How Long Does it Take To Max Out Every Weapon in Dark Souls 3?

[@-K-st4bd]

27:12 I believe that you only need 12 of each shard/large shard/chunk

[@trevthedev6134]

Ah crap you’re right I thought it was 8 for +3/6/9. I even redid that graphic from 12 per to 14 cause I second guessed myself haha. Closer to 1,700 instead of 2k.

[@AlsoMeowskivich]

same goes for elden ring

[@trevthedev6134]

I didn’t find a great spot to put this in the video as I was yapping a lot already, but when I checked towards the end of farming, I had easily surpassed 10 million souls in this play though. Enough to get into super high levels for sure…

[@MAYOFORCE]

When you said the Crystal Sage's Rapier upped item discovery when held in the off hand you gave me a horrible flash back to that goddamn staircase in Anor Londo

[@trevthedev6134]

Me too brother me too lol. My white whale is figuring out if souvenirs can be rng manipulated. I’ve sunk some hours into trying to figure that out, to no avail so far…

[@Hideyourtoes_miyazaki]

So real

[@moemouse]

Man this was a blast to watch. Thanks for the time and thought you put into this.

[@trevthedev6134]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Mekutoooon]

every new darksouls 3 videos has place in my heart

[@somebody4094]

Time is convoluted, so is lore, and challenges must be ever more so.

[@zeratulcraft]

21:50 You talk over yourself shortly after this for just a second or two.

[@trevthedev6134]

Yeah I need an editor one day haha. Splicing clips sometimes causes weirdness (especially with how the program I’m using likes to behave sometimes). One day…

[@paytonlogan8937]

Better man than I. Seeing you do this makes me feel a little weak for wanting to drop trying to get the platinum for DS3. Now I feel like I can't quit now

[@Eden_Arcane]

Absolutely legendary, good show, and a monumental effort

[@draconesetmagicae9]

I love the weapons in the souls games seeing you collect every one satisfied my brain a lot

[@Ulta_Nagenki]

My favorite challenge so far since it's something I wanna do for my 100% everything run. Basically a guide for it.

[@sansundertale9071]

This is absolutely ridiculous! Thank you so much!

[@HUnewearI]

great video, hope to see quality like this get rewarded with a lotta views and subs.

[@vantrizzle9092]

Congrats man, just found your content this evening. I did this challenge on my own accord on Dark Souls 2 a few months ago. To also include - I did not let myself fight the boss or go to the next area until I had every piece of equipment prior to it. Meaning each piece of armor and enemy dropped weapon, etc.. was long, but it was fun :)

[@GismasDismas]

Don’t forget the Pickaxe..

[@GismasDismas]

Don’t forget the Pickaxe..

[@iamquite_the_predicament7433]

That hat at 4:48 looks like Father Mozgus and it makes me want to do a fashion souls run as him

[@Jo-rz6bs]

The mozgussy

[@scottt7309]

What a trooper. Well done. Subscribed.

[@newusawhothis1868]

Very good video, your DS1 video inspired me to get every weapon in DS1 as well, I got them all I just need to more chunks and slabs, also will we see you max every weapon in Best Souls 2 Next or Elden Ring?

[@trevthedev6134]

Not sure, but I do want to tackle both at some point. Got some other stuff on the works atm!

[@newusawhothis1868]

@@trevthedev6134 Can't wait, love your work

[@XxExtremeSamX]

Shocked on that lucky Flamberge drop. I’ve never farmed it, but in all my years of playing DS3, only ONE of my characters have ever gotten it.

[@CobraDar23]

Love it trev!

[@DoomWolfOfficial]

I was going to say you should do it in Elden Ring, then you said it yourself lol

[@trevthedev6134]

One day! Not next up though haha. I think that will maybe clear 100+ hours tbh considering all the nonsense you have to do to get all the +10 stone with quest lines and such

[@solarpellets]

Yippee, unnecessarily convoluted challenges in Dark Souls games! Especially when it's a sequel that I already enjoyed. Also, completely unrelated, but we have almost the exact same number of subscribers at the moment I'm writing this comment, I just think that's funny.

[@trevthedev6134]

Haha indeed, I didn’t say it here but in the ds1 version, I said it was right on the border of interesting and stupid, which make for the best type of video! I’ve noticed that as well, it’s only right I suppose considering we both had similar videos blow up at the same time! And both redid those same videos afterwards haha

[@somebody4094]

​@@trevthedev6134 now the numbers are perfectly balanced, 7070

[@Eden_Arcane]

​@@trevthedev6134It's the numbers telling you that you ought to have a collab with her, certainly

[@Forozza]

31:29 I can only imagine how satisfying that felt

[@cheatsykoopa98]

finally, I can start playing the game now

[@bengamincopper6508]

Love these videos

[@Rudi4rius]

The return of the king

[@UdderChaosTime]

Udderly Rediculous- Good times sir :) Edit: Even without shields

[@alienhatz3265]

it's a lot faster to grind for souls in NG+ cycles

[@trevthedev6134]

Souls for sure, but I think it’s probably faster to farm chunks? Oddly enough souls weren’t the limiting factor here.

[@Scowleasy]

Would it be easier to mass farm souls from the winged knights on the roof of the grand archives? Or do the chunk drops from ringed knights make that farm faster. Also, since you need to do multiple NG+ cycles anyway, would it be easier to wait until later cycles and upgrade all at once? Unless you wanted to upgrade the NG weapons in NG, which I understand. Great content, as always

[@trevthedev6134]

I’m honestly not sure, I think the Ringed City farm is probably faster, mostly because it’s easier to kill the knights (big weapons stun them on hit), but I can’t say for certain. Idk how many souls you get per 3 ascended knights, but I think it was roughly 1,000,000 souls per hourish of farming plus chunks. It’s probably a little faster to go to NG+ for farming if I had to guess? The real limiter is was actually lack of twinkling and scales towards the end of the farm. Ended up farming rock lizards in arch dragon peak

[@JellyJman]

What an amazing video! When’s the DS2 one :)

[@trevthedev6134]

Definitely on the docket at some point, I’ve got plans for a different ds2 video soon (part of the Backlogs 2nd contest!) and want to do a Demons Souls video as well in the interim, similar to my first math souls video for dark souls.

[@Oni_Evergarden]

my goat

[@doctorobvyous]

I am by no means a good player, but I dont know about putting demon prince on par with Midir. At least for me, Midir took me a long time of hitting my head against the wall until I understood I had to play the fight at his pace (probably over 40-50 attempts, and still a while after that to put together the pieces (likely north of 60-70). I beat the demon prince within my first 10-15 attempts and I understood his patterns in about 5-8. DS3 was my second game in the series, if that context is relevant.

[@oddmuch1379]

The goat

[@Spectrum0122]

I just got.done grinding out the covenant rewards so I too understand the grind hahha

[@Joemammy69420]

Awesome video this is some mf data

[@catarana6135]

Smh didn’t multiply times 16 to get a maxed weapon of every infusion (as well as leaving one uninfused). Seriously tho good shit man

[@trevthedev6134]

Brother I ain’t waiting until the heat death of the universe haha.

[@isaacm8908]

cant wait to watch this yes'm!

[@Kumo100]

Al Weapon in Bloodborne Max Level

[@Guitarplayer22222]

Very nice.

[@xbirdshorts5075]

You sound like a sekiro hitless runner and speedrunner i know

[@trevthedev6134]

Not me! I’ve never actually played it

[@AlsoMeowskivich]

farming for some of the items in elden ring will be completely arduous, I can tell you from experience doing it myself. I didn't wind up maxing out all my weapons (yet), but I did collect everything I can on one cycle and plan on finishing my 100% collection file at some point, but getting at least one copy of every weapon in the game to +25/10 is going to take numerous NG+ cycles due to the sheer volume of weapons in the game. I'm curious, now, myself, how many cycles that will take. Surely more than NG+7...

[@trevthedev6134]

Wikis say there are 21 regular and 14 somber per cycle. I dunno offhand how many of each there are, but considering there’s like 350 weapons it’s probably NG+9 or 10

[@AlsoMeowskivich]

@@trevthedev6134 sounds about right. only 4 somber in the dlc is pretty dang rough.

[@sansundertale9071]

I subscribed bc of this

[@Data-AnalystSera]

Me, an avid pvp'er who uses cheat engine to give myself maxed out weapons to prevent burnout: oh probably like 15 minutes

[@Thehamportal]

Can’t wait to see you do this in elden ring and have to do like… at least 20-25 cycles for the ancient smithings? Idk the exact number of cycles, I’ll leave the math to you lmao

[@trevthedev6134]

Haha someone else asked, I actually think it would only take 10/11 cycles. There’s 23 regular and 18 somber I think and like 350+ weapons? I wonder if the ratio puts it exactly at 1/10 of the weapons per game cycle, that would be pretty interesting!

[@Thehamportal]

@@trevthedev6134 oh wow! I thought there were significantly less normal ancient dragons smithing stones than that. I guess I severely underestimated the dlc on that part! And that would be really cool if it ended up being exactly ten cycles

[@somebody4094]

@@trevthedev6134 no dup glith?

[@this-one]

Do Elden Ring next!

[@noodledog2]

I think your upgrade material farming method was really suboptimal. The ascended knights at the top of lothric drop around 26k each souls on ng+, with soul boosting gear you're getting 170% more souls. With three ascended knights per trip you're getting ~210k souls or 16.2 titanite chunks per trip if you're buying them from the handmaiden. They also drop chunks though nowhere near as often as ringed knights. Still, this farm is probably quicker than your run through the ringed city and nets 2-4x as many upgrade materials per run. If you pushed into higher ngs for the twin princes' weapons the farm would have been even faster. Honestly, if you chose this farm going to ng+3 might have been faster than just staying at ng+.

[@noodledog2]

I'm not totally certain how soul multipliers work but I believe they stach multiplicative. Even if my numbers are wrong and its more like 150k per run or something I still think farming the ascended knights would be way faster than the ringed knights.

[@trevthedev6134]

It’s definitely possible, though I think it’s easier to farm knights because you can hit stun them with bigger weapons and it’s easy to fight them one at a time. I would estimate that I was getting ~6-8 chunk per run, and each run was maybe 5 minutes at most? So with the souls as well, I think it would be roughly 3 runs on the knights compared to 1 run for the ascended knights. Not sure how long it would take to kill all 3 in NG+ and higher. Fwiw I have 0 doubts that this run can be optimized quite a bit. I would guess if someone truly got down to it, you could probably hit sub-50 hours.

[@trevthedev6134]

Yeah they are multiplicative. Symbol of avarice + silver ring+3 + dual Mendicant Staves (or shield of want) is a 2.916 soul multiplier. Not sure what the NG+ modifier is for the Archive game area, but it’s usually not super high for late game areas. Probably like 20-30%.

[@noodledog2]

@@trevthedev6134 I tested it because I was curious. I don't have a character at ng+, but I do have one at ng+3, the supposed ideal point to soul farm if you got every weapon. I skipped the mendicant staff because this character is strength so that would have slowed me down. Also just being strength slowed me down, I figure a dark build is probably best for getting those sweet backstab, tho maybe a mage would end up being best because the mendicant staff likely makes up the difference in time to kill. Also this character is sl 125 so underleveled for ng+3. In any case, a more optimized build could cut a decent bit off the run. The three knights netted me 213,231 souls and from standing up at the bonfire to loading back in after homeward boning post-kills the round trip was 2:35 netting you 4,952,462 souls or 381 chunks an hour. The total cost of all the upgrade materials is 51,169,800 meaning that even disregarding the upgrade materials dropped from the ascended knights you'd have all the souls you'd need in about 10.33 hours. This disregards the actual cost of upgrading the weapons I but figure the drops must at least make up for this so I'll call those two variables a wash. With a more optimal setup I wouldn't be surprised if you get get all your farming done in closer to 8.5 hours.

[@trevthedev6134]

Good to know. I guess I didn’t really have it in mind that I wanted to do as many as I could on the first NG cycle, but I kinda ended up doing that in hindsight. If nothing else I’m 100% sure that the albernauric farm in ER at NG+7 is gonna be the most optimal route for stone purchasing

[@Prettydecentdog]

What do you think is the best armour set Trevdev

[@TheTruebloodline]

I need answers for the lucerne oddity.

[@trevthedev6134]

Yes I am very curious as well

[@fghbfdhfg]

Hey man love this series. Also, what is your favorite part of these runs? (If there even is one...)

[@trevthedev6134]

Honestly collecting everything is pretty interesting. Ds3 has some quest line stuff that makes this interesting, like there’s a 10+ weapons that require Greirat to pillage / Patches questline and some other stuff

[@BenjaminGaming87]

i thought it was 12 titanite shards per category not 14

[@trevthedev6134]

Yeah I was thinking it was 2/4/8 not 6, I double guessed myself a few times haha. I even changed that graphic last second from 6 to 8. I blame it on streamer brain as they say

[@UncleBBQ]

Would it be faster to grind for souls rather than grind out enemy drops? Im not necessarily too familiar with the glitches in ds3, but is there a way to duplicate high yielding souls?

[@trevthedev6134]

I think you can dupe boss souls using a method similar to tumble buffing? But I think it s still faster to grind materials because of the sheer volume. Could be wrong though

[@SFASkater]

Nice

[@nuggetpolice9116]

What’s the point of the question if you are just going to cheese it with glitches?

[@trevthedev6134]

Interesting that that’s your takeaway here. I did it this way as I don’t feel it added much to go through multiple game cycles to collect 200+ slabs, as someone who would be doing something like this (e.g., for pvp purposes) would almost certainly dupe slabs. That was my approach anyhow. I’m gonna have to run through cycles in Elden Ring though for sure

[@EinSilverRose]

Fromsoft limiting how many final tier upgrade material you can get after Dark Souls 2 will always upset me.

[@gabriel2244]

Why didn’t you farm the fat dudes at grand archives? They are the best spot to farm souls and also drop a ton of chunks if I’m not mistaken

[@trevthedev6134]

Mostly cause the run back versus the potential reward was slower than the ringed city knight. I think the souls would probably be higher, but I was getting at least 4 chunks per knight run, sometimes twice that many, and they can drop scales. That and you can poise stun the knights but not the winged knights, so it was easiest to clear them out.

[@Prettydecentdog]

Wow

[@somebody4094]

rellana's or dancer's set of dual swords?

[@trevthedev6134]

Rellanas for sure, I used those for a good chunk of my first dlc playthrough. The dancers swords are really bad unfortunately, probably a bottom 30 weapon in DS3.

[@jake9107]

split damage is bad unfortunately :(

[@somebody4094]

@@trevthedev6134 rellana's got buffet recently or am i wrong

[@fadpanda3873]

Hey do you have 2 chanel. I swear I was subscribed but it seems not

[@trevthedev6134]

I do not

[@fadpanda3873]

​@@trevthedev6134 then I forgot to subscribe weird after watching you for 6 months