The Rarest Achievements in the Souls Series

Simply finishing a Souls game should be regarded as an achievement, and in many cases it is! However, FromSoftware also created other, difficult challenges for their achievement (trophy) lists. Today, we take a look at the rarest ones in the Souls series accomplished only by the most dedicated players. Do you hold any of these achievements? Let me know!
Special thanks to Cadarev for providing me with his Demon's Souls savefiles which made recording the necessary footage much easier.
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[@AbyssalClam]

It's funny how I have all achievements in DS1, yet I don't remember the suffering. As my first souls game, I guess it made me so happy playing it back then.

[@Sinhsseax]

Yeah, it was the exact same for me. It was just enjoyable to play Dark Souls 1 over and over again, so I did just that with the goal of getting all achievements. And before that I never really cared for achievements.

[@thehighlandfox]

Yeah I had much more pain platinuming DS3, the covenant farming needed for that game sucked hard, only slight upside was it had an active multiplayer when I went for all achievemnts in the series. Done all games at least twice now cause I do enjoy getting all achievemnts in these games

[@wp6007]

The grinding in ds1 is like a few hours tops, in ds3 it took me 20 hours ingame time, totally ridiculous, if it had the drop rates of low but reasonable like ds1 it would be way better, I had like 525 discovery, anyone doing this with like 360 or so would need like 30 hours

[@thehighlandfox]

@W;P yeah I don't really remember the DS1 grind tbh, but the DS3 grind is burned into my memory because of how long it was. There was just way too many covenants you needed to grind out

[@Danlight1911]

DS1 is easily the most repayable making it one of the few games I actually went out of my way to 100%

[@zeigknoechelbruder]

I remember farming for the sunlight medals in DS2.. Questioned my life choices quite a few times while doing it lmao

[@deathless2554]

Same, took a while.

[@yahia5476]

It took me an afternoon of nothing but farming for 6 hours straight, I lowkey enjoyed it

[@tomjones6347]

I got to rank 3 blue sentinels on standard NG lol... Took forever

[@AceAviations2]

I didn't have much trouble with that in DS2 on the Scholar version, I was at the perfect Soul Memory bracket to be able to be summoned for Skeleton Lords/Executioner's Chariot, Ruin Sentinels and I think one or two other bosses. I was able to get that Miracle without having to farm Sunlight Medals from enemies. The Skeleton Lords in particular got to feel the wrath of Heavenly Thunder over and over. I'd argue that the difficulty of that one comes down to when you go for it, Soul Memory can make it pretty easy like it did for me to get reliably summoned, or a real pain later on.

[@AceAviations2]

@@yahia5476 Was it through killing enemies or through Co-op, because if it was through co-op then it's a lot of fun, it never got old zapping the skeletons in the Skeleton Lords boss fight with Heavenly Thunder. Plus it always felt good helping others out.

[@ricklewis2068]

Mad Warrior actually has a really easy farming method. Well, easier than checking over and over. Playing through this area, you'll probably die a lot, but also have killed a lot of the enemies. If you go through and clean up and completely wipe out everyone in the nearby room and on the top of the ladder, so they don't spawn anymore, you can use the Unveil spell. Simply rest at the bonfire, then cast it. If it goes up and at an angle towards him, he's there. If it just drifts off, he's not, so rest at the bonfire and cast again.

[@catalystz]

Awesome alternative for anyone not on PC or the PS3. Or not wanting to deal with the Task Manager!

[@robertwalton434]

I can’t prove it, but it feels like there is good and bad rng based on every warp (not every rest). So if you get nothing after a couple tries, warp to the same bonfire and repeat. I swear that sped the process up, but maybe ds2 drove me insane.

[@broomybroomybroomy]

Can confirm that the rumored PS3 method floating around worked wonderfully for me. When resting at the bonfire, I could hear my PS3 disc "chunk" a few more times when reloading the belfry area with the Mad Warrior. I was guessing with 90% accuracy when listening. Took me less than half an hour for all kills.

[@mike_and_jan]

This is the method I used and it worked great. Still took at least 1 hour of farming if I recall correctly.

[@Dravianpn02]

@@robertwalton434 yes. Warping works better than resting. I warped everytime I checked, have done that for 2 characters and had faster results than resting.

[@nichtsoeren4384]

I'm just glad they didn't have a all rings achievement in DS2, as the rings for deathless and bonfire-less would probably be impossible for most casual players

[@catalystz]

What about 1000 invasions or 1000 Red Phantoms LOL.

[@meestersecure9060]

Fuck the casual players lol

[@exherbo]

ds2 is the only game i ever did deathless and bonfireless, those rings in pvp are quite nice

[@MdSans-pm5bl]

Lord help me if dark souls 2 had rings achievement I have the platinum achievement for ds2 and it was such a time consuming bullshi i would rather get all other achievement and play the game 3 times on same character Than farm these stupid sunlight medals

[@minerman60101]

I'm proud to have all achievements in DS1. I had my melee player do Knight's Honor, and then I based a sorcerer playthrough on getting all sorceries and pyromancies, and finally a cleric playthrough to get all miracles.

[@catalystz]

Damn, actually role-playing the achievements. That's awesome.

[@qwopiretyu]

@@catalystz the Vaati playthrough

[@SteezyMPeezy]

I collected them all on one character, may chaos take the world

[@RIBAYRO]

Tbf if you have a build with 10 int, you can get them all on one character (you can lower the faith requirement for the sunbros covenant by aiding people online). However, recently, I started out with a str faith build, so that locked me out of the sorcery trophy on this character. Guess it's time for a new character.

[@TheDeadeyeLucario]

I also got platinum in DS1 as well!

[@MajorMokoto]

I'm one of the few that has Knights Honor. Omg that grind was insane. But I also felt so great when I did it. It took weeks, using the wiki's, and keep tracking on that global spreadsheet of which I had and where to go next. In the end I'm glad I did it. Getting AA in DS1 holds a special place in my heart and is honestly fondly remembered.

[@doopsnoggllc]

to me, knights honor felt like a brutal workout. it sucked when I was doing it, but god damn I was proud of myself when it was complete.

[@Sinhsseax]

I distinctly remember planning out everything rigorously only to make a second cursed Artorias Greatsword with the soul of Sif, which led me to play a fourth Playthrough to get another. (I think, the "cursed" does not get displayed in the ascension menu, only the base weapon is different) It felt great when I finally got the achievement, but I was so nervous when ascending to the Artorias Greatsword to get it.

[@Zengo38]

Same here, I still don't know how I had it in me to do it twice when Remaster came. Still, getting that platinum is one of the best badges one can earn in gaming, the same as the rest of the souls series.

[@georgiestuff]

It took you weeks? What were you doing the whole time. I recently did it for my 2nd time on the remaster and it took me 29 hours to get all achievements. Not bragging just genuinely curious as to why it took so long

[@MajorMokoto]

@@georgiestuff uh yea that's weeks of playing. 4 hours a day or so just following wikis that were not perfect. I did this in PtDe even. Not sure why you're focused on that.

[@zKrustenkaese]

The requirements for the Knight's Honor achievement are still weird to me. You need Grant from Leeroy, but you don't need the Barbed Straight Sword from Kirk, or the Notched Whip from Jeremiah. Channelers Trident, but not the Titanite Pole. You can just buy the Crescent Axe, Demon's Spear, Giant's Halberd and the Stone Greatsword instead of having to farm them.

[@ballisticthreat]

I still remember the pain of farming the Channeler's Trident xD

[@uziburner]

@@ballisticthreat that chandler trident was the worst thing lmaooo. had me having 10 humanity and the silver serpent ring and made me question everything for at least 4 hours of farming it.

[@davidkamps9879]

@@uziburnerbummer dude it took me like 8 minutes lmfao. I’ve heard nothing but horror stories but I had no bad farming experiences outside of dark moon covenant.

[@Daerilys]

​@@ballisticthreatI got it with my first kill when i went to farm it💀

[@mitchsz]

Getting rings and gestures in DS3 made me insane so I can't even imagine the torture of the ones from Demon's e DS1 shown in this video

[@mozkuthehermit5909]

Ds1 100% completion is not that hard actually I don't even know why people don't seem to be able to 100% over 10 year old game, be it vanilla playing or using exploits (using exploits saves up 15-25 hours worth of gameplay) In techicality Ds2 is hardest to 100% complete You can't manipulate luck just like in different entries, Ds3 is one of easiest to complete, Ds1 and remaster becomes absolutely laughable to 100% when you do item dublication exploit (I did it for remaster to see how much faster it makes completion, og Ds1 i did vanilla and it isn't that hard in the end so i don't know why people don't just do it when it is literally easier than Ds2 100% completion) Ds2 NPC quest lines in the aren't that hard but you will need get them right get go or you are either: 1- Start new playthrough 2- Do character savings on different folder (this is absolutely must to do) 3- Try different route and do that then try again in new playthrough (NOT RECOMMENDED, Benhart/Lucatiel won't even survive NG+ so good luck, ou and bosses aim for NPC partners more likely when you are doing NPC quests) Ds2 grinding is so rng depended, it depends on if Miyazaki and RNGesus are having good day, otherwise just prepare for one of longest grind sessions Or just sacrifice cattle and hope it pleases Miyazaki and RNGesus

[@Cheshire_Cat137]

The gestures one is easy. At most you just need NG+ because Heysel's gesture can't be obtained if you do Sirrus' questline, so you can only get one of the two on one NG playthrough.

[@krisudon]

​@@mozkuthehermit5909 I definetily agree with that. With the exploits Ds1 just isn't that hard. I wonder why Catalystz only mentioned the exploits in the end. Overall for me Ds2 was the toughest one or maybe ps3 DeS. Ps: I completed the Lucatiel questline in NG+.

[@cheefqueef6494]

I got all the rings in DS3 but I sold one of them because it was a convenant ring iirc and now it doesn't even register when I acquired the last one that I remember.

[@yogxoth1959]

DS3 100% was a lot worse for me than DS1 or DeS.

[@mediawatcher9225]

Master of rings in ds3 was such an insane grind, though not as bad as killing the knights over and over again

[@meestersecure9060]

I lost my save with only two achievements left, not starting over rip

[@0GuruCS]

I know it’s been awhile but I really don’t remember the wolf ring in DS3 being that difficult to get. However, that grind for the Darkmoon Ring was a pain in the ass lol

[@fyrdup]

Same here. For me it's because I could use a low level character to get invasions as a watchdog and grind the 3 ghru on the bridge. I don't think I got summoned as a darkmoon even once, even at sl120.

[@zj6801]

Darkmoon blade farm.

[@tunar_karimov]

that glass stuff for wolf ring was much easier, the enemies themself were easier to kill and there were more than 1 good farming spots, and the drop rate felt much higher imo

[@beegyoshi1685]

​@@zj6801oh yeah i remember those silver knights

[@50-50_Grind]

I grinded for the Darkmoon Ring offline. It took a very long time but I enjoyed it.

[@gabriel_cooper]

damn the editing is really good here, i love the card designs for the achievements, great stuff! :D

[@catalystz]

Glad you enjoyed that one! Thought it would be a fun addition ^^

[@LEO_M1]

Getting the Channeler’s Trident for Knight’s Honour was such a pain.

[@xDamage69]

thats why you ask a friend to give it to you xd

[@the_bee_is_me]

I feel so lucky. I just completed all achievements last week for DSR, and I got my Channeler's Trident on my first run through Duke's Archives

[@athehybrid]

i got it second try farming

[@TurtleSoop]

​@amg5414 same but stone shield took me for fucking ever. Also sick ok computer pic

[@athehybrid]

@@TurtleSoop the silver knight shield took me 90 minutes, I got 12 spears and like 5 swords in the process of that

[@rusty7448]

I did the 100% in DS3 this fall. Those covenants....still bring some PTSD.

[@TheDeadmanTT]

The rarest achievement is being able to buy a Ps5.

[@erfgs455]

Then I did it lmao

[@catalystz]

Why do you think the only PS5 footage in the video I had to grab from someone else lmao

[@blade4306]

The ps5 is available everywhere now..

[@greycl9udslol396]

The Ps5 has no games

[@pinkkfloydd]

The ps5 hasn’t been hard to buy for almost 2 years now

[@uhTrance]

The editing on this video is actually insane! I remember guiding my friend through Dark Souls 1 to get all the achievements. I forgot to tell him to pick up the blue, red and white titanite slabs and ended up having to do a lot more farming, He was not best pleased

[@catalystz]

Thanks a lot Trance! Glad you enjoyed and I feel really sorry for your friend 😅. Farming is the worst!

[@Zentheria]

I remember completing Dark Souls PTDE 100%, i was so proud of myself.

[@Useless-Gameplay]

This video is a masterpiece. Nice job Cata.

[@catalystz]

Thanks so much for enjoying it!

[@blasthf]

I'm always so shocked at how high the production value is on these videos. Thanks for the pog content king.

[@yikes6969]

bro is shocked 🤯

[@takoyaki8898]

that pure bladestone drop broke me more than all of the souls games combined

[@LuciferLuckless]

I think Magic Weapon's rarity might have less to do with the Enchanted Falchion specifically, and more to do with the way the specific infusions work. Both the Magic and Enchanted upgrade paths reduce physical damage and str/dex scaling, in exchange for adding magic damage that scales with int. The difference between them is that the Enchanted path reduces the physical damage more harshly, in exchange for more magic damage and better int scaling. On an int based build, this is basically always preferable over the Magic path, which would only be better in some kind of hybrid str/dex/int build. But even then, it would only be marginally better, and using a regular weapon with a spell to buff your weapon would probably be much better still, so Magic weapons don't have much of a niche. The Divine and Occult paths have a similar split, with Occult weapons being the Enchanted parallel with better magic damage and Faith scaling. But the difference here is that Divine weapons have a much better niche due to the special Divine modifier that it adds to weapons. This not only causes it to do more damage against certain enemies, including some bosses, but it also has the very useful advantage of permanently killing skeletons, even while their necromancers are alive. This means that players wanting to take on Nito in particular are more likely to want to invest in a Divine weapon. The Fire and Chaos paths are even more diverse than the int and faith upgrade paths. Fire weapons don't scale at all, doing a fixed amount of split physical and fire damage, which is just more damage than an equally leveled chaos weapon at base. However, Chaos weapons' fire damage scales with the amount of humanity you have on you. This means that if you are comfortable with the risk of having a lot of humanity on your person at all times, a Chaos weapon is preferable as it would have better damage, but if you would rather not risk losing a bunch of humanity on death, a Fire weapon is preferred for its safer and more consistent damage. So unlike every other weapon upgrade path in DS1, Magic doesn't really have any niche where it is the best option, so if you are using any kind of guide or wiki to help you, you are unlikely to bother wasting a rare Titanite Slab on a rather mediocre upgrade path, except specifically for the achievement. And if you aren't using a guide, a +10 Magic weapon is locked behind the Large Magic Ember, which can only be found by back-tracking through an area you have already completed to return to a boss arena you are already done with which happens to be very different to the first time you went through it, which isn't something that every player is going to think to do. So overall, a +10 Magic weapon doesn't really appeal to anyone but achievement hunters, which I think explains why it is the least used upgrade path in DS1.

[@draexian530]

Thanks for wording this better than I could have. I was aware that Magic was largely inefficient, but not why, exactly.

[@KonguZlap]

Chaos is also slightly ahead of Fire in terms of achievements (by about 0.6%) and Chaos also has a famous meme with it with the GiantDad meme build, of which the Chaos Zweihander is a part of. (the 'Bass Cannon')

[@draexian530]

@KonguZlap no cap, that build slaps hard. I have one with three black flames that has seen the most multi-player activity on my account. Truly a build meant for chaos.

[@Blernster]

catas videos are always top quality

[@Simte]

Loved the editing Cata. This video was certainly a nostalgic experience to say the least. My favourite category to run was all achievements on PC and lord of the ring on console, I was terrible at it but seeing those achievements pop up was so great.

[@derstehwahn6094]

Thanks for the throwback - As soon as you mentioned the Mad Warrior I instantly remembered closely watching my RAM usage in the task manager. Good times :D

[@aquariustigaan]

The amazing production value of this video is what shocked me the most. Outstanding! Well done!

[@Mercah_koondial]

Great video! The level of editing and writing is unmatched. Praise the sun!

[@Speedself]

Man, your videos are always a pleasure to watch, the amount of work put into them really pays off!

[@catalystz]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed.

[@IdiealotPSN]

I have all the achievements in each game, I referenced your DS1 all achievement speed runs several times. You’re the best!

[@chadiac101l5]

Fun fact for the Great Chaos Fireball. Just use bonfire ascetics to advance Wellager’s area to NG+2 and get the spell

[@rohuffgamingakaLea1576]

I read that doesn't work

[@tardistrailers]

FromSoft probably used their achievement systems to encourage players to do PvP. And honestly, it's so much more fun to fight people online, than to mindlessly grind Grus in DS3.

[@leme686]

Is it still viable tho? I head that its impossible to be summoned as a blade of the darkmoon..

[@tardistrailers]

@@leme686 Haven't played in a while, but last year I could get all covenant items required for the achievements in DS Remastered through multiplayer alone. I'm not even that goot at PvP, but sometimes you just spawn in as an invader to see the host immediately die to a random enemy and you get your reward anyway.

[@BadDayTheatre]

​i mean i just farmed 80 dragon scales in like 3 days with path of the dragon duels in dsr, these games are still pretty active so its worth a shot @@leme686

[@potasama]

Great video cata, thank you! I've got all achievements in all souls games, but i remember the DS2 sunlight medal farm taking the longest.

[@TheEricCayetano]

I appreciate that you made a video about this. Did the soulsbornekiroring gauntlet last year. Proof of a concord kept was hell.

[@TheAntiSanta]

It's always crazy to me how a much larger % of people were willing to mess around with World Tendency in Demon's Souls, than get halfway through NG++ in Dark Souls 1. Like, in your average achievement hunting, non-speed running play through of Dark Souls 1, you're going to come across everything else you need doing the other achievements. Or at least that was my experience in 2013, when I read the wrong thing online, and thought I just needed all the boss weapons, and got the achievement when I got the third Sif Soul Weapon (and then went to Anor Lando to kill the correct person first in the Orenstein and Smough, because I accidentally killed the same guy the first cycle).

[@catalystz]

It's interesting indeed. I would guess that either people are just not willing to replay the games several times or maybe that World Tendency changing the game in sometimes pretty significant ways makes people curious about what happens.

[@aeternis7680]

@@catalystz or people don’t like ds2 kek

[@mozkuthehermit5909]

I did enjoy playing Ds2 but i can understand why people hate Ds2 in the end It's much more realistic take on Characters, so you are not some amazing fantasy character from Ds1 but much more grounded and clunkier dark fantasy character Stat system was absolutely best in the series and gave more options than other games compared Story is really good when you start investing in it, way better than Ds1 but of course Ds3 and how it handled finale was just masterful, right way to end triology I have grinded Demon Souls, Ds1, Ds2, Ds3, sekiro and Ds1 remastered for 100% completion In my opinion, Ds2 is hardest to 100% complete because of its bs mechanics and NPC quest lines Normally if you just play Ds2 for story, it is amazing game but for 100% completion... it becomes god forsaken game You can't even manipulate that well luck just like any other game in the series so that alone makes grinding absolutely RNG depended You start thinking sacrificing goats or any cattle just to please Miyazaki and RNGesus

[@bongosmcdongos4190]

Demon souls had a very dedicated and small cult community.

[@victor_734]

Agreed, I’d rather play through DS1 three times than screw around with world/character tendency

[@Ashewyn]

Excellent story telling and editing as always cata 🤝

[@catalystz]

Thank you very much for the kind feedback, Ashe! 🤗

[@bamboozle1630]

Amazing video. Love the editing, graphics and commentary. Keep up the good work!

[@maxchrysler7925]

The graphics and sound effects effects you made for this video were very well done.

[@TheOnyxMage]

Got all the achievements for DS1, i'm ashamed to say i broke a controller over Seath's tail. For my defense, the runback was brutal and his hitbox kept me from reaching his tail in the first place. Amazing video, Cheers!

[@catalystz]

I don't blame you at all. The Seath tailcut is an extremely frustrating task. The best strat we have is quitting out before the fight which messes with his AI and he turns around at the start of the fight, exposing the tail.

[@Sunny-di3ef]

I remember having to go through the knights honor achievement with mobs that drop an item at like 1% rate, and also you needed 3 sif souls for it so ng++ was necessary It took me 36 hours

[@BigSpud]

Your video production is absolutely top-tier. Great work!

[@SergioSergio12345]

I really appreciate the music in this video, such as Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist OST in the middle, and Spark The Electric Jester 3 OST at the end.

[@commando_vol]

When I was achievement grinding for dark souls 1 I thought it would be a great idea if I just got everything done in one play through considering you basically have to go into ng++ for all the boss soul weapons. Keeping track of everything and making sure I didn’t cancel out anyone’s quest line probably was harder then anything I have ever done in school.

[@OdenDChad]

What quest lines? I mean you only need to worry for leah and logan's quest lines everything else you can do while not even looking just repeating same cycle of playong a game in no particular order. And to enter darkwraith covenant that was only pain in the ass.

[@xenorasgaming]

Great Video Cata! Elden Ring Achievements were ridiculously easy compared to all the DS ones.

[@leme686]

Was done with them in 40h. Ye a lot easier than I was expecting. Could've easily been a nightmare if they had a "All unique weapons" achievement..

[@floris-janadriaansen3787]

This might be the best souls video I've ever seen! Thanks for making this!

[@thematt6705]

9:35 Northern Regalia can be acquired on your first playthrough. After you acquire Soulbrandt, use a Shard of Archstone to return to the Nexus, enter world 2, and go to the blacksmith to perform the upgrade and start NG+ with it.

[@Capta1nAsh]

I'm shocked to be honest, I thought DS1 was the easiest to complete.

[@Victim5]

i recognise your name. You're Dark Souls Platinum guide was a huge help :)

[@naktiluka]

I'm surprised that in DS3 rarest achievement was about rings, not about miracles. I thought miracles to be harder because one can give rings to other player, but not miracles. However I couldn't find somebody who would borrow me their ring so i farmed it myself. Also i didn't give it to anybody else since then. So i suppose ring sharing is not that common :D

[@catalystz]

I suppose what helps the Miracles is that you can do it in just one NG cycle? But you are right, you have to get both Medals and Proofs while also paying attention to some quest lines.

[@naktiluka]

@@catalystz you must be right. When I finished my very first playthrough, I was missing only a few miracles: covenant rewards (I didn't PvP) and soul transposed ones. So one could plan their single cycle and then move to PvP or other games.

[@brunopaynejunior8285]

Catalystz's videos - never expected, always appreciated.

[@Bhubnipz]

Good video bruv. The numbers were about what I expected, I 100 percented Sekiro and DS3 because I just liked playing them and needed something to strive towards but my love for the souls games wasn’t enough to push me to 100% DS1 or 2 lmao

[@therealatomic6170]

Ahh finally content, Les goooooo

[@rokudodamaza]

14:02 I remember using a spell or miracle everytime I sit to know if mad warrior spawned. If I remember correctly it was a miracle and a light spawns and goes to nearest enemy or invader in the area. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

[@M2Brad]

Yeah, it's called unveil. I used the same strat.

[@catalystz]

Yes! That's a great alternative for anyone not on PC or the PS3. Definitely helps a ton and if you are going for Master of Miracles you will have it anyways.

[@victor_734]

I definitely did that, pretty effective method

[@Armstrong5687]

I have completed 7 platinum trophies for these games, i haven't done the original demonsouls. Really fun challenge and made me find my favourite game series. It took me 5 months but you know what would do it again.

[@MrTrueCaller619]

The video editing by this guy is amazingly professional, respect to U good sir .

[@commentor5915]

Hello! :)

[@nooberdooper]

As someone who has 100% all of the souls games, I found this very interesting and accurate. Just as painful and fun as I remember!

[@igormmx]

This is an incredibly well edited video, pleasure to watch.

[@lacrimamea9760]

Top notch video! Always pleasure to watch

[@Fronkville]

Love the production quality

[@SpencerKerr]

I also remember getting Knights Honor, very fondly. Scouring the wiki's, all the playthroughs, my roommates looking at me like a weirdo for an entire weekend. Good times.

[@mr.gertrud]

The editing is so clean! Keep it up^^

[@sajidiftekharneloy329]

Such a wonderful and insightful video. You deserve more subscribers. All the best.

[@Tcgiantsfan123]

Absolutely loving your content keep it up man

[@wheatbreadcrumbs]

I've recently 100%'d DS1, honestly it's pretty fun. You can fill a lot of the requirements for the collection achievements just by enjoying and thorough first playthrough imo

[@JojenReed]

Excellent video as always, Cata! Very well made and engaging. Can't believe this is how I learn I didn't need the ghost blade 🥲

[@sowhazupguy]

This is such a good video. It's really well edited and well stated.

[@burningknight7]

This is top tier content, good writing and excellent editing

[@pukebae3678]

Loved it, all the custom graphics you made look stunning (the book especially), hope you're doing well! :)

[@catalystz]

Thanks a lot, pukebae! The book was a very cool thing to work on and it turned out fantastic. Can be reused as well! Cheers.

[@EditorJohn_TIRL]

Great vid, AMAZING video editing!

[@madengineerkyouma]

Didn't expect Spark the Electric Jester 3 music there at the end, good taste.

[@towelie1313]

I would've bet all my money that DS3's Master of Rings were #1. I had such a hard time with this one (the farming almost made me lose my mind). DS1's Knight's Honor was a such a relaxing time in comparison, possibly because I got the Trident on my first try :D

[@augustday9483]

The editing on this video is so good!

[@mezo998_]

Bro the edit alone is superior Truly a great video

[@GravesOGDS]

haha this video brought back so many memories from ds1... the farming of the eyes of reprisal in the painting world omg... and THOSE SILVER KNIGHTS YOU HAD TO KILL 1000000 TIMES FOR KNIGHTS HONOR... good old days :)

[@GravesOGDS]

and the sorcerers staff ...

[@saucyjack4936]

14:16 I don’t know why I’m shocked every time I get reminded you’re czech lol

[@WoobertAIO]

12:20 gotta say, your taste in background music is exceptional, and Wizard of Legend is a really underrated game.

[@yummines]

Oh DS1. I remember that most playthroughs I would end up with several copies of each Silver Knight Weapon because the shield was the highest stability mid shield in the game, and in DS1 weapons that used twinkling did not require a slab to fully upgrade. But I would always get a spear or sword several times before the shield for some reason.

[@marsvin55]

dan i have to say the editing and effects are superb! This is amazing. keep ir up

[@alextalker5979]

Feel like mentioning it here, as if you have the fortune to farm Mad Warrior in DS2, give Unveil method a try. Unlike relying on the console sounds or RAM usage, you will only need to clear the Belfry and maybe the part below the bonfire so that enemies no longer spawn. Then you practically spam Unveil and rest if the invader hasn't spawned. Also, don't forget to use Delicate String from the blood covenant, it might help with the spawn rate 😅

[@RoboArmadillo]

I have all achievements in Dark Souls, it's one of the few games I've played that I have gotten all of the achievements for. Knight's Honour was tedious (farming the trident took nearly an hour), but I'm so glad I did it. Funnily enough, Knight's Honour seems to be much more enjoyable than some of the achievements for the other games in this video. Elden Ring achievements seem to be so much easier to obtain, as I've only played the game once, and I have all but four achievements (2 of which are endings and 1 is all achievements).

[@catalystz]

Nicely done! I am not an achievement hunter myself but if you truly love Dark Souls it definitely seems doable within a couple of hours. I share your sentiment. I was sure to find some DS3 achievements much higher on the list.

[@Voidclowns]

Great video Cata!!

[@mic01851165]

Kinda sad Elden Ring doesn't has collect all weapon trophy again. I farmed and collected all of the weapons in Elden Ring, and some of them have lower drop rates than DS1 weapons. Some are even harder to farm too with 1% or lower drop rate as well (The Giant Horn in Helict Tree :)) Not to mention Eden Ring has so many weapons to collect, thus might make it even lower completion rate

[@elvickRULES]

14:00 ish, just clear the enemies in the rooms around you until they don’t spawn anymore. Then cast Unveil after standing. The spell will either go up (no spawn) or toward the ladder (spawn). Rinse, repeat.

[@makuta6500]

I feel even better in having completed ds1 all achievements. It was worth it

[@mike_and_jan]

This video got me thinking it'd be cool if you could do a video on some of the hardest to obtain items throughout the Souls/Sekiro series (irrespective of achievements). I am pretty sure Dark Souls 2 takes the cake with the two Illusory Rings and even more so with the nearly impossible to obtain Lingering Dragoncrest Ring +2 and Ring of Thorns +2.

[@sebastiannettles9076]

Fantastic editing

[@benzym]

The master of rings trophy was actually one of my easiest ones outside of the boss ones, it was the pyro sorcerer and miracles were the ones that were a drag because they were tied to covenants (wolf swords bloodgrass was farmed 30 in about 2 hours for me so the wolf ring i got literally before I started ng+1)

[@goldsocks9999]

That PS3 trick is the funniest yet logical thing that I didn't expect from achievement hunting

[@arabidllama]

I really dig all the motion-tracked 3d titles and stuff!

[@depotheose7890]

additionally to all the thigs you listed for the prayer of a maiden one, you aso have to kill gwyndolin for the sunlight blade. Meaning, you either have to betray the covenant you spend a long time ranking up in or have to play the ng+ all the way until anor londo

[@TheGamingCamel22]

Watching this, I feel very proud to have gotten the platinum on the OG DeS, and yes Pure Bladestone was the biggest issue for me.

[@romanshokai]

THIS VIDEO HELPED ME GET THE THE LAST MIRACLE WHICH WAS SUNLIGHT SPEAR THANK YOU

[@KxngStrange]

The editing in this video is next level. Good job. Wow

[@driphearts8035]

The most terrifying achievement list someone could ever have would be all the achievements in Dark Souls 2 except for "This is Dark Souls".

[@thematt6705]

8:28 Enchanted offers higher INT scaling in exchange for lower base damage. For a high level character, Enchanted is basically a direct upgrade to Magic. Considering the materials required, and your likely progress in the game at that point, it's easy to see why so many players forego this upgrade path.

[@Electric0eye]

The editing here is really nice

[@VirtualAxiom]

DS1 was my first platinum back on PS3, and it created a monster. I've since completed it 4 times total (2x each version), DS2 4 times (2x each version), DS3 twice, Demon's Souls 3 times on PS3, and Bloodborne twice. Haven't gotten around to Sekiro or the Demon's Souls remake yet, and I'm in the process of completing Elden Ring, but I haven't had much time for them recently.

[@KonguZlap]

This video inspired me to get all achievements in the Dark Souls trilogy. I already had all of them in Bloodborne and Elden Ring, and this video made me go for it, and now I have them. Dark Souls 2 was definitely the smoothest of the trilogy -least amount of covenant farming, it felt like, since a number of spells can be bought from Wellager on NG++ thankfully enough. Dark Souls 3 and 1 felt equally painful for different reasons, in DS3 it was mostly covenant item farming, going for other stuff like rings was whatever. in Dark Souls 1 the various different types of titanite plus having to get a +10 weapon for every single boss soul item... it meant a lot of farming for titanite shards of various types, and I do not miss Demon's Souls or Dark Souls with their various different upgrade materials. That streamlining of upgrade materials that DS2, Bloodborne, DS3, and ER have is something we take for granted these days but MAN it's so much nicer.

[@LargeMetallicFellow]

The greatest sense of pride I've felt in gaming was getting every achievement in the Dark Souls trilogy and Elden Ring.

[@imcouch]

this is the best one i've ever seen thank you

[@Paradukes]

Just got Knight's Honour last night (And the Dark Soul achievement with it). I hadn't realised it's the rarest achievement in the series, but I'm not in the least surprised 😂 I already got the Dark Soul achievement for Dark Souls II quite a while back, and if I'd realised how long it would take to farm up the covenant materials, I likely wouldn't have done so, but I hit a sunk-cost point and decided to stick with it. I might still go for Dark Souls III, and it's good to know that the rings are the hardest part of that one. On the bright side, it sounds like it's more manageable than the other two games, at least.

[@11DrinkEnergy]

Just a few days ago i got channelers trident in ds2 from squeky birds with the something smooth and silky thingies, and it was a pleasant surprise because prior to that i didnt know the damn thing existed in ds2

[@Malysitos]

Quite the coincidence that this video dropped in my feed, I’m currently getting all achievements in DSR, just so I can finish both the original and remake. Last thing I need is Sif’s and Gwyn’s soul (and the Dark Lord ending) to get all achievements in the remaster.