Flynn Ring: Amazing if you want to maximize your burst damage.More health and stamina will always be helpful. Carthus Milkring: Great if you want to save 3 extra Soul Levels and be harder to keep track of in PvP.Lloyd’s Sword Ring: The boost to damage at full health makes the first burst more powerful.Įach of the following rings is an option depending on your needs with the build and your playstyle.Carthus Bloodring: More invincibility frames are never a bad thing.Prisoner’s Chain: The +5 to Endurance, Vitality and Vigor saves 15 Soul Levels.And, thirdly, it is light and therefore allows more weight to be spent on armor.Ĭarthus Rouge is the only necessity as it drastically reduces the number of hits needed to proc the 35% health loss from bleed with the Twinblades. Secondly, the Caestus provides the option for a sneak parry if one wants to quickly change to it and back strategically. Firstly, when equipped as an option for the other hand but not actually held it still boosts Luck by 5. C).Īs the Warden Twinblades have to be held in both hands for full effect, the second weapon only has three purposes. Hollowing offsets this somewhat as, when Hollowed, they are scaling from each of 40 Strength (D), 40 Dexterity (D) and 40 Luck (approx. Even though their base damage is lower than other endgame weapons, they have the capacity to proc bleed near instantly from a rapid burst of hits (remember the ‘Spin Slash’ special move followed by the strong attack in the gif above). Luck: 40 (30 + 10 from two +10 Hollowed weapons)įirst of all, the +10 Hollow Gem boosts Luck by 5, saving 5 Soul Levels.Vitality: 16 (11 + 5 from the ‘Prisoner’s Chain’ ring).Endurance: 40 (35 + 5 from the ‘Prisoner’s Chain’ ring).Dexterity: 40 (SL 109 variant: 37 + 3 from the ‘Carthus Milkring’ ring).Vigor: 27 (22 + 5 from the ‘Prisoner’s Chain’ ring).Faith, Attunement, Intelligence) to a bare minimum while also elevating stats at the core of the build. Warrior is the optimum starting class for this build: it keeps irrelevant stats (i.e. In the no nonsense tradition of the Dark Souls franchise, let’s get right to it. Outside of “getting good,” this build focuses on burst bleed damage using Hollowed Warden Twinblades and the Carthus Rouge consumable.

To give you a taste, this gif is from a four second long one-versus-one duel using the SL 109 variant. As the Dark Souls community has not reached a consensus with regards to the endgame meta level, this build is set safely at either Soul Level (SL) 109 or 112, depending on an optional ring choice. While best for PvP combat, this build also works a charm against bosses, with a small asterisk of added difficulty for those resistant to bleed.

Dark soul 3 classes