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Every time I accept in my mind that the dark build was fair, I get torn apart in four straight sword R1s, or one parry (i dont like tears so i dont use it). Impossible to fully block with any shield, absurd damage output, access to virtually every weapon class. Even just in PvE, being able to use dark or fire damage at will is a huge boon compared to sorcerers who are locked into magic. Dark builds really have it all.

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grinding for dark gems in consumed kings garden and DAMN when they said 3% they REALLY MEANT 3%

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You cannot defeat me and my DARK BLACK SWORD

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People say "split damage bad", but this (and by extension, chaos) infusion is one of the best. Very high total AR offsets the split damage "penalty", vast suite of available weapons, chips through Black Knight Shield, Tears of Denial requires no otherwise wasted levels or ring swapping, Dark is a generally difficult damage type to resist without giving up a lot of physical defense. Can't buff? More like don't have to buff. Plus if you happen to run into someone wearing the domino mask you'll obliterate them.

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from missed a chance to name it "Dark Dark Sword", or "Darker Sword"

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Not bad on a Greatsword with 28/20/30/30. It's no crypt blacksword, but it'll do.

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It is quite dismal that you cannot make a Dark Dark Sword

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I love that they buffed dark elemental damage. It created a new build. However, the community greatly over estimates how good dark builds are. To be clear, dark builds are one of the best kinds of builds, however, there is this idea among players that dark builds have essentially replaced quality builds. This isn't true. In fact, after playing many hours with both, I'd argue quality builds are a bit better. Here's why: 1) quality builds use strength and leveling strength raises your physical defense which is much more important than raising elemental defenses and strength gets a free 50% increase when two handing, 2) while dark builds do tend to out damage quality builds slightly, this is mitigated by the use of resins, albeit only temporality, 3) dark builds have a soft counter that is accessible to EVERYONE and that's eating a Black Bug Pellet. For some reason, not many players take advantage of this, but when they do, dark builds get a huge nerf for 2 minutes (and then they can easily just pop another), 4) and I saved the best for last: quality builds have access to the best spells in the game: items. If you haven't tried using Throwing Knives on a quality or DEX build, you're missing out. Not a lot of players know this, but Throwing Knives can be absolutely busted in the right hands. Then there's BFBs and Kucks that are basically like discount sorceries that cost nothing to use. Dark builds are great, but they aren't the only melee build.

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restarted my pyro run because I forgot to get moundmakers before the tree. first puss of man in high wall gave me a dark gem, feelsgood

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I was gonna make a crystal lothric sword but I then saw that the dark infusion and it has a significantly higher AR. Is Dark infusion broken or something? I'm have 30 int but only 8 faith

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Noob infusion

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Try farming on patrolling Harald legion knights. Drop rates are sweet I get one gem every second run.

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If you're not a pyro, just use refined LIKE A MAN!!!!

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40/60 INT/FTH, should I buff with dark weapon or infuse?

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That last bit of trivia is wrong, it's a dark dark sword. Not reinforced, you'd need a refined gem for that.

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Took me 14 runs through kings garden with 357 item discovery to get my first gem. Didn't get any drops at all from the slugs. These seem to be a lot harder to farm than the chaos gems.

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Upgrade weapons by all means with the dark, or use dark blades on maximum raw weapons?
Also, improving the sunless bell increases your dark tongue damage. Thanks so great


Friv 8

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Easiest Method to Farm: 1. Attune/Respec whatever you need to do to use fire spell like Chaos Bed Vestiges or Chaos Fire Orb(Ball?) OR use strong Fire AR weapon. 2. Crystal Sage Rapier and Covetous Gold Serpent Ring (+3 obv best choice but whatever). 3. Spawn Dancer Bonfire, go up and left through Consumed Garden, ignore cathedral knights and spam fire spells from safe distant at Pus of Men or Slugs. Notes: this method is for lower levels looking to have to deal with Harald Legion Knights.(I am able to get at least 1 Gem every other run! RNG is RNG at SL22 +2) Harald Knights aren't so bad if you have a decent fire AR weapon with a critical modifier, along with hornet ring when you plunge attack them, however plunging isnt the easiest to pull off on smaller weapons, the legion knight also can't be in a hyper armor animation because youll just fall through them and do normal plunge damage. However as a l'm low level these guys can one shot me unless I'm embered so you're choice.

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at least you can make the deep dark sword

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Does anyone have an excess of dark gems they would like to drop. Farming has not been going well. Steam: Zarg9872

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this has nothing to do with infusion weapons but what is everyone's favourite weapon?

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someone tell me please which is better, to have an infused weapon (like dark, chaos) or to have a buffed weapon (like Carthus' Flame Arc or Dark Blade)? I'm running a pyromancer with 28 str and 40 int 40 fth. And have 3 slots of magic.

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Can you buff a dark infused weapon with dark blade?

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Just got a Dark Gem at High Wall from the first Pus of Man.

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M E T A

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this is one of the hardest gems to farm in game, I use to farm this on dragon barracks bridge where you can find two pussyman, I have 615item discovery, SL 120, 99 luck, two crystal rapiers, gold ring+3, mimic helm and rusted gold coin. I can finish within 30secs every run with chaos twin sellsword, I swear you can get only titanite chunks, embers and usually large titanite.

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Fun fact: at base str/dex and 9 int/9 fth Dark deals more damage than Deep when infused on most +4 weapons. So Deep is basically useless, even at low levels/weapon upgrades.

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"Ouch, there goes my healthbar" -anyone

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Anyone like to adjust the example to +10 Corvian Scythe gets B dex A/A? It just says Corvian + 0 E lmao.

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"Really Dark Sword"

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AW I WANTED A DARK DARK SWORD

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If you stop being a scrub and git gud you can kill the Harold Knights pretty fast with two parries and riposte from a chaos dagger. Instead of wasting time climbing up to plunge them.

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Harald Knights have a higher drop rate than those slugs (at least the first three found on the way to the abyss swamp). Firstly, there are eight of those slugs, and there are three to six of the knights. Secondly, I just get these gems somewhat easily from the knights when I don't even have any drop-boosting items equipped, versus not getting any from the slugs over about ten runs while having the symbol of avarice, crystal sage's rapier, and covetous gold serpent ring +0.

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Rare drop from Pus of Man in Consumed King's Garden, the slugs seem to have a slightly better drop than the pus in that area. 8 can be found under the center structure.

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Soft cap for dark infused weapons is 30int/30faith, while some weapons still pertain decent phys scaling with either str or dex. Coupled with a blindfold mask for glass cannon builds, dark weapons tend to have the highest raw AR in the game. Take that as you will.

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The second rolling boulder doesn't drop dark gem, you liar.

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it's almost as if the game knows you're trying to farm and doesn't drops anything, not evn the Harald armor :(

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can you buff a dark weapon

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Man this weapon doesn't do enough damage as I was hoping for, but It's nothing dark can't fix!

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At least we get the Dark Black Blade.

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It'll always be the Dark Dark Sword in our hearts...

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Going from Lothric Castle bonfire and smacking everything with CHAOS zweihander is a good way to farm this things if you don't want to farm them in dlc. Cathedral knights die quickly, puss of man gets staggered and killed in two hits, then just go for slugs as it is easier to get drop from them

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Can anyone confirm? I'm pretty sure Dark (and Chaos and Blessed) Gems add Faith scaling to any innate lightning damage the weapon might have. Can anyone confirm this? You can try it out with Dragonslayer's Axe or Lothric Knight Greatsword. I know it already works for the Drakeblood, so I wanted to doublecheck.

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HI COOL

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There is another dark gem not mentioned in the ringed city dlc, It's right at the entrance of the swamp by a few locust enemies.

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can you still buff with a dark infusion?

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The dark damage scale on dark souls 3 on the same way that dark souls 2? I mean, ¿you need faith and intelligence because the dark damage scale with the lowest of the 2?

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Pulled one like killing 10 of them in High Wall
wasn't even farming or anything

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You can easily farm these off the the two pus of man near Lothric Castle's Dragon Barracks bonfire. When they transform, the game is basically spawning an entirely new entity with a clean aggro state, which is why you lose target lock when they do. With the slumbering dragon ring, you can walk behind them as they transform, and stunlock them to death with pretty much any +6 or above fire infused weapon. The drop rate isn't great (I was farming with about 300 item find) and pulled in 2 per hour. But, I'm also getting decent souls, embers, large shards, and chunks (at a rate of about 5/hour). Just make sure that as they're transforming, you are far enough away that their whipping "tail" doesn't hit you as that will pull aggro; it's lashes out quite a distance!

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There is also one in the ringed city right as you go into the black swamp

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Very good farming guide:
https://youtu.be/XQMl0Jfjt6Y

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New meta

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One can be found in the Ringed City, right where the Swamp begins

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Second rolling Boulder is a 100% drop when destroyed first time

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I would love if combining dark gem with dark sword would make dark dark sword or darker sword

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You can't buff your weapon when infusen With DARK, atleast I can't

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Dark gem for dark meta XD

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are weapon's infusion buff enhanced with clutch rings?
I mean... if i use a dark clutch ring with a dark infused weapon, would that work?

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Herald knights are definitely the best farm I got 2 dark gems in 2 kills while only using a gold coin

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Here to confirm that the dark gem drops off of the harald legion enemies in TRC DLC. (Don't know how rare, but dropped pretty frequent for me.)

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The best place to farm these is from Oceiros, the Consumed King Bonfire go past the knights then to the right first they will stop following you kill the 2 man of pus (VERY LOW DROP RATE) then use a bow with fire arrows and kill every slug in the area (low drop but higher than man of pus) kill the last man of pus then homeward bone.

Repeat.

2 hours=2/5 gems with CSR-CSGR+3-Avarice-Coin.

Hope for good RNG with this gem.

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Is there a quick and easy way to check for weapons with S scaling in dark or do I have to check each weapon manually?

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this needs an update: The slugs in the consumed kings garden also drop these. Not too sure if its rare but I get more from them rather than the pus of man

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Is it only my imagination, or does this gem not eerily resemble a human hand...?

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"Dark weapons inflict dark damage". Huh, go figure

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Farmed about 15 runs from Ocerios Bonfire. (To not bother with elevators)
Used Hidden Body and Chaos Great Fireball.

1 Dark Gem dropped from one of the eight slugs in the middle of the zone, another 1 Dark Gem dropped from Pus of Man.
Had 307 item discovery in both instances.

That's about 1 dark gem from about 30 Pus of Man and 1 dark gem from about 120 slugs. And that's at 307 item discovery.

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Instead of Pus of Man, the enemies that drop Dark Gems in Consumed King's Garden are the Slugs in the toxic pool. (Confirmed: Took me 4 runs to get 1)
Also i think that it is just 1 of the slugs that drop it. The ones that are near trees. (still needs confirmation).

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Also new DLC weapon Follower Sabre(which is very OP) has B/B scaling

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For a Pyromancer, Chaos and Dark infusions are very handy, and best, obviously if you just buff your weapon with Carthus Flame you will deal more damage, but using Chaos or Dark infusions come very handy, you don't need to use a slot for Carthus Flame Arc, you don't have to rebuff your weapon everytime, you don't spend time buffing your weapon(and specially in PvP and boss fights you may not have time to do buff), you don't need FP to buff your weapon.

Also many weapons have really good scaling with Chaos or Dark infusions(both infusions always have same scaling):
A/A scaling for Carthus Curved Greatsword, Astora Greatsword, Murakumo, Great Corvian Scythe, etc.
B/B scaling for Carthus Curved Sword, Zweihander, Dark Sword, Claymore, Gotthard Twinswords, Greatsword, Cathedral Knight Greatsword, Lothric Knight Greatsword, Exile Greatsword, Onikiri and Ubadachi, etc.

These are just some examples there is a lot more good weapon with A/A or B/B scaling, and a few "meta" weapons with C/C scaling. As a note, if you know any weapon that scales S with Lightning or Crystal, this means it will have A/A for Chaos or Dark, if it has A instead of S then it will be B/B, and etc.

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Doesn't say either way, so just want to make sure if Dark Weapons can be buffed or not.

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I have killed about a hundred transformed puss of man with a discovery rating of 361 and not a single gem. It there something I have to do to enable the drop?

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is it only me or is the ar of a dark weapon alot lower than a chaos one because i have 2 Lothric Knight Swords on my pyromancer both +10 one chaos one dark and the chaos one is 516 but the dark one is only 466 what there a nerf to dark recently because they both used to have the same ar

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Does dark deal extra poise damage like in dark souls 2. if yes it would be better than chaos in pvp for breakin guards

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What a delight: Dark Dark Sword. Reminds me of "I only work in black. Or very, very, very dark grey."

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, they're basically the same thing, just with one being dark, and the other fire, but which is the better? It'd be on common resistances on enemies, are there that many dark weak enemies? I know there are fire weak ones, but also very fire resistant ones, I know puss of man enemies and the like are weak to fire, and I'd assume resistant to dark (As they basically are darkness...) And also players, I know strength adds fire resist, so shouldn't that make dark a better pvp option? (minus split damage being pretty ass for pvp)

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best weapons for dark infusion?

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does dark damage do more stamina damage as well, cuz i use dark gotthards twinswords and it seems that i break guards way e-zer and when i had them refined

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can a dark weapon be buffed?

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How do you 'kill' the boulder guys in carthas??????

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Pyros might as well use this as an infusion instead of chaos. They scale the same except you can deal with fire resistant enemies better.

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Will the snake mutants in the consumed kings garden drop these as well or just the ones on the high wall? Looking for a good farm spot.

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does this scale like dark spells with 30/30 or does it scale like weapons and its 40/40?

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I'm a bit confused on the difference?

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Upgrading a weapon all the way with dark, or using dark blade on a maxed out raw weapon?Also, does improving the sunless chime increase your dark blade damage.

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This RNG is cranked so high it's worse than destiny farming. What is the point of making this sh*t so f***ing hard to farm?

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Infusing a weapon with chaos removes the ability to buff out, does this do the same thing?

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Do infused weapons keep their original requirements to be wield?

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The basic undead that transform into dark monsters (like the tutorial boss) in Lothric drop them.

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please check it again i wanna be sure this isn't a mistake

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