Carthus Bloodring | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Due to the way the netcode works, where if your opponent is in iframes on either your end or their end your attack will not land, this ring can be unbelievably awful to play against in PVP if your opponent has a bad connection to you. If you have around 166ms of ping with them, they can chain rolls together and be 100% invincible - once their iframes end for them, they're still in iframes for you, and by the time they're no longer in iframes for you, the recovery on their roll has ended and they can roll a second time, and then rinse and repeat. The same thing can happen with a regular roll, however your opponent needs about 266ms of ping instead, and since latency is a two way street you should be able to do the same thing.

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Also this is the best ring against midir and gael who are masters of rollcatching

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Ds2 needs this more than ds3

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Goated ring, carried my stupid ass through the whole game and was the key factor as to how I beat the nameless king

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Does anyone know when the extra invulnerability frames kick in?
I couldn't find anything about it anywhere, do you specifically stay invincible longer or do you get 2 extra frames before and after your regular frames?

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In my first playthrough, I just equiped this ring without properly reading what it do. It took some time for me to find out, why I sudennly recive so much more damage.

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This ring saved my ass from dancer in my sl1 run

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This sht right here is why i miss the stone greatsword.

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Spamming rolls with this equipped leaves you vulnerable only for 133ms in-between rolls. That's literally the time it takes for the human eye to blink. Basically, as long as you have stamina, you have godmode enabled. 80% of the roll is iframes(17/21).

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Every pvp player in ds3 already wears this ring, it's called lag.

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This ring isn't good in normal play, but this ring is pretty cool for SL1.

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People say this ring is bad because the cost is too high but in my opinion, it this game where most enemies can oneshot/twoshot the player and the shield it useless against most bosses, this is one of the best rings.

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i love i frames

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this is the worst ring ever exist on the dark souls history

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You know about all that "Different damage absorption in pve and pvp" thing? Does this work here or no? I'm just wondering, maybe it's not 30% for pvp, but 10% or something, which would've made this ring very viable.

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The fact that From even thought a ring like this was needed in DS3 is proof that they really didn't understand how their own game works. Even medium weight rolls have I-frames so free they practically pay you lmao

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If you use this in duels you are scum

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In ds1 you have dark wood grain, it adds 2 iframes to your rolls AND it shortens the recovery time for your rolls by 4 frames and FREKEN NINJA FLIPS, even after the nerf to equip load(changed from 50% to 25%) it’s still one of the best rings in the game.


Now compare that to Carthus bloodring which only adds 3-4 Iframes while lowering absorption by 25%-30%, that means you will you will at least have SOME negative absorption or very low absorption (not great).

Don’t get me wrong the iframes from the carthus bloodring is very useful and I feel pretty agile with this ring while light rolling, but the defense penalty is too punishing for pvp.

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Piccolo's ring

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So I leveled ADP...

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The best use for this ring would be a hypermode melee build, as magic builds have all their slots filled already.

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I don’t get it... you take ALL of your absorptions from 115ish, down to... NEGATIVE 9 each?

For 4 more I frames, only when rolling?

>.>

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pov: you're walking through the online equivalent of blighttown

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I came late to the party with dark souls 3(i think it may have been for the best too), i had been obsessed with demons and dark souls but took a long break. Sounds like this ring was somewhat like the DWGR of dks3, except not as bad. Man I felt like I was the only one using Havel+Fap, the DWGR just gave so many advantages. Thankfully it was nerfed(fixed imo), i find this ring rather balanced. Dark Souls 3 is more balanced in general for most part, but each game has serious issues. Still great and the pvp is fun enough to put hundreds of hours into, so.... have fun everyone, dont take it too seriously.

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+5 Adap

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Gundyr knows the counter to this cheesy ring

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This
Carthus Milkring
Kirk Set
Max endurance investment.
Enough vitality to quick roll.
Have fun driving insane other people.

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good increase when heavy rolling, I guess if you want to be encumbered and still dodge attacks instead of using a shield this might be useful. Absorption isn't that bad of a cost if you don't want to trade blows. This allows to use something else than a quickstep weapon as a heavy armored knight, so it raises your offense by lowering your defense. Really depends on your playstyle though.

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This ring can’t save you from my great club r2 die casuals

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Casul blood ring

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I didn't start playing DS3 until after the last ever patch, so I don't know how powerful this ring was. However, the biggest problem with DS3 PVP is how easy it is to dodge/flee from your opponent. I can't believe there are people who are mad this ring got patched. Why would you want to make the worst aspect of the PVP even worse?

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Hand it over. That thing, your I-frames

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Does those frames appears before or after standard one's?

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This ring can be usefull when it doesnt decrease number of hits you need to take before dying. Otherwise you are making yourselve small misservice. Roll artists can just ignore me and pick it anyway.

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Can you pull off a carthus style roll tactic with this plus the milk ring? Or is it too much ring investment?

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I hadn't realized this item got a nerf. Yet, I am still kicking ass with this ring. Well, not all ass.

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This is great for those who suck at timeing the B/Circle button

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In a game where you have near unlimited stamina and rolls they throw this ring into the mix. Seriously wish they had a pvp team

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Oh god I have -18 absorption

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best day for dark souls 3 was when this trash was nerfed

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I don't know why From thought this ring was a good idea, even with a nerf. Rolls are already cheap and powerful enough as they are without adding a ring that increases iframes, quite ridiculous.

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This goes great with the Calamity Ring!

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Great for beating Nameless King, put your weight below 30% and wear this, you defense will be much lower but it will make the whole fight much easier

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Never used it, always thought that 30% more dmg is not worth it, plus if you know how to play the game properly normal rolls should be enough to avoid nearly every attack.

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so glad this***** got nerfed
passive players got *****ed

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Is it still trash pvp? Would I get any use out of it with a high poise/def SL40 medium roll character doing PVP around Old Wolf?

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It really helps against the Dragonslayer Armour

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So many salty butthurt losers mad this cancerous ring got nerfed har har har cry more tears scrubs they're delicious.

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I found a good use for this after the nerf. SL 1 to 20 run where late game/DLC bosses one-shot you without this ring anyway. Shockingly useful just for this.

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For those who say this ring is uselsess. Its not. I was repetedly rekt by the dancer untill I tried this ring. Also. Try it with high poise armor. Poise functions as additional Iframes.

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so glad this got nerfed, roll spam is op enough already along with chugging.

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Its like putting on reverse hornet ring effect with no benefit at all!!
what a deal!!

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New patch effectively renders this ring useless. Greatly reduced i-frames and increased damage taken from 26% to 30%.
"#Balance" right guys? right?? just kidding.

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Worthless ever since the patch recently.

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Increases damage received by 30% since the last patch.

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this ring is gone change in the patch

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I can't wait to invade all those scrubs that relied on this ring, they're two friends, and their Seed. Lol the tears will taste so good come next patch.

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If you use this in pvp you are trash

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Haven't taken this thing off since I got it. I love it. It's my baby. There are some boss fights I'm sure would've taken me many more attempts without it.

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Here's a fun test: go to any article for a semi-decent item/spell/weapon/ring/armor and type in "this should be nerfed"

You know what should really be nerfed? Your cry baby attitudes. Git gud you *****ing casuls, don't cry cause things rebalance your gank squad bull*****.

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So this is why i'm getting so many "God dodgers", i use great hammers, and is expected people to roll many attacks, but i'm getting to many ***holes the easily, and literally, dodge everything, even the suprise/delayed moves. Such a shame, like the poke attacks and turtle noobs wasn't enough...

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It effects quickstep too... FIX IT FEXTRA. Or don't.

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This should be nerfed tbh.
And rolls in general, even though I like playing nimble characters that can get destroyed easily without dodges this just makes it piss easy. You can abuse the iFrames so easily.

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Because rolls aren't broken enough

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I NEEEEEED THIS RING FOR MY "KING OF FARRON" CHARACTER! PLZZZZ NO NERF!

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Makes the already easy to spam rolls from benign tumor to terminal cancer. I fought a guy with this thing on, I hit him once for half his HP, he killed me anyway because roll spam yaaaaaaay. It's a good ring for boss fights, but use this in PvP with the washing pole/dark sword if you want to be the king of cancer.

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this ring nealy gave me heart attack it's is basically the ''bullsh*t'' ring because From didn't learn from their mistakes! they don't have to put such a ring in the game when everyone have the same amount of i-frames! people just have to time their rolls instead of turning into untouchable retards using thorn amor and meta weapons

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I had no idea the ring increased damage and I've been playing with it equipped with no armor my whole play through and I'm at endgame... Haha

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Amazing ring for the likes of Champion Gundyr, Dancer, Pontiff and Nameless King. Equip this for bosses you're having trouble dodging and you'll notice a big improvement.

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Just to confirm my testings, this does not work for quickstep

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Thanks

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does anyone know if this increases quickstep i frames

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Did my own tests on 60fps, PC. https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4fvwd0/iframe_frame_data/

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Anyone know how many extra iFrames this ring gives you? I imagine it changes iFrames from 13 to 15 or 16, similar to DWGR in DkS1.

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Does this ring offer more iframes if you already have less than 30% equip load /fast rolls?

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Please elaborate

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Thanks to this ring it made it possible for me to beat the nameless king on two different files since I'm a ***** shields in pve kind of guy and before to dodge.

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How does 15% increased damage make sense if you can go into the negative? That makes absoutely no sense.

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I find this to be a situational ring. I probably wouldn't wear it for an entire playthrough, since I like the challenge of having to time my rolls correctly. That being said, I just beat the Pontiff Sulyvahn boss with this ring equipped. I was having a miserable time trying to survive his constant onslaught of combos. After roughly 10 attempts and my patience/sanity waning, I tried using this ring. I figured that if at any point I screw up and get caught in a combo I'll probably be dead anyway, so the defence reduction won't really matter all that much. This ring made a huge difference and I'm happy to say that Pontiff Sulyvahn is now very, very dead. So my suggestion is to keep this ring in mind for tough bosses that require a lot of precise rolling.

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If you have other ring slots you don't mind swapping, then pairing this Ring with the Ring of Steel Protection (+1/+2) and/or the Speckled Stoneplate Ring (+1 recommended) will do a great job at bumping your physical and magic defense back up. This is only recommended if you are still worried about getting hit with such low defensive stats. It is by no means needed as the Carthus Bloodring is just so ***** great with i-frames.

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Absolute must have on everyone pretty much. Makes mistimed rolls very forgiving with the amount of i-frames it adds. Most of the time you can just mash roll and avoid damage.

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If you roll a lot or are playing without a shield, this ring is excellent. The i-frames you get are more than worth having less defense.

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Do the Carthus rings also work with the dagger ability quickstep?

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Has anyone tested it's increased duration? Also how harsh is the defense loss? Is it overall worth it?

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Very interesting

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I wonder if there is a weight requirement to use it. Also interesting that it lowers defense.

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