Should i farm souls in dark souls

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Sterno Sterno I've been going through a Soul Level 1 playthrough myself I did plenty to upgrade my armour, weapons and pyromancy flame! I replayed the game recently and the only grinding I did was about 30 minutes on barbarians in blight town because I wanted one of their clubs.

I still found it pretty easy to beat the game even the bonus DLC boss without having to stop and grind souls just to get past a difficult area. Though as another answer said, I guess if you die left and right and keep losing all your souls, you might need to do some grinding.

Ravekner Ravekner 1, 7 7 silver badges 12 12 bronze badges. Mihait Mihait 1. Morinar Morinar 2, 2 2 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. It sort of does. It is definitely not necessary. Simple proof: Visit Oswald of Carim Buy a copy of the book of sinners Have a look and see what level many of the top ranking people, many are level 1 or level 7 That being said, Dark Souls is exceptionally challenging.

Code Whisperer Code Whisperer 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 10 10 bronze badges. However you might descide to build for pvp or just don't have the gear to push through. But obviously farming is unnecessary. One of the fastest and most rapid places to grind is at the frozen gates of Anor Londo , just near the bonfire at the top of the spinning elevator. Running up to the top of the stairs will let you face two knights with a sword and spear each, who can be killed quite easily with backstabs or through being knocked off the stairs.

The reason this area is so easy is that you also get reliable item drops from them, which can include anything from equipment to various forms of titanite.

One of the optional areas some players might not find at first is the Smouldering Lake, which can be accessed by breaking and climbing down the bridge next to the boss room for High Lord Wolnir. Past the small temple is a large field of mud with a titanic worm and crossbow firing at you, trying to block you from tons of bodies full of consumable soul items. Lying near the worm is also the Shield of Want, an extremely effective shield that also raises all the souls you get from killing enemies and bosses, making it a great item for those looking to grind elsewhere.

If you want to quickly kill a large number of tiny enemies, the Profaned Capital has you covered. There are tons of zombified priests around this area that can only strike with slow fireball attacks, all of which can be quickly dodged to kill them in only a few hits. Another valuable space to collect souls is by the Church of Yorshka in Irithyll of the Boreal Valley. The Church, as well as the Pontiff Sulyvahn bonfire, will give you access to several tall frozen guards and priests with flaming spears that are mostly spread out, meaning you can backstab and swing at them incredibly fast before running back to a variety of different bonfires.

Occasionally they will leap over the edge and get stuck, but at that point they are harmless and to be ignored.

If all goes well you will kill the legion and the 4 crows. Next you can run down the spiral stair cases to fight the knight but this is risky. Usually after the crows the legion is about to die from the poison so returning to bonfire or fighting the knight is up to you. Once you have defeated the boss and understand her techniques you should be ready to fight her repeatedly and win.

Simply place your sign near the bonfire and if you are in the proper level range, I farmed to over 1 million souls at level 75, getting summoned at an average waiting time of 30 seconds to 8 minutes. The thing that's tricky to get people to understand is that you MUST kill King Jeremiah before the boss, otherwise they are screwed. The trouble is your average player doesn't even know about the existence of King Jeremiah the invader.

Enticing them is a good idea, and on the PSN this isn't too complicated as the message system recognizes your previous word sequences. I would simply go under "players met" and from there scroll to the top to find the player who had summoned me. Lead them to bottom of the area where the two items are, letting them grab the items if they haven't already, then head back toward the stairs.

The Xanthous King Jeremiah will invade at that point. Note : I'm not sure if this yields 30k souls for the human player but I'm positive it does for a phantom. From there, lead them to the boss either through the last door if they have already opened it or up and under the undead dragon. Getting past the lower half of the Undead dragon is simple. Just do a leaping attack by pushing forward and R2 at the same time.

He'll stand up and you can drop down only suffering minimal damage. From there simply lead them past the large knight and to the boss. Also, if you are wearing the Covetous Silver Serpent Ring it will make your farming go quite a bit faster.

Praise the Sun! This will be necessary to make sure you receive just shy of 20, souls for each run. Make sure you have firestorm equipped, along with a strong weapon that will do more than necessarily brutal R2 attacks. Start from the bonfire, running right up to the first gate make sure you have already opened it and kill the undead with a quick R2 attack. You will gain bonus souls for doing a major hit, probably over points in damage.

From there, quickly switch to your pyromancy flame and sprint to the phalanx-type collection of enemies and cast firestorm as close as you can to them. If done perfectly it will kill all of them or close to all of them. Quickly finish off any stragglers for the souls. Now, sprint back to the gate and kill the remaining two undead with a strong R2 attack as well and then right back to the bonfire. The benefit of this type of farming is that it can be done extremely quickly, offline, and in contrast to the above technique you don't have to wait to be summoned.

I calculated the total number of souls based on an average time of 50 seconds and the result is around 1,, souls per hour of straight farming. In the watery area below most of the pinwheel servants, there are skeleton babies that spawn in packs of Each baby gives you souls each with the Covetous Silver Serpent Ring and they respawn about seconds after you have killed them.

I suggest farming them around a ramp, because only 1 or 2 of them follow you up the ramp and you'll have time to heal if you get into some trouble. The babies die in 1 hit They have about health each.

I personally suggest that you use a weapon with a long reach such as a spear because the babies still do a bit of damage, but once you get the hang of it, you won't be hit very often. If you use the Evil Eye ring, you will more than likely out heal their damage, unless you let yourself get hit a lot. The main benefit of this strategy is that you don't have to run back and forth to a bonfire, you can continue farming these babies until the end of time. As an added benefit, the babies also have a chance of dropping humanity.

Go to the last bonfire before Nito and rest, leave the bonfire and go up the path killing the first skeleton beast on the way forget about the skeleton sword in there , then, walk down the path and run until you see three skeletons beast on the way, kill them and head back to the bonfire, basically you need to kill each one with a single fireball.

Next, from the second bonfire, kill the skeleton beast and the giant skeleton with Crystal Soul Spear of course. Keep moving forward and you will see 3 skeleton beast, target the first one and move to the right so u can line up 2 of the beast, and use crystal soul spear, it should go through and kill the second one, and use your last one to kill the remaining beast. Since the bonfire is very near you wont need to homeward back. The first 2 enemies should net you exactly souls, and the 3 beast making exactly souls.

After collecting the Lordvessel, speaking with either primordial serpent, proceeding to the antechamber of the Kiln of the First Flame, and collecting all of the four lord souls you can begin your farming. Set your spawn at the Lordvessel bonfire, you'll be given 20 Estus for the area, and open the door. This is where you'll begin your run. From the bonfire run directly down the staircase and follow the pathway, taking as much time as you need to appreciate the scenery.

After killing the Halberd Black Knight and collecting the blue titanite that drops use the Homeward Miracle or Bone to return to the Lordvessel and restart your run, note that you don't need to rest at the Lordvessel unless you need Estus as the Homeward effect acts as an area reload.

For the cloaked npc's in the darkroot garden, you can just get their attention 1 by 1 and lure them to the cliff's edge. Then just position yourself so that the enemy is closer to the cliff and pull a Patches on them by kicking them off. Eeeerrrmm… Just use the soul dupe glitch works on console and on latest patch. You use a stack of from each soul. So doing this with the soul of a great hero gives you EZ Max level Can also be done with humanity.

And there is also a glitch which lets you creat stacks of 99 for every item, even covenant items. Just google it, i thought this is common knowledge at this point. I spent a lot of time in the depths. I used it for titanite farming, with varying degrees of success, but also humanity farming and getting evil eyes. Players struggling with these murderous knights should aim to dodge behind their swings and go for the backstab.

Alternatively, magic users will find both Hidden Body and Rapport to be very useful when dealing with these lethal opponents. While the Corvian Settlement is alright for the purposes of soul farming, there is another area in the Ashes of Ariandel DLC that is a bit more efficient.

The twisting paths just ahead of the Snowy Mountain Pass bonfire are full of enemies that are much easier to kill than the ruthless Corvian Knights. The terrain in this area allows players to effectively separate the roaming groups Farron Followers so they can be picked off one at a time.

These enemies have a range of different weaponry and attacks however, they are all vulnerable to being stun locked. A powerful strength weapon at the right level will be able to regularly kill these enemies in a single shot. After exiting the Church of Yorshka out the main entrance and turning left, the player can drop attack a Boreal Immolator and proceed to fight their way up to the fog gate for Pontiff Sulyvahn.

After killing the two Boreal Knights near the fog gate, the player can optionally lay their summon sign down for Pontiff Sulyvahn, one of the game's hardest bosses, possibly yielding more souls if they help kill him. Directly opposite the boss arena is a ledge the player can fall off to kill one more knight and exit at the staircase back to the Church.

This loop is small which makes it very efficient for quickly generating a large number of souls. Very close to the Distant Manor bonfire is a half-submerged chamber beneath Irythill full of Sewer Centipedes. These monstrous, insectile creatures look like drowned ladies until they attack making them an unpleasant surprise for unsuspecting players. Despite their nightmarish appearance, they are relatively easy to kill, especially with a strong dexterity weapon.

There are nine centipedes waiting to ambush the player in this area and it is necessary to try and draw them one at a time to avoid being overwhelmed. By repeatedly killing the whole room and running back to the bonfire, the player will quickly rack up a hefty soul count. Killing the Jailers and Gargoyles outside the boss arena for Yhorm the Giant is an easy way to gather souls.

Since Yhorm is one of the less challenging bosses in the game, unlocking his bonfire will make this run very quick and profitable.