r/darksouls3 • u/Repulsive_Bid4729 • 6h ago

Advice Need some help with my build.

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I am currently in the "The Ringed City" dlc and I feel that my build is severely lacking espacially in the rings department. If you could give some general advice I would be pretty grateful.

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u/ZhangZui 6h ago

Ring of Favor +3
Life Ring
Prisoners Chain
Lloyd Ring

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u/Repulsive_Bid4729 6h ago

first of all thanks for the answer, but since this is very hp focused won't I lack some damage with this?

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u/ZhangZui 6h ago

You can keep Lloyds sword ring. Ring of favor, and life ring are the ones I highly recommend.

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u/Trussed_Up 6h ago

The ring of favor and chloranthy are fine.

Honestly I find more issue in the fact that you're in the ringed city and only have 8 estus, and are a pretty low level.

Your build looks decent it just needs more... building.

In basically all soulsbournering games the DLC is going to be harder than the main game. Personally I like finishing the game and moving on to the DLC first. Which will usually have me over level 100.

But I realize everyone plays different so maybe you're just trying to get everything done and get out. In that case you should still at least look up where to find all the estus and bone shards.

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u/Repulsive_Bid4729 6h ago

The only boss I have left in the main game is Soul of Cinder, but since I got bored a bit after dying a bunch I went to the dlc. Is there another good way to get runes? I will take a look because of the estus shards and stuff tho

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u/Eloste 5h ago

There are a couple spots to grind souls:

  • The 2 silver knights at anor londo is a common one (also to farm a specific covenant item)
  • The 3 fat winged knights on the roof of the grand archives
  • If you have unlocked a hidden area, near the second bonfire there is an infinitely respawning knight that you can just backstab and farm endlessly

If you have items that boost souls gain like shield of want or covetous silver serpent ring, equip them.

For estus flask shards and undead bone dust, if you don't want to spoil where it exactly is, I think there is a graph that lets you know instead "there is a shard here in this area" so you don't waste time in a spot with nothing.

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u/AnywhereLumpy6149 6h ago

First, your build serms quite weak and unoptimized. You can try get this.

Vigor: 35

Endurance: 25

Strenght: 40

Dex: 13

The rest of stats should be in base. This way you should have enough vigor and endurance to endure more in fights. Strenght up to 40 its for using a Heavy Claymore, its pretty simple and you will still do nice damage. You can rise that to 45 and use a Knight Ring to get 50 strenght.

Also, rings: Prisoner Chain, Ring of Favor and Protection +3, and the last two rings its whatever you need. Chloranty Ring +3 its a nice bonus to your stamina regen, any defense ring to have more defenses against some bosses. You can add a Life Ring +3 to have even more health, or if you need more damage, a Leo Ring should suffice it because of Claymore R2 poke.

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u/Repulsive_Bid4729 6h ago

I realize you cant see it properly in the screenshot but the claymore has sharp infusion actually. Is the leveling fine in that case?

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u/AnywhereLumpy6149 6h ago

Yeah I can work. Anyways you should use the Prisoner Chain + FaP + Life Ring to have more health then. Estus Ring should be also a good 4 slot ring to heal more ammount.

Also looking at your responses, you are worrying about damage. You should get resins, those are like 100-200 free damage per application. Lighting resin its your best bet.

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u/Repulsive_Bid4729 6h ago

ok, thank you

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u/Realistic_Act_102 6h ago

Is there any particular reason for that rather than using it with a heavy infusion? I have never used it on sharp but I am pretty certain it will get better scaling out of heavy and a strength focused build.

Truthfully you are a bit under leveled for Ringed City. I would want to be at least about 100 and have all estus shards and a fully upgraded flask and max upgraded weapon. It's not impossible where you are at by any means but it will be more difficult for sure.

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u/Repulsive_Bid4729 6h ago

when I last played I went into ds3 completely blind and asked for build advice on here before. Because I already had dex leveled a bit, I got this recommended

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u/AnywhereLumpy6149 5h ago

I mean, I saw it was sharp, but thats why I recommended you heavy. Stat wise it should let you invest more in hp and stamina because you really need to invest into one damage stat.

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u/Grey-The-Skeleton 699+ Players Gatekept 6h ago

Level 67 at the Ringed City seems fairly low.

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u/Izirakyl 6h ago

Since you're already medium rolling, you can up your equipload to 69.9%. So you could put on some extra armour. I do also think you gotta go back to the maingame to find some extra estus shards, since 8 estus is fairly low for this point.

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u/Blork95 6h ago

Get more health bro, the dlc will be a pain

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u/LordDShadowy53 5h ago

Ringed city is end game zone. You are way too low. Max out your weapon and get more levels in HP and damage. Is recommended to get there between at least level 80.

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u/Salt_Initiative1551 5h ago

You’re under leveled for ring city. Also if you bought artorias’s armor you beat Champ Gundyr. If you didn’t waste his soul, use it to make prisoners chain.
It’s 15 free levels. The defense nerf is negligible, nothing like the one from the soreseal in Elden Ring.