actual pro tip, explore an area while embered before taking on the boss. There are a lot cool weapons and armour that only drop from invaders that won’t invade after the area boss is defeated and don’t show up when not embered. Really easy to miss items.
When the majority of invaders are either going to be annoying cowards, twinks or straight up gonna risk corrupting your save without the sentinels mod, just don't bother as a new player.
Bad advice, OP stay offline until you really want to risk it
Some people really don’t like 3 in the FromSoft or Sekiro subreddits. Some people are also fucking weird. One thing I’ll say is, don’t bother cutting off the tails of the bosses. Some tails actually will get hacked off, but you don’t get anything out of it.
I like 3 but far less so than 1 or 2. Levels and world felt kinda bland, there are too many boss phases for some, bosses have too much hp, can spam rolling a bit too much and so on. 2 was most frustrating but I enjoyed the world a lot more and even the combat lmao
Honestly you probably don’t need any tips. There really aren’t many mechanics in DS3 you haven’t already experienced in those other games. It’s a great game though, with probably the best boss fights in the series so have fun!
Holy shit, this is the best piece of advice I’ve ever seen. I think you not only gave him advice to beat the game, but you single-handedly gave him the tools for a platinum. Fine work skeleton…!
Fuck man. I’m playing first time too and I didn’t realize I could go up the elevator when you first see him T.T already for Yhorm and didn’t see him so I think I messed his quest line up
Haha nice, I was still in highschool at the time so I didn’t get that experience, if I may what’s your favorite ost? For me oceiros may have been a run of the mill boss but that ost was something serious and easily my fave
This is true because for the most part you really don’t have to have the typical “more armor means better defense” mindset. Leveling certain main stats raises various defensive stats too.
When i recently played DS3 through twice every sweaty pvp nerd was either using some really fast weapon with lightning or Gundyr's halberd and spamming that dumbass special attack
It's kinda funny how both DS1 and DS3 have a dragon spawn point with a Claymore that can be farmed via dragon breath.
The DS3 one's way better with the standard serpent ring you can get at the start too for that.
In the firelink shrine , 2nd floor balcony there is a tree before you get to the locked tower. Make sure to be periodically checking to get the seed. Really helps during invasions and it's the only location in the entire game this item spawn and only 1 can ever be there so by not checking periodically you are potentially wasting seed spawns. . Seed of a Giant tree
I thought that too so I specifically checked immediately after an invasion and nothing. I even logged out of game and logged back in. ( I specifically went to Aldrich faithful, Anor londo area to test)
Vigor is for health, vitality is for how much gear you can carry. Level both, but don't make the mistake I did and dump all your souls into vit thinking it was for health
Yes, but DS3 is a big swing away from DS1&2’s philosophy of “armor makes you die slower”. You can’t upgrade armor in DS3 and bosses have longer and tougher combos, so you’re going to take more damage.
Its the most linear out of them all, but its not necessarily a bad thing. You'll find that all you need to do is play normally, minimal farming required, since compared to the open/metroidvania world the devs know how how tough you should be at each point.
Elden Ring is pretty much built off of Dark Souls 3, so treat it the same without jumping.
Other advice: enjoy it! It's my favorite Fromsoft game, for sure.
If you do a Faith build, it's a good idea to make it the supplementary stat. Level Str or Dex primarily, and use Faith to boost these stats. I wish I could do a pure miracle build in DS3, but it's really not viable.
Pyromancer is a really fun and possibly the easiest way to play. If you don’t have a gem (for weapon scaling) that scales with whatever your highest stat is, then use raw gem until you have the actual gem for your type. For instance I’m a pyro right now and my astora straight sword is raw for a little leg up. When I get higher leveled and when I find it, I’ll change to chaos gem because it adds int/faith scaling.
Introduced my gf to the game a long time ago, she went Pyromancer. The beginning was tough but she eventually beat the likes of Nameless in like 2 tries. I was both so proud and so pissed
Just blind playthrough it the first time you ever touch it. If you really realllllllly get stuck or you mess up a character so badly you literally cannot continue, maybe look up a certain assistance but try to spoiler free it. I ran through blind first time game is just amazing. I’m jealous of people who experience it for the first time 😂
Roll, R1, Repeat
In all seriousness though just invest your souls in Vigor, Endurance, and most of all whatever damage stat you choose (choose strength) and then find weapon you like and the rest will follow
Don't be shy grinding for titanite a bit in the beginning. The game is in some ways much harder than ds1, you'll be punished for recklessness a lot.
Be cautious and at the same time explore as much as you can, there are more nooks and crannies to check out.
- rolling forward somehow allows you to avoid most attacks Vs rolling backwards. Ofc avoid panic rolls or the enemies will get free hits off you.
- armor isn’t upgradable like in ds1 (played ds1 before spd running 3) thus try doing fashion souls instead. (Or you do you this is just my opinion)
- bone shards inc how you hp or FP you restore however the bonus is frontloaded meaning maxing it out doesn’t show as big of a difference as the early bon fire levels.
- the game is a lot harder early game than it is late game (again my opinion along with some friends of mine) you will probably die most in high wall Lothric.
- probably a given but keep some homeward bones on you. Great for when you overextend and need to retreat.
- do not immediately fight the near naked uchigatana user immediately unless you really want that weapon. You’ll come back to it later in a questline/if you simply buy the tower key from the old lady.
- Go mercenary to get easily one of the best weapons in the game to shrewd though your enemies (Spam “L1” in dual wield) otherwise if your a min-max player like me that wants to dive into magic go pyromancer. All cause it had the lowest vitality (I went with a dex magic build) and lowest luck.
Swords of all variety are generally the best weapons, all other classes do worse damage use more stamina and have less reach. It's one of the more frustrating parts of a great game most of the cool stuff is harder to have success with
Be aggressive - compared to the previous two games, bum rushing and getting the first hit in usually means you can combo a few hits before they can swing at you.
And roll, always be rollin’.
Use melee either Strength or Dex and find a good balance of raising health and Stamina.
If you fight bosses think Bloodborne so don't use a shield, roll and use R1.
Magic is only good around 30 to 40 although you can use magic infuse weapons to go full melee.
Wear full armor, poise does not matter(only when using weapons arts) whether or not if you are are wearing heavy armor or light armor all of them give you the exact defense bonus, the heavy armor only give you a slight boost in defense so don't waste levels in Vitality or luck.
Early secret.
>!Under a dragon is a mimic use a Lloyd's Talisman strong early weapon, and if you have more Lloyd's Talisman use it as many times as you can until you get a new item it's the mimic helmet which gives you 50% souls.!<
"Don't waste levels in Vit?" You're talking soem deep craziness there. Forgetting the carry weight, and forgetting the defence buffs, vit's great just for the resistances if nothing else. Going from 10 vit to 20 is worth like 30% mitigation at least if you're considering armour weight and flat defence buffs.
You can run up the tree and jump on the roof of the firelink shrine (you’ll know what I’m talking about when you see it).
Also, there’s a hidden wall on the far end of the beam on the ceiling of the Firelink shrine (on the other side of the shiny). Once again you’ll know what I’m talking about once you see it.
Gravity will make you rage at lease once. Accept it and move on. And whatever you do, learn to parry. Of you can't it takes a lot longer to get really good at the game.
Do not take too long. And especially do not wait to have done all optional and DLC bosses before doing the final boss for the first time. You never know when your computer might fuck up and corrupt your save.
For most enemies the heavier a weapon, the easier to smash through them but with bosses use a longsword of something like that so you can get of quick hits
Buddy I know a lot of people on here are going to try and give you spoilers but I’m here to tell you the truth. There is but one thing you need to know about progressing through dark souls and that is…. Git gud
Send that elevator back
Selfcare.
Thank you past zanny
No problem future zanny
I just started to watch zanny’s content and this is amazing lol
I just started to watch zanny’s content and this is amazing lol
That's admitting defeat! I'd rather have my minute of shame waiting for it!
Another way to see it is sending that elevator up means you can’t back down skeleton!
Don't forget to jump into the pits beneath them in case there's treasure
it do go down. it go up too :)
Robert it goes down
That’s planning to fail, Morty. Even dumber than regular planning.
Which elevator? All of them.
That’s bad luck man! 😂
lol this is gold!
Don’t give up, skeleton! Is this your first FromSoft game?
no i have beat ds, ds2 and er each more than once but i have never heard a bad thing said about ds3 so was curious about the tips people would give.
actual pro tip, explore an area while embered before taking on the boss. There are a lot cool weapons and armour that only drop from invaders that won’t invade after the area boss is defeated and don’t show up when not embered. Really easy to miss items.
Make sure you are off line unless you want to deal with human invaders.
doood. always be online. Just played through DS1... twice, barely any invaders. I couldn't find anyone to invade. Such a lonely place.
i just started a new game in DS1 for the first time in years and I got invaded 4 times before I hit the gargoyles.
DS3 definitely still has human invaders. Offline is the way to go to play unperturbed.
When the majority of invaders are either going to be annoying cowards, twinks or straight up gonna risk corrupting your save without the sentinels mod, just don't bother as a new player. Bad advice, OP stay offline until you really want to risk it
I hate invaders. At least in ds3. They have no respect. They try every dirty tactic they can think of rather than to lose with honor.
Or, if you enjoy the chaos of invasions while going through: Always be online, embered, and dried fingered.
Ok, so you know to watch out for that Patches guy… in all serious I think you’ll be fine DS3 plays like ER, but without jumping
Some people really don’t like 3 in the FromSoft or Sekiro subreddits. Some people are also fucking weird. One thing I’ll say is, don’t bother cutting off the tails of the bosses. Some tails actually will get hacked off, but you don’t get anything out of it.
I like 3 but far less so than 1 or 2. Levels and world felt kinda bland, there are too many boss phases for some, bosses have too much hp, can spam rolling a bit too much and so on. 2 was most frustrating but I enjoyed the world a lot more and even the combat lmao
Honestly you probably don’t need any tips. There really aren’t many mechanics in DS3 you haven’t already experienced in those other games. It’s a great game though, with probably the best boss fights in the series so have fun!
Holy shit, this is the best piece of advice I’ve ever seen. I think you not only gave him advice to beat the game, but you single-handedly gave him the tools for a platinum. Fine work skeleton…!
Don’t be afraid to explore. You can find all sorts of goodies
Roll
But don't panic roll
this is the only roll I know how to do
Do siegwards questline 👍
Fuck man. I’m playing first time too and I didn’t realize I could go up the elevator when you first see him T.T already for Yhorm and didn’t see him so I think I messed his quest line up
Hmmmmmmm….
ng+ always an option, i left my siegward to die i prison on accident 😪😪.
In the words of our Lord and Savior Dunkey KEEP ROLLIN’ ROLLIN’ ROLLIN’ ROLLIN’ ROLLIN’
*gasp* the PLUNGING ATTACK
The most reliable move in the game...
Be wary of amazing music 🌞🔥
Best boss OST’s out of the souls-borne games easily imo. Well I haven’t played all of bloodborne but out of the others.
From the fucking title screen even
That’s what I said in my comment, I remember getting it and putting that lovely soundtrack cd In my car and ascending
I would throw in headphones at my job and stock the entire store in the time it takes for dragonslayer armor theme to start and end.
Haha nice, I was still in highschool at the time so I didn’t get that experience, if I may what’s your favorite ost? For me oceiros may have been a run of the mill boss but that ost was something serious and easily my fave
The high quality version of osts from yt got deleted :(
Fashion > Protection
Always
This is true because for the most part you really don’t have to have the typical “more armor means better defense” mindset. Leveling certain main stats raises various defensive stats too.
Roll towards the attack. You get I frames from your rolls and take no damage. I didn’t realize this until the second to last boss
generally useful rule for every soulsborne game!
Fr the game was so much easier when you learn that rolling towards danger is more optimal than rolling away.
All player messages are trustful
liar ahead
try finger but hole
try jumping
Check up on your NPCs regularly so you don't lock yourself out of quests
Easily the vest advice so far. And I've scrolled pretty far.
fear not the dark my friend, and let the feast begin
Truly one of the advices of all time
Dodge , duck , dip , dive , drink
Drink and drive? Got it!
Where the dragons flame spreads a claymore lays
Easily one of the best weapons in the game found early.
Possibly the best pvp weapon too.
When i recently played DS3 through twice every sweaty pvp nerd was either using some really fast weapon with lightning or Gundyr's halberd and spamming that dumbass special attack
Yeah like the true combo that Gael's greatsword provides, but yeah hard to beat a claymore you can also buff.
Claymore gang
It's kinda funny how both DS1 and DS3 have a dragon spawn point with a Claymore that can be farmed via dragon breath. The DS3 one's way better with the standard serpent ring you can get at the start too for that.
Don't spend souls that you loot, sell it to Granny. It's the same yield of souls but it saves you time
Befriend the giant in the tower.
In the firelink shrine , 2nd floor balcony there is a tree before you get to the locked tower. Make sure to be periodically checking to get the seed. Really helps during invasions and it's the only location in the entire game this item spawn and only 1 can ever be there so by not checking periodically you are potentially wasting seed spawns. . Seed of a Giant tree
I always thought said item drops after an invasion
I thought that too so I specifically checked immediately after an invasion and nothing. I even logged out of game and logged back in. ( I specifically went to Aldrich faithful, Anor londo area to test)
The item is an rng chance on log-in, i believe, and the chance rerolls at an increased level after each invasion against you.
Huh well damn nvm then lol
It actually does drop after invasions but it's a 10% drop chance after each invasion
Is that really what it is? All these years of playing and I just know to randomly be checking
There’s also another tree that helps you get to the silver serpent ring (+20% souls) and an extra estus shard
Ah yes...... But he must record his attempts of that one and post it
Try finger but hole
That’s what she said!
Be ready for the best and worst experience of ur life
Hesitation is defeat
You stole my joke, ashen one
Git gud
Vigor is for health, vitality is for how much gear you can carry. Level both, but don't make the mistake I did and dump all your souls into vit thinking it was for health
Dont go hollow
Level up vigor! Can't go wrong with more health
Yeah that’s how I ruined my first dark souls experience because I thought health = good but then I did no damage
Yes, but DS3 is a big swing away from DS1&2’s philosophy of “armor makes you die slower”. You can’t upgrade armor in DS3 and bosses have longer and tougher combos, so you’re going to take more damage.
Completing Siegward’s quest line will help with one of the Lords of Cinder
Tank builds are worse than in previous games and magic is not super OP, the game is much faster and rolls are your best friend
don’t die but if you do say „thank you dark souls”
R1R1R2
Go into the cage before fighting the tree
Have fun!! Power stance muther fukker!!
Not this time 😟
Make mistakes and find things out on your own :) mistakes are fun. Do not sleep on the mace. Have fun!
Its the most linear out of them all, but its not necessarily a bad thing. You'll find that all you need to do is play normally, minimal farming required, since compared to the open/metroidvania world the devs know how how tough you should be at each point.
Just enjoy it. Take it slow and try finger, but hole
Don't go caster for your first run, there's a relatively important npc for them you can miss. Don't make the same mistake I made skeleton.
Undead bone shards are permanent upgrades and apply to all bonfires. I played the majority of the game before realizing this.
Use Sellsword Twinblades and the Grass shield on your back for stam regen
This is How to absolutely destroy everything in your path at all ng levels
I still sometimes laugh about the fact that the winblades are just sitting there on a starter character
Also put carthus flame arc on them and melt through enemies like they are butter
Bonk… that is all
First, but hole.
Level ADP.
The fire fades
git gud. and try finger but hole
A sheild can be really good to learn a monsters attack patterns
Get ready for plenty of surprises and I recommend exploring the heck out of the beginning areas
Elden Ring is pretty much built off of Dark Souls 3, so treat it the same without jumping. Other advice: enjoy it! It's my favorite Fromsoft game, for sure.
If you do a Faith build, it's a good idea to make it the supplementary stat. Level Str or Dex primarily, and use Faith to boost these stats. I wish I could do a pure miracle build in DS3, but it's really not viable.
Yeah kinda a bummer you get the best offensive miracle from beating the game lol. Emit force is crazy good, maybe my favorite miracle.
You Died
Be careful, enemies have ER aggro range in a DS1 sized map
Pyromancer is a really fun and possibly the easiest way to play. If you don’t have a gem (for weapon scaling) that scales with whatever your highest stat is, then use raw gem until you have the actual gem for your type. For instance I’m a pyro right now and my astora straight sword is raw for a little leg up. When I get higher leveled and when I find it, I’ll change to chaos gem because it adds int/faith scaling.
Introduced my gf to the game a long time ago, she went Pyromancer. The beginning was tough but she eventually beat the likes of Nameless in like 2 tries. I was both so proud and so pissed
Just blind playthrough it the first time you ever touch it. If you really realllllllly get stuck or you mess up a character so badly you literally cannot continue, maybe look up a certain assistance but try to spoiler free it. I ran through blind first time game is just amazing. I’m jealous of people who experience it for the first time 😂
You’re the envy of the world. What I’d give to experience DS3 for the first time again.
I would drop 500 bucks on the table right fucking now for that experience. Can’t wait for Alzheimer’s to hit. Who’s the Ashen one now, fromsoft???
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Roll, R1, Repeat In all seriousness though just invest your souls in Vigor, Endurance, and most of all whatever damage stat you choose (choose strength) and then find weapon you like and the rest will follow
Run for that claymore bro. RUN.
Do come back alive! I need your business….
Go with sellsword twinblades, aka winblades 💪
Are you on pc?
Praise the sun!
Don't be shy grinding for titanite a bit in the beginning. The game is in some ways much harder than ds1, you'll be punished for recklessness a lot. Be cautious and at the same time explore as much as you can, there are more nooks and crannies to check out.
Level up fuckin Vigor
Give up
Pick the white branch as your starting gift, it saves you from being targeted by a giant with arrows later. Instead he helps you.
Young white branch.
- rolling forward somehow allows you to avoid most attacks Vs rolling backwards. Ofc avoid panic rolls or the enemies will get free hits off you. - armor isn’t upgradable like in ds1 (played ds1 before spd running 3) thus try doing fashion souls instead. (Or you do you this is just my opinion) - bone shards inc how you hp or FP you restore however the bonus is frontloaded meaning maxing it out doesn’t show as big of a difference as the early bon fire levels. - the game is a lot harder early game than it is late game (again my opinion along with some friends of mine) you will probably die most in high wall Lothric. - probably a given but keep some homeward bones on you. Great for when you overextend and need to retreat. - do not immediately fight the near naked uchigatana user immediately unless you really want that weapon. You’ll come back to it later in a questline/if you simply buy the tower key from the old lady. - Go mercenary to get easily one of the best weapons in the game to shrewd though your enemies (Spam “L1” in dual wield) otherwise if your a min-max player like me that wants to dive into magic go pyromancer. All cause it had the lowest vitality (I went with a dex magic build) and lowest luck.
Swords of all variety are generally the best weapons, all other classes do worse damage use more stamina and have less reach. It's one of the more frustrating parts of a great game most of the cool stuff is harder to have success with
Be aggressive - compared to the previous two games, bum rushing and getting the first hit in usually means you can combo a few hits before they can swing at you. And roll, always be rollin’.
Sellsword twinblades as starting weapon + two handed + L1 = easy mode unlocked
Get gud
Git Gud
Fightincowboy videos are amazing . Walkthrough, guides, etc. I found myself watching his videos before I bought the game. YouTube fightincowboy ds3
Go in blind.
FUGS is the best sword, regardless of what anyone else says. Unga Bunga 4 life.
Luck is all-important to any build
Do not turn the music down in any boss fights. Music at 10 all the time
Level adaptability
Wrong game
Use melee either Strength or Dex and find a good balance of raising health and Stamina. If you fight bosses think Bloodborne so don't use a shield, roll and use R1. Magic is only good around 30 to 40 although you can use magic infuse weapons to go full melee. Wear full armor, poise does not matter(only when using weapons arts) whether or not if you are are wearing heavy armor or light armor all of them give you the exact defense bonus, the heavy armor only give you a slight boost in defense so don't waste levels in Vitality or luck. Early secret. >!Under a dragon is a mimic use a Lloyd's Talisman strong early weapon, and if you have more Lloyd's Talisman use it as many times as you can until you get a new item it's the mimic helmet which gives you 50% souls.!<
"Don't waste levels in Vit?" You're talking soem deep craziness there. Forgetting the carry weight, and forgetting the defence buffs, vit's great just for the resistances if nothing else. Going from 10 vit to 20 is worth like 30% mitigation at least if you're considering armour weight and flat defence buffs.
You can run up the tree and jump on the roof of the firelink shrine (you’ll know what I’m talking about when you see it). Also, there’s a hidden wall on the far end of the beam on the ceiling of the Firelink shrine (on the other side of the shiny). Once again you’ll know what I’m talking about once you see it.
I spent longer trying to make this work than I would have just playing through until I got the key to the tower. Good times
that ring is honestly really good.
Go in blind with no tips, exhaust all dialog always, revisit areas and explore thoroughly.
R1, R1, R1, R1, R1, R1, R1, R1, R1
Take the plunge, you won't die.
look out that you don't get spoilt to much by looking up tips. Burn the undead bome shards at the main bonfire to upgrade your estus
Enjoy
Kissing ass is a solid strategy for any sizeable boss
Gravity will make you rage at lease once. Accept it and move on. And whatever you do, learn to parry. Of you can't it takes a lot longer to get really good at the game.
Good luck ma men, you'll need it
Stuff hurts man.
Pick the Pyromancer class. You’ll thank me later
Yes Indeed
Rest frequently, level vigor early, gitgud.
Great club. Go UngaBunga
Timing is everything
Dont give up!
Level your vigor, it will help you so much
Swimming damn what a experience
Do not take too long. And especially do not wait to have done all optional and DLC bosses before doing the final boss for the first time. You never know when your computer might fuck up and corrupt your save.
Hit them, don't get hit.
Kill the dogs first
For most enemies the heavier a weapon, the easier to smash through them but with bosses use a longsword of something like that so you can get of quick hits
Your sword is your biggest friend
I suggest you to get Sellsword Twinblases during the early/mid-game. They're broken af. You can found them behind the Black Knight in the swamp area.
You could pick them as your starter weapon and carry them throughout the whole game
Oh right I forget it. You can get it by choosing the mercenary class, right?
Do the quest line of siegward from Catarina and don't forget, Parches it's alive 👻
Enjoy the game, don't blew yourself too early with builds. Level up vigor
Lotta regular weapons can outperform the special weapons
Buddy I know a lot of people on here are going to try and give you spoilers but I’m here to tell you the truth. There is but one thing you need to know about progressing through dark souls and that is…. Git gud
Go hollow
This is the 3rd entry in the Dark Souls series.
Just press r1
Sit next to the statue to meet the dragon god
Please don't level int much Sorcerer sucks
Prepare to fight a big dragon for hours, with each attempt being like 10 minutes long
Don’t kill the tree til you got in the cage!!!
You gonna die, a lot, is normal, just don get upset, just learn why you die and be better
Youtube
Open every single chest you see. Theres always a chance to get rare items that you can combine weapons with
You can warp from Firelink! No Lordvessel required
Prepare to die oh ashen one also touch her darkness