Iron Flesh | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

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Metal cap from Super Mario 64

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NANAOMACHINES SON!

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This on a Flynn bleed luck build with the bandit knife is all you need to trivialize the game. Just switch to Anri’s sword for the bosses that are immune to bleed.

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best pyromancy if you want both cosplay and gameplay

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Using this with Murky in Arena, I feel bad, and I will never want to do it again.
Boring and ruin fun

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"Why won't you stagger?!"
"Iron flesh, son. They harden in response to physical trauma."

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If you have only 1 attunement slot, then THIS the spell you want to carry around. I cannot express how much stunlocking bullshit I have avoided in PvE by using this. It saves you from so much headache that I'd say it's a 100% must have for all builds and classes.
Facetanking just one attack is all you need for your hit to connect with the enemy so you can start stunlocking them instead. Couple this with Quickstep and you can annihilate every enemy or group of enemies that the game throws at you.

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Ran into a Wall Squad while building my Mario Char (Demon fist+Demon Scar for weapons) and I couldn't do jack as a lv 32 with nothing upgraded past +4. I messed around with them running and pelting them with bombs but I couldn't beat them. Then I remembered this spell and managed to kill the lowest level dude. Aside from dagger's quickstep ability the weapon art on Demon Scar is also not effected AND it turns you kick into a sword swipe backflip so with a wee bit of weapon swapping and a lot of skill usage and kicking you can move freely with Iron Flesh. Only wish I had Dark Combustion at the time rather then just the normal one.

Shield squad boi's created a monster and I love it.

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"huh, iron flesh? No prob, i'll keep my distance and use my crossb... BRIGAND TWINDAGGERS??"

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stupid fun to use with friede's scythe WA, funnier with onion armor on

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Works wonders early game. Only requires 8 intel. Just dump everything into vigor and make a level 20 build. You can use dark hand, as well izalith staff buffed with its weapon art for magic damage with magic clutch ring. It's not so hard to get the staff early game either with dark hand. Vordt anyone can do with any starting class, then get dark hand rush to watcher's whoop watchers ass lol. Now run to smouldering lake. You pretty much dont have to fight anything after watchers. Pretty sure dark hand does more damage still, but the melee range and great base damage of the staff can not be looked over. Plus the self buff for extra damage matched with the magic clutch ring. Most players that early wont have the health to go against you. As most will be a bit more spread out.

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STEP BACK, HES USING HAVEL SHIELD WA WITH IRON FLESH!

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Truly a magnificent spell, simply because it just lets you laugh in the face of any attack (except for lightning, if lightning is present during your use of iron flesh, proceed to panic) and swing back straight away! It is very good for certain bosses like pontiff, and is also very good for pvp, because while it is active, you are now the one wearing the pants in the fight. If they try attacking, smack them right back. If they don't, walk towards them and watch them cower in fear! If you mess up and get backstabbed, you can laugh at how little damage it did! However, ALWAYS make sure lightning is not present before you use iron flesh, because you are essentially turning yourself into a walking conductor.

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The literal definition of "nanomachines son!"

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Magnificent in PvP!
I usually cast this and use sacred flame and. If they are already missing 1/3 of their go they die. Works well against tanks too

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Carmina, son.

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So much fun. I invade naked with this, makes one feel like a damn boss.

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This is the PERFECT Pyromancy to use against Pontiff. He turns into a joke

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So, everyone complain about the fat-rolling with this buff on, even if in DS1 iron flesh was worse. Now many of those guy complaining, bring in how this pyro was good and better then this version in DS2 but then they come to say that DS2 is sh.t. This can be applied to many other items listed on this wiki...

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Imagine Not Being Able to use Iron Flesh, This Post was Made by Every Other Class in the Game Except Cleric

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Never used any iteration of this spell in any of the games until I decided to try a 0 weight challenge run of DS3. Now it lets me ignore the attacks of most early bosses as I walk up to them and smack them to death with the Dark Hand.

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This is like perseverance. Slap this on and nuke anybody cuz they can't stagger you. Op pve

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When you cast this just before someone soul streams you: "What was that supposed to be, goku?"

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Works wonders when using frayed blade. People thinks you are slow until you jump attack them and follow up by that dark flurry

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This spell was better in Dark Souls 2. I feel like adding weight instead of making you walk and fat roll everywhere was a better way to handle this spell. Maybe I'm just not good with Quickstep or something, but I lost every time to MELEE people on str and dex builds. The only person I fought that used lightning urns on me took nearly a quarter of my health with just one urn because of basically the negation of all your lightning absorption. The Thrall Axe just didn't have the damage nor poise damage to handle the heavy hitting weapons, and all the katana running attacks and people with crossbows just destroyed me, especially since everyone has lightning bundles and lightning/exploding bolts. Somehow I even got staggered by a Splitleaf user who used lightning resin and one comboed me. I normally try to invade with all the builds I use to test their efficacy, and after about 10 invasions with gank squads I decided to move over to arena, which wasn't much better. Is there anyone who can tell me if there's a better build I could use for this, cuz as far as I'm concerned this build wasn't worth the multiple hours it took to create (I make all my builds from scratch, beginning of the game to Midir if I need to at the soul level I aim to invade, so if my build is a sl25 sorcerer and I for some reason need Old Moonlight then I'm beating Midir as a sl25 sorcerer). Build here: sl125, Rings - favor +3, prisoners chain, chloranthy +3, lingering dragoncrest +2 / Armor - fallen knight helm, millwood armor, thorns gauntlets, black knight leggings / Weapons: Heavy Thrall Axe +10, Blessed Caestus +10, Pyromancy Flame +0 / Spells: Iron Flesh (obviously) Vigor: 50(+5, +6%) Attunement: 10 Endurance: 50 (+5, +11.5%) Vitality: 22 (+5, +8%) Strength: 60 Dexterity: 12 Intelligence: 9 Faith: 9 Luck: 7

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this is just the good version of the twinkling dragon torso stone

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Two different Invaders used this on me recently. Their whole build seemed based on this + quickstep. Might be good for PvE, but not PvP...just pelted them with lightning urns and bolts. GG

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Does this stack with Perseverance?

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This is perfect for ganks, just as long as they don't have Lightning up their sleeve. Sometimes it's better than Perseverance. If You pair it up with Great Farron Darts and then a Soul Greatsword or Dark Edge, then you got a good follow up. Only downside to this is having the negative absorption on the most used Element in the game, well, also Fire too.

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11vit + havels ring+3 + ring of favor+3 + ring of steel protection+3 +hornet ring /or/ ring of life+3 + dark hand x2 + caestus + smoughs armor set= surprise

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When I cast Ironflesh (with the pyromancy flame, DUH) The animation happens, and I loose the required stamina and FP to cast it, BUT THE BUFF DOESN'T HAPPEN. Anyone know why?

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iron flesh+havel set+black flame/combustion+thrall.axe, surprise

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Does this ability stack with Stone Flesh, or do they cancel each other?

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Great spell for pyros that dont want to be interrupted when casting black flame etc etc. Will pwn R1 fags. Just dont use it when you encounter spark bros. They will rape you and laaaf. Its situational overall but very useful against one demensional fighters that have to get close to you to deal damage.

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does this stack with stone flesh from havels shield?

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Is there a way to not fat roll with iron flesh on that doesn't require a weapon art?

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Does anyone have an idea on how to use this spell and not be fat rolling and just be the poise monster that we all want to be.

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From Soft is so hell bent on making heavy tank builds unviable, the one thing that would make them happy lasts half as long as from Dark Souls 1. What the *****

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This spell gives you the poise (yes poise) you need to tank R1 spam from overly agressive invaders. When dueling at Pontiff's area people are a lot more careful, but invaders tend to rush me down, so I surprise them with this and kill them much easier.Of course I reccomend the Dragonscale Ring. Also check if your opponent is using a faith build, the lightning damage hurts like hell. Otherwise, a very good spell for just 8 intelligence.

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idk how to add to the page but it seems like casting iron flesh removes tears of denial. Worth note for sacred flame cheesing.

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Poise does exist in this game, in the form of a switch. There's a value that's at 1, and if you turn that value to zero, you aren't staggered. Casting this turns the value to zero for the duration of the spell. As opposed to actually giving the visible, in game poise stat a use...

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Has anyone found situations that this is helpful for? The lack of mobility seems to overshadow any of the positive defensive gains.

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Without Lingering Dragon Crest Ring it is around 26sWith Lingering Dragon Crest Ring it is 35With Lingering Dragon Crest RIng+1 it is 35s

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Unreal combination. Basically insta death in PVP if your opponent isn't familiar with Iron Flesh.I may try to use Iron Flesh on my Sorcery too. I can see someone trying to interrupt a Crystal Soul Spear and eating massive damage.

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This spell actually gives tons of working poise, allowing the caster to take hits without interruption.

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Iron Flesh used to affect Poise and I believe it still does. Any data on that, and on how much Poise it gives you? (You can't see it in the Character Tab or I wouldn't be asking)

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Does anyone know how much the resistance/damage absorption amount is? I understand that it lowers your lightning resistance too, but how much does it decrease it by?

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"From the starting bonfire (the one next to the ladder)"It's the Farron Keep bonfire, just in case anyone mixes that up with the Old Wolf of Farron bonfire.

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I was looking at the resistances when I applied Iron skin and my lightning resistance went negative in the percent absorption. I guess that make sense with it being called Iron Flesh

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How long it lengths? Thanks,

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Does somebody know how much weight this spell add? Is it affected by your pyro flame power?

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