Armor in Dark Souls 3 provides the player with protection against various types of damage, resistance to Status Effects, and an increase in Poise. Players can mix and match different armor pieces for both functional and cosmetic purposes, allowing for a personalized look while maintaining effective defenses. Unlike previous installments in the series, armor in Dark Souls 3 cannot be upgraded, meaning its stats are fixed once obtained. For detailed information on individual pieces, refer to the Helms, Chest Armor, Gauntlets, and Leggings pages.
- For players interested in creating stylish and unique character appearances, check out the Fashion Souls. This page showcases various cosmetic builds that emphasize aesthetics over stats, allowing you to mix and match armor pieces to achieve your desired look in Dark Souls 3.
- You can use this Equipment & Spell Checklist to keep track of the items and spells you've acquired throughout your journey in Dark Souls 3. This checklist helps ensure you don't miss any equipment or spells, making it easier to complete your collection and optimize your build.
Armor
Antiquated Plain Set
Antiquated Set
Archdeacon Set
Armor of Favor Set
Armor of the Sun Set
Armor of Thorns Set
Assassin Set
Black Hand Armor Set
Black Iron Set
Black Knight Set
Black Leather Set
Black Set
Black Witch Set
Brass Set
Brigand Set
Catarina Set
Cathedral Knight Set
Chain Armor Set
Cleric Set
Conjurator Set
Cornyx's Set
Court Sorcerer Set
Dancer's Set
Dark Set
Deacon Set
Desert Pyromancer Set
Deserter Set
Dragonscale Set
Dragonslayer Set
Drakeblood Armor Set
Drang Armor Set
Eastern Armor Set
Elite Knight Set
Evangelist Set
Executioner Set
Exile Armor Set
Fallen Knight Armor Set
Faraam Armor Set
Fire Keeper Set
Fire Witch Set
Firelink Set
Follower Set
Grave Warden Set
Gundyr's Set
Harald Set
Hard Leather Armor Set
Havel's Set
Herald Set
Iron Dragonslayer Set
Jailer Set
Karla's Set
Knight Set
Lapp's Set
Leather Armor Set
Leonhard's Set
Lorian's Armor Set
Lothric Knight Set
Maiden Set
Master's Set
Millwood Set
Mirrah Chain Set
Mirrah Set
Morne's Set
Nameless Knight Set
Northern Armor Set
Old Sorcerer Set
Ordained Set
Outrider Knight Set
Painting Guardian Set
Pale Shade Set
Pontiff Knight Set
Prayer Set
Pyromancer Set
Ringed Knight Set
Ruin Set
Sellsword Set
Shadow Set
Shira's Set
Silver Knight Set
Slave Set
Smough's Set
Sorcerer Set
Sunless Set
Sunset Armor Set
Undead Legion Set
Vilhelm's Set
Winged Knight Set
Wolf Knight Set
Worker Set
Xanthous Set
Alva Set
Antiquated Set
Archdeacon Set
Armor of Favor Set
Armor of the Sun Set
Armor of Thorns Set
Assassin Set
Black Hand Armor Set
Black Knight Set
Black Iron Set
Black Leather Set
Black Set
Brass Set
Brigand Set
Catarina Set
Cathedral Knight Set
Chain Armor Set
Cleric Set
Conjurator Set
Court Sorcerer Set
Cornyx's Set
Dancer's Set
Dark Set
Deacon Set
Deserter Set
Drakeblood Armor Set
Drang Armor Set
Dragonscale Set
Dragonslayer Set
Eastern Armor Set
Elite Knight Set
Evangelist Set
Executioner Set
Exile Armor Set
Fallen Knight Armor Set
Faraam Armor Set
Fire Keeper Set
Fire Witch Set
Firelink Set
Grave Warden Set
Gundyr's Set
Hard Leather Armor Set
Havel's Set
Herald Set
Jailer Set
Karla's Set
Knight Set
Leather Armor Set
Leonhard's Set
Lorian's Armor Set
Lothric Knight Set
Maiden Set
Master's Set
Mirrah Chain Set
Mirrah Set
Morne's Set
Nameless Knight Set
Northern Armor Set
Old Sorcerer Set
Outrider Knight Armor Set
Pale Shade Set
Painting Guardian Set
Pontiff Knight Set
Prayer Set
Pyromancer Set
Sellsword Set
Shadow Set
Silver Knight Set
Smough's Set
Sorcerer Set
Sunless Set
Sunset Armor Set
Undead Legion Set
Winged Knight Set
Wolf Knight Set
Worker Set
Xanthous Set
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Undead legion helm
Black hand armor
Undead legion Gauntlets
Assassin legs
That was my peak Fashion Souls back in 2016-2017. Such good times
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Undead legion helm
Winged knight armor
Wolf knight leggins
You may not like it, but this is what peak fashion looks like
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Black knight set with the billed mask is the most evil look you can pull off in the game
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Shira's crown , Shira's armor , desert pyromancer gloves and desert pyromancer skirt would look really gorgeous on a female character
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Wolf knight helm, gundyr armor (chestpiece), grave warden wrap and smough leggings is the best combination for a realistic knight look
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lothric knight helm, knight chestpiece, silver knight gauntlets and lothric leggings is the best combination for a realistic knight look
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lothric knight helm, knight chestpiece, silver knight gauntlets and lothric leggings is the best combination for a realistic knight look
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i just straight up use Havel’s set with Symbol of Avarice helmet, called myself “the licker”.
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I remember seeing a helmet that looks a lot like Havel's, especially the visor, but is made of metal. I saw it in a randomizer so I don't know its name, but I really like the look. Does anyone know the name?
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Evangelist or cleric hat, Mirrah Vest, Brigand Gauntlets, Drang Trousers. looks dapper
who let the fugliest dude model for these pics? I know you're the ashy one, but for fashion souls please wash your face and equip the untrue dark ring. the cosmetic sliders are there for a reason, bro
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Coming back to Dark Souls 3 from Elden Ring I just realized how good it is when armor parts blend so well between different sets. In ER I'm struggling to find a fitting armor combination for some of my characters, in DS3 I have so many good combinations that I don't know which one I like more and switch between them a lot.
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Gundyrs helm + dragonscale armour + thorn gauntlets + Lorians leggings
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Personally I do all Artorias (Wolf Knight) set apart from the head peice, which I use the Dancer's Veil
Billed Mask
Morne Armour
Black Knight Gauntlets
Black Knight Leggings
Great defence to weight ratio and ~32 poise. Kinda edgy but you look like a boss so who cares.
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Chain hood
Ruin chest
Smough's Gauntlets
Lorian's legs
Solid defense, easy on weight, decent poise.
Peak fashion souls.
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white preacher head, antiquated plain garb, lapp's gauntlets, desert pyromancer skirt
best early game fashion souls
thank me later
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Undead legion helm,slave knight armor,lorians gauntlets,eastern pants,dual katana type weapons and lot of vitality for equip load for a dex build
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armours in ds3 sucks, just compare them with ds2 or 1 and see the variety difference.
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My female character set:
hood guardian of the paintings
fire witch armor
fire witch gloves
apron guardians of the paintings
priest's knight's scythe weapon
yorskha bell catalyst
Try it :)
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Once I get going and I can get the alva set I'm going to try and make my character look like matthew shezmen from the 2nd dark souls 3 parody.
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All i can say is
Fire link helm
Drake blood armour
Gundyr leggings
Gundyr gauntlets
And pair that **** with a yhorm or a dragon slayer great axe and a shield of want on you're back, and you would look like a majestic knight
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Firelink helm.
Black hand armor.
Black knight gauntlets.
Black leather pants.
You’ll thank me later.
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Black Guard:
Ringed Knight hood
Mirrah chain chest and gauntlets
Slave leggings
Raven Magus:
Sage’s big hat
Court sorcerer robe
Leather gauntlets
Old sorcerer leggings
Pontiff Rebel:
Dancer helm
Fire Witch chest and gauntlets
Painting Guardian leggings
Blake Knight:
Black Knight helm and leggings
Drakeblood chest
Gundyr gauntlets
Silver Knightess:
Alva helm
Dancer chest and gauntlets
Sunless leggings
Blood Rouge:
Sunset helm and leggings
Slave chest and gauntlets
Swash Buckler:
Blackhand hat
Vilheim chest and gauntlets
Leonhard leggings
Sunlight Champion:
Dragonscale crown
Sunset chest
Ruin gauntlets and leggings
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A good combination for fashion: fallen knight helm,
Slave knight armor,
Shadow gauntlets,
Shadow leggings,
I don't know what the name should be but I'll think about it
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it's funny how we have the 3 armor sets from the most memorable Ds1 bosses (Ornstein, Smough, and Artorias) and for Ds2 we have the Ruin sentinels armor set lol
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From soft try to make somewhat normal looking armor sets challenge (IMPOSSIBLE!!!)
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pisses me off that you can’t get dragon slayer armor’s, armor set.
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Most of these look terrible. From really had to try to make their armors look this bad.
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I hate to say it but the lothric knights wear that armor way better than you do buddy
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Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3 have so many beautiful sets of armour compared to how ugly most armour pieces in Elden Ring are
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DS3 was the first souls game I approached.
Because all of the hype about Elden Ring, I wanted to check if I can cope with the game play before buying.
I loved DS3.
It had opened my eyes to what I have missed all the years.
But instead of going for Elden Ring, I now went straight for DS1, becaue I wanted to know about all the hidden lore and references in DS3.
It was a good decision.
I love DS1 even better ... or rather in its own way :)
And know I value the armor sets in DS3 even more, as I came to know all the NPCs from DS1.
Great games!
I have a lot of fun and enterainment with them!
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Really hated that they took away the ability to upgrade armor. And DS2 had better sets.
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fallen knight helm, Vilhelm chestpiece, slave knight gauntlets, fire keeper skirt. I am so proud of this fashion for my character and just wanted to share it
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I wish Fextralife would put in the extra effort of showing the armour for both Male and Female body type
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This Game Sucks!! No full Gold Knightliest Royal Ancient, Elder Lordly, Kingly armor!!!!!
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okay who's got a mandalorian armor to spill? i wanna do a Din Djarin build with the Lothric spear and Black blade for the Darksaber, Arbalest for his rifle and Lothric crossbow for his blaster. so who has the armor to match the weapons?
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okay anybody got a Mandalorian build they wanna spill? i was thinking possibly some crossbow for a gun and lothric sword (or any straight sword) for the main weapon. if we're going for Din then Lothric spear and a crossbow, black blade for the katana. just looking for armor advice thanks :)
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im trying to do a Knights Templar crossplay, the Cathedral helm is a no brainer but what else?
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hey you! want to know how to look cool and edgy and also have good stats with only 30 vit? well first you need the prisoners chain and the ring of favor +3! got all that? then here is the armor:
helm: firelink helm
chest armor: mornes armor
gauntlets: black knight gaunlets
leggings: ring knight legging OR iron dragonslayers leggings
NOW U LOOK EPIX
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Vilhelm's set mogs every other set from all 3 games dont @ me
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Armor looks trashed! ds1 had stone knight set that looks very good, inds3 no armor that looks knightly
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imagine being a trash casul and wearing any of these armors! unlike you I strap the epicly powerful PKCS to me self all over my body! It blocks all attacks and makes my attack damage triple when wielding my PKCS, plus i have actual POISE which none of you havel monsters have. Git Gud and strap PKCS to your body, you will becoem really epic!
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It's funny how people say how DS3 is desaturated even though all of Miyazaki's games weren't based around that. Literally every game is based around a rotting fading world besides Sekiro. If you don't like the style, either quit complaining or don't play the game. This IS dark souls FYI. Go play WoW.
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anyone got any advice on what armour would fit to make a dark knight look ?
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It's actually missing a few, Such as the Ringed Knights armor in the pictures.
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only thing i dont like is that theres no mask of the father or GIANTS GIANTS GIANTS. other than that most armor sets are pretty cool.
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I actually think the dinginess and dirtiness of the armor looks much better in context than out of context, like the armor sets look fine in the games world but when you're just looking at screenshots it tends to look meh.
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Man people LOVE complaining about the armor and weapons of this game.
I remember Demon's Souls with it's like 10 armors and weapons. I remember Sekiro with zero armor.
You guys are right the whole games trash because of it's armor. Pfft.
I still play Demon's Souls and I don't have a PS5. People are spoiled as hell.
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That "so many time has passed" excuse for the awful status of most armors kind of falls flat when you get some sets in perfect condition, and some of them aren't even special. Nameless knight set, elite knight set, catarina set, havel set, dragonslayer set, brass set, etc... Are in the exact condition as i remember from dark souls 1.
They could have been more logical excuses like "hey, enemies here are more beast like cuz bloodborne copy paste and strike is common now, go for light armor". Idk, anything believable within the continuity. And even then there should be SOME difference between being naked or wearing rock plate armor, but whatever difference there is doesn't matter for how little it is.
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guys i require help, im making a DEUS VULT build, i know cathedral knight helm but what else? i need some Knights Templar esque armor weapons. thoughts?
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Other than the Alva, Artorias, Faraam, Black Iron and Fallen Knight sets most of these on here look pretty damn meh.
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Dark set looks like the dude just got pulled out of a dirty ass shower drain
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40/91 armor sets in this game are recycled from older souls games. That's almost 50%. That sums up DS3 as a whole, an unoriginal game too obsessed with "paying homage" and "referencing" the older souls games to be it's own unique experience.
Even worse, the armor sets that are actually unique all look like dogsh*t because they're all torn to shreds or worn out. The only armor in the entire game that looks clean and new is probably Herald Set and Solaire's Iron set.
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Why is that they did not put many knightly looking armors? they just put armor that looks like socks and t shirts piled up on you am i right?
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The comment below me is disliked by blind miyazaki fanboys who can't get over a day without following the stupid trend of "hate ds2 cuz miyazaki wasn't there".
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These armors suck ass honestly. DS2 had better looking sets.
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This shows all of the armor sets what about armor that doesn't belong in a set I need a list that just shows all the armor pieces in order
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I miss they brought Ciaran's set back or Hawkeye Goughs or the two characters themselves
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If there would be a Yhorm Set i will wear it for my playtrough
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I don't get what they refer to with "fashion souls" when almost every cloth is as tattered as master's attire
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While I'm fine with the hyperarmor system in this game, they definitely should have given heavier armor much higher absorption so they could actually be functional. If the Smough set had near 50% absorption in physical, it would actually be useful for something other than fashion.
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You are only permitted to wear any type of apparel, be it armor or clothing, in both Dark Souls and real life if you exclusively use the Broken Straight Sword!
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Why even bother with heavy armor? You re forced to roll through attacks anyway.
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Most of the armor is so grey and blandish looking in this game. I miss the vibrancy from the first two games :/
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idk why i'm doing this but my top 5 armors based on fashion (my opinion).
1. Iron Dragonslayer set
2. Outrider Knight Set
3. Dragonslayer's set (Ornstein's Set)
4. DrakeBlood set
5. Lothric Knight set
Honorable Mention: Ruin set
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Ds3 easily has the least amount of interesting armor sets for fashion souls. Not saying what they DO have is bad (black hand set with alva helmets is killer for royal knights or spellblades) but most of what it has is usually from the big boys, the bosses, and a scarce collection from elite enemies in the game, lothric and cathedral knights or the jailers for example. I miss some of the more bog standard stuff that still looked cool like ds2's royal soldier set maughlin sells you. Missed opportunities I say... ifnonly half the enemies weren't wearing a ****ing torn up dirty bed sheet.
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How Useful Is Armor?
Like Is It Critical That I Use A High Damage Absorption Armor Or Can I Just Use My Fashion?
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I managed to make Thanos in ds3 but I can't find a good armour combination anyone have any suggestions?
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So does wearing a matched set of armor have any advantages?
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I love dark souls remastered because of all of its vibrant colors, cool ideas and awesome areas. That’s something you can’t get in dark souls 3. Every color is a mix of gray and everything is so bleak and boring. I don’t know if it’s just me but I know that the world is ending and all but why is everything so rotten and desgusting. All the armor hyped armor from dark souls remastered are all degraded and their defense is trifling.
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Epic fashion souls
Gundyr Helm
Armour and gauntlets of thorns
Lorian legs
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