Introduction
This guide explains some tips, strategies, and routes for farming souls. Note that you can farm souls while playing offline. For those who enjoy playing online while farming, refer to these for how to protect yourself from cheaters:
- https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2010851768
- https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1383615497
- https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls3/mods/723
- https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls3/mods/516/
To effectively farm souls, use these soul boosting items: Silver Serpent Ring+3, Shield of Want, Mendicant's Staff, and Symbol of Avarice. Ask someone to drop these items for you. You get bonus souls when you one-shot an enemy. Enemies also drop items such as upgrade materials, weapons, soul items, consumables, and their armour sets. These can be sold to the Shrine Handmaid for more souls in addition to the souls you get from killing the enemies. Refer to the guide below for how to obtain equipments necessary for farming:
https://quacksouls.github.io/ds3-farm-gears/
The following pages might also help:
- https://steamcommunity.com/app/374320/discussions/0/1637549649114692411/
- https://steamcommunity.com/app/374320/discussions/0/3896114186165258412/
- https://steamcommunity.com/app/374320/discussions/0/1744513943986003181/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/8ob2ft/best_soul_farming_place/
Below are some strategies and routes for farming souls, including approximate amounts you would get. Except for NG+0 and unless otherwise stated, the data below were gathered while equipping the Silver Serpent Ring+3, Shield of Want, Mendicant's Staff, and Symbol of Avarice. By the end of NG+0 after killing all mimics, I didn't get the Symbol of Avarice so I didn't use it to gather the data for NG+0. It was only after killing all mimics that I remembered the backup trick for farming mimics. Overall, the Grand Archives and the Ringed City are the best places for farming souls.