While playing Dark Souls III, you should be ready to face mobs and bosses that are well equipped. As you dig deeper into the hidden gems of Dark Souls 3, you can take advantage of Player vs. Player (PVP) and Player vs. Environment (PVE) to maximize your experience. There is a lot of builds and strength builds are part of it. Let’s take a look over the best strength builds to try out.
1. The Fume Build
The Fume build is of the most popular PVP, and PVE focuses on strength. You can make powerful and swift swings at your opponents with a swift regain of stamina at a rate of ~35%, delivered by Green Blossom and Chloranthy Ring.
Recommended Stats:
- Attunement- 10 (base)
- Vitality- 15 (base)
- Intelligence- 9 (base)
- Luck- 7 (base)
- Faith (base)
- Endurance- optional
- Strength- 60(optional)
- Exterity- 50 (optional)
- Vigor (optional)
Possible techniques
- Use the heavy armor or shield. Use your weapon range to keep your opponents at bay. Use both hands when launching your attacks at the slightest chance you get.
- Dual wield or range- Wait for the attack, wield the weapons dual handedly and make wide swings.
Armor & Weapons
- You need the fume ultra-great sword as your primary sword.
- For the early game, you can use any sword.
- To move with the required agility, you need a light armor of about <50%.
- Knight Slayer’s ring and a ring of steel protection
- Prisoner’s chain
Pros
- It allows you to keep a safe distance while attacking and defending.
- You can make four swings without losing stamina.
Cons
- You might need to three swings at a goo to avoid losing your stamina and defense.
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2. Righteous Punishment
You can use the Righteous Punishment strength build to improve your chances of survival in the gaming world. It equips you with lightning that you can use to make the bosses and dragons as weak as can be. Its starting class is Assassin with a potential of reaching maximum at 125.
Recommended Stats:
- Vigor – 25
- Endurance- 20
- Dexterity- 30
- Faith- 60.
- Vitality, strength, intelligence, and luck are optional.
Armor & Weapons
- A shield in your left hand and the estoc is ideal in slaying players, mobs, and bosses.
- At entry levels, you might need the raw estoc to slay opponents without losing stamina.
- The collection magic weapon, Carthus Flame Arc, Lightning, or Darkmoon Blade at all stages.
Possible Techniques
During leveling, you need a strategy to conserve dexterity, strength, and endurance as you face the opponents and complete quests along the way.
The sunlight blade improves your chances of survival.
Pros
- It improves your stamina and chances of survival as you face mobs, dragons, and bosses.
- The weapons cause massive damage to your opponents.
- You can fight well in enclosed regions.
Cons
- You have to unlock the assassin level to make good use of this strength build.
3. Ashen Knight
Ashen Knight is the most basic strength builds for rumpus spank and tank gameplay starting from the Knight class. It lets you take a beating comfortably and deliver lethal strikes to your opponents. Without focusing on magic, you can complete multiple NG cycles comfortably.
Recommended Stats:
- Attunement- 10 (base)
- Vitality- 15 (base
- Intelligence- 9 (base)
- Luck- 7 (base)
- Dexterity- 40 (below cap)
- Strength- 40 (below cap)
- Faith -16
- Vigor- 25
- Endurance- 27 for more stamina as you take multiple swings.
Armor & Weapons
- Early game- Broadsword
- Use the Knight armor set for the early game.
- Use the Sunlight Straight Sword as your primary weapon.
- The shield of want rests on your left hand.
- A complete set of Lothric Knight armor set as your primary armor.
- Use the Black Bow of Paris as the secondary weapon.
Possible Techniques
Choose your weapons wisely and be open to the idea of trading so that you might make timely completion of your quests.
Pros
- It focuses on PvE to improve your chances of survival.
- It improves your chances of survival while increasing the extent of damage you cause.
- You can make swift movements as you attack, dodge, or both.
Cons
- Ashen Knight starts from the Knight class.
4. Yuria of Londor Build
If you love trying out different costumes, you might find this strength build quite fun and most appropriate. Yuria is loyal to the Ashen One in case you treated her friend well in the past. She appears in the Firelink Shrine, at which point you may do her questline by getting her gear or taking her life. Your starting class for Yuria of Londor Build is Deprived.
Recommended Stats:
- Luck- 10 (base)
- Faith- 10 (base)
- Intelligence- 10 (base)
- Strength- 10 (base)
- Vitality- 10 (base)
- Dexterity- 30+
- Vigor- 34+
- Attunement- 15+
- Endurance-40
Armor & Weapons
- Yuria’s armor set
- Throwing knives
- Black firebombs
- Dark hand (purchased for 12k souls from Yuria.
- Dark Drift+5 (Yuria’s Blade)
Possible Techniques
Use more of dark drift skills in the penetration of enemy shields. Use your agility to attack from close range, roll a lot, and be on the constant lookout for parries.
Pros
- It improves your chances of survival in the environment and against opponents.
- You can make accurate and lethal strikes from close range.
- You can maneuver comfortably as you face your opponents.
Cons
- It is a fast-offensive strength build needing more from you.
- You should not be too defensive to improve your chances of survival.
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5. Pure Sorcery Glass Cannon Mage
The Pure sorcery glass cannon mage is designed for 100% ranged DPS. You can make PVE and PVP adjustments to improve your chances of survival. With time, you can become one of the most powerful sorcerers featuring as one of the top spell slingers.
Recommended Stats:
- 12 endurance allows you to cast at least two spells while retaining full stamina.
- 12 Luck- base
- 15 faith for tears of denial
- 40 attunement- for 300 FP and six spells.
- 40 vigor- with about 1600 embered HP
- 10 Vitality- allowing you more equipment room load to let you move freely.
- Eight strength allows you to move comfortably with a decent shield.
Possible Techniques
You can make your army bigger by recruiting heretic staff along the way. It would also help if you swallowed your pride and summon the help of NPC phantoms to defeat the bosses.
Armor & Weapons
- Scholar’s Candlestick accounting for an increase in the damage of your spells by 25%
- Crown of Dusk makes your spell damage more lethal by 10%, and magic resistance reduced by -30.
- Crystal Sage’s Staff that can buff your spells by 40%
- The Dark Hand is effective for your protection in the left hand.
- Court Sorcerer’s Staff assures you of the highest buff as you play.
Pros
- The strength build has numerous benefits that allow you to move around comfortably as you slay your opponents.
- The magic shield keeps you protected from the most lethal bosses and other opponents.
Cons
- Some bosses can survive your spells, creating the need for additional strategies.
- It is available from the sorcerer’s class.
Dark Soul 3 has a vast collection of strength builds that can improve your survival against the toughest bosses and other opponents. This light has highlighted only five of the widely used strength builds. You can also create a build of your own to improve your chances of survival.
