r/darksouls3

Context: I did early Dancer in NG for the first time, and was struggling with Dragonslayer Armour. It seemed like my deep battle axe wasn't doing much damage, so I looked up his resistances only to find that he resists both slash and dark. But, he's weak to frost, and there's a Boreal Outrider in the basement near the area where the dragons were. I've never used a frost weapon before, but I've heard high praise for some of them, so I decided to try to get it.

Problem: Outrider knights destroy me on a good day, and I'm severely underleveled, so my chances in a straight fight are basically zero. Even if I tried to abuse magic, my only real options are soul arrow and the basic fireball (and I can't even upgrade my pyro hand), so things were not looking good. It was then that I remembered that Pus of Man can damage other enemies. There are two of them in a pit nearby, with two ledges above the pit. The walkaround from the pit to the ledge is considerable, so if you are on the ledge, the enemies' pathfinding will only attempt to run straight at you. In theory, if I could lure the Outrider into the pit, and flee fast enough for it not to follow me out, I could safely bait the Pus of Man into killing it for me from the ledge.

The plan seemed absurd and desperate, but turned out to be shockingly effective. It seems Pus of Man depletes a minimum percentage of health in a friendly-fire situation, as it absolutely demolished the Outrider, despite their high HP. I couldn't help but laugh maniacally at the sight of it. Has anyone else tried something like this before?

So for the last few months I’ve been working towards platinum on all 3 games and I guess this is a bit of an update to how it’s going so far.

I’ve completely played through all 3 once following a guide

Ds1- https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/s/9sB7OZDiv6

Ds2- https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2232541594

Ds3- https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=663773813

I’ve used miracles on ds1 and ds2, and bonk on ds3.

Hardest one so far is probably ds1, specifically seath I think was the hardest, specifically cutting his tail off honestly.. that wasn’t fun.

If anyone wanted to go for platinum too and had any questions then by all means hmu, but yeah.. enjoying it but it’s a grind and a half

Literally his entire kingdom had gone hollow. Why stay in his castle, waiting for someone to use his face and ashes to link the Flame?

Just beat Gael using this loadout and I wanted to share the story behind it...

So, I got sucked into using the Claymore for the entire game pretty much. Just got so used to the feel/timing of it, plus it isn't a bad weapon.

Anyways, Gael was the last boss I had to fight before having defeated every boss in the game and I just couldn't get past his third phase. Got really good at his first, but always ran out of heals during the second and third and got wrecked. So...I started trying other weapons...

Everyone online was saying frostbite, great axes, and great hammers were effective against him. Problem is I'm not great with the timing of super heavy weapons like that. So, I didn't get very far.

I ended up spending multiple runs just trying different weapons and tactics until I had a hail mary thought...why not use both? So, that's exactly what I did. Claymore in one hand, Vordt's Great Hammer in the other, I traversed the fog and charged into battle. If two tactics work well enough in their own ways, why not combine them? Well let me tell you something... On my very first attempt with this strategy, I struck Gael down and claimed my victory over him.

The best part is this was mostly a throw away round just to see what would happen. Apparently, what would happen is I'd beat him on the first try.

Anyways, I just thought this was such a ridiculous weapon pairing and wanted to share it.

We all know the mimics ver well; in my opinion, they're the mascot of Dark Souls, along with basilisks. Fake chests that, when opened, reveal a living creature, ready to devour the unwary and greedy adventurer seeking treasure within them. Pure Poetry

They're inspired by the classic creature from D&D and are present in almost every fantasy story. Dark Souls, being a unique fantasy world, loves to twist classic fantasy tropes and give them a new spin. Humans are portrayed as beings of darkness instead of beings of light created by the gods. Gods who were born as humans ascended and now pose as superior beings. The dragon who aids the king keeps the princess as his prize instead of a dragon slayer knight. The dark god of death is the most tranquil and innocent of the gods. Demons are humans transformed by an abundance of chaotic life force. And so on and so forth.

So, what's behind the mimics of Dark Souls? Many probably don't know what they are or where they came from, but if you're reading this on this lore channel, you probably already know at least what they are: the description of the symbol of greed in the first game tells us straight up that they are a clan of gods punished for the sin of greed. In the third game, this description doesn't explicitly state that they are a clan of punished gods, but the enemies do possess a characteristic that betrays them as gods: all Mimics are vulnerable to dark damage, just like divine beings or beings of a divine nature: gods, Silver Knights, the Dancer of the Boreal Valley, the Nameless King, Black Knights, etc. There are cases where beings of a fiery nature are weak to darkness, but I think that's more due to the fire-versus-shadow dichotomy than a divine nature. Mimics lack any fiery characteristics, so that's not where their weakness to shadows comes from.

Well, that was easy: Mimics are cursed and punished gods. But who did this to them? Well, given the magnitude of the punishment and the fact that they were once gods, the most obvious answer is that they must have been punished by entities as powerful as, or even more powerful than, the gods. And in this world, the gods are at the top, so it was surely other gods. But that's not all. The Mimics are so closely linked to the gods of Anor Londo that they are always found in or around divine territory. In DS1, we find the first one in Sen's Fortress, what I would call the lobby of Anor Londo. Within the walls of Anor Londo, there are six Mimics in total: one in the upper part of Anor Londo, next to the statue of Smough; three are in the main cathedral; and two more are in the Duke's Archives. The last two Mimics appear in the DLC in Oolacile, the human city favored by the gods, built right at their feet.

In Dark Souls 3, while not as exclusive as in the first game, most Mimics are concentrated in the domains of the gods: Lothric, the city of the new gods, has the first Mimic we encounter and about five more. The other majority are in Irithyll, the city of the old gods. And the rest can be found in places of a debatable divine nature, such as the Cathedral of the Deep, which was once a cathedral of the White Way, or the defiled city with monstrosities that used to be divine maidens. Like Mimics, they are weak to darkness despite resembling the Hand of Manus.

So, mystery solved? We already know what they are and who's responsible... right? Well, I think there's a figure who's primarily responsible for the mimics, and I'll reveal that when I answer one last question... what are mimics? Yes, we already know they WERE gods, but why are they these deadly chests today? Why do the gods keep so many mimics so close instead of cursing them and banishing them far away?

Well, going back to the original mimic and the tendency to subvert fantasy classics in Dark Souls, mimics in D&D are living creatures that pretend to be chests to lure adventurers and devour them, like a carnivorous plant does with flies. I think the mimics in Dark Souls are the opposite; they don't seek to lure unsuspecting victims, but instead seek to keep thieves at bay and protect the treasure inside. Mimics, especially in Dark Souls, hold important and valuable treasures: silver and gold coins, a cursed club capable of harming the gods, enchanted weapons, a key to access the giant archer, and a talking stone (the treasure is in the Beholder's eye, I suppose).

In other words, mimics are a safe, a security system for treasures... but there's a curious detail: we know they work well to keep thieves at bay and prevent them from getting their hands on the treasures they protect. But how do the owners deposit and retrieve their treasures without dying in the attempt? Well, you probably already know the answer, which also answers the question of who among all the gods conceived of mimics. Lloyd, creator of the eponymous talisman capable of preventing the undead from using Estus, but that's not all; there's a secret use that is never told or referenced anywhere, a secret you can only discover by accident. Lloyd's talisman is the key to unlocking the Mimics, allowing the safe removal of treasure and its placement within them.

In Dark Souls 3, we are introduced to the Blade of Justice and Lloyd's Duels of Justice through a ring and another talisman, suggesting that Lloyd may have also been the one who pronounced the sentence that cursed the Mimics.

In conclusion, the Mimics are a clan of cursed gods condemned to serve as safes to keep important treasures safe from thieves. Lloyd is the architect of this monstrosity and possibly the judge who condemned them.

Thank you for reading.

Praise the Sun!

does anybody know the voice actor’s name ?