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Dangerous Chests

Not every treasure chest is as helpful as it seems. Sometimes, you'll get near one and find that it is actually a dangerous Mimic. Your best bet is to hack apart any chest you find, so that you can get a head start if it winds up having a life meter. However, another trick is to stand nearby, outside of potential striking range. Watch the chest closely for several seconds. If you see any movement, such as an opening and closing lid, that's your cue to get offensive.

Defeating Iudex Gundyr

Iudex Gundyr is the first Boss in the game. He is part of the tutorial section and quite easy to defeat. To start the fight, you must pull a spike out of his chest. Attack him immediately to take away a good chunk of health before he gets up. Approximately halfway through the fight, he will transform and get more aggressive. He is defenseless while transforming. His attacks can be parried with a shield, or simply dodge and try to get behind him. If you play as a sorcerer or pyromancer, keep your distance. You can also use your three estus flasks to refill health. You will get an achievement for defeating each of the eighteen Bosses.

Defeating Soul of Cinder

Soul of Cinder is the final story Boss. After defeating him, you can interact with the last bonfire (same place where you fight him) to trigger the game ending and start New Game+. He uses a variety of attacks and weapons that he is always switching around. A recommended strategy is to take Havel's Greatshield (any greatshield will do) and walk close to him in circles while blocking all attacks. After blocking his combo, attack him 1-2 times and block again. After a few hits, he will get stunned and you can take down a good chunk of his health. Just keep it slow and block, do one hit and repeat. In between his attacks, you should release [Block] so your stamina recovers quicker. When he uses magic, you can get up close to him and just attack. After his first health bar is gone, he gets more aggressive. His available attacks change slightly. He uses longer combos and throws lightning spears at you. When he uses lightning he is vulnerable -- that is when you should attack even if he hits you a few times. Roll away from him when he does the 5-hit sword combo with the big fire explosion. Everything else you can block with the shield. You just have to learn how to balance your stamina for this fight so you have enough to block, but also enough to get one hit in. Keep your equipment load below 70% to speed up stamina recovery. You should definitely put a few points in stamina before this fight.

Easy Uchigatana

If you want the Uchigatana katana, you'll have to defeat the master swordsman who wields it. You'll find him near the top of Firelink Shrine. However, you don't have to fight him fairly. You can ascend carefully to the rooftops and then run along them. You should see the swordsman, running along the base of the wall, hoping to duel. From your vantage point, you can safely take him down with shots from the Soul Arrow spell. Just make sure you don't run out of magic in the process, or you'll have to drop down and finish the job the old-fashioned way.

Finding Untended Graves secret area

To reach the Untended Graves secret area, you must defeat "Oceiros, the Consumed King" Boss. This is relatively late in the game. Oceiros is Boss thirteen of eighteen. There is also a bonfire in the Boss room which you can use to fast travel. Open the door where the Oceiros Boss fight took place and follow the path into the next room. There is a secret wall behind a chest (end of the room). Hit the wall to make it disappear. You can then drop down into the Untended Graves area and will get the "Untended Graves" achievement.

Firelink Shrine Trades

If you know what items to leave with the crow near Firelink Shrine, you can receive some nice rewards. Just keep track of what you provide as an offering, since you can only leave a particular offering once. The list below lists the items you can leave, along with their corresponding rewards.

Alluring Skull - Hello Carving
Avelyn - Titanite Scale (x3)
Black Firebomb / Rope Black Firebomb - Titanite Chunk
Blacksmith Hammer - Titanite Scale
Coiled Sword Fragment - Titanite Slab
Divine Blessing - Very Good Carving
Eleonora - Hollow Gem
Firebomb / Rope Firebomb - Large Titanite Shard
Hidden Blessing - Thank You Carving
Large Leather Shield - Twinkling Titanite
Loretta's Bone - Ring of Sacrifice
Moaning Shield - Blessed Gem
Prism Stone - Twinkling Titanite
Saint-tree Bellvine - Help Me Carving
Shriving Stone - Call Over Emote / I'm Sorry Carving
Undead Bone Shard - Porcine Shield
Vertebrae Shackle - Lucatiel's Mask
Xanthous Crown - Lightning Gem

Havel's Armor

Find the Havel NPC in Archdragon Peak. Kill him and he will drop his weapon and a Greatshield. Now, make your way to the bridge located above Farron Keep. There, you should find a set of armor resting next to the stray demon. The armor only appears in that location if you have first killed Havel at Archdragon Peak.

How to Defeat Vordt of The Boreal Valley

Vordt is the Second Boss you will be encountering in Hall Wall of Lothric after Ludex Gundyr. Vordt is a Knight or we can say a fallen knight has
turned into a beast and you must take him down. He has the ability to walk on all fours also wields a mace in one hand.

Taking him down will be easy only if you have the right equipment like you must have an Armor or any item that will boost your frost resistance to
blocking Vordt's ice attacks. Now taking Vordt down should be an easy task, simply stay close to his Rear side and wait for him to swing his attack, once he is done it's time to charge him with your light weight attacks and the roll away from him.

If you manage to drain his 50% of the health which will make him angry and he will start charging attacks 3 times more than normal, then with some ice attacks from his mouth. SO Repeat the same tricks to get behind him, wait for the right moment and then charge with Heavy attacks until you get him down. Once you Defeat him he will drop Soul of Boreal Valley Vordt and 3000 souls.

Infinite Souls (Exploit)

By taking advantage of a special exploit, you can use a Boss Soul and it will remain in your inventory. Thus, you can generate as many as 20,000 souls every 7 seconds or so, just by repeatedly consuming the same Boss Soul. The exploit is valid through at least patch 1.03, but will likely be fixed at some point after that. Before you begin, make sure that you save a copy of your file in case something goes wrong. Then, carefully complete the following steps.

Equip a shield that allows you to parry, such as the starting shield for the Knight class. Place a Boss Soul in your first Quick Item slot and equip all items in any other slots. Place an empty Estus Flask in your first toolbelt slot. With everything set up as indicated above, hold DOWN on the d-pad and be ready to quickly follow the next step indicated in the process. While continuing to hold the DOWN button, parry and then quickly enter the following moves, starting as the shield's position is parallel to your character's shoulder: Strong Attack Left, Use Item, Open Menu, Confirm. You have to time things very specifically, or the process will not work and you'll use up your Boss Soul without the opportunity to exploit it.

If you perform the exploit properly, a confirmation box will appear and your item select option will vanish. You will be able to consume the soul while it remains in your inventory. If you perform the exploit successfully eight times in a minute, that works out to 160,000 souls. If you maintain that rate, it works out to more than nine million souls per hour.

Save Ember for Emergencies

Ember raises your life maximum, and in the process, it restores your life to the higher total. That's always useful, but it's especially useful when you're in a grueling battle with a powerful opponent, such as a boss. Save Ember until those occasions, and put it to use when you need it most. Not only will you gain a max HP boost, but you'll take advantage of some much-needed healing that would otherwise be wasted.

Snuggly the Crow items

Get close to the nest above Firelink Shrine to talk to Snuggly the Crow. He will trade items for specific things that are dropped in her nest with the "Leave" item option in your inventory. Note: You can only do one trade per playthrough, however this resets with each New Game+. Warning: Do not exit the game with an item still resting on the ground before the trade has been completed or you will lose it.

Traded item	New item
Alluring Skull	Hello Carving
Avelyn	Titanite Scale
Black Firebomb	Titanite Chunk
Blacksmith Hammer	Titanite Scale
Caitha's Chime	Help Me! Carving
Cleric's Sacred Chime	Help Me! Carving
Coiled Sword Fragment	Titanite Slab
Crystal Chime	Help Me! Carving
Divine Blessing	Very good! Carving
Eleonora	Hollow Gem
Firebomb	Large Titanite Shard
Hidden Blessing	Thank you Carving
Homeward Bone	Iron Bracelets
Large Leather Shield	Twinkling Titanite
Lightning Urn	Iron Helm
Loretta's Bone	Ring of Sacrifice
Mendicant's Staff	Sunlight Shield
Moaning Shield	Blessed Gem
Priest's Chime	Help Me! Carving
Prism Stone	Twinkling Titanite
Rope Black Firebomb	Titanite Chunk
Rope Firebomb	Large Titanite Shard
Saint-Tree Bellvine	Help Me! Carving
Seed of a Giant Tree	Iron Leggings
Shriving Stone	I'm sorry Carving
Siegbräu	Armor of the Sun
Undead Bone Shard	Porcine Shield
Vertebra Shackle	Lucatiel's Mask
Xanthous Crown	Lightning Gem
Yorshka's Chime	Help Me! Carving

Solaire's Armor

You can unlock armor that looks like the armor Solaire famously wore in the first Dark Souls game by heading to the roof of Firelink Shrine with the proper items in your possession. First, buy the Belltower Key from the Firelink Handmaid, who will require 20,000 souls. Then ascend the tower toward the bridge. From there, you can drop to the roof and find a nest, where a strange voice calls to you. Leave items in the nest and the crow will give you something else in exchange. It's possible to leave several items (only once each) that will award you the pieces of the desired armor. The list below indicates which items you can offer to receive the desired armor pieces.

Homeward Bone - Iron Bracelets.
Lightning Urn - Iron Helm.
Mendicant's Staff - Sunlight Shield.
Seed of a Giant Tree - Iron Leggings.
Siegbrau - Armor of the Sun.

Various Achievements

Complete the indicated task to unlock the achievement.

Achievement	How to unlock
Ancient Wyvern	Defeat Ancient Wyvern.
Archdragon Peak	Reach Archdragon Peak.
Champion Gundyr	Defeat Champion Gundyr.
Covenant: Aldrich Faithful	Discover Aldrich Faithful covenant.
Covenant: Blade of the Darkmoon	Discover Blade of the Darkmoon covenant.
Covenant: Blue Sentinels	Discover Blue Sentinels covenant.
Covenant: Mound-makers	Discover Mound-makers covenant.
Covenant: Rosaria's Fingers	Discover Rosaria's Fingers covenant.
Covenant: Warrior of Sunlight	Discover Warrior of Sunlight covenant.
Covenant: Watchdogs of Farron	Discover Watchdogs of Farron covenant.
Crystal Sage	Defeat Crystal Sage.
Curse-rotted Greatwood	Defeat the Curse-rotted Greatwood.
Dancer of the Boreal Valley	Defeat Dancer of the Boreal Valley.
Deacons of the Deep	Defeat the Deacons of the Deep.
Dragonslayer Armour	Defeat Dragonslayer Armour.
Embrace the Flame	Become a Host of Embers for the first time.
Enkindle	Light a bonfire flame for the first time.
High Lord Wolnir	Defeat High Lord Wolnir.
Iudex Gundyr	Defeat Iudex Gundyr.
Lord of Cinder: Aldrich, Devourer of Gods	Defeat Aldrich, Devourer of Gods, Lord of Cinder.
Lord of Cinder: Lothric, Younger Prince	Defeat Lothric, Younger Prince, Lord of Cinder.
Lord of Cinder: Yhorm the Giant	Defeat Yhorm the Giant, Lord of Cinder.
Lords of Cinder: Abyss Watchers	Defeat the Abyss Watchers, Lords of Cinder.
Master of Expression	Learn all gestures.
Master of Infusion	Perform all forms of infusion.
Master of Miracles	Acquire all miracles.
Master of Pyromancies	Acquire all pyromancies.
Master of Rings	Acquire all rings.
Master of Sorceries	Acquire all sorceries.
Oceiros, the Consumed King	Defeat Oceiros, the Consumed King.
Old Demon King	Defeat Old Demon King.
Pontiff Sulyvahn	Defeat Pontiff Sulyvahn.
Supreme Weapon Reinforcement	Reinforce any weapon to the highest level.
The Dark Soul	Complete all achievements.
The End of Fire	Reach "The End of Fire" ending.
The Nameless King	Defeat Nameless King.
The Usurpation of Fire	Reach "The Usurpation of Fire" ending.
To Link the First Flame	Reach "To Link The First Flame" ending.
Ultimate Bonfire	Reinforce a bonfire to the highest level.
Ultimate Estus	Reinforce the Estus Flask to the highest level.
Untended Graves	Reach the Untended Graves.
Vordt of the Boreal Valley	Defeat Vordt of the Boreal Valley.

Walls Have Secrets

Don't just blindly trust that things are as they appear in Dark Souls III. Often, you can find what appears to be a wall and it's actually only an illusion. Make sure that you check walls in suspicious places by slashing at them with a weapon, particularly near archways. Sometimes, you'll find a hidden path that is well worth exploring.