Drakeblood Knight | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

There's 2 summons near this bonfire: drakeblood and havel. The latter appears if the real havel is alive.

But if havel dies, it is replaced by a different drakeblood knight wich has the health, stamina, ar, etc intended for the havel summon, so basically it's a fast havel.

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Fume Ultra Greatsword performs pretty well here if your build isn't faith or intelligence orientated, albeit using +3 Chloranthy ring and Grass Crest shield is advised due to massive stamina drain (if you use heavy weapon builds, it would be a good idea to use these items). Though how the strategy works is using a 2-handed fully charged heavy attack on the Drakeblood Knight; this will near kill him, but possibly can depending on how high your strength or if you have applied a buff to Fume as it is an odd weapon amongst the other "rare" weapons. Anyways back to the point, you just chain fully charged heavy 2-handed blows which ignore most armor giving you really powerful blows (around 1250+ damage at +10 and 55 strength) even if it isn't a backstab. That's literally it. On an 80+ strength build, you would probably do around 1500 damage on each attack.

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Today I just noticed that these guys are resistant to fire

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R1 SPAMMER LMAO

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So, 50 VIG (1300 hp), base ATT (no spells), at least 27 END (can swing 6 times), at least 23 VIT (excluding rings), at least 18 STR, and at least 16 DEX (weapon requirements) - if you want to cosplay as him as accurately as possible stat wise.

He probably has like a quality/sharp build, or high FTH for the whole dragon thing. But maybe he infused his weapon with heavy gem too, considering he LOVES two-handing greatsword.

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So, 50 VIG (1300 hp), base ATT (no spells), at least 27 END (can swing 6 times), at least 23 VIT (excluding rings), at least 18 STR, and at least 16 DEX (weapon requirements) - if you want to cosplay as him as accurately as possible stat wise.

He probably has like a quality/sharp build, or high FTH for the whole dragon thing. But maybe he infused his weapon with heavy gem too, considering he LOVES two-handing greatsword.

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So, 50 VIG (1300 hp), base ATT (no spells), at least 27 END (can swing 6 times), at least 23 VIT (excluding rings), at least 18 STR, and at least 16 DEX (weapon requirements) - if you want to cosplay as him as accurately as possible stat wise.

He probably has like a quality/sharp build, or high FTH for the whole dragon thing. But maybe he infused his weapon with heavy gem too, considering he LOVES two-handing greatsword.

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So, 50 VIG (1300 hp), base ATT (no spells), at least 27 END (can swing 6 times), at least 23 VIT (excluding rings), at least 18 STR, and at least 16 DEX (weapon requirements) - if you want to cosplay as him as accurately as possible stat wise.

He probably has like a quality/sharp build, or maybe high FTH with lightning infusion considering the whole dragon thing. But it's possible that he infused his weapon with heavy gem too, considering he LOVES to two-hand that greatsword.

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swap practice dummy

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Pretty tough, but becomes a joke with the Dragonslayer Greataxe
Honestly a good spot to farm souls.

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I seriously thought these guys were just Oscar of Astora (because the summoners can summon Ricard and Havel, why not another warrior from ds1). Only on my 2nd playthrough one of them dropped a drakeblood sword and I realized THESE were the drake blood knights.

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This guy's the perfect practice dummy

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Give it to me, that thing... your armor set

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their should be a drakeblood covenant and if you join it the enemy's at dragons peak don't attack you due to you being a drakeblood knight

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I learned and honed my parrying skills through this guy and darkwraiths

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Super annoying how in NG+ you have to constantly use the bonfire after every kill. The first one gives 19,440 souls and every single one after that gives 9,720. This is not true at all in NG. WTF

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Ffs how many stamina does this guy have? He can spam 6 or 8 times and when he blocks with his SWORD it never breaks, meanwhile i can break havel when he's blocking with his GREATSHIELD

What the hell?

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Can confirm they don't drop any gear or gs.

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Easy farm guys

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You don't need to go to NG+ for their armor

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Infinite stamina knight

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Each new spawn shares the same resistance bars and fill up amount as the prior. This makes bleed very effective against them.

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He's not immune to rapport I've done it plenty of time after parrying

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pretty sure drakeblood doesnt drop his armor, ive killed him millions of times for souls on first journey, you just go to path of dragon gesture spot and its there after killing him once, no need to NG+ as wiki says, fix this*****.

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He really lowered his standards for what counts as a dragon, trading sinh for the wyvern

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The ultimate sparring partner. Whenever I try a new set up or new weapon that I need to figure out the range on, I always come back to this guy. Good sir, my hat is off to you.

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There is honestly no point in farming unless you want souls from him or a second set of armour. You don't need to be on Ng+ for the path of dragon corpse to have the set, just kill the drakeblood knight once and it'll be there.

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Wow. Was really struggling with these buggers at first. Then got my +5 Wolf Knight Greatsword. Two handing it + using the WA absolutely DEMOLISHES these guys.

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Found in the Consumed King's Garden, on the corpse that teaches the Path of the Dragon gesture. For it to appear, the player must first defeat at least one Drakeblood Knight at Archdragon Peak.

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A good strategy is to just use the charged stab with the zweihander it will commonly throw them back and then you can just repeat to stun lock them, but be wary of using it towards the stairs because they will sometimes get glitched and will be floating.

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No mention of the stronger version who pops up every now and then and gives way more souls than the regular ones?

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Wow, infinite stamina... Why do you do this shit, From?

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The armour appears on the corpse after Oceiros in NG when you defeat him for the first time, you don't have to wait until NG+ or waste time farming him. Not sure why this wiki hasn't been updated in the years since release.

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Did some testing and he appears to be staggered rather easily (I used a base-level rotten ghru sword) and he was able to be staggered with it.
As for weaknesses, he appears to not be entirely resistant to most elemental forms of damage (for testing i enchanted a base-level astora straight sword with miracles pyromancies and sorceries);
Normal Astora's Straight sword - 38 Damage
Lightning - 64 (+26) (It might just me being lucky but lightening staggers him an awful lot, even mid-attack sometimes).
Fire - 64 (+26)
Blessed - 44 (+6)
Frost N/A (I know that Vordt's hammer procs frost crits on him because I kill him in roughly 3 hits with a +5 vordt's hammer criting on the second or last swing).
Dark - 62 (+24)
Magic - 57 (+19) (please bear in mind that my intelligence is lower than my faith)
(I didn't test bleed or poison because it requires a proc to activate and i kept dying while trying to.)

So, it appears that he generally can be hit with anything. If I had to use the categories of Weak, Resistant, and Immune then it would go like this;
Weak Against;
Lightning
Dark
Fire
Magic (my int is probably just not high enough to see similar results)
Frost (although still untested properly)

Resistant to;
Blessed

Immune to;
Probably none (If not, bleed and poison)


Here are my character's relevant stats to give you an idea of how i came to those conclusions above;
Strength 32
Dexterity 18
Intelligence 20
Faith 30

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"NG+: If you don't feel like farming for their armor"

But you can't farm their armor, they don't drop it. You can get their armor yes, but they don't drop it.

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So the info about the Drakeblood set being on the corpse in NG+ is false. I found the set on the corpse in Consumed Kings Garden in NG after killing the Drakeblood Knight.

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Hey if anyone still posts information lol in NG that have low health is there any weapon that can deal 1300+ dmg with the backstab alone to farm fast as possible?

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I really wanted two of these in my first playthrough. One dark infused and one chaos.

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Backstab damage vs Drakeblood Knight w/ Lloyd’s Sword Ring & Hornet Ring:

weapon (+10/+5) backstab eq. screen total damage % increase
Lightning Longsword 612 461 132.75%
Chaos Longsword 572 445 128.54%
Dark Longsword 609 457 133.26%
Sunlight Straight Sword 467 360 129.72%

Looks like he's weak to Dark and Lightning (or resistant to Fire and Physical).

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After some testing
Rings:
Clutch Ring (for each respective element)
Lloyd Sword Ring

Weapon and attack:
Falchion (+6) R1

Catalysts:
Crystal Chime (+5)
Pyromancy Flame (+10)

Stats:
Int and Faith: 31
18 Str 16 Dex

Fire weapon:
Normal Atack: 115
Riposte: 315

Lighting Blade
Normal Atack: 124
Riposte: 335

Blessed Weapon
Normal Atack: 91
Riposte: 321

Dark Blade
Normal Atack: 120
Riposte: 331

Crystal Magic Weapon
Normal Atack: 127
Riposte: 338

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The armor can't be farmed, just kill the first one that was summoned and the corpse you got the path if the dragon emote from has the full set.

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Does he get replaced by a dark spirit if invaded. I died a couple times to him, reembered the third time instead of him a Havel Knight appeared and killed me for the third time. I do not know if this is a glitch or what.

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Cosplaying these guys is actually viable in PvP. The sword deals decent enough damage and is quite fast for a greatsword when twohanded. The shield is great against mage builds and the spell parry works wonders at increasing survivability. Once parried multiple CSS before dying cos I screwed up the timing on the last one and got finished off by another invader. The armour is pretty decent as well.

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Does he have any weaknesses?

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The drakeblood knight spawn has been moved to the top of the stairs nearest the summoner so you can no longer one-shot backstab farm him. Easiest way to farm him now is to draw him out to the long area where the Nameless King bonfire is (Obviously you need to have beaten NK first) It doesn't take long to down him, he's crazy weak when it comes to parries.

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Actually the very first summoned Drakeblood Knight gives 2x souls than the next ones, at least in NG+, being just barely stronger. Thus it's better to kill one and go to the near bonfire, then repeat.

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Can I get the drakeblood armor on regular ng?

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I recently tried the farming method and i think changes to the hornets ring and or other parts of the farming method or the Drakeblood Knight himself make it harder to one shot. However if you use the buff on the sunlight straight sword along with dragon roar you should be able to oneshot the guy at the 45 or 50 strength mark requires more fp though and the requirements on the SS sword as well

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The armor will only spawn on the dead knight at the Consumed Kings Garden (the dead dude where you learn the path of the dragon gesture) after killing the first knight that the Summoner spawns (the guy who drops the Drakeblood Greatsword). Who would have thought you gotta go back?

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After resting at the Dragon Mausoleum bonfire, the first summoned knight has (probably) raised health, more absorption and does more damage. It also drops 8000 souls instead of the normal 4000.If you haven't rested at a bonfire after killing the first knight, all the other spawned knights appear to have reduced stats and drop the standard 4000 souls.Resting at bonfire at any time will reset the cycle i.e. the 1st knight will be stronger, and the others will be weaker & drop less souls.

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Why aren't they using the dragon shieldIts not all that important but whyThey are dragon hunters in a dragon area summoned by a half dragonsurrounded by dragon menright after a dragon boss fight why

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about 1285-1287 hp (first play)

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I can successfully deduce that he has 50 Vigor, 40 Endurance.I'm not sure about the rest but he has 18 (or more) Str & 16 (or more) Dex.This guy is a good offline 1v1 training dummie (CPU) to learn the Drakeblood Greatsword match up. Which is a very underrated weapon with low stamina costs, fast hyper armor frames & is a beast buffed with Darkmoon Blade (anything is viable with Darkmoon Blade through).

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It seems the first drake knight summoned drop 8000 and after that just 4000 bug i think

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I've been using the Dragonkin Mausoleum "Summoned Drakeblood Knight" method of soul farming for mats and levels and I still can't really manage to 1 hit him with a backstab even with over 600AR doing 'standard' damage(Yhorm's Great Machete) and the Hornet's Ring equipped. It's a little maddening to be honest.

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He swung at me 9 times without pausing at all.

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