Dark Souls - Favourite Builds

Dark Souls - Favourite Builds

I get asked a lot: "What are your favourite builds in the Dark Souls games" so I figured I'd make a video on it! There's nothing overly unique or special about my favourite builds though, it comes down largely to armour/weapons that I find aesthetically pleasing.

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[leaf_of_the_wind]

My favorite Sekiro build is ‘guy with sword’. Basically I have a sword, and I swing it at people, and then I wiggle it around when they swing back. That’s the build.

[adamb]

I always go for a Paladin build in pretty much every fantasy rpg i play, blunt weapons, holy magic, and big armor

[DiscoFinalBoss]

I’ve always preferred the light armor quick attacking playstyle with a little magic for weapon buffs.

[Berserker]

Dude the way you talk about the buffs make me so happy. No other youtuber talks about buff builds

[AbysswalkerD]

Your a very Underrated Youtuber Alex, I always enjoy your Dark Soul's Video's.
Keep up the great work!

[TT-hwie]

My favorate build is the Christian dragon build

[stricknine]

Great video! I'm playing Dark Souls on Switch. So I'm going to try some of these out. It also makes me want to replay 2 and 3 just to try some out. I always love how your characters look. In Bloodborne I use the axe and the threaded cane. The cane reminds me of Castlevania which I love!

[ManiaMac]

My favorite build in DS1 is a Kalameet cosplay: 20 strength, 16 dexterity, Black Knight Armor, Dragon Head, and the Obsidian Greatsword with a Charcoal Pine Resin buff. It's a more gimmicky version of the Giant Dad build, slightly less effective but a lot more fun in my opinion.


My favorite build in DS2 is having 60 strength and powerstancing the Aged Smelter/Smelter Sword. Using the unique L2 attack of the powerstanced Smelter Swords is the most fun you can have in the game.


In DS3, by far my favorite build is a Lightning Caster: 60 faith, a Lightning-Infused Lothric War Banner and the Rose of Ariandel, with Lightning Arrow, Lightning Storm, and Lightning Stake/Sunlight Spear. This build is outrageously powerful in both PVE and PVP; using the Talisman's Unfaltering Prayer WA while casting, it can out-trade almost every weapon in the game, even some Ultra Greatswords, and Sunlight Spear/Lightning Stake can potentially one-shot other players even at SL 120. It's amazing in invasions, and in duels it's virtually unbeatable.

[Mrkabrat]

One of my builds in Dark Souls 2 is a dex build with low vigour (for the Flinn ring). The idea was a spearman using Pates spear while holding a greatshield who cowerd behind it and basically is a distraction so that the host cant attack the boss. As for aesthetics;
In Dark Souls 1 it would be Silver Knight Sword, full Catarina set and Silver Knight Shield.
In Dark Souls 2 its Knight Helmet (the one with the visor up), Alvas Armour, Auros Leggings, any metallic gauntlets, Sunlight Straight Sword and Mirrah Shield.
And in Dark Souls 3 the Sunset Set and Claymore is a win for me.

[BT-ojbn]

Standard Greatsword is all you need when you have Guts

[KitsuneYojimbo]

My favorite builds are... For mages, a sorceress/pyromancer build.

Though my main build is a greatsword and medium shield knight with medium armor, attempting to focus more on damage and mobility, so I use Havel's Ring so I'm never overencumbered.

Though for Fashion Souls, my favorite armors include some kind of robed or cloaked armor like the Fallen Knight Armor, a large mage's hat like the Sage's Giant Hat or Logan's Hat with some kind of knight gauntlet or leggings.

What made builds fun in II was that you could dual wield any weapon as long as you met the requirements to one hand the weapon.

[midnight-fox]

Power stancing is, in my opinion at least, the best mechanic DS2 introduced, sure it had it's flaws (like being completely unexplained, meaning some people never realized that it exists, or some combinations being a bit op) But it gave soo many options, of combining weapons together, even weapons from different classes.

Sure, we got paired weapons in DS3, a bit of a successor, but they still feel a bit limited, even after both DLCs came out (we still don't have paired rapiers, halberds, greatswords, great hammers and great axes)

So it's a real shame that out of the very few things DS3 took from DS2, power standing wasn't amongst them.

[Nannapolisher]

That beautiful bright Moonlight Greatsword

[henrygerard]

This is really speciest and ageist toward old squirrels!

[AaronLeeplubrec]

My Dark Souls 2 favorite build was the hex/dex build that buffed a dark infused chaos blade with resonant weapon

[tinchosabala]

Well, in my first playthrough I just starter on the remaster, I realized that with 28 strength, Favor and Protecion and Havel rings I could use the entire Iron Tarkus Armor set and his big-ass shield two-handed and nothing else, and still be quick enough for my liking.

[ewweg]

Still waiting for the Dane-axe to be implemented in games. It was the first polearm/halberd, with the strong but lightweight axehead also working as a spear, and could pull shields away, and could even be used as a knockel in close combat.

[Gamerpower]

Thanks for this video, was just an enjoyable experience! Also your voice is so great to listen to :P

[Cc-onpp]

Ds1: Quelaag's furry sword with shield or zweihander.

Ds2: short/long sword in Right hand, catalyst for spells in the left

Ds3: Lothric sword with shield, or scythes. I like both the great scythe and Sister Friede's scythe.

[Aerowarrier]

DS2 partisan with phoenix shield cuz it’s the best. armor is bandit mask, that undead guide dude’s chest piece, alonne’s pants, and i believe it’s called the sorcerer gloves. then pyromancy flames in both off hands with firestorm, dance of flame, great combustion, warmth, and fireball twice. i never really cared about levels so i was like 250 i think but god was that build so fun. partisan is by far my favorite weapon in both DS1 and 2