Lothric Knight | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

These have an almost identical move set to the Leyndell Knights in ER but these are much faster. diagonal slash > horizon slash > thrust. shield bash > thrust. these enemies are very easy to get behind and backstab since they lack wind up attacks and no lightning strike AOW.

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Used to hate these guys due to their insane aggression, infinite stamina and practically non-stop attacking... Until I started using the Fume Ultra Greatsword, much easier to deal with when you can make pancakes out of their stupid infinite stamina having asses

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drops: knight set

seems legit

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Fighting spear knights be like:
>"oh wow a spear and shield enemy I can backstab him after they him im sure"
>try to get them from the shield side
>instant shield bash
>"guess ill try from the other side"
>dodge spear hit
>instant shield bash
>"guess ill try parrying"
>spear has a .3 nanosecond parry window, parry fails
>"guess I'll try rolling behind them"
>manage to get behind their back
>backstab hitbox disappears, hit them a single time
>turns around at lighting speed, blocks your second hit
>starts charging attack
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>try to get behind him as quickly as possible
>knight spins over itself while charging, unbreakable poise, thin spear's hitbox turns into a train
>try to roll away, fail, get hit for 1.000.000 points of damage

Every. Single. Time.

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For the shield wielding ones, always roll to the left (your left). If you roll behind them on their shield side they will backhand ***** slap you with their great shield.

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Red eye knight right outside Emma's room can rarely drop Refined gems, happy hunting!

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I loved learning these so much - I farmed their set & used it for the rest of DS3 despite not being op.

I might even go play through again just for these knights.

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I love these guys, so badass, yet so common

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The red eyed one is a ****

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These guys are really weak to ice, the blue one will take about 7 hits from something like, the irithyyl sword if you haven't reinforced yet, maybe three more.

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God, I wish we've got the royal guard version of the armor, with open visor. Their stats can be a bit different, like for example the red ones are more resistant to lightning because they ride dragons and the blue ones are more resistant to magic because they need to defend the princes from assassins who are likely be trained in sorceries (spook, chameleon, etc.)

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The spear and shield one is unironically my least favorite enemy in this game, up there with teleporting dogs.

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One combo 3 shot. 1.200 HP and med armour. DS3 is the most uninspired. Hard for the sake of being hard. Except it's not hard, it's TEDIOUS.

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The sword variant subliminally teaches you "the" basic straight sword combo: R1 R1 R2. They will also sometimes do a second R2, which curiously is the Longsword upswing rather than the LKSS's second thrust.

Sword knights are an excellent enemy, they closely mirror what a player could do with their equipment, and are a great payoff for practicing parrying early on. The greatshield knights, on the other hand... Try to kick the shield, the instant you wind up they drop block, and you just kinda kick them, then they stab you. Their quick shield bash and sweeping lance attacks are things players can't do but perfectly shore up the weaknesses of the spear/shield combo, making them frustrating.

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Kind of boring and frustrating to fight. If you play with a shield they're pretty easy, but if you're playing a 2-hand build and trying to dodge around them it's a pain. They'll poise through most of your combos and stomp you. Easy mode = hold up your shield and strafe around them.

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Sword knights are one of my favorite enemies ever. They teach you the R1R1R2 longsword combo, and are a great payoff for learning how to parry early on. The other variants do things players can't, like sweep with a Lothric long spear, that obnoxious shield bump, or do 4000 damage with a LKGS R1

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Does their HP regen when they use the "blessed pine resin"?

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**** the greatsword variant it's the most bullshit knight enemy can't even be parried and has the potential to do 80% of your hp in 1 hit even with ember

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A questionable weapon art style; Shield Bash with Lothric Knight Shied? & even defensive against flanking how player can't even has one

Royal Guard Greatswordsman; fair enough, the same poise hits + reasonable 'Souls Value' somewhat enjoyable in Melendez batting without throwing items

But come out with patrol guards, don't blame for crossbowing, throwing knife or falling at elevator room

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This is unironically my favorite "normal enemy" in the whole FromSoftware SoulsBorne series, except for the shield version, that one can suck my ass

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I like how the versions with the sword and shield actually make you have to get good and find their attack patterns and learn to avoid and punish their attacks, while the one with the spear and greatshield basically make you have to play by the boring way that they made you fight in DS1 where all you do is parry, backstab, or kick and that's literally it. Proof that the greatshield and spear variants are terrible and they shouldn't have been added, or at least tweaked so they weren't so goddamn annoying

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Ran a test to see the exact drop chances (100 kills, first bonfire at Lothric Castle, the sword knight):
Had 11 Luck in stats and NO item discovery boosters (sage sword,avarice,golden serpent ring,coins).
The chances below are the RECORDED (items/100 kils),not base:

Armor pieces : 9%
Swords : 10%
Crossbows : 11%
Shields : 4%
Large Titanite Shard : 100%
Titanite Chunk : 5%
Ember : 2%

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100 kills (I died 6 times :/) (with Silver Serpent Ring +0, 275'000 souls)
9 armor pieces (300 souls each)
10 swords (500 souls each)
11 crossbows (500 souls each)
4 shields
100 Large Titanite Shits
5 Titanite Chunks (At kills : 16,28,???,62,91)
2 Embers (1'000 souls each)

Got sword+crossbow at kills number: 26,95

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i find it funny the ones guarding lothric courtyard haven't noticed their mate pissing in the corner

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**** the spear variant and everything it does.
you move? you get shield bashed by a turtle
you attack? you get shield bashed by a turtle
you kick? you get shield bashed by a turtle
you ****ing exist? you get shield bashed by a turtle

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Do they not drop anything if they are killed from a parry attack or a deflect

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Amazing to farm after defeating Vortd of the boreal valley. red knights give you about 300 souls and blue cloak gives you 1300 with coveteus silver ring. Using a claymore to 3 shot them at 2+ would take even less hits with higher reinforcement.

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They are not hard but annoying to fight against due to their high poise and instant switch between normal state and hyperarmor.

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They are not weak against lightning, thats actually their highest resistance. But dark works very well of course. Fire is ok as well

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The first time facing the first lothric knight "Hell yeah welcome to blood souls baby!".

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"Lord Lothric may have been based on Berserk's Griffith"
This has nothing to do with the subject of the article, the Lothric Knights, and his name isn't Lord Lothric, it's Prince Lothric. Can we ****ing stop making names up?

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If someone is planing on farming Sunlight medal/Ember, go to the lothric castle bonfire, equip Great chaos fire orb with great swamp ring and witch's ring with all the stuff (SoA, Cgsr +2/3 Sage rapier, rusted coin) and 2-4 shot them

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I'm pretty casul, I've only a few days of experience with dark souls 3 and I've honestly got to admit that I didn't see the fuss with these guys until lothric castle (which, then, it definitely made sense), albeit the ones in high wall are more along the lines of simply something you have to be cautious around, not try to go ham on it, because that's a good way to get yourself killed. They're actually really fun challenges that tests the player against a new enemy variant with a changed up moveset vs. the usual broken sword hollows and knife tossing hollows.

I like these guys, in other words

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Coolest enemy in the dark dark souls series. Hell Artorias ain’t even as cool as these fellas.

They are only second to the Cathedral Knights though. They brawl like badasses.

Srs tho. Really cool enemy. The lore, the mettle they wear. Truly an awesome enemy.

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Take his load then gankalank him.

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Everybody gangsta until lothric knight takes his stance. Seriously though the thrust comes so fast it's not reflex but luck if you will dodge it.

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Lothric Knights at Lothric Castle also can drop Lightning Gems i just got one from Dragon Barracks bonfire from the greatsword wielding lothric knight

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My first encounter with them on the High Wall was devastating. On first seeing the knight I thought- oh this must be this games variant of the Black Knight from Dark Souls 1, and tried following my tried and true strategy of backstabs and parries. The moment the Knight lunged back and bashed his shield behind him, breaking my guard was when I realized just how naive I was. Being used to the slower and much weightier combat of DS1, I couldn't parry a single attack either lol.

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It is so worth grinding for their armor and weapons in early game. It is a great early game armor set

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easiest way to defeat them is to use shield

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The day I stopped expecting from enemies and creatures to behave with the same rules and limitations of a player character was the day I fell in love with these guys.

They do have infinite stamina, yes but they also have limitations like 1)no passive poise, 2)parriable VS the player which by that time in the game is a living arsenal of destruction(resins, infusions, magic, items of all kind, etc).

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All the Lothric knight Weapons Scale with Dex, (except the crossbow), Winged knight weapons scale with Strength, Hundreds of Lothric knight corpses all over HW and LC, only 1 WK corpse at highwall, Conclusion, STR > DEX

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Try Rapport and enjoy together time xD

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Even tho I killed the thousand of times, they are still my most hated enemies, Imo hardest knight except Outriders... But that makes them kinda cool... But the range of that WA thrust is pure bs cmon :D Also the fact that on the beggining of the game, damn you WANT to be that guy so much, but Mr. M made their armor super heavy, sword req. 18 dex, shield 18 str, so you just cry, coz you really can just run in armor and deserter pants acting like you look so dope XD

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Xd why is the lothric knight hard to beat

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I found an awesome strat for cheesing these guys, first step is you need to git gud, ...that's it lol

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My favorite thing to do is cosplay as a lothric knight with the war banner, with my two buddies and have a trio of lothric knights destroy everything and everyone

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Where is the info for the knights in the dreg heap

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listen, these guys can be tough, i know. but don't complain. learn how to deal with them, fix your build, and get going. if you can't get over these guys, you'll won't even make it through irithyll...

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What am I doing wrong that I cannot fight these guys? The spear and shield variant mind you. I keep trying to parry--but only can half do it--and thus lose half my health doing so. I end up losing all my estus, and then die because for one: they hold their shield up even at distance so no throwables, they smack me when I try and sneak behind them. I literally just cannot fight that singular one before the room where you get the Broadsword and the Estus Shard, as well as the key for Greirat for context.

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I've found using the Cestus, both hands, running direct at them, L1 from a distance then just spam L1 (break shield in 3 hitsish) then just wail on them.

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In-game definition of an unfair fight.

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It's gonna be fun farming for sunlight medals because I'm too broke to buy ps plus and go online

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Coolest enemy in the game

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Im glad that their poise is non-existant, these could have been as strong as Black Knights

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I hated these guys too until I myself became a Lothric knight defending the castle from the casual player who just goes where they please

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they look like drakeblood knights from dark souls 2 dlc

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The sword and shield guys also look like the knight from the box art for Super Ghouls'n Ghosts.

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there are 16 versions of this enemy. sword, spear, sword clean armour, spear clean armour, red eye sword, red eye spear, red eye greatsword, royal sword, royal spear, royal greatsword, scholar sword, scholar spear, scholar greatsword, corrupted sword, corrupted warnabber, corrupted greatsword

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I like how these guys are able to recover from a full stagger before I am able to chain the next hit. 10/10 game.

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RIP my strenght build with fire buff.

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"Mr. Miyazaki, should we give the castle knights infinite stamina?". Mr. M: "***** yeah, do it". "What about recovery time?". Mr. M: "Zero". "..." Mr. M: "And make them able to attack as they're getting up". "And the players?" Mr. M: "What about them?" "Should we give them any of those advantages?" Mr. M: "***** no, that would be unbalanced!"

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these guys are so cool, they figured out the infinite stamina glitch. If only I were so cool... .l.

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The wording makes it sound as if the Blues are the only ones to use Blessed Weapons even though I watched a Red Greatsword wielder buff his weapon and slap my friend back to the bridge. To clarify, it also wasn't a red-eye variant.

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i think i will just use hidden body spook and run through them

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Sword users have very telegraphed stab/running attacks, and the rest are easy to time with practice. THE SPEAR GUYS HOWEVER

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I got a blessed gem from one of them

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I did my heavy enemy parry training on these knights, as one of there attacks is very easy to parry for the critical hit, especially effective using one of the shields with the extended parry frames as well as equipping the hornet ring, and you can riposte the hell out of these guys for major damage, and using a sword that they are weak to is really great as well. Even at new game +3, I am able to two hit the red eyed knights and one hit the normal lothric knights using the blessed target shield to parry, the hornet ring and then quickly switching to the chaos dagger for the critical hit, makes these guys kinda a joke as long as it's a one on one fight. Although I do not recommend trying to parry the knights that rock the great shield and spear. Instead us a weapon that does a guard break and after a few hours of practice, you will never have an issue with these guys ever again, useless you get double teamed or you are just not that gud at the game.

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Little tip they have very poor poise and can be stun lock by weapons with descent knockback

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Everyone remembers the first time you see this guy walk out of the building next to the dragon and just s*** yourself

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every time i see this guy all i can think of is the, oh mywamu mu shidaharu meme

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If You're planning on farming Sunlight Medals the Hollowslayer Greatsword is the way to go, stunlock with 2H works just fine.

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Curious that they're weak to lightning?

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I wish you could get the blue Lothric Knight set, I just think it would look neat

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Some notes about the spear-wielding versions of these guys... Spear hitbox comes out very early so parrying them is ass. Siderolling doesn't work very well because of the nonexistent recovery, they can just shieldbash you during recovery. If they walk up on you when you're at a wall it's actually possible for you to get clipped inside of them, which is very bad because they will continuously shieldbash you and your attacks will whiff them. Drop rate on long spear is really high. I got three of them in 40 minutes off the one by Emma.

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Okay, but what are the drop rates/chances of dropping items? This wiki is terrible about being informative.

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Most badass enemies

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The one near the Sunlight altar just dropped me a lightning gem

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At first they're you're enemy, then they become your dance partner, as you both spin around each other with raised shields, fishing for backstabs and openings.

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My first character got the lothric straight sword after 3 rounds of farming. Second character rolls around. Been 30 runs boys. I have 4 full sets of armour but no sword...

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with red eye in Lothric Castle he will drop lightning gem

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i wish you could see the stats of the enemys so you could mimic them

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the fucking spear guys are the absolute worst. just spam after spam after spam from these guys

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Frieda's scythe's WA attacks destroy these guys

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For Lothric Castle the greatsword red eye variety also drop lightning gems and the spear/greatshield red eye variety also drop refined gems

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The medal drop rates on these guys >.> wish my internet wasn’t trash

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These guys may be affected by Rapport, but they still go after you.

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High Wall ones are pretty good enemies for practice parrying against straight swords, given they deal low damage (in comparison to the rest of the game), and the fact they use the Lothric Knight Sword.

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The normie knights at High Wall of Lothric can also drop an ember. Just gone one at the Tower on the Wall Knight.

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Not to be a whiner; but can we get rid of the move where the Greatsword ones can take about 12 freaking steps before dealing ~1000 damage with an R2?

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The one next to lothric castle bonfire is the best way to farm souls... in ng+ he drops 10k souls with symbol of avarice and the +3 ring and he is just sitting 5 meters away from the bonfire...of course it is easier with casters.. I two shot him with sunlight spear reload and repeat.. takes me 5 to 7 seconds to do it.. could work with other spells too I guess

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https://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Lothric+Knight+Greatshield

Greatshield links misspell Lothric (as Lothic), so use this link or correct the link (by adding a R) to get to the page.

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what talisman do the royal guard use I want to make a cosplay and I want it to be perfect

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I’ve killed about 30 of these chumps with 477 item discovery, and not one sunlight medal. I’m mostly killing the one right by the sunlight statue/altar. Those are the right ones, right?

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The ones at Lothric Castle can also drop Lightning Gems, got dropped one why I was trying to get a LKGS.

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They were my bane, in my first playthrough (along with the *****ing Jailers) but eventually I got good enough with parrying....now they're my *****es

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The info tables for the 2 variants are switched

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FROMSOFT WHY U NO ADD BLUE CLOCK ARMOR IN DS3?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?

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Are these knight undead ? If yes why ?

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Fun fact: despite not being regular human like enemies, these things can climb ladders. Have fun running away from them on an aggression mod run.

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will the knights in the High Tower drop the sword? i spent a couple hours today farming and nothing, although plenty of greatshields, spears, armor and embers

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