Coiled Sword Fragment
The Coiled Sword Fragment is probably the most neglected item when it comes to farming. One reason is that various alternatives exist. The other reason is that getting to the area where the Coiled Sword Fragment is located can be very difficult, especially for low-level characters.
Locations of Hornet Ring, Coiled Sword Fragment, Priestess Ring, Dark Souls III
The Coiled Sword Fragment can be traded with "Pickle Pee, Pump-a-Rum", the crow above the normal Firelink Shrine, for a Titanite Slab. However, the real purpose of the Coiled Sword Fragment is to be an infinite use Homeward Bone. After completing one round of farming in an area, use the item to return to the last bonfire you rested at. The item would save you a lot of hassle buying Homeward Bones. The Homeward miracle also acts as an infinite use Homeward Bone, as long as you have the required FP and at least 18 Faith. Finally, the Darksign is also an infinite use Homeward Bone, but using it would cost you all the souls you have. I highly recommend you obtain the Coiled Sword Fragment as early as possible as it is an immense quality of life improvement for anyone who wants to farm anything in-game.
The Coiled Sword Fragment is found in dark Firelink Shrine. This area can only be accessed after you have defeated Dancer, Oceiros, and Champion Gundyr in this order. Of the 3 bosses, Dancer is the most difficult, especially if you want to fight her early in the game and for low-level characters. I now discuss some strategies for fighting these bosses.
The Dancer is probably the most difficult of the 3 bosses in the route to obtain the Coiled Sword Fragment. If you have trouble fighting her, consider using any combination of these strategies and/or look up online for more strategies.
- Summon 3 player phantoms to help you gank the Dancer. Early in the life cycle of DS3, there was a glitch that allows you to summon the Sword Master in such a way that Dancer wouldn't be able to hit him. Using this glitch you would be able to cheese Dancer by letting the Sword Master do all the fighting for you. Unfortunately, the glitch has been patched a long time ago. However, you can still summon the Sword Master for the Dancer fight, provided you have first defeated the Sword Master near Firelink Shrine and Vordt is still alive. Before defeating Vordt, you would be able to summon the NPC Lion Knight Albert. If you summon him for the Dancer fight, he would Black Crystal out whenever you enter Dancer's boss arena. If you want to summon phantoms to help you gank Dancer, it's usually best to summon the phantoms of players rather than NPC phantoms.
Equip a medium or great shield having high Stability to block the Dancer's attacks. If you don't want to roll through the Dancer's attacks, consider using a shield to block her attacks. Experiment with various shields to see which one suits your needs. After blocking her attack, use a straight sword to hit with an R1. Buff your straight sword with Gold Pine Resin/Bundle and/or Human Pine Resin, both of which are effective against the Dancer. You can also use Charcoal Pine Resin/Bundle, but it is not as effective as the other two elemental buffs. If you want, equip the Sun Princess Ring for some HP regen as you fight Dancer.
Equip a Blessed infused weapon and the Sun Princess Ring for HP regen. Use a Chaos or lightning infused straight sword to deal damage.
Use Pestilent Mist to cheese the Dancer. This strategy requires you to do Orbeck's quest line and have 30 Intelligence in order to use Pestilent Mist.
Two-hand the Tailbone Short Sword or Spear. Go behind a pillar and weapon art the Dancer when she is on the other side of the pillar. This is similar to the Pestilent Mist cheese, but using the Tailbone weapons. The Tailbone Short Sword requires 8 Strength and 14 Dexterity, while the Tailbone Spear requires 13 Strength and 15 Dexterity. Both weapons can be farmed from the Wretches, pale dragon-like creatures in Irithyll Dungeon.
Use the weapon art of the Millwood Greatbow, a weapon found in the Ashes of Ariandel DLC. Once you have the bow and the Captain's Ashes, give the ashes to the Shrine Handmaid so that you would be able to purchase Millwood Greatarrows. Trigger the boss fight, quit and restart your game, and use the glowing flame of the Dancer's sword to help you aim. This cheese can be used even if your character is SL1. The reason is that you don't need to meet the stats requirement of the Millwood Greatbow in order to use its weapon art. However, without having the stats to wield the Millwood Greatbow, the damage output of the weapon art would be greatly reduced. Even at SL1, you can slightly increase the damage output of the weapon art by equipping Lloyd's Sword Ring, have your weight ratio below 30%, and equip Flynn's Ring. If you want, also equip the Farron Ring to reduce the FP cost of the weapon art. Ensure you have a few Ashen Estus uses and plenty, and various types, of great arrows. Consider doing Greirat's quest line, thus allowing you to purchase Dragonslayer Greatarrows and Dragonslayer Lightning Arrows.
Killing bosses from outside the room ( Millwood Greatbow glitch ) Part 1
Refer to this thread for more tips and strategies to help you fight Dancer:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/374320/discussions/0/2251182219841283313/
For some strategies to fight Oceiros, refer to this thread:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/374320/discussions/0/1752402946299336948/