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Mfs got to keep their poise from Dark Souls 1 whereas we get stuck with nothing and have to deal with getting stunlocked by so much as a slight gust of wind, The fact that there's tons of enemies in this game that have actual poise, some even having nigh-unbreakable poise that allows them to face-tank charged UGS R2s without even flinching whereas we get stunlocked and/or ragdolled/pancaked by everything will never cease to bother me

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"Can be backstabbed". Clearly whoever wrote hasnt tried backstabbing them. They use that dark grab attack to avoid it every single time lol

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Why has the armor so... strange proportions. It looks weird

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I just noticed that teases wraiths arnt called darkwraith knights like ds1 so are these ones not knights?

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To defeat the Dark Souls 1 enemy, you must use the Dark Souls 1 mindset.

-Some Guy who's repeatedly killing the DarkWraith in the high wall for his sword

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nice to see my boys from new londo still stealing humanity all these years later

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at ng++ you are better of never using the farron gs or the wolf gs as it does nothing to them

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this may be a stupid question but how are the DarkWraiths edgy so from what i can gather you wear a skull or don't speak when they cant and simply kill people because its your job

I don't get it people like nito when he basically is a edgelord if what i can gather is correct regarding the wraiths

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huh never thought edgy and metal could go together

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the reapers of dark souls

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being a DarkWraiths a good job mate its challenging work outdoors I guaranty you wont go hungry because at the end of the day

as long as the age of fire is still going a ashen one is gunna end up dead

motto of a DarkWraith
succ kill wait repeat

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tell me ashen one you fear death?

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player with humanity mind is own business me a darkwraith hippity hoppity your humanity is now my property

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Me so you guys want the watchers dead right and you need to get past the grhu
Darkwraith yes that’s right
Me and I want the same thing as you and you are both skilled fighters all the same
Darkwraith okay cool
Me so let’s work together and kill the watchers together that plan sound good
Darkwraith sounds good
Me erm why is your hand glowing
Darkwraith Just taking my payment for are services ashen one that’s all

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When the 2 of them spawn and slowly walk towards the gate and kill everything in their way, I can't help but think of the 2 badass mexican hitmen in Breaking Bad...

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The two wariths outside of the watchers boss area were probably on their way to fight the abyss watchers themselves

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Nah they are not really hard, if you mess up though you will be punished by them

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I heard stories about how hard these guys can be. Travelled down the elevator in the Tower on the Wall, and beat the Darkwraith on my first try. Probably a fluke though.

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Time is convoluted, and their Poise is from 6 years ago... AKA it exists.

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anyone here were their armour and death mask just because they like how they look? not because of EDGE

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They can cancel backstabs is they are in the grabbing animation

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edgelords

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I hated these guys and their surprise suck attack but I decided to wear their armor and join the ranks and give others the suck

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fun fact: if you use the slumbering dragoncrest ring or spook the darkwraith that drops the red eye orb is open for an easy backstab, as he is facing away from you

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Why the fug do these have so much fugging poise? I swear to god they're harder to stagger than Havel.

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Not sure if the observation has been made before but I’ve realized that they were the 4 kings of New Londo and there are only 4 appearances of the dark wraiths in Dark Souls 3. I understand the kings were killed in the first game but I wonder if they did this on purpose or if it is coincidence.

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Wait a sec. Their looted armor is weak to strike, with only 19.530 strike absorption but an actual Darkwraith enemy is resistant to strike damage? Something is wrong here.

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Riposted with irythil straight sword and did no damage, was that a bug?

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they can get in the boss room. just happened to me, one got in after gotthard went in.

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how rare is a pale tongue? is there a percentage or just rare?

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I usually bring the black knight from road of sacrifice to the farron perimeter and watch a good fight between him and the two darkwraiths. Then sweep in at the last minute to claim the spoils.

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I once thought very loathesome of these enemies and their “suck”. But then I joined their ranks and found purpose.
I now go about invading worlds filled with embers destroying the host and whoever dares defy me in that world, I’m stronger than ever before and no man or woman is safe when the darkwraiths roam about. Make all the precautions you want the darkwraiths with still get you and suck your life force out of your body.

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I killed the two darkraiths at 692 HP, 690 doesn't kill but 692 as a hit does, I highly doubt they start with 8 damage done to them,

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Being near one, you can hear they have an eerie atmospheric ambiance to them, very reminiscent of being in New Londo Ruins. Wear some high quality headphones and stalk them to feel like you’re back with the OG Darkwraiths.

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the two just before the abyss watchers arena spawn together, only a few meters apart, and THEY RESPAWN. from the bonfire of the shortcut, you can kite them, but they will follow you all the way to the crystal beast and past it to the other area.

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they cannot be backstabed and parry them in 60 fps is more luck than time, parry in this game is pure loteria bullshit

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These guys are your best weapon in the swamp. Just messed around a bit and lured them past the bonfire and trough the opening in the wall down in the swamp. They kill everything with ease as long as both are still alive. They cleared out most of the ghurs, elder ghurs and slugs until they finally got killed from the crab, very fun to watch.

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these guys are so old school they still have poise

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Why do they look so elegant when they fight? lol. They look almost feminine when they move.

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Dragonslayer greataxe L2 did not break their poise during a two-handed swing Yea, ***** this.

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Some guys only stagger when they feel like it

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Too bad the Armor set design looks like***** now

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I cheesed the tower wraith: leave elevator, shoot tow times, make a step back and let the elevator lift you to safety. Any Tips for a fair fight instead?

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The one down the elevator in the High Wall can absolutely drop things besides just the Red Eye Orb. Not sure about everything he can drop, but I've gotten his sword multiple times now. < Screenshot for proof

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wait. ok i am on my first playthrough and i actually use these darkwraiths as a way to get souls. but I know they drop more than 500 souls because i get 2500 souls

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When the Darkwraith pulls out a switch blade, you know he means business

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So.... turns out that the special darkwraith does drop loot other than the red eye orb. As in, everything else.

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Their poise is ridiculous, I'm pretty sure dark sword shouldn't count as a heavy weapon but you literally can't trade with them because you'll never stagger them. Another cheeseworthy enemy to add to the list.

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They aren’t very resistant to lightning. I used wrath of the god and lightning stake at 45 faith with a +10 canvas talisman and wrath of the gods did 562 and at point blank range a direct hit lightning stake did 604-602 damage. I don’t know why there is minor variation but as you can tell they aren’t exactly resistant to lightning damage if it’s that effective and that much more effective than something they aren’t resistant to.

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Can we change the drop rate of the dark sword from frequently to rare? I've killed them around 30 times now while having rusted coins activated and I still have not gotten a sword. FFS I have 56 cracked red eye orbs

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I believe they are immune to Alluring skulls as well (don't think that was stated above). Definitely was a struggle for me fighting them for the first time (they still tend to give me trouble). The high poise, fast attacks, heavy hitting grappling attack, relatively high health, good stuff for sure. In my experience, well placed spacing and their affinity to attack other enemies is their downfall.

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The dark hand that they use has 100% magic absorbtion. You cannot damage them with sorceries while they use that shield.

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The one at the high wall of Lothric does drop the Dark Set

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one dark wraith managed to slip into the abyss walker bossfight and fought them. Lol Me sirris and tt sneaky bastard vs that one dude

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Bull*****I got a whole Dark set and Pale Tongues galore from the HWoL one

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This is not true. I was able to get the Dark Armor from the Darkwraith in the High Wall of Lothric just this morning.

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The one in the lift chmber does respawn

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so they are hollows but they aren't weak to HS GS?

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I always beat the one for the Red Eye Orb by aggroing him, and then riding the elevator up, and he usually jumps down the elevator shaft and dies immediately.

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By the way, the "special" darkwraith in the high wall still drops the dark sword. I just got it a few seconds ago.

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I'm pretty sure I've seen them be poisoned by the Ghru's outside the arena, despite the page suggesting otherwise, perhaps it's their speed and aggression that make applying it via weapon or mist not feasible, but when they're distracted by multiple targets it's easier for it to happen.

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What's the drop rate on their armor piece??

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does someone know why there are 2 of them in front of the abiss watchers bossfight? what are they doing there?

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His attacks are very predictable. Just dodge them then attack once only.

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Drops:

Pale Tongue. (frequently)

someone got lazy and decided to use ctrl c and ctrl v i guess
or they had 999999 item discovery

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What the *****....I was farming the couple near the Abysswatchers boss fights, today (for the covenant items) and I had something like 30+ poise and a 2 handed zweihander....and the *****ers were still able to stagger me with a single hit of A MOTHER*****ING STRAIGHTSWORD....

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DS1 version was so easy to parry, but these guys took a little getting used to

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the first time i killed each one it dropped armor but after that whenever i kill them i only get cracked red eye orb, is this normal or am i really unlucky?
(my luck is 11 but i dont use anything to bost my luck)

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The one in the keep for the Red Orb no longer drops pale tongue. 0/100.

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FromSoft: Poise is situational now.

*Looks at Darkwraiths and Black Knights*

Lol ok.

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Neat article; Just a quick question tho: WHY DAFUQ DO THEY HAVE SO MUCH POISE AND I CAN'T HAS AS MUCH??? *Crying Intensifies*

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Also drops Dark Mask. Very creepy

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Instructions unclear, can't find the lothric darkwraith

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Did they stop dropping pale tongues?

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The regular spawn should say Farron Keep, not the Road of Sacrifices.

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Fire orb worked great on the one in farron keep

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I still play the 1.00 version, and both dark wraiths in farron keep give me 2500 souls (each). So I guess they changed it to 500 in later versions.

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Just noticed that whenever a Darkwraith gets close to a bonfire, the flames die down to almost nothing.

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If the darkwraiths are connected to the Abbyss and they drop cracked red eye orbs, then does that mean that every enemy with red eyes has been corrupted by the Abbyss. But in the Abbyss Watchers fight, the red eyed version is the one helping us, or are we helping it. Think about is The Abbyss Watchers are the ones keeping the Abbyss from taking over and defeating them provides the opportunity to take over the world. That may be why The Flame doesn't explode like it has in previous games. It shrivels because darkness has already plunged the world into chaos. It's Like what Elfrida said, Its just the flame shimmering at misguided ash.

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If your want the full armored set and the wepon a realy good farming spot is in the farron keep perimiter ithink there will be 2 use a bow to call one over hit the one you want to come and just kill tjem until you get it all it also a good farming apot for souls to let me tell you they are pritty strong and dont let them grab you cause they will drop you amd start hitting without mercy

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How often do they drop them?

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I always use pyromancies and kill darkwraits in two hits with great chaos fire orb.

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I killed him a few times and he drops 10,000 souls on ng+. With Shield of Want, SS Ring and Symbol of Avarice, he's dropping 19,500 souls. Is that normal?

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Do they not give as many souls after you beat Pontiff? Before I use to get 2500 or so and now I'm only getting around 500

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...if wearing the skull mask. Would be so much more fun if cosplaying these dudes.

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Wow that dark hand grab is alot quicker for these guys. Anyone know thier stats?

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If only they could drop Titanite Slabs like Dark Souls 1 could.

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Got me two or three times with dark hand. After the fight I recognized six missing points of attunement. Resting at the bonfire does not bring them back.

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These guys don't just fight Ghru, they fight EVERYTHING. I personally enjoy luring the Black Knight from down past the perimeter bonfire to them. So far it's 3-2 in the Knight's favour, but pretty even! All it takes is one arrow and some running.

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Honestly I just used the hollowslayer greatsword+1 and the dark wraith went down after 6 hits

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They drop these things like Dre drops beats. Good lord I maxed out the 99 in my inventory and storage in a day farming these guys for Pale Tongues. To bad they don't sell for much.

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Just by farming the two outside of the "Farron Keep Perimeter" bonfire, with the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring equipped (and the occasional rusted coin), I was able to get 10 Pale tongues for the Obscuring Ring (Rosaria's Fingers Rank 1) in around 20 minutes. I only had 12 luck at the time, so if you have higher luck (or use the Symbol of Avarice) you should be able to farm them even quicker.

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If you are in new game plus i suggest using the firelink sword special attack it kills in 2 hits

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Farron Abyss Watchers have history of fighting against spread of the abyss, it would not be strange for abyss recognize enemy and to fight back sending darkwraights against them. They are clearly headed to fight them. Furthermore I clearly seen them aggro each other through fog gate when dying defeated by watchers.

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Darkwraiths rarely venture far from the abyss, I'm guessing it is very close to the watchers...which would make sense being they are in the area.

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Where is he located? I need his sword

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These guys are so ***** awesome. I'd like to try a build that lives up to them. Which means: ****load of Vigor, Strenght and Endurance. Rings: Steel Protection (?), Wolf Ring, Horse Hoof, Chloranthy RingHeavy Dark Sword for Strenght scaling.Dark SetDark HandAnd perhaps full hollow? I mean, imagine this poise-monster with high defense and mastering the Dark Sword move set + kick. Would be an awesome cosplay don't you think? :)

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These guys are badass. I killed one of the two near the Farron keep boss and the other one slaughtered everything near the gate by himself.

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Theres an easy strat for collecting Red Eye Orbs and a *****load of souls from these guys, i found. From the first bonfire at Farrons Keep, take a left and hop a few islands til you can snipe a shot at that one from long range... most times he will get pissed, run mad and slay a ton of slugs until he finally gets cornered by a gang of them.

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Backstabs can be difficult to land properly on these guys. Just my opinion.

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