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Yes, it's a mimic. Apparently, the person I'm playing with saw the mimic just standing there circling around while I only saw it in chest form.

I'm playing dark souls 3 with someone who played the game and wanted me to experience ds3 and we've been doing co op for a while since the beginning of the game. I was choosing dex/faith, they chose strength. The mercenary gets sellsword twinblade which is what I chose. I was getting bodied hard in the beginning. Mobbed by enemies and the other player was telling me to use my shield and Block more. I disagreed because I was noticing the damage I was getting from sellsword. They told me that I was playing terribly and rolling and getting hit by everything and that I needed to git gud. They also mentioned I wasn't exploring enough. So I decided to comb for items. I decided to level up my stats and invest in dex and level up my weapon. They did the same for the great sword. We did so also to stop invaders. Now however I'm melting bosses and killing enemies so fast that the other player isn't able to get attacks in or is having a chance to play because the great sword is slower than my weapon. They're now saying that I cheated myself out of the experience of dark souls 3 by looking up the best weapon. They called me a scrub that doesn't appreciate the art or intended way to play dark souls 3. I overleveled they said. I'm level 70+ at the catacombs currently before boreal valley and i killed the carthus worm and old king fire demon.

I want to know everyone's thoughts on this.

played the game twice with strength, dex and faith (lightning) builds and if you disagree your wrong (joking).

I’ve completed the game in new game ++, but I’m still missing the trophies for gestures,pyromancies and miracles. I’ve completely lost track of what I might still be missing. Need some help 😭

All in order

Is anyone online to help me with vertebra shackle?? Is so boring i am at least 15h trying to farm all the 30 but I only have 14 with some help online

Made a quick painting of my favorite bonfire in DS3. 4 hours procreate (ds3 is peak) \o/

Finally beat the game. This was my first play through and souls game in general. Died many times but thoroughly enjoyed the journey. Any recommendations on what to play next?

This is prolly gonna get taken down but WASSSUUUP

I'm working my way through NG++ and have a ton of extra Estus and Undead Bone Shards. The Shrine Handmaid doesn't seem to want them, so what can I do with them?

Thanks!

I did a whole run with the great club and I heavily prefer it over any dex weapon and even most strength weapons. The requirements are low to use it, it is great for clearing out mobs unlike smaller weapons and very easily breaks shields, it staggers most bosses and is easy to land with due to range, its not super slow and it deals tons of damage. There may be some higher DPS weapons i dont know, but you can wield the club from start to finish no problem.

I really want to use deep sorcery for my first playthrough, but it seems to suck. I currently have Deep Soul and Great Deep Soul, but the damage is really really bad. My int and fai are both 30, I read that I should use the izalith catalyst but I don't have that. I have been using the Clerics Candlestick but I just got the Archdeacons staff if that's better.

Somebody what to help me agaist Gael?

I'm playing DS3 for the first time after putting hundreds of hours into Elden Ring. I've been playing completely solo, no summons, and exploring everything blind.

Today I was at the Cathedral of the Deep and saw a summon sign next to the bonfire. I thought it was an NPC summon, so I said screw it and summoned them for the first time.

I spent the next 10 minutes following this dude around before I even realized it was a real player.

This absolute legend proceeded to give me a full guided of the entire Cathedral. Every shortcut, every secret path, every item. He waited while I looted everything and even dropped me a few items to help with some of the encounters.

I normally love exploring these games blind and figuring everything out myself, but man, that was genuinely one of the funniest gaming experiences I've had in a while.

To the Warrior of Sunlight who was guiding me through the Cathedral today: thank you.

So, for the past 2 days i have been trying to beat this pontiff man and failed miserably.

I didn't want to blame anything but it's too obvious to ignore. It's my skill and the fps of my laptop. I really enjoys playing this game but if i can't get going because this boss then I'm gonna loose it. If you guys willing to help, pls I'm going crazy.

But good lord. I loved Elden ring and the dlc, which I played twice. I adore sekiro. Bloodborne rules.

I cannot get into the groove of DS3 and I have no idea why. I’m still stuck on the high wall of lothric. I haven’t even met a real boss. And I suck so much ass, I’m asphyxiating on undigested corn kernels.

I’m a pyromancer with the katana, shield and fireball.

I know enough from my experience with the aforementioned games that I’m the problem. I clearly haven’t figured it out yet. But unlike those, the dying just doesn’t feel fun(?). Like I’ll try to get to the tough part and have to redeal with all these little nuisances along the way that are easy but just take forever.

Maybe that’s the point and I just am not jibing with it yet. But if there are any obvious things someone who loves this style of game might miss with DS3 at first, I’d love guidance!

UPDATE: Thank you all so much so far!! I’m hitting the hay but very pumped to implement these strategies tomorrow. Also I’m clearly having more fun than I realized bc I can’t stop thinking about the game and am loving reading every post here!

I had been stuck at Midir for ages, and I had almost contemplated deleting the game but somehow we fucked the living shit out of it. So thank you so much for being there! This was really awesome!
And you sir are a badass!

- Artorias

I love Dark Souls. I've beaten the first one many times, the second one is my favorite. But I think the third one is by far my least favorite souls game, and I think part of that is because I can't get myself to play very far. I've only gotten slightly past Wolnir, which I know isn't that far but I couldn't play farther than that.

This isn't a rant either, Its a genuine issue for me.

I know mechanically, the third is superior to the first two, I'm not gonna act like the others were better. 3 had better and more fun weapons with more types and effects. It nailed that aspect, I just personally liked the first 2 better. But I think the tighter controls and faster combat actually make this one less enjoyable for me. The first two were clunky, and Dark Souls feels more like a game that embraces the clunk rather than being hindered by it.

The world isn't that engaging to me, I hate the way it looks. I know the lore reason for it, the universe is ending, and the game feels like it, and its just a bummer to explore. 1 and 2 felt better to me. 1 felt like a destroyed city, exploring it made you wonder how this place was before all this happened. 2 was an area at the start of falling apart. All the areas I was in were graveyards, swamps, a sick town. I don't wonder how it looked before this all happened because this is probably what it looked like.

The graphics are terrible, just flat out, I've played on both PC and PS4/5, and its abysmal to me. The screen is way too cluttered, there is way too much unnecessary detail that it makes my eye un-focus because of it. I never know where I'm supposed to look, everything is trying to pull my eyes away from what I need to look at. There doesn't need to be thirty gravestones in one little patch, there doesn't need to be unleveled cobblestone on the paths, it's just too much.

The art style and graphics clash, giving the game this unfocused look, like your eyes when you zone out, how everything blurs a bit. The entire game looks like that, its fuzzy and a pain.

1 and 2 handled its graphics much much better because it was simple. The textures were flat and when you looked at them closely you can see all the imperfections. But when you focused on the game, what your supposed to focus on, it all blended beautifully. You know what the area is supposed to be, it gave you all the information you needed and none of what you didn't.

I want to play this game, it's the only Dark Souls game I haven't beaten yet. But if I have to force myself to play it then its not worth playing. Is there anyone else who had a similar issue and found a way around it.

I just finished my first playthrough of DS3 with a Strength build, mainly using the FUGS and other heavy weapons. My favourite weapon ended up being Lorian’s Greatsword.

Now I’m thinking about my next build, but I’m not sure what to go for. I’m interested in a thrust/spear build using the Dragonslayer Swordspear, but I’d also like something fast with weapons like the Dancer’s Enchanted Swords.

What build would you recommend? I’m open to trying something different!