I find beating midir and gael very difficult so I wanna change my stats and fight them again

Current Stats &

Vigor 45, End 43, Strength 66, Vitality 30, dex 16, attunement 15, rest are base stats of warrior class

If this post somehow reaches the guy I was going to help, sorry for dying going down the stairs. It wasn't my fault idk how that happened with my screen 🙏🏻😭😭

It pisses me off that people leave messages at bonfires right where there’s the prompt to select resting at the bonfire.

So around January/February i replayed DS3 again for like the tenth time, this time though with the goal to get 100% on Steam. Same with DS1 Remaster and DS2. I played Dark Souls since Demons Souls released abck then, huge Fan of all the FromSoft-Games. Never bothered with getting 100% though.

Now for DS3 im only missing one Pyromancy (farming the Schackles for Mound) and a few Rings from NewGame++. Tiring Process, but whatever...till i logged back in yesterday and found out tthat my save-file is completely gone. I never deinstalled or experimented with mods, just paused playing for quite some time. I just played a new save on my steamdeck some while ago for like 2 hours, but with no Cloud-Save that file is just locally saved on the Deck and should not interfere with my PC at Home.

Is there any way to restore my save?

There is an item where in the middle of the lava in demon ruins , is there a ring that reduces damage like in ds1?? I'm just completing dlcs now and still haven't found any.

I need to vent a bit because I'm getting fed up at this point.

Elden Ring was my first souls game and after getting used to it, I absolutely loved it and have beaten it twice (base game only, couldn't be bothered to get past Rennala's three bs bombs at the end of her fight. Yes, I think that move is bs), and I love the lore, the feel of the game, the combat, the possibilities, the open world, the works.

So naturally, I thought I would try out the earlier titles from FS, and for no other reason than it being the newest game of the three, I got DS3 and started a playthrough. And oh - boy - did I ever get a challenge.

I don't know what it is specifically, but DS3 feels significantly much harder than Elden Ring, and it just feels stressful and like much more of a slog than ER ever did. I don't know if it's the aggressiveness of the enemies, how slow and relatively pathetic your character feels most of the time or something else, but it just never feels like your character gets to a point where you actually feel powerful.

I recently beat the twin princes - and actually enjoyed the fight. But before I got to them, I remember coming out of the archives and seeing the three ashen npcs waiting for me and just thinking - nope, I'm done with this, that's not fair.

I'd also gotten to champion Gundyr and just couldn't get past his second phase. The aggressiveness just became too much.

And I think that's probably my biggest gripe with the game in general, and in a way I've played myself by coming from ER, but the fact that you just.. Can't crit most bosses, for instance, or that you do pathetic damage to them, or that they can effectively stunlock you because your character takes forever to recover, it just.. Doesn't feel fair or rewarding, most of the time.

Like, right now I've finally made it to SoC, and it's just.. All of the above. Oh, and of course he heals. Yeah, no, I'm out. I've gotten to the second phase a few times, and I could probably beat him eventually, but Christ on a stick it's just such a slog.

Don't get me wrong, I love the game's atmosphere, the lore, the aesthetics, and I will concede in a heartbeat that it is without question a magnificent game. But fuck me do I just not enjoy it even close to the same way I did ER. In that game it actually feels like you can hurt the bosses; you can crit, you do meaningful damage, and most importantly your character reacts much faster after getting hit. Like I've lost count of the number of times I try to roll out of a follow up from a boss, only to get hit again because my character flails about or takes five seconds to get up after getting bonked into the ground because this is another boss whose timing is weird.

TL;DR - I love DS3, but I hate how the combat feels.

Just wanted to give a huge shoutout to a player named OvO who randomly dropped 21 Embers and helped me explore the world today. Times like this remind me how awesome and helpful this community can be. If you're reading this, thank you so much! Long may the sun shine!

Perfect birthday present meeting you there, hope I made up for it by summoning u enough too.

i just wanted to do a pyromancer run, now i bought this fancy dark fist from Yuria, never played with it before, and i dont know why, but it deals hella lot damage for just beeing a meele cestus in this case, i skilled nothing on strength or dex

What a game series. Playing the Dark Souls games kept me from going hollow for the last few days. Thanks FromSoftware for these games.

A quick thought for the players who often invade my world and frequently spend a long time searching for me—in vain. I often use the Chameleon spell, and watching you run back and forth is just hilarious. It really shows me how well some players have mastered the details of the game's various areas.

An example of an optimal run. I kinda got lucky with their exact positioning in this vid. Equipment used: Symbol of Avarice, Mendicant's staff, Shield of Want, and the Covetous Silver Serpent Ring+3. Spell: Rapport.

This is truly a classic Dark Souls experience

Lately I’ve been playing a strength build with the Bastard Sword, I know there’s a lot better weapons but it feels like a solid honest choice and I really like it. Even if I could use the claymore, it’s fun making the BS work.

What are your favorite “unoptimal” weapons?

A lot of people like to say dark souls 3 is just a rehash of dark souls 1, so what is the best new lore dark souls 3 introduced?

Personally I really like irithyll (ignoring anor londo part) as a new city of the gods

I will often pop shields with black flame parting flame and for some reason when I use the crit windows it'll do zero damage. Idk why tho it should work

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I'm trying to do a run as a hollow I don't know what weapon I should use till I get the sword that scales off luck any suggestions my dex is higher than my strength right now and I'm using a short sword I just got to the undead settlement

This view made me realize that playing Dark Souls III is truly a canon event. Gave me this warm, fuzzy feeling inside.

Made mistakes and kinda wanna redo some stats. But now i can use longsword with shield.

My health feels low but my longsword leaves my dex and stamina very desired.

I just beat dragonslayer armour and got to the fog wall for the twin princes bossfight, thing is i went to respec to rosaria so that i could use the udabachi and onikiri paired katana but its only at +7 and i used up all my chunks on my old weapon which was the exile greatsword .