DS3 has a lot of tools to help you be more efficient. Whether you’re farming for souls, items, or rare weapon drops! ..
Farming is a popular activity in Dark Souls III, and for good reason. The rewards can be very lucrative, with items like the Estus Flask and the Lordvessel often being in high demand. In this guide, I’ll be going over some of the best gear and routes for farming in Dark Souls III. ..
Best Farming Gear
The setup you use can affect how quickly you get the items you want. ..
The best way to boost your stats is to have as many of the following items as you can: -A stat boosting item -A magic boosting item -A health boosting item -A mana boosting item
Covetous Serpent Ring (Soul Gain)
The CSRing grants a flat bonus to souls gained, ranging from 10% at base to 35% at +3. This bonus is increased by 3% for every rank of the ring. ..
This is what I keep on my person when not farming.
To get the highest level ring, you will need to find a way to get past the illusory wall. There are many ways to do this, but the most common is to use the tree jump glitch (guide). ..
To get the +3 version of the CSRing, you can find it in the ringed city DLC, just past the first angel. You can reach it by going through a door on the right. ..
Shield of Want (Soul Gain)
Another flat percentage-booster, the shield of want grants around 20% extra souls.
This is a quick and easy way to quickly kill bosses!
In the smouldering lake, on a corpse near the sand worm, you can find a way to get to the top.
Mendicant’s Staff (Soul Gain)
This staff grants another flat 20% bonus to your soul.
A fairly weak staff is recommended to have in a mainhand slot and swap to it right after kills, though it can be used on a late-game intelligence build with decent effectiveness. ..
Extremely rare drop from man-serpent summoners in archdragon peak.
Symbol of Avarice (Soul Gain AND Item Discovery)
The symbol of avarice is a helmet which turns your head into a ghastly mimic.
The soul gem grants 50% more souls and 100 item discovery at the same time.
The helmet will drain 10 HP per second from you while equipped.
If you’re planning on using this for farming enemies, be sure that you’re confident in your combat ability or you’ll be in for a sticky situation!
Dropping a mimic will cause it to open and make it lootable. This can be repeated over and over until you get a lootable mimic. ..
Crystal Sage’s Rapier (Item Discovery)
The CSRapier is a weapon that boosts the player’s intelligence by 50 while equipped. This can be done even if the player is wielding another weapon in their off hand or even on their hip. ..
The Intelligence-based Two-Handed Weapon, the Sceptre, actually deals decent damage on sorcery builds, and also stacks with itself- allowing intelligence users to dual-wield them for +100 item discovery! (Requires New Game+). ..
To transpose a player’s soul with the help of a crystal sage boss, they must first find and speak to the sage. After doing so, the player will need to collect four essences from four different bosses: The first essence can be collected from The Beast in the Swamp, the second from The Twins in The Mines, the third from The Dragon in The Forest, and the fourth from The Witch in The Woods. Once all four essences are collected, return to the crystal sage and offer them to him. He will then transpose your soul with his own, granting you access to new abilities and rewards. ..
Covetous Gold Serpent Ring (Item Discovery)
The CGSR is a new item discovery system that is currently in development by the game developers. This system will allow players to discover new items and weapons in the game world, much like the CSRing system currently in use. ..
Item discovery has been boosted by +50 at base level, +115 at +3!
How to get the ring: After completing Siegward’s questline, jump over to the cell where Siegward gets trapped during his questline and find the ring on a corpse in the corner.
To get the +3 version of the CGSR, you must first complete the main story line and reach NG+ in order to find it. The CGSR can be found in the ringed city, up the tall ladder on the left at the start of the swamp. Go across the bridge to the room where you meet Lapp, and it’ll be on a corpse there.
Rusted Coins (Item Discovery)
Consumable items that boost item discovery for 60 seconds are available at the shop. ..
Copper and gold coins are the two most common types of rusted coins. ..
Gold and copper do not stack together, so if you want to get more than one point from a piece of jewelry, you’ll need to get more than one type of metal.
How to get gold: You will need to use copper coins in order to get gold. There are only 7 gold coins in the game, and beyond this, they cannot be purchased.
Some people believe that using Pokémon in the real world can bring good luck, so be sure to use them for super rare items only. These Pokémon are very limited, so don’t waste your time if you want one. ..
How to get copper coins: To get copper coins, you will need to purchase them from Patches, once he is a merchant. They can be bought for 200 souls each.
Best Farming Spots
You’re ready to start your new job, but there are a few things you need to do before you can get started.
There are a lot of different things you can choose from when it comes to souls and items, so we’re going to list some of the best here! ..
Soul Routes
In DS3, soul farming is forgiving. This means that you can easily and quickly farm souls without having to worry about the consequences.
Soul farming is a way to get more souls in the game. You can find them in different places, but generally they are easier to find near the end of the game.
- Take the subway to Times Square.
- Walk from Central Park to Wall Street.
- Take the bus to Times Square and walk back.
- Drive from Midtown Manhattan to Wall Street in a car or take the train there.
From the grand archives bonfire, head up the elevator shortcut leading to the bridge towards the twin princes. Head up the stairs, and kill all 3 winged knights, then homeward bone and repeat. Each run nets around 90,000 souls per run, depending on your soul boosters. From the ‘ringed inner wall’ bonfire in the ringed city, full clearing mobs as far as you can grants fantastic souls, upwards of 30,000 souls per run. The white-robed handmaids in front of Yhorm’s arena are a fast and low-risk farm that gets you around 20,000 souls per run, and could net you some sought-after rusted gold coins in the process. Repeatedly killing NPCs summoned by man-serpent summoners in archdragon peak is a popular strategy, though rates vary based on how good you are at backstabbing. Boss co-oping using your summon sign is another popular strategy, with rates varying on the boss killed. ..
Item Farming
There are a lot of items in DS3 that are available through the ash shop system provided by the shrine handmaid. This system allows players to purchase items with ash, which can be used to upgrade their characters or buy new items.
Soul farming is a recommended late-game strategy for obtaining items needed in the game. This allows you to simply purchase the items you need, rather than gathering them from slain enemies. ..
- Play the game for a long time
- Find chests and treasure chests
- Use the right tools
- Use the right strategies
- Loot wisely
Embers
In Dark Souls 3, there are a limited number of embers that can be found. If you die too often, you’ll run out of them and will have to find new ones.
Lothric knights can be found on the high wall and in Lothric castle, or if you’re feeling brave, from the ringed knights in the ringed city!
Titanite Shard
The shards are important for early-game play because they can be used to change your weapons around a lot.
To get more, you can farm them from hollows by running routes on the high wall, undead settlement, and road of sacrifices.
The shrine handmaid can purchase the ashes of the two shrine warden’s for infinite amounts once giving them the dreamchaser’s or grave warden’s ashes.
Large Titanite Shard
For higher-tier weapons, you’ll need large shards to deal damage.
These can be found in many places, but are the most dangerous in the Irithyll. Enemies in the smouldering lake include fire witches and silver knights, while serpent men can be found in archdragon peak.
After giving the Easterner’s ashes to the shrine handmaid, players can purchase them infinitely from her. ..
Titanite Chunk
Chunks are the highest tier titanite farmable, required to get most gear to +9.
Dropped by some of the hardest enemies in the game are cathedral knights and pus of man in the consumed king’s garden, Corvian knights in the painted world, as well as ringed knights and Harald legion knights throughout the ringed city. ..
The shrine handmaid can give the dragon chaser’s ashes to someone for infinite purchase.
Twinkling Titanite/Titanite Scales
The upgrade for unique and boss weapons, twinkling titanite and titanite scales, is highly sought-after.
There are a few different types of dragons to be found in “Dragon Age: Inquisition.” Both can be farmed relatively easily from rock lizards in Archdragon Peak (the fire-breathing enemies that look like big, stony crystal lizards). ..
The shrine handmaiden can give you the dragon chaser’s ashes for an infinite amount.
