Dark Souls 3: 10 Pro Tips For Soul Farming (2024)

Whether you've hit a roadblock and need to level up quickly or you want to buy an expensive armor set and you're strapped for cash, or rather souls, you could go out and farm for the souls you need.

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There are plenty of reasons and plenty of ways to farm souls inDark Souls 3 but if you're looking for some tips on how to maximize the amount of souls you can earn, look no further. This list compiles some pro-level tips on soul farming so you can get out there and rack up your souls.

10 Location Location Location

Before even going out to farm souls, players first have to decide where inDark Souls 3's world to go farming in. Players need to farm in a location with the best combination of routes and enemies that will net the biggest amount of souls each run in the shortest possible time.

Even within these areas there are locations better suited for farming for souls than others, so finding the best location to farm is essential.

9 Find The Best Route For Your Farming Run

More of a continuation of the previous entry, it's extremely important to get the best route for your farming run so you're not wasting any extra time running around when it's not necessary.

Players need to figure out the best and quickest way to go from the bonfire to the enemies that need killing and back to the bonfire to reset the enemies to do it all again.

8 Jolly Cooperation

If the monotony of traditional soul farming has players feeling bored with the endless cycles of running around killing enemies only to rest at a bonfire and do it all over again, there is an alternative.

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There are several covenants that allow players to be summoned into another player's world to help them get through an area or defeat a boss, and doing so will net a percentage of the souls earned. It's not the best way to farm souls but it sure beats the monotony of traditional farming methods.

7 Maximize Damage Output

If spending as little time as possible on each farming run is your goal, then maximizing the player character's damage output, i.e. how much damage you're dealing, is hugely important.

There are a number of ways to achieve this depending on the situation. If the enemies you're farming are best fought with backstabs, equipping the Hornet Ring to increase backstab damage is the way to go. Or maybe you're dealing with tougher enemies, in which case it wouldn't be a bad idea to put points into faith to decimate them with Sunlight Spear.

6 Boss Rush

Though it seems counterintuitive, a great tip for farming souls inDark Souls 3 is to simply rush through every mandatory boss in the game then go to the next New Game (NG) cycle. Just run past all the enemies, get to the boss, defeat them, and move on to the next one.

This method isn't advisable if you're not confident in your skills fighting bosses at low levels. But if you are, this method takes about 2 hours to do and by the end you'll rack up nearly 4 million souls if you've used the right soul boosting equipment.

5 Covetous Silver Serpent Ring

When farming souls, it's very important to wear the right equipment, as there are pieces of equipment the can boost the amount of souls you receive from defeated enemies. The most commonly known piece of equipment that boosts souls received is the Covetous Silver Serpent Ring.

Found behind an illusionary wall at the top of Firelink Shrine, the Covetous Silver Serpent Ring makes enemies drop 10% more souls than normal, and on subsequent NGs, you can find improved versions of the ring to further increase the percentage yielded.

4 Mendicant's Staff

The Silver Serpent Ring is not the only piece of equipment that increases the amount of souls you receive from fallen enemies. The Mendicant's Staff is another piece of equipment that is recommended to have when soul farming, but it is trickier to get than the Silver Serpent Ring.

The Mendicant's Staff is a random drop from Man-Serpent Summoners in Archdragon Peak. But once you get one, having it equipped with cause enemies to yield 20% more souls.

3 Shield Of Want

Here's yet another piece of equipment that will increase the amount of souls gained from fallen enemies. And like the Mendicant's Staff, it will increase that yield by 20%.

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The Shield of Want is a great shield to have when soul farming but it can be dangerous to obtain. The shield can be found in the Smouldering Lake, in the same area that you have to contend with a giant worm and a huge ballista constantly firing at you, but it's certainly worth the risk.

2 Symbol Of Avarice

There's nothing like running around Lothric with a Mimic's head over the player character's head. It may look ridiculous, but it's the single best piece of equipment for soul farming as it increases soul yield by 50%. However, it also hasthe drawback ofdraining 10 HP per second.

The Symbol of Avarice is a rare drop from Mimics, but an easier way to get one is by farming Mimics using Undead Hunter's Charm to put them to sleep without killing them.

1 Stack Equipment Effects

If it wasn't obvious from the lead up to this final entry, to maximize the yield of souls from enemies, you can equip each piece of equipment previously mentioned and stack their effects together.

While individually they only increase soul yield by a small percentage, when stacked together, the total increase in souls absorbed from enemies is 237.60%. It's a huge increase in souls that will have you raking in the souls in no time.

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