Hollowing | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

ngl for certain armor sets the hollowed look fits better, looking like you are worn out together with your armor is quite underrated

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Just when I think this game can't become any worse, it reaches a new level of garbage.

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the things going hollow will do to cursed characters... i made a hilariously creepy character by moving all sliders in character select all the way to to the right (works in ER too for about the same result) and then when i got hollowed my eyes faded over completely orange-brown (they were originally completely white) for some reason lol i kinda love it

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accidentally went to catacombs before talking to this dude in firelink, still gonna do my luck build tho

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Don't care about going hollow, with that Cathedral Knight Helm I'm not gonna see my face either way

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Wish I'd read this before paying the Firekeeper 372K souls.

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Cost me half a million to clear my dark sign, just so I could take a pop at yuria.

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i noticed i have 99 hollowing on ng+

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Fashion is the goal of this game so since this makes you ugly this is the only real game over

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lol I completely skipped this in my entire playthrough. Didn't even notice it was a mechanic in the game.

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Can I still get the silvercat ring and untrue dark and white ring in NG+ if ive removed hollowing? I'm going to assume I'm not able to, but just want a confirmation.

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They’re no downsides to for hollowing, only thing is you just look ugly.

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If you remove your hollowing through the firekeeper or the purging monument at your character's max level, you will never be able to acquire dark sigils again, preventing you from ever having Yuria spawn in your game. This in turn prevents your from being able to get the "usurpation of fire" ending and you'll never be able to benefit from hollow infusions.

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I liked that they made the covenant icon more hollow and dead like and I like it when you are max hollow it looks like it is even more dead it makes you feel hollow

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Hollowing should make the hollowslayer greatsword deal more damage to you. It would be a cool detail.
And if you don’t want that happening to you but still want to do the questline, purging stone.

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So what are the downsides?

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It's funny scrolling though these comments after so many years, The further down I read the more confused I get.

You would think there'd be an official answer by now, not just for this but for so many things throughout this trilogy, Isn't there an official guide/dev statements out there. What about the data miners!? I need facts lol

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The +5 damage increased for being hollow with hollow weapon, is not worth it for fashion wise, unless wear clothing covering whole body.

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i've done yoel's quest, and died a few times since and now i'm at 99 hollowing. is this normal or is this some kind of glitch that will magically make me OP when i can finally hollow my bleed weapon?

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Can anyone tell me if hollowing increases the dps for chaos fire? ; seething chaos, chaos fire orb, bed vestiges etc etc

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I wished Hollowing wasn't just free five levels and that it granted more of a unique access to abilities or interactions on par to being turned into a Beastman or Squidman from Bloodborne, or affected your stats more akin to Dragon form.

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This page should try to explain what being hollow actually means before going in to the multiple details within details and their side paths. And just now I saw that this question has been asked in the comments for years and no one still bothered to see it as relevant information to write about. I'm done with these cryptic **** games with their bullshit and anal tryhard nerd calculator circlejerking ******* players. I hope Elden Ring sucks big balls with its same boring copy paste design since Demon's Souls.

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why does the player hollowing model have to look so trash

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nooooo, there actually IS hollowing in ds3 nooooo

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The looks of being a hollow reminds me of those ghouls in Fallout 4.

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can u become hollow mid game?

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Looks like a stimulant binge feels lmao

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I remember searching this up elsewhere and it said the higher ur hollowing was the lower the chances of finding others (a.k.a summons and being summoned) are. Mam idk what to believe anymore.

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So is there really any disadvantage to being hollow? other then the fact that you look like beef jerky

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when you cancell yuria's questline by removing the dark sigils anri will die anyways, other person will marry her and she will die anyways, when you reach the room she is already dead with the sword in the face. the wiki dont mention this, so if you want to get the other ending to anri's questline then kill yuria or the pilgrim in chameleon form

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So is being hollow good or bad???? Should I use the purging stone?

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Is the bleed build up stronger if you are hollow?

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what would happen if one were to get just one dark sigil from yoel? would you later on have to pay the 5 levels, or just 1?

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What the hell is going on with your eyes when you are hollowed? I don't get what this suppose to be, it looks like skin would be over your eyes.

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I wish there was a dark souls 4

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Finish a playthrough and get the usurpation of fire ending. Use a leftover purging stone the next playthrough and the hollowing womt come back since the sigils are gone. No where do I see this mentioned.

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When i started DS3 and died, i was confused, since in the previous titles that made you look like beef jerky, then i found out about this...

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The new full screen ads on this website are *****ing atrocious and making me consider never visiting this site again. I got three of them in the middle of typing this message! Maybe they're based on number of taps? Either way, it's *****ing bull*****

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Do I get the bonus luck while I'm embered?

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How do you get dark sigils when you're already at lvl 99 hollowing with no dark sigils?

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So is there no downside to being hollowed, other than your dilapidated appearance? DS and DS2 would take away health when hollowed, but that doesn't seem to be the case with DS3. The damage boost of the hollow-salyer greatsword doesn't even effect pvp, so why not be hollowed?

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So if I jump of a high place (upper part of shrine) with no souls and no ember, repeatedly, do I still get hollowing?

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while hollow there will be no NPC invasions. At least with 99 hollowing I'm sure of it

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is there really a downside to hollowing? i've looked, but I don't notice any difference

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It looks like I reach 15 Hollowing immediately, when I accidentally turn on a frontal camera of my phone

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I didn't even realize I was hollow untill ng+, and it was already capped

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Being hollow also increases the time it takes for effects to wear off. This won't be fun travelling through farron swamp.

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Can you become increasingly hollow, up to 15 without obtaining Dark Sigils?

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being hallowed has no negative effects except looking like u been in a bath for 12 hours

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Are there any negative impacts of being fully hollowed? Do you get less souls?

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To reverse Hollowing use a Purging Stone

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I'm having difficulty with a boss and was wondering if I can summon NPCs whilst hollow. Please weigh in. My Hollowing under my character stats reads 99.

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Removing hollowing should keep your dark sigils- hollow builds shouldn't be forced to look like beef jerky w/o a ring.

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It seems really crazy that weapons like the hollow slayer sword doesn't do more damage against hollowed players in pvp, or has this been tested?

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so what does the hollowing do?? (every negative and positive impact pls)

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Can I be hollow without the dark sigils in order to gain more luck stats?

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I dont understand how you can not be hollow with 15 or more hollowinv points? "Note that Hollow-infused weapons will not give their Luck bonus if you are not hollow, even if you have 15 or more hollowing." Question: If i have 40 on luck and 1+1 hollow weapon + shield in hands, and I buff the weapon with carthus rogue which gets scaled from luck does it work better?

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I thought you lose the dark Sigils after ng and the hollowing resets?

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To the people who never played DS1/DS2: Be grateful that there really aren't any drawbacks to hollowing in this game lol

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Curing the sigil is a complete waste of souls, just commit to getting the bad end for that NG, start a NG+, and you don't have to worry about hollowing ever again because you'll lose your sigils for free at the start of the NG+ Unless you LIKE paying 2m souls for nothing

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Hollowing does pretty much nothing and does not negatively impact you, besides making your character look like a stick of beef jerky or something you'd buy for your pet to chew on. The only impact it has is on Yuria's questline. If you get the free levels from Yoel, and then cure the dark sigil, the quest will end. Yuria will leave if you do not kill her before leaving firelink shrine when you cure it. This means you will not be able to get Darkrift or her Armor for that play through. Therefore, be sure to buy any items and kill her when you cure the dark sigil as they will not be available again until new game+. However, hollowing does not have an effect on any other questline. Alternatively, at 15+ Hollowing, hollow infused weapons and shields will provide +5 Luck, which is the primary damage stat hollow weapons scale with. This bonus is only applicable if the weapon is equipped, or visible on the character. For example: a sword and shield hollow infused will give +10 luck, whether you have one in each hand, or are two handing the sword with the shield on your back. However, filling the rest of your weapon slots with hollow infused daggers will not get you an extra 20 luck. Only the current weapon in each hand counts. So don't screw yourself on the bonuses by wielding one large weapon with nothing in the other hand.

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unlike other dark souls games, hollowing doesn't have any downsides besides making you look very dehidrated and your icon next to the healthbar is not so pretty. if you don't care about how the character looks naked you are better being hollowed because the luck is boosted with hollow weapons.

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Nowhere in this entire article, does it specify if Hollowing actually does anything. Who the ***** writes this?

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Rip ahri i feel sad for her and her companion

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Real shame they couldn't put more thought into this; would've been great if they'd turned this feature into something akin to Bloodborne's Insight or Demon's Souls' World and Character Tendency, but I guess FromSoft can only find inspiration under the auspices of Allfather Sony.

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if i go to ng+ will i be able to get 5 more levels from yoel or is that a one-time thing?

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So, if I'm not completely dumb, being hollow means not much in terms of gameplay. Only useful for the ending, the hollows weapons's damages and the Yuria's quest line? That's it?

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is this affect current player levels?, if i run a sl120 character, would it be 125?

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What if u only got 3 dark sigils then yoel dies?

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Wasn't the brand original a trick of Gwyn to suck humans dry of humanity to feed the flame? Beside the "chosen one mechanic"? Now it's all let the hero make his noble sacrifice and let the sun shine...but you do realise that this will produce more armys of living corpses right? That the flame will continue to suck out humanity of humans? The reason why there were so many heated discussion in DS1? If or if not the dark lord ending is a bad one or not? Because keeping the flame burning was a very questionable decision, too. It came with a very high price for humanity!

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My hollowing is at 56, is that a bad thing

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Quick question: does hollowing your character affect the story at all? I really like the look but I don’t want to mess up the game.

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Is it just me or does Hollowing look really cool if your wearing knightish armour

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What happens when you become hollow, does it do anything bad? Or is it just cosmetic?

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I CAN'T GO HOLLOW NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I DIE for some reason all my dark sigils go in my storage and now I can't go hollow

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What if I won't progress Yuria's questline and just keep being hollow, link the flame and then just use purging stone in NG+?

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how do i get more hollowing points?
and can i only have 5 levels?

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I don’t have a hollowing count and can’t get my free levels from Yoel does anyone know why this is happening and how to get my levels?

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(sorrt ik im a noob but) why bother with removing hollowing? i dont see the point as there arent any clear punishments for being hollow

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You become weak to the hollowslayer greatsword..mm

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Needs an edit in the section titled "Removing Dark Sigils and Hollowing." The cost isn't previous five levels. The cost is next five levels. You can test this by gaining one level from the pilgrim and check the cost to remove curse and next level at the fire keeper.

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So, not only do you get ADDED health when embered, but dying and hollowing have no real adverse effect on the game, you simply look like a zombie and thats it. Way to toss another core mechanic of the game along with sin. DS2>DS3 there I said it...

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Does hollowing work like in DS2 where u lose a certain percentage of HP at Full Hollow?

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Whats the whole point of dark sigils

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does this affects coop?

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MUH SHADOW!

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Something to note that is be eh important and should be on this page is "In terms of gameplay, if your hollowing level is above 15, weapons infused with a Hollow Gem will boost the player’s Luck attribute. A +10 Hollow weapon will give a +5 bonus to Luck, which can be doubled by dual-wielding..." (VG247.com)

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U can just buy the ring that allows u to keep ur hollow but also look human or spirit

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Does using hollowing and hollow gem weapons. And correlations

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If you care about your appearance so much, just get the ring that hides the hollowing

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What's the point of Hollowing? Apart from the obvious level increase.

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So can I just kill my self 10 times collect all 5 dark sigils buy dark hand kill yuria for the ashes and get motion blade then reverse it all with the fire keeper soul? Or is it not that easy?

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I went to velka and choose the dissolution to heal the hollowing when i only got 3 levels from Yoel. My question is will this mess with the storyline?

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The removal of your shadow and reflection when hollow isn't a bug, but a purposeful choice. Like many things in Dark Souls this relates to the convolution of time, as well as a whole new level of deterioration of hollows, you being a new, unique ashen hollow explains why this was not present in the previous titles. This trait is not present in the bosses because they are no longer bound by the hollow curse, if ever they were. I, frankly, see it as as evidence that you've become a paradox, as the fire that burned you to ash was the same fire which cures the curse, thus brandishing the curse once more turns you into something new, as such you become the dark lord. But as these games have always existed in a realm of cycles, with one ending explaining that even with the fire completely fading it will one day return, one must ask the question, are you the final chosen undead as well as the first cursed hollow?

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Curing my dark sigils is gonna cost me about 3 million souls. Is it this high because I leveled up more after my hollowing? Because I did the math and that doesn't count for the levels I got from yoel or my levels from where I am. Take it from me boys this***** ain't worth the levels at all. I wonder if it's better just to buy purging stones instead

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Hi all, does your character go back to human formula when starting ng+ or do you stay as a ugly shriveled up prune?

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what happense when you get hollowing to 100?

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When you don't die enough cause the game is too easy and you have better things to do than jump off a cliff a hundred times

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Hi friends!
Isn't hollowing how ugly your character is?

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My char don't have shadow. There is a way to fix it? Im level 130.

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