Can I Beat Dark Souls 3 With Only a Staff But No Spells?

Can you beat Dark souls 3 with only spell tools but no spells? In this video I show you how to beat DS3 with only catalysts without any sorcery. All damage must come from the staves themselves, either from its R2 melee attacks or from its weapon art. An actually viable sorcerer build!
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[@PressContinue]

It's pretty bonkers how effective a staff only build can be! Also check out my Dark Souls 2 Chime Damage Only guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gquphXd8jaijjc0 Dark Souls 3 Smoke Damage Only NG+7 Livestream: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWTbhmVsjKuEoc0 Dark Souls 3 SL1 with a +0 Dagger Livestream: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4KZn2OFdq6reaM www.patreon.com/presscontinue

[@kamikaze4172]

9:28 There's a cat that will sell you stuff in 2!

[@PressContinue]

@@kamikaze4172 Ah sweet Shalquoir. A bit arrogant but quite the improvement over all the dogs

[@kamikaze4172]

@@PressContinue an enchanting individual

[@mund1339]

@@kamikaze4172 there’s a very good boy in ds1

[@michaelsuess8441]

Midir?

[@amberhernandez]

"And the Abyss Watchers are intimidating, so let's go fight Friede instead!" Well, that escalated quickly.

[@snaccpacc651]

The foresight about dogs in Elden Ring here was on point. There's like 30 different types and they can all stun lock the shit out of you. Thank you From

[@PressContinue]

And the birds are just flying dogs

[@spiritboxyxbox]

They really made rot dogs, frost dogs, blood dogs, and posion dogs, dlc will have sleep and death dogs probably

[@creep2667]

The puns are so good... You could say they really stick

[@PressContinue]

I'm sticking to my puns

[@nesiusjr3715]

Ive never been in this much pain a person who invents and steals dad jokes look at what youve done

[@vmk2466]

You should join the staff

[@Pigmedog]

@@vmk2466 i wouldn't say that... imo he should probably stick to his day job, especially since his delivery is so wooden

[@darksoulsdude3218]

This comment will stick with me for ever

[@EvilerOMEGA]

Sticks and stones may break their bones, but not without a ton of hits first.

[@grfrjiglstan]

"I'm already looking forward to all the dog-related shenanigans in Elden Ring." Oh, this aged well.

[@gomp9071]

I did this challenge myself a year or so ago, but I used the Izalith Staff as my weapon of choice. Didn't occur to me to use the Murky Longstaff. Cheers to stick wacking!

[@PressContinue]

Yeah I think that most people would expect me to go for the Izalith staff so I wanted to throw a bit of a curveball by going through Friede with the storyteller staff.

[@uf9749]

@@PressContinue I expected you to go for the Preacher arm

[@Inuxxus]

@@PressContinue I expected y ou u to grab the gilded staff from above pontiff's because it has the spear moveset and counts as a catalyst

[@PressContinue]

@@Inuxxus nah I would count that as a spear

[@bedaskun5312]

Hey dude, just discovered your channel a few days back and binged most of it by now. Your content is simply amazing, it's incredible how dedicated you are to these games. Thank you very much for all these uploads ❤

[@PressContinue]

You're very welcome and also welcome to the channel :)

[@dayyaanadam2589]

Even though i consider ds2 the weakest game out of the soul series it is always the most entertaining to watch. Comparing this to the chime only build this was a pretty linear run with some backtracks to the dlc and entering lothric castle early but nothing we haven't seen b4. Every ds2 run challenge or not is different and there's so much possible routes and variety to it. When i was watching the chime only build I was like "what will his route be like" "what items is he going to use" "how is he going to get through early game". But in this vid i already basically knew the route i was just curious on how well the build would do. And i think this adds a special charm to ds2 none that we experience in other soulsborne games (maybe demon souls) and its really encourages creativity and planning instead of just raw skill and strategy and it's always interesting to watch.

[@PressContinue]

Sort of true. DS3 is the most linear one for sure. Although I do think that most people would have expected me to go for the Izalith staff instead of going through the DLC for the murky long staff

[@linuxblacksarena]

don't forget the most important strength of DS2: IT INSPIRED HAPPY SOULS.

[@vmk2466]

@@linuxblacksarena BOSS WEAPONS!

[@bingusthegreat9733]

@@linuxblacksarena the only good part of ds2

[@blooBerry371]

7:50 - 8:40 ….I wasn’t expecting a life lesson but it’s definitely a great lesson😀😀.

[@aetarz]

It was very deep it caught me off guard😄

[@Marqslmao]

"It's a jungle out there; I had to beat an old lady with a stick to get these souls" -Press Continue to Soul of Cinder

[@JackQNielsen]

Still killin it homie! You and Ymfah are helping make the Elden Ring hype even more real, I can easily picture years down the road playing all sorts of outlandish challenge runs that utilize the inevitable glitches and broken, overpowered mechanics we’re sure to discover after we’ve all dumped several hundreds of hours into the game.

[@markusencarnacion2890]

The more videos you post the bigger the feeling of having done nothing in dark souls gets for me great job

[@Darkness5423]

I just realized the un-note worthy boss always gets forgotten, the champion in the ashes dlc, again not note worthy but still humorous he's always the sole survivor of these challenges.

[@PressContinue]

Yeah that's right, I never include him. To be fair I'm not even sure why he's in the game to begin with

[@Darkness5423]

@@PressContinue I mean fair enough when ashes came out i didn't even know about him to my friends asked me about the bosses, i thought they ment friede and her dad. Even fromsoft doesn't know why he's in the game. Keep up all the great work my dude.

[@HypnoKnight]

"I'm already looking forward to all the dog related shenanigans in Elden Ring" Oh yeah like the bleed dogs that can instakill you while blocking with max vitality. They may have been patched, but I remember.

[@jacobbrewer1046]

As someone who grinded out every item in the game I can tell you this... I remember the storytellers staff.

[@jacobbrewer1046]

And did it all offline so imagine all the covenant items.

[@christophergavalas5425]

@@jacobbrewer1046 rip dark moon blade grind is so AIDS

[@peenyyt4921]

@@jacobbrewer1046 why would you even do that????

[@theteddyoso4142]

KZbin recommended one of your bloodborne videos to me a few days ago and I’ve been binge watching your videos. I love the souls games but never played most of them. I like to enjoy the games vicariously through KZbinrs lol. I appreciate all the effort you put into these videos. I’m gonna make sure I leave a like on all your videos. Thanks for the amazing content.

[@Velumbra]

Did a hell of a job with the commentary. Super enjoyable video. Curious what kind of shenanigans the community will get into come Elden Ring. Bubblemancy sorcerer only? That'd be interesting.

[@purplehaze2358]

8:13 I didn't expect unironically good life advice from a dark souls 3 challenge tutorial video.

[@Markshadow4999]

"Get beefy"? "become (well not) unkillable"? is that a Limit Breakers reference i smell? Nice

[@PressContinue]

Yes it is :)

[@niceyoutubehandle]

24:10 LOVE the DSP quotes!

[@joshuahill3259]

Finally a useful magic build

[@lastthursday1416]

"Int is just blue dex" is a good epitaph.

[@walesjedi9217]

it's impressive how you have a pun for every situation

[@marieb73304]

Nice video bro, I love your content! It's nice to have some new quality Dark souls content, especially while waiting for Elden Ring and especially when the last dark souls came out in 2016! Love from France 😎

[@grfrjiglstan]

Fun fact, staves can actually be parried. Thanks to Limit for that useless data.

[@aronaranyossy]

That dog mini rant was so highly relatable, funny and it also aged like fin wine. Well done 👏

[@franciscopetrucci]

The amount of jokes in this incredible video is highly aprecciated

[@dhehedhejej1559]

I have 2k hours in this game and I still didn't know about the dreg heap shortcut or how to not agro dragons in lothric 10/10 video

[@estebantellez9635]

This is pretty nice, might give it a try after the chimes only for DS2

[@lisatimpany7711]

Your wordplay is off the charts! Content is top-notch too!

[@fanam7622]

man i love your videos . keep up the goodwork im sure will be one of the biggest DS challenge run youtuber or just any game.

[@Eo-ms3kw]

Might try this for my next run after I've finished my shield only run. After having like a 30 minute yhorm fight that staff damage on yhorm is beautiful. Didn't actually try to go for the head tho. Ancient wyvern was also equally painful.

[@cobybyers]

Using the weapon art to boost the damage of the catalyst is equivalent of a druid casting shillelagh on a quarterstaff in DnD.

[@PressContinue]

Er.... I guess?

[@6Sinners6Circus6]

Once again press you blow me away with your insane level of skill, perseverance, and outstanding sense of humor. KZbin decided that tonight was a and all stick kind of night as the algorithm had your DS to Pike run and your DS3 staff run both of them beautiful. Also as far as this video goes I do believe that was Michael Douglas falling through the glass ceiling if I'm correct that is an awesome movie I don't remember the entirety of it but something of a t-shirt he got when he was drugged and left in a trunk somewhere in Mexico 😅 which makes me wonder if form software ever sent you your T-shirt lol. Mad respect press and as always thanks for the entertainment

[@LJAndrews1986]

What a lad, looking forward to your art as always. Keep up the good work and do some of the other souls games too lol

[@deliriushunter]

The puns are as godly as always!

[@Masterwar78]

20:45 Nice Limit Breakers reference. Finally got the miracle build we deserved.

[@PressContinue]

Well, when it comes to miracle build, I think my chime damage only guide in DS2 is more applicable.

[@thekaz5225]

Oooh yeah baby, been waiting for this one. I really enjoyed watching you stream your sl1 run recently and have been looking forward to see what you had in store next for us. Hilarious as always, this video also fills me with a strong desire to grip some hard wood with both hands after watching it. Good choice on the Murky, I noticed recently while playing it actually hits a lot harder than I thought it would at +10 with Blindfold Mask and Dark Clutch Ring and it'sWA active. Found out on accident when I reflexively hit an enemy that survived a great soul dregs with a sliver of health. So I expected it to die, but I didn't expect to see over 300 damage pop up on the screen.

[@Markshadow4999]

I've been waiting to come back to this. I've just beaten Friede so i can finally see the parts i skipped.

[@batmanarkhamcentral3149]

The dark side Phil audios are always so funny

[@jortasaurus1750]

I fun idea might be to do an all bosses run where you only use the element the boss is most resistant to. Sounds like a fun challenge to route equipment-wise.

[@PressContinue]

LOL, that would unironically be a sorcery run for 90% of the playthrough. The majority of bosses are most resistant to magic, some to dark and only a handful to fire or lightning. The only bosses I can think of that is more resistant to lightning over any other elements are DSA and nameless king. Old Demon king, SoC and demon prince are most resistant to fire. From the top of my head for all others it's magic or dark. Oh and Yhorm is immune to fire

[@jortasaurus1750]

@@PressContinue ah sadge. It sounded like a fun idea in my head haha. Well im sure an idea will hit my brain someday😜 also fijne sinterklaas :P vergeet je schoen niet te zetten.

[@PressContinue]

@@jortasaurus1750 Heeft geen zin. Ik ben stout geweest.

[@thekaz5225]

@@PressContinue man they really wanted to crap on Magic in 3. Thanks Miyazaki. At least Pyromancies are fun.

[@greasysox]

Deciding it’s easier and better to beat one of the hardest bosses in the game before abyss watchers on a challenge run feels unhinged

[@realityoverdrive4059]

I was expecting you to kill the twin princes early to get the Preachers left arm

[@PressContinue]

Aaah ARMageddon. Very stylish but not very effective

[@Oroberus]

5:35 There indeed is quote the amount of turtles in DS3, that's correct

[@Bluecho4]

Forget "the club can't handle me", the enemies in this game can't handle your club. Well, your stick, anyway. In all seriousness, it's amazing how in both DS1 and DS3, staff-only is surprising effective. When you have the right staff, anyway.

[@shevolatte8812]

1:00 Big Green dub Gokus best one-liners

[@stitchfinger7678]

I wish more bosses were at least somewhat vulnerable to poison I don't wanna cheese everything by hiding in the corner, I just want to whittle bosses down over long dramatic battles

[@Timetravelzero]

Is that dsp around the 24:20 mark? lmao Great video, as always my dude!

[@soulsearcher9620]

I may be 2 years late, but I've specifically played through the entire Friede boss fight with only throwable items for damage. Poison knives and Dung Pies were how I beat the phase 2 of the boss fight, so i can confirmed that Friede was definitely a pain during Phase 2 with my knife spam but a couple firebombs to stagger her worked very well. Phase 3 was much easier than Phase 2, Kukri are my beloved.

[@dylankagan28]

“It’s pretty impressive how I can play with this enemy while avoiding magic attacks” *gets hit right as he says that*

[@PressContinue]

Sssst, you didn't see that

[@TheAquarius87]

Your humor is really.... On point

[@handwerkergermany8587]

14:54 i think this is from the movie THE GAME whit Michael Douglas, great Movie

[@PressContinue]

It sure is :)

[@ZomGear]

Bricks and stones may break my bones but Dark Souls breaks my will to live

[@eduardosantos2477]

That montage sequence was hilarious LOL

[@harveybudgen4437]

You know I beat frede for the first time after 2 days, i was level 86 and respected a few times.... Watching him do it with poison only at like level 15 hurts me physically

[@PressContinue]

Then you might not want to watch my recent SL1 with a +0 dagger livestream. I don't want to put you in the hospital

[@goosbouwsma7464]

Sinterklaas kapoentje gooi wat in m’n schoentje gooi wat in m’n laarsje dank u Sinterklaasje

[@OMGWTFBBQRLY]

Your rate of production on these is incredible, and they're great fun to watch. Good to see you growing, Continue- you deserve it!

[@VulcanGray]

To anyone looking for the one song, it's Magic Stick. Well done

[@lucavillano7575]

What did happen to my beloved " *GRAAAVITYYY* " sound clip? 😢

[@PressContinue]

Yeah I know :( couldn't bonk hard enough

[@ShMokou]

Yeah... about sorcery... my SL1 character have less problems with Pontiff Sulyvahn than SL67 sorceress. Because same damage output, but SL1 can do riposte and for some reason sword doesn't required blue juice. Someone will say BUT YOU HAVE RANGE, yeah, not really, it will become close combat after one cast.

[@demonintellect9834]

Which is why I love miracle builds. Poise through attacks and gain bonus damage for them being close. Magic definitely was the worst casting group in DS3.

[@ShMokou]

@@demonintellect9834 Sorcery. Only except some particular bosses.

[@LordNNero]

I did an only spells run (mostly sorceries), Summoning one NPC such as Anri makes the fight a lot lot easier as a caster. Of course, in case of melee it would be bad, but for a sorcerer that additional range and distraction really makes the fight easy. I struggled the most against The Twin Princes. I had to switch Chaos Bed Vestiges for that.

[@equious8413]

Lost it at "he's gunna lay the fuck-smack!"

[@PileggiUK]

4:02 "I had to beat an old lady with a stick to get this"

[@MrMadness1]

Watching your videos makes me realize how much I *don't* know about Dark Souls 3.

[@Liamdrw]

Another amazing video, good job!

[@Trashloot]

Wait 17:50 this is the body of the angel ? xD I neve made that connection. This video was great by the way. I love jokes :D

[@sachajanssens8576]

sinterklaas... goeie video man haha. Hartelijk gelachen :D

[@Zeit142]

"INT is just blue DEX" OOOOOOO! Why would you say something so controversial yet so true!?

[@freshboy3968]

27:28 "That's pretty impressive, right? That I can play around with this enemy while avoiding all the magi-"

[@lelouch3782]

27:30 this is peak comedy, great video

[@Eshtian]

Seinter clause I love it

[@SteamPaladin]

"People who recognize this clip have a good taste in movies" Guess I have good taste

[@pascova5088]

Used club to block at 16:02. Run failed PS good video lol

[@zumo3359]

These jokes are good, you must have writing staff coming up with these

[@theangelofdeath7660]

What the hell is that ending song around the credits and recommended videos, that is a vibe and a half.

[@PressContinue]

Oh you mean the actual outro song? I don't really know. I got it from an hour long or so royalty free metal compilation and it was just a random part from that that I liked so I started using it as my outro music

[@theangelofdeath7660]

@@PressContinue Thanks mate, now i'm going to be looking for this for nearly 2 hours straight.

[@bronysaiyan5236]

The fact you didnt use the preachers right arm weapon art pained me

[@DS_DoggerX]

16:00 incorrect, that's the revered Greatstaff of Big Bat Logan, the acclaimed brute of Vinheim

[@PressContinue]

Pfff yeah right. Logan wore a big hat to compensate for something else methinks

[@DS_DoggerX]

@@PressContinue there were two Logans, known in the Vinheim Drake Primary School as Nerd Logan and Chad Logan Nerd Logan was studious and mastered Crystal Sorcery, and passed into legend as Big Hat Logan for the hat he wore when traveling Chad Logan never learned anything other than Magic Weapon. His preferred catalyst was a log, much to the awe of his classmates. He grew to a short-lived fame as Big Bat Logan, and was sadly lost to a great plague of termites. He was never seen again.

[@PressContinue]

@@DS_DoggerX AAaah I misread your comment. Big BAT Logan. Now I get it Deepest lore

[@DS_DoggerX]

@@PressContinue making a pun so bad even you don't get it feels like a lifetime achievement

[@PressContinue]

@@DS_DoggerX Yeah that's indeed quite a power to have

[@dakazze]

great timing mate, I just finished my n-th DS3 run a few days ago. Loving this vid! Btw. you are the only youtuber I ever donated money to and I dont regret it, keep up the great work!

[@PressContinue]

Thank you so much bro :)

[@dakazze]

@@PressContinue just believe in yourself and you can get to making a living from YT

[@itzpuzozle504]

Just started up dark souls again and I’m thinking about buying Bloodborne because of your videos.

[@PressContinue]

Don't think. Do

[@Zengo38]

What @@PressContinue says. Bloodborne is with a doubt the best game in the series, at least in my opinion. Played DS2 and DS1 first, but fell in love with BB, hoping they port it to PC someday

[@demonintellect9834]

@@Zengo38 An addendum to this. BB has the best single player. The pvp is pretty trash.

[@Zengo38]

@@demonintellect9834 You mean current PVP, because when it was active it was pretty great.

[@Fishster]

@@Zengo38 Best game full stop.

[@larriyrnir5756]

i like that this video isn't asking can you

[@Zengo38]

7:30 onwards is just Oscar worthy

[@Kayther33]

it puts me so sick that the solo stick build is a viable build. If edesur (light company of argentina) would be so shit and they take down the power of the zones of my country and literaly broke my RAM i would do this challenge

[@Itsnotartitstrash]

Someone once said “Speak softly and carry a big stick; Then cast bonk.”

[@miweneia]

lmfao I love how you forgot the old demon king, every challenge runner always forgets him

[@tomskeleton]

Midir confirmed most powerful boss in the game, only he could survive

[@PressContinue]

Oh I actually did fight him, as well as old demon king and obviously halflight, but those were left on the cutting floor when making the compilation at the end.

[@authenticbaguette6673]

OMG the puns, 10/10 wood bonk again. I love you, I hate you, I fear you... O, black eyes, I do.

[@nathanielsearle9822]

Damn, was old demon king too hard or something? My man got left out of the video

[@PressContinue]

LOL, I almost never include him. In fact most of the time I forget he even exists. Ironically I did fight him but it got left on the cutting floor. Staff was really effective against him. In fact, you could even get some head shots in beause of the length of the staff

[@StephanuSneed]

The Dreg Heap shortcut was probably intended tho.

[@PressContinue]

Possible. Not so sure though

[@StephanuSneed]

@@PressContinue They put an item leading you there, and it's a lot easier and clearer to see than actual unintentional shortcuts like the lower undead bourg or old yharnam ones. Also, that branch/root would serve no other purpose. It's way too convenient for it to not be intentional.

[@PressContinue]

@@StephanuSneed Yeah, it could be

[@matthijsvanbeest5093]

Just found your channel and I love you and your jokes haha

[@kamikaze4172]

4:15 quite the impressive staff

[@gunnarhaug7010]

Im 3 minutes in and this is already the pinnacle of comedy

[@TWINCASTLE777]

Your killing me!! Good stuff!! Lots of laughs

[@EzioAuditore9655]

7:22 8:20 Like one great general said once: "Hesitation is defeat."

[@quint3ssent1a]

Alternatively, you could do abyss watchers AI freeze glitch and kill them with your ordinary magical stick, and then in catacombs you can loot another dark staff (forgot the name, maybe it was Izalith staff) which also has quite good bashing damage.

[@teraclysm1912]

Can't wait for new years!!! Besides the fact that fireworks are banned in the netherlands currently. I hate my life

[@oJoaoPotter]

Get this man a maiden!

[@QuicksandJoe]

Just discovered the channel and its awesome! Its funny AND helpful which is super rare for soulsborne content. Usually its one or the other

[@funnypickles]

No I didn’t already know how to keep the dragons asleep….. this would’ve been great about 8 playthroughs ago 😅

[@jmoconnell]

Wow, never seen the jump over armor, no dragon activation trick!

[@undeadNova]

midir loves playing fetch, he gon' be sad that you left him out of this. but don't worry, I'll play with him a bit instead :D great video, been waiting for this since the dagger streams ~♪♥

[@PressContinue]

I did actually fight Midir, but he, halflight and old demon king were left on the cutting floor. (Gravetender I did skip like always though)

[@thekaz5225]

@@PressContinue how long did Midir take?

[@undeadNova]

I am safe to assume halflight got the well deserved poison treatment xD

[@PressContinue]

@@undeadNova Yes he did :)