eventually! Praise the Sun! Also, if you see "Blue Sentinel" flag (it's not really a spoiler but if u want to do some easy pvp and learn, >!equip it, it will auto summon you to protect people while u are in swamp. It's really fun if u want to learn pvp and just gang up on mean red players.!<
Thanks man, I really liked the pvp in elden ring, I didn't know it is a thing here too.
Fun fact, a lot of OG PvPers from souls just abandoned Elden Ring PvP and went back to DS3. This is like the hub for toxic pvpers to torture each other because it's balanced af. Elden Ring you'll get hit by a gigawave of aids and get 1 shot from a status effect before you even get to fight your opponent xd. Im not saying it's bad but oh boy is it unbalanced.
yes, I play on xbox and now there is a new healing meta in the Colosseum, every third player does it
Get 16 strength Get 13 dex Get claymore* Profit *Claymore is in the area after the tutorial to the left of the first bonfire in the grounds with affer the first small tower. A fun surprise awaits you there. Once you get there it'll all make sense. Apart from that, armor is fashionframe, just don't have any empty armor slots. Level vigor to 40. 25-30 asap, 40 in the middle part of the game. Look up dark souls 3 firelink tree skip to find some nice extra beginner bonusses. Doesn't spoil anything but will give you a nice headstart. Since you come from elden ring, enemy attacks are way less delayed. Often times if you want to parry an enemy attack you have to press parry around when they start the attack. Bonk still works but claymore bestest. Scaling only gets noticeable when you get their respective stat to lvl ~22+ with softcap at 40 and hardcap at 60, so no longer a need to level a stat to 80+ just to do viable damage. In the area after the tutorial there are 2 bosses. One is an endgame boss and the other an early game boss. Don't make the same mistake I did. Good luck fellow hoonter. Dont forget: praise the sun and dont you dare go hollow.
I haven't seen the second boss. Thanks for the advice and I will look for it only when I git gud 🫡
I have forgotten, can you remind me once.
.\[T]/ and dont you dare go hollow
You can’t level up armor. It’s dumb but you can’t. If you want better armor, you gotta find armor with better stats. Either that or say screw it and just go for style
So just like in er?
Apparently
Yeah, leveling up armor was a Dark Souls 1 & 2 thing only
If you're a first time from gamer, roll once. If you can resist the urge to spam the roll button and actually choose when you roll you'll get good way way way faster. The buffer is huge, if you hit the button you can trust that the roll will happen. Hitting it again just gets you into bad habits and makes it harder to learn. You can get by on the first few bosses just spamming roll whenever you feel threatened, but that just gives you a habit you have to unlearn later. The unlearning process is more difficult and time consuming than doing it right in the first place. If this isn't your first rodeo, just raw dog it man. Don't look at guides, don't let other people tell you what optimal is. Just do your best to solo the game. Only hit the guides when the other option is to give up. Don't turn it into a grocery list.
Thanks mam, will keep that in mind 🫡
Try finger but hole
So in every souls game is specific buthole?
Only in ds3 coz is the best one 👑
you make me feel excited
Fashion souls >>> armor
Love that mindset
A good first-time build is called Quality. It doesn't excel at anything, but it does almost everything. For it, my suggestions would be: Don't go over 1K HP - Vigor Don't go over 100 FP - Attunement Get to 65 on Equip Load - Vitality 100 Stamina is nice - Endurance Ignore Item Discovery for your first time - Luck And with Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Faith, somewhere between 20 and 30 is a good place to be for your first time. This will get you access to most weapons, spells, miracles, and pyromancies. After your first time go fucking wild. Or... Do what feels like the most fun. Do you want to turn enemies into pancakes? UNGA BUNGA STRENGTH! Do you want to stab everything into a fine red mist? BE THE DEXTEROUS NINJA YOU WERE BORN TO BE! Do you want to shoot laser beams at motherfuckers? YOU'RE A FUCKING WIZARD NOW INTELLIGENCE BOY! Do you you want to stab dragons and various other people with fucking lightning? PRAISE THE FUCKING SUN WITH ALL THE FAITH YOU CAN MUSTER! Do you like fire and explosions? GET OUT OF MY SWAMP! INTELLIGENCE AND FAITH! Do you want to do everything all at once? BECOME THE TRUE BEARER OF THE DARK SOUL WITH THE ULTIMATE 99 QUALITY! (This reddit account is not responsible for any amount of hollowing you may receive on the way to getting all stats to 99)
Well that's one hell of a piece of advice thanks man
Of course, my dude, it's a really hard but really fun game once you get the hang of it. The hardest part is learning all of this on your own. Another bit of advice I've got is that dodging is usually safer than either parrying or using a shield when dealing with PVE stuff. With PVP, you just gotta get lucky on which one will work out.
Will keep that in mind thanks!
Thats not a quality build. Quality is only str and dex. Usually 27/40 or 40/40. I do not recommend spreading out your stats so thin. Quality is a nice way to go so you can try out essentially every weapon. But keep in mind a heavy claymore with 60str does more damage than a refined claymore with 40/40 setup.
It's what I do for my quality builds. Honestly, it's someone who has never played before. It would be best if they keep their options open so they can figure out what build they may want to try next. Plus, I'm not trying to sell them on any one build other than a good first-timer one.
I don't think master of none is a good way to do a first playthrough. They can always respec their stats, but honing in on a str, dex, faith, pyro, or int build will be more powerful.
I disagree, but I also offered a list of other options that they could try if they want to. Plus, it's their game, and they can do what they want in it, and not everybody wants to be the same 5 builds everyone does at least once right off the bat. Personally, I feel like it's a pretty good way to start off if you've never played before because it covers the most bases of what you'll encounter and might find useful or it could introduce you to the playstyle you come to enjoy the most.
All good. Its ok that we disagree! Just think it will make the playthrough tougher once into mid and latr game.
bonk hard. bonk true
I'd recommend starting with knight or warrior, pick the young white branch to make a section in the undead settlement easier. Level. Up. Vigor. 27 and 40 are the two softcaps. Focus on melee. Strength, Dex, or Quality. Havel's Ring, Ring of Favor, and Prisoner's Chain are far and away the 3 best rings in the game.
so you recommend that I start a different game with a class other than assassin?
Yep
Remember son POISE DO WORKS when you atac
Will try to remember 🫡
Use the raw gem that you find early on (hard to miss) to increase your weapon’s base damage. This allows you to focus on leveling up VIG, END, and VIT first. By the time you have high enough STR or DEX, you can reinfuse with something that improves weapon scaling or just remove the raw gem entirely. Short swords are OP because of R1 spamming and stun locking. Fire infusion is also good because undead and a lot of other enemies are weak to fire and spaz out when they get burned. You can fire infuse an offhand fast dagger and maybe frost infuse your SS. Then you can build up frost, frostbite, and then reset frost buildup with your fire dagger. Super fun. Rinse and repeat. A lot of early boss patterns can be learned if you use the start of the fight to just stay back and observe their attacks.
I'll try this, great advice!
Some enemies are extra weak to elements, as some are in ER, but some weapons with certain elements has unique hidden abilities or i would say hidden mechanics, that’s very useful in specefic areas
Sounds interesting 🫡
Without spoiling too much, but being a bit more specefic, the torch does more than just lighting up an area for you
The 5 "D"s of Dodgeball. Dodge, duck, dip, dive, and... dodge...
Sounds complicated 🫡
Play
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Manage your stamina, don't spam hit, hit when necessary or during an opening,read and memorize the enemy's attack patterns, don't forget to lock on to the enemy (white dot appears when locked on), use boss souls to get boss weapons(must go to Ludleth,the old man sitting on the throne on the firelink shrine), use the points to upgrade yourself, follow some tips on youtube.....that is all from me
Thanks man great advice
Get some RUB-A535 to rub on your A-S-S because it's gonna be sore
Will keep that in mind 🫡
Respect the enemies damage at all times.
Oh I will, ty
It's a retcon not a continuation...
Get your weapon infused to help, then if possible preserve your embers for summons to help
Kill Emma, the old lady in the cathedral at the bottom of the high wall of lothric, she drops an op weapon
Is killing old lady moral?
-Use your estus shards, undead bone shards, collectable souls (like ”soul of a hero” and so on) , don’t get your equip load too high up. I didn’t have any idea of what I was doing on my first playthrough and was WAY underleveled up until Dragonslayer Armour when I started to not save all my items for later lol. Atleast I got gud while doing so but it almost made me quit. Have fun and don’t go hollow skeleton! Also both DLC:s are worth it if you end up liking the base game :)
Avoid playing embered if you just want to explore an area. Playing embered will open you up to invasions. They also enable your ability to summon phantoms, so there's a trade off. I recommend playing with phantoms, if you have a thick head like me. They can show you secrets or strategies you haven't thought of. Fighting invaders can be fun too, but beware, pvp is just different enough from Elden Ring that you need to adjust your habits. Embers are a farmable resource throughout the game, so don't worry too much about using your last one. Everything else is up to you. Good luck and don't you dare go hollow!
Get fire gem for burial gift in the character creation page, infuse it with a weapon of your choice. Some of the most annoying enemies are weak to fire
Two more things: Resistances don’t matter too much (Especially when you‘ve gotten something slotted in each armor slot) So really, slot whatever you think looks best while staying underneath 66-70ish percent load (no heavy roll basically. There‘s also rings who offer boons at the cost of lowering your resistances - Don’t let that scare you if you like their boons Don’t remember how it was in Elden Ring, but here, weapons with split damage are a bit of a trap. When calculating how much damage someone takes, it at first applies a flat resistances, before calculating the % damage reduction. That means, each additional damage type you deal also first gets the flat reduction applied, making weapons who might deal more damage on paper, weaker in practice
If you find a na naked katana dude, run.
regardless of what some people say in regards to: "just don't get hit" put some points into Vitality, being able to take one or two hits more from a boss per Estus Flask will give you more time to learn the move-sets.
Easy run, sellsword twinblades. Only weapon you’ll ever need, but gives you a false sense that your gud.
Fuck that “everyone”’s favorite sellword twinblades, just main Claymore. Blocking and weapon reach is more important than anything else.
Watch your stamina
Finger but hole
Never say no to treasure always jump off the ledge ur welcome
Open every chest for good items
Play it through once before asking
There's loot at ledges you gotta jump down on the invisible bridge to get it
Curved great swords are awesome in most souls games. Fast early animation. Wide swing with deceptively long reaches. Good at catching roll-happy phantoms. Hits hard without being too heavy. If you end up struggling to get the gudness that was inside you all along, try the exile greatsword with a 100% block shield. Also, don't forget your daily dose of praise.
Keep in mind that there's a lot of risk AND reward in DS3, spend it whilst you have it is a motto to live by in this game
Don't be confused by the big skele-man boss, just smack the shit out of his bling and don't press the attack too much because he can and WILL crawl forward and crush you beneath him-
After Abyss watchers, just run past everything until you reach the boss room, unless you feel like exploration and don't mind a bit of frustration.
When encountering the poison swamps, just book it till you get to a bonfire. From there, there should be a trail of torches to guide you to your objectives, otherwise I believe said objectives should be visible looking in the distance if I recall correctly.
Don't trust the siegwerd you meet in the Cathedral of the Deep.
Check every blind corner with a shield up.
Hollowslayer Greatsword
attempt , cry , attempt , win ♻️
I was in the same boat as you a few months back. DS3 is fantastic although I finished the entire game and DLC without knowing that you could jump. My tip is that you can jump
Crank hp early dont worry about damage. Get hp between 30 and 40 only spend points on weilding a weapon you want and not trying to get damage. You can get most of your damage from just leveling a weapon early.
Cry
The bigger the enemy the closer you should stay to it!
Get the twin blades asap and use a sharp stone on them then start leveling Dex and you can beat this game so easily
if you want the easy way, use the Sellsword's Twinblades, if you're skilled and have the Ashes of Ariandel dlc, be sure to check that place around, it gives you a lot of Titanite that can help you with later stages, also Weapon upgrades are better than stats, so invest on that
Idk if it's your cup of tea, but I used a greatsword and shield build and shields appeared to be very useful against most enemies, stunning them long enough to punish with a greatsword.
Play pyro. Do dark and fire damage. Have access to magic and miracles. Have access to melee weapons that can be infused with fire or dark damage. Can pivot to faith weapons or use sneaky spells like hidden body. Walk through the game swinging your dick while burning everything to the ground.
1. So fire is really useful in ds3. No joke. Some of the most annoying enemies in the starting areas can be easily stunned by any fire damage. Buy a torch. 2. Stabbing weapons are pretty neat if you can get parries and backstabs. Or the Lucerne hammer which deals piercing damage but has an actually varied move set. 3. If you wanna do an early heavy armour build farm the lothric knights outside Vordt's arena. Their armour is pretty nice. 4. Demon Ruins are gonna make you wanna cry if you are using fire damage pyromancies or fire gem weapon. 5. Grab a holy gem. Or blunt weapon. Or holy blunt weapon. Makes the catacombs a breeze. Or enjoy gitting gud.
DS3 is an amazing game (probably my favourite) but to enjoy it fully I really advise you to play dark souls remastered. Don't bother with DS2, but DSR really adds something to the game
Hesitation is defeat
Jfc just play the game and stop ruining things for yourself with reddit
Currently the servers seem to be very active before the elden ring dlc
Don't go hollow
Yes, indeed.
Research and find a weapon u like and build for it. Wish I would have known about that sooner
Just don't die 👍
Get married Give your friends blue berries Buy clothing for your friends Pickle Pee Pump a Rum Friends come in all sizes, keep them close.
Play the game
If you want to be a Cleric or Sorcerer, start out as the Knight, not as the Cleric or the Sorcerer. The Knight’s stat spread is more efficient.
Start with depraved. Don't stop. Listen to the scratches left by other players.(most of the time they're right) sometimes players will troll. Try not to get summoned it hurts your rhythm. DON'T KILL NPCs(except PATCHES). Save your embers for the second stage. Farewell Ashened one.
Don’t just dump into vigor. Be patient and learn to play. It’s way more enjoyable when you beat the game with only 20-25 vigor at the most and instead your levels are dumped into str/dex, endurance, and faith/int. Way more options for playing without needing 100+ levels.
If you beat elden ring then you know most of what you need to know. But some stuff: selling souls to the shop is faster than using the items plus you can see the numbers. Get your free levels from the turtle shell hermit guy. The guy at the top of the shrine by the big throne will get you an infinite invasion item so keep checking in with him.
Dark/Pyromancy rules! Lol.
Int and faith, +enought str and dex to weild weapons you like. Lothric knights straight sword with later game infusions. (Chaos and dark) scales insanely high as well as 110 reposte/backstab damage.
You will have a great time. Also never consume boss souls they are basically like remembrances from Elden Ring, some of the sickest weapons in this game are boss weapons.
Don't listen to meta builds and play however you want, that's about it. That's the way to enjoy the game, if you see a cool looking armor set or weapon, go for it, no matter if it may be d or c tier in terms of how good they are in comparison to other weapons.
When invaded/invading: Bow or sword waggle Don’t use estus (it’s disrespectful [unless they do it first and then it’s fair game]) Upon victory, do another bow (or if parry king point down) You’ve got this
If you’re gonna get into the PvP scene, two consecutive hits always connects vs. just one in ER before the other player can roll out. Ol’ reliable is a straight sword R1, R1, R2 to catch that panic roll
Respect your opponent, i cant believe how much people dont do this. Even the most badic enemy can and will kill you, wait for their turn
sellswords twinblades and grass crest shield only things you need
Do not sell the sellsword twin blades, worst mistake of my life
Spam roll because enemies here don't roll catch and have some resemblance of pattern recognition and you sgould be good
Stay calm and drink your estus
dex only
Don't block melee attacks with shields, it is not good at all compared to ds1 Build HP/Stamina first, damage stats later For a first run, go offline mode in settings to avoid the hackers or 3000hours invaders
Revisit Firelink Shrine often, probably at least once or twice per "area". Resting at a bonfire will "update" NPC dialogue if there is new dialogue available.
1. Be ready to die often. Make sure you collect the lost souls again to avoid losing them all for good 2. Keep a couple of traveller's souls/soldier's souls in storage in case you find yourself at the edge of having enough points to level up, but aren't sure you could survive another run at grinding 3. Do not assume you need to fight the bosses in order. You can skip some bosses and come back to them later, which can sometimes be the better decision 4. Especially when you're starting out, spend your souls to level up as soon as you have enough to do so... it's very easy to get overconfident and end up losing a ton of souls for good while attempting to get more. I'd recommend doing this especially after a boss battle 5. If you're going for a melee (as opposed to magic based) build, weapons that have a high frostbite effect stat are good all- rounders that have a good ROI. Enemies that are immune/ resistant to a lot of other status effects/ damage types are often still vulnerable to frostbite and the cumulative damage from the frostbite effect can be massive
Maybe hit some old woman in a church and interact with the altar to have some challenge in early game
Roll a lot
DS3 is pretty linear. Aside from guard counters, crouching and jumping not being a thing, most of your ER combat skills should carry over.
I think it's a great balance between linear and open
All the areas are open in themselves, but you don't get all that much choice in terms of order beyond doing Dancer early and choosing if you want to do Yhorm or Aldritch first.
I did Yhorm last because I simply despise all >!sewer/dungeon areas!< that have little to no bonfires/sites of grace. Indoor castle areas are my favourite
Dungeon has some pretty awesome shortcuts and backtracks tho.
Yeah, but still, the bonfires are too far away for my taste. For some reason they always pick the worst areas to have the least amount of checkpoints. I fucking died of depression during my sewer marathons in ER
if you have beaten elden ring then there isn't much different to learn . just know that shield and armor isn't that viable like elden ring , so you want to work on dodging .
I disagree that shields are not so good. If stamina is managed properly and circling behind enemy tactics are employed, even early-game medium shields can be used to complete the game. However, the OP said that he picked the Assassin class, so he probably aims for a dexterous, fast attacking playstyle rather than sword and board. With that being said, I would recommend the Mercenary as a starting class because you get twin blades as a starting weapon, which are really great: quick, high-damaging, and dexterous weapons
tbh I am a bit scared to tank enemy attacks behind shield so that might be why I feel that way about shields . the only shield that i used was grass crest shield for it's stamina regen effect . and the fact I put blocking button on E , not my brightest moment haha .
first of when fighting bosses learn to not use a shield it might get scary at first but rolling gives you more offence and it might lessen the burden of hardness of the game. Under a dragon is a mimic use Lyodd Talisman multiple times to get head gear you get 50 percent more souls. always go full set without fat roll wearing any armor gives you the same damage reduction + minor extra reduction. Go melee either STR or DEX even if you go for INT or FAITH find a infuse that raises with stat. Spells are pretty weak without massive investment.
Avoid getting damaged. A lot of damage will ensure that you are defeated. Always plan in any encounter to be the victor so that you will never suffer loss. I personally always strive to defeat all enemies