Estus Flask is a Consumable in Dark Souls 3.
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Estus Flask Usage
- Allows the player to refill some of their HP bar.
- The player will gain more Estus Flasks through out the course of the game, allowing for more healing to be used between Bonfires.
- The player can also assign how many Estus Flasks become Ashen Estus Flasks at Blacksmith Andre in Firelink Shrine.
Estus Flask Locations
- Players start the game with 3 Estus Flasks and pick up 1 Ash Estus Flask in the initial area.
- To obtain more flasks, you must turn in Estus Shard at Blacksmith Andre in the Firelink Shrine.
Notes
- Amount of flasks the player carries can be increased using Estus Shard.
- The player can carry 15 Estus Flasks total.
- Can be reinforced by burning Undead Bone Shard, at the Firelink Shrine bonfire, up to +10. This allows each swig from the flask to replenish more health.
- The Estus Ring increases the amount of health regenerated by Estus Flask by 20%.
- It's also possible to refill estus flasks by killing enemies. There is a hidden gauge filled by souls of fallen enemies (the player doesn't need to kill the monsters themselves).
- The player cannot recover more than the maximum number of flasks (i.e., if the player has 5 estus flasks, gaining souls will not give you a sixth).
- Defeating an invader as the host gives you two of each Estus type. Defeating another player as any type of phantom gives you one of each Estus type.
- Every Estus flask upgrade yields less than the one before in recovery, this may be because it helps keep play somewhat balanced between a player who finds all the undead bone shards and one who only finds half of them, since the first half of the upgrades is a much more substantial boost than the latter half.
| Flask Level | HP Recovery | HP Recovery with Estus Ring | Increase in recovery from last level |
| +0 | 250 | 300 | - |
| +1 | 335 | 402 | 85 |
| +2 | 410 | 492 | 75 |
| +3 | 470 | 564 | 60 |
| +4 | 515 | 618 | 45 |
| +5 | 535 | 642 | 20 |
| +6 | 550 | 660 | 15 |
| +7 | 565 | 678 | 15 |
| +8 | 580 | 696 | 15 |
| +9 | 590 | 708 | 10 |
| +10 | 600 | 720 | 10 |
Trivia
- The Japanese translates to: "A glass bottle of dull green. A treasure of the Undead. / Accumulate estus at a bonfire and drink to restore HP. / Since ancient times, journeys of the Undead have been around bonfires. The Estus bottle was always part of the journey."
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it says that the max estus uses is 15, but i got up to 14 and it wouldn't let me reinforce anymore, i don't know why
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Please use estus. When im invading and seeing a noob chugging estus i know its a easy win I love pointing down on Casul scrub who use estus when they should git gud and use a pkcs instead. keep using estus cuz us pkcs users will keep pointing down on you and throwing 6 or 7 dung pies at you Casuls. your lkss won't help because pkcs is the best weapon and all your ganking friends are cheap "estus scrubs" as well lol
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Yes, indeed, it is called Estus
Where the pee of the Firekeeper is kept
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Would soul-increasing methods (Silver Serpent Ring, Shield of Want, etc.) affect the hidden bar's speed?
Most overpowered item in the game, by far. It literally gives free HP; there's no reason the devs shouldn't have taken this thing out by now smh
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Got all the way to the Dancer before I realised I could upgrade my Estus to +8 with Undead bone shard, did them all on standard estus, no wonder I had to heal a lot.
does anyone know the total drinking speed (no estus cancel) in ds3 because I am trying to compare it to the drinking speed of a 110 AGL ds2 player
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one flask, or many? or a better question: how do you drink all that orange goodness through the helm you're probably wearing?
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"The player can carry 15 Estus Flasks total." Slayed Midir, end-game, have 13 (9+4), wth.
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What’s the maximum amount of Estus flasks you can have while invading someone because someone invaded me and healed 10 times I thought the maximum was 7
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Always remember kids, if the big guy from up the street who's jacked like a horse breaks your arm, just take a sip of Sunny D.
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what about when you kill an enemy and it gives you an estus flask back? what are the odds/chances of that to happen?
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how do I throw this item in the trash bin where it belongs?
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only carry a maximum of 15? NG + even if you get it, it cannot increase the number of estus flask. DS2 has many items to recover HP. when starting NG++ Estus Flask Shards become useless because it cannot be upgraded and the DS3 does not change. I wonder why they don't replace it with something more useful. Items to recover HP and MP are very stingy. In DS2 I use magic to travel and often exhaust items to restore MP.
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I can't seem to carry more than 10 estus flasks even after reinforcing and allocating them. I should have 12, but only 10 appear
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The Estus Flask +10 gains an increase in recovery from 15 rather than 10 from last level, assuming the HP recovery values are correct.
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A flask is a bottle, you aren't munching on glass containers to regen health, that would do the opposite. They should br called swigs or something. It's really bugging me >_<
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All locations because YT links are dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL8v0loXt30
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So I'm on NG+ right now, my Estus Flask is +9 with 14 charges (I don't have any Ashen charges, magic is for the weak), but I have 6 more Estus Shards and 3 Undead Bone Shards, which should be able to bring me up to a +12 flask with 20 charges. Will my extra shards just not work? Maybe if I never upgrade it to max, I can keep getting more shards, and then when I can get to 99 charges (+20 or further), I'll use them all. I'd probably have to get to at least NG+ 8 tho (It goes up to NG+ 99, right?)
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I believe that the Estus Flask only heals because when the undead drink it when wounded, the heat from the bonfire activates their cells to rejuvenate dead tissue. The hotter the bonfire (burning a undead bone shard) the more heat and the more cell activation
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seems in pvp some players can rinse faster which helps them stay alive easier.I have died many times just trying to replenish health and it seems agonizingly slow as it was in Bloodborne too.Is there a ring that speeds up the process
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Maybe due to a patch, or my luck of Luck based characters, but I've noticed a significant increase in how many times I'll randomly get a refill while playing. Anyone know if Luck directly affects it?
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Guys. Whenever you kill someone who invades you. You get +2 estus drinks. It's not random. You earn it for crushing someone. Also is it normal to have bonfire lvl 8 but estus +7 drinks? I think my game ate itself.
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Hey I have 15 Estus Flasks already, what happens if I reinforce it again... do I get extra uses for my alternate flask? or does it just do nothing?
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If I give him a total of 17 Shards could I have 15 Norm Estus and 2 Ashen?
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for some reason i get estus more frequently during invasions after you kill another player. i guess that boosts your chances of getting more estus flasks
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Hey, how to use estus flask? i'm already pressed all the buttons on my keyboard! Help!!!!!
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lol no wiki you dont get more flasks you just get more sips
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What if you just get a "random" refill when someone in the same general area as you dies in their own world. Since we can see phantoms from other peoples games, and you get refills when a phantom in the same world as you dies, it might at least be worth testing.
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Estus is Latin for 'heat'. We know the flame of bonfires heals the undead- I think this might be a poke towards the same fact. Undead carrying bits of heat around with themselves, to be used whenever injured and far from fire...
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So I have 15 Estus flasks, I have burnt all 10 undead boneshards but have not got my achievement for it. Is it because I did it offline? (I did it on Steam btw) Does anyone know how I get the achievment?
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I have noticed you are more prone to get estus in either flask if you have enough souls to level up; Also if you haven't beaten the area boss too. I play as a luck build cuz i am 1/4% irish...
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hi,i have an annoying bug where i can't get new estus flasks even tho i have estus shards it always tells me that i don't have any I'm playing the game with 3 *****ing flasks and after a few weeks it gets anonying to die cause i can't heal myself
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so according to this chart, it's only ever significant to get your flasks to +4 or +5 since healing is improved by nearly 300hp from unupgraded flask (nearly 350hp with the Estus ring) while +6 to +10 upgrades only get you a pitiful 75hp increased healing (<100hp with Estus ring)
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To be tested : I played several runs and never witnessed a random refill of an Estus Flask, ever. Then, I started a luck based build, and that's when I witnessed random refills, like, quite often. I have 30 luck right now with this character.
I'm currently on a pure faith character and I've gotten at least one extra flask just from standing around. I feel like I've gotten more without killing but I can't say for sure.Moreover, I wonder if it's got anything to do with stats or levels, because I'm getting substantially more refills on my cleric than I got with my tank. I'm around level 30 now and I'm pretty sure I've gotten more refills now than my tank has ever gotten and he's 120 and farming covenant items before going into NG+.It was especially noticeable during the deacons boss fight. I was somehow getting estus flasks faster than I could consume them.
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I think it may be related to the amount of souls required to level up.In my experience, if I need 2000 souls to level up, I will gain an Estus refill when I kill enough enemies to give me 2000 new souls. As I gain more and more levels, this requirement will increase from 2000 to 2500 and so on up to over 25000 souls or whatever in the endgame.However, it seems to ignore soul-giving items and selling to NPCs, so it gets out of sync with your actual next level requirement as displayed in the stats.
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Frequency of refils seems to have randomness to it maybe the luck stat?Bigger enemies are more likely to give you a drop.Getting hit a lot seems to slow down rate of refils, like receiving damage to refill bar.Ashen estus recovers from casters only?
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The article states "It's possible to refill estus flasks by killing enemies. There is a hidden gauge filled by souls of fallen enemies (player doesn't need to kill the monsters themselves). For every +1000 souls you recieve, you recover one of your consumed estus flask uses. Side note: you cannot recover more than your maximum number of uses. i.e., if you have 5 estus flasks, gaining 1000 souls will not give you a sixth.." Later in the game enemies drop thousands of souls. And I'm definitely not even getting one estus flask per enemy, let alone one for every 1000 souls.
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i got all 11 shards and the Ash Estus Flask but i only got 14
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As I'm farming the little knight that infinitely respawns near Dragon-Kin Mausoleum, every 3 to 5 times I kill him, my estus gets refilled by 1 use.I can't replicate or guess exactly when the refill occurs, but it always happens. For each time I kill the knight, I get 7,920 souls on NG. (silver ring, mimic head, shield of want all equipped) so the '1000' souls idea is way off. There certainly IS a 'hidden mechanic' that triggers the refill, but I need more time to figure exactly what makes it happen.
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what does it mean "When you reach your souls +1000, you gain a use up to your maximum number of uses"?what is "my souls" in this situation?
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I don't really use FP so I try to equip all my estus flasks to hp and I have 9 but can only equip 6 to my hp. Any ideas why this happens
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Went through half the game not being able to figure out how to actually upgrade Estus, only to get more with Andre. Finally figured it out, upgraded to +6 right away. Sweet release
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When summoned, what determines the number of estus for phantoms?
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if its like all the other soul game you get one more charge for ppl rating your warning message.
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I'm not sure if i'm the only one as i thought it was a glitch. But often i'll use my last flask then kill some baddies and i have more in my estus. It really saved me fighting the abyss watchers.
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Me and several of my jolly cooperators have noticed an effect where we have used up all our estus, and after a couple of kills (PVE) an estus flask refills. It is currently unknown what the parameters for this refill are or if it is possible to recover more than one estus flask.
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i was wondering what the maximum amount of estus flasks possible to obtain in the game even through new game cycles is?
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What is the starting number of estrus flasks? I'm at 4 after defeating the first boss. I read I should have 5(?).
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i was just wondering if you receive more estus flasks or less depending on the starting class you pick
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I often wonder what estus tastes like. Fans say Sunny D but I doubt it! Lol!I remember from an old Doctor Who episode that Estus had something to do with warmth and stimulated rejuvenation...also it was very sweet like honey or something. It's the Tom Baker episode where he runs into the Sisterhood of the Sacred Flame and some evil time lord. I could also be confused for I haven't seen it in YEARS! Lol!
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I had collect all 11 estus shard but my trophy till not show up :'(
I can't seem to figure out drinking speeds for multiple flasks. Meaning it seems like if you drink 2 back to back the animation of the 2nd flask is much faster, since you don't have to actually pull the flask out and raise it to your lips, and instead just takes a big double gulp. Is this correct?
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