Dark Souls III Rings Ranked 

For concealing ring footage you can go get invaded by yellowfinger heysel because that npc invader actually does have the abilities of the concealing ring

I get why you’re not ranking the upgrades to the various rings, but I still think covetous gold +2 deserved a special mention, as it spawns after the nameless king fight... in NG+2. Hardest ring to get in the game, and fucking useless by the time you get it, as you’ve done all your farming on regular new game

For the slumbering dragoncrest ring, there's actually 2 pretty big reasons to use it over spook, 1 It requires int, 2 rings can be swapped in seconds, without a bonfire, spells can't

Flynns Ring is meant to be worn entirely without armor

I hate that cosmetic rings arent just in their own slot, because you are at a disadvantage just for using them. I can kind of understand the one that removes the hollowing look, but the rest should have their own equip slot

Pretty sure ChaseTheBro did a PvP build with the invisibility ring. Whole idea was stacking it with other invisibility egfects, and making it almost impossible for enemies to lock onto you, unless standing within a few meters.

Fun fact: you can combine the Untrue White Ring with the Hidden Body sorcery to make yourself look almost identical to the player ghosts you see while you play the game. What use does this have? Hehe, funny PvP backstab.

the flynn's ring in DS3 and its equivalent in ER are another example of fromsoft refusing to adapt DS2's good design features. in DS2 the flynn's ring effect was based on your *maximum equip load* stat. it was a flat damage boost of 50 that loses 1 point of damage for every 0.5 max equip load above 60. So you could actually wear armor and use weapons with it equipped, but you were capped at the amount of VIT you could have to get the full bonus (about 14). this also worked in hand with DS2's weight system penalizing roll distance and stamina recovery for higher weight, so there were actual penalties to having low VIT. Low VIT still limited your options for armor and weapons, but you weren't forced to be naked with a weapon no heavier than a rapier in order to use the damn talisman

14:49 #45 Morne's Ring, theres actually fourteen damaging miracles: 1. Lightning Spear(found in Farron Keep) 2. Great Lightning Spear(Warriors Of SUnlight covenant rank 1/10 sunlight medals) 3. Sunlight Spear(Soul Of Cinder's boss soul transposition) 4. Lightning Arrow(Ringed City DLC found on hidden path to Midir) 5. Lightning Stake(drops from Carthus Sandworm) 6. Lightning Storm(Nameless King's boss soul transposition) 7. Emit Force(1. yes this thing does damage, its just hard to land because the radius of the projectile is only .5 bigger than Force, it does a smaller amount of physical damage basically a weaker WOG that you have to aim, 2. obtained from Siegward's quest) 8. Divine Pillars Of Light(physical damage firestorm, found in Dukes Archives in hidden birdcage area underneath angel knight trio) 9. Wrath Of The Gods(found in Profaned Capital) 10. Way Of White Corona(Ariandel) 11. Gnaw(dark miracle from Deep Divine Tome) 12. Dohrys' Gnawing(stronger version of Gnaw dropped by Evangelist Dorhys in Irithyll) 13. Dead Again(Dark miracle from Londor Divine Tome which causes corpses to explode into dark magic which can deal damage, albeit hard to land) 14. Lifehunt Scythe(dark miracle which heals % of damage on hit, Aldrich's boss soul transposition) Morne's and RIng Of The Sun's Firstborn both raise all 14 of these

7:56 well if you use big weapons and specially masses with this ring, there won't be any shielded enemy in the game that could resist your attacks even against relatively big enemies that shield themselves like the gargoyles you would broke their stances and leave them open to critical attacks, for me it is pretty useful to explore zones with a lot of shielded enemies and knights you don't have to bother getting to their sides or back just move your big stick in their general direction and they are dead even with their elegant looking shields up. XD

“…Flynn’s ring weighs about a pound” Uh… I think you mean a “Miyazaki.” The official unofficial unit for the unitless weight system in FromSoft game is the “Miyazaki”

Bro thinks he’s rusty😭💀💀🙏 (all jokes aside, keep it up)

I have 7 playthroughs on this and I found all rings. But now that you describe all the rings back to back I realise lots of these rings are made for lore reasons. Like the dragonscale ring, as oceiros wore it to defend himself from assasins

Was looking for a ring ranking video since the game release. Great job brother ❤

One of my favorite souls channels I've found. I really enjoy your jokes and find it relatable since I always question why certain items even exist. Glad to see my feelings validated lol

5 mins in, banger video already, finna binge the whole channel at work fr

I remember using the concealing ring and the untrue white ring while using the "invisibility" spell during invasions so my character would look like those "phantoms" of other players hanging around in the same area as you. Managed to fish a few backstabs with that it was funny, but it only works once per victim of course lol

loved the making fun of matt walsh lol loyds shield did save me on a recent challenge run for a while so i gotta paise it a little more XD

Spell bad ring good unga boonga

Spam sun princess ring on and off for rapid heals. Same thing works with symbol of avarice if you want to get in rtsr range

Really fun video. Love the humor

My man's trying to make sure Rusty don't steal his ideas lol. Amazing video

Very interesting to see a non-pvp, more casual (and not meant as an insult, just not a game you pour a bajillion hours into) player's interpretation of ring value. It's wayyy different than what I would prioritize in a lot of ways, though of course there is some overlap with a few here and there. Thanks for the vid, man. It was certainly eye opening and enjoyable (and only milldy infuriating :) )

Epic build you got there im sure whatever ring setup matters a lot lol

i have a chloranthy ring, havel's ring, estus ring and ring of steel protection because i'm a defensemaxxer at heart. when i plan to getting back to goat souls 3, i feel like trading my chloranthy ring for the FAP ring, cuz i already got the grass crest shield. what do you tihnk?

just what i needed 🤞🤞

Tbf the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring is able to stack with the Crystal Sage's Rapier, the Symbol of Avarice, and maybe a rusted coin if you've got some lying around. They're good for grinding more scarce covenant items like Sunlight Medals

I don't remember if it still works but I think with the Aldrich Ruby/Sapphire you can proc it twice with GreatSwords (since the riposte animation has it hitting twice). Good Hp/Fp recovery. Hunter / Knight / Priest rings are great for SL1 runs (Creighton's Axe and Tears of Denial), but for the majority of players they deserve to stay ranked where they are. Solid list only a few that I would disagree with in certain circumstances. (Way of White Corona is extremely based and Gael-pilled)

Flynn’s ring maxes out damage buff at anything under 30 weight with a 35 percent boost. i believe

A couple of notes about certain rings you didn't mention in their sections: Untrue Dark Ring. It works to counteract the ghostly appearance of being a summon or an invader, so it's absolutely essential to pick this up every run I do. I won't argue with its placement too much because it mechanically doesn't help you with PvE, but it has a lot more use-cases and is one of my favorite rings. Concealing Ring. It keeps you invisible outside of a certain range, which is absolutely fantastic if you can deal damage from outside that range. Player characters are really easy to spot a lot of the time, so this ring is perfect for making Greatbow gravity kills possible. As for videos showing this off, Lost My Sanity has some great ones. Knightslayer Ring. There are attacks on smaller weapons designed to break shields! A lot of longswords' stance weapon arts are an example. This ring makes those a better option against the handful of larger enemies it takes more than one of those to crack open. Aldrich's Sapphire. Weapon arts can be cast if you have at least half the FP needed to cast them, so 15 FP can go a long way -- each backstab could net you a cast of Earth Seeker's Earthen Wrath, for example. Backstabs against common mooks, which are still plentiful in late game areas, still count, so if you're being frugal with your flasks you can make this ring go a long way. Combine this with Farron Ring, and you can cast something that costs 40 FP every backstab! Wolf Ring. It *is* ridiculously hard to get the +0 version, but the +1 version is really easy to find in NG+ and the DLC adds a +3 version. So it's a lot easier to get than it might seem at first. Lloyd's Shield Ring. It's a super, super popular option among people willing to micromanage their rings with quick-fingered hot-swaps. If you wear this ring when you're at full health, and quickly switch it out to, say, the Sun Princess Ring when you're not at full health, you're effectively fully benefitting from 5 total rings. It's extremely powerful and raises your effective HP by a ton. Ring of Sacrifice. It's great for those times you accidentally leave a huge puddle of souls in, like, a boss arena. That's the only other use case I can think of, but it's pretty alright Morne's Ring. There might not be that many of them, but the small handful of damaging miracles worth using are awesome! By the time you get the ones worth using you'll have the upgrade of course, but you can always wear both for incredible returns on a melee sunlight spear or something. It's a ring that enables builds and I think that's neat. Dragonscale Ring. PvP in this game is a lot about game knowledge -- the more you play, the more you understand, and the less you get backstabbed. I could see this being good if you just dabble, though. You probably absolutely want to use this if you're gonna equip a parry shield or use the L1 combo of Farron Greatsword or something, though. Priestess Ring. This ring is actually more useful on non faith builds than otherwise -- you can put your faith at 10, attune Tears of Denial, and put the ring on to cast it. This can give every single build access to the single most broken miracle in the game for super minor investment. I think it's more useful than Knight Ring. Not much to say, except that two-handing does not double your strength in this game. It's a 50% increase. This can be good if you're trying out weapons, or are min-maxed to the point where you can't use one of your options on your build without, but it's not 10 effective strength. Darkmoon Ring. Darkmoon invasions are so, so much harder to come by than normal invasions. You can get pale tongues just by dueling with a red summon sign, but for this you're better off spending a few hours farming silver knights. Chloranthy Ring. DS3 took after bloodborne in that stamina is often a non-issue. I think you might be overvaluing it a little? It's still good, of course. I enjoyed the video! Especially coming from a purely PvE perspective you have a lot of good takes. I hope my added context helps.. literally anyone. Thank you for reading.

The Hunter’s Ring is actually really good for Sharp infused weapons because you get high damage returns past 60 dex

Gladntonbe subscriber #1000!! And using undertale yellow music was so fucking cool!!!!

13:50 to expand on this statement even further, the Hunter's Ring is found right next to the roof of the Grand Archives where those 3 Angel Knights are... aka one of the single best grinding spots in the entire game. There is literally 0 reason to use the Hunter's Ring when the ultimate grinding spot is a short jog away

Maybe calamity ring is secretlythe goat for setting up RTSR with fall damage

Best ring in pve (for me) is Ring of Steel Protection 3+, it gives you like 15 or 18 absorption, slap on some medium armor (knights set) and 30 some vigor and you're unkillable.

DS2 rings next?

Lloyd Shield is PvP viable over many rings so it really shouldn't be so early on. You can just swap it out between uses and have a holy shield.

Peak mentioned🎉💯💯

As far as the Blue Tearstone Ring goes, I think the effect procs when you take an attack that WOULD put you at or under 20%. I could be thinking of a different game though.

999th sub, pretty close to 1k now

Aldrich's Sapphire is one of my favourite rings, but then again I'm a really cheap player that likes to backstab everything

Flynns ring this low is CRIMINAL I use it almost every play through since I prefer to light roll. It being a 10-15% damage bonus when you don't have armor on is huge. It was NECESSARY for my broken straight sword run (Lil)

2:26 so if u wanna lure out 1 enemy at a time from a group it’d prob be pretty gud

Gender reversal ring 1# because I'm a femboy

Flynn's ring is weird.....For some reason, it really synergized with my damage output, it just really added that little bit of damage i needed, enemies that needed 3 hits, could be killed with 2, so, yeah, situational, but useful.....

Great video G this games a masterpiece

The pikmin music was a brilliant choice

flynns ring is actually really good no armor with a light weapon the boost in attack works with every attack and with potniffs right eye its op

Did we all expect anything else but Ring of Favor at #1? Stamina, Health, Endurance. EVERYTHING YOU COULD EVER WANT!

I'd argue that Chloanthy ring is the most quintessential ring, with fap being a closer follow up. I always feel crippled without that stamina regen boost.

I didn’t know Markiplier plays dark souls

Untrue Dark Ring also gets rid of your summon appearance in other peoples worlds. Still useless, but I personally like not having a yellow glow to me every time I want to run through DS3 with a friend. Especially if we’re doing a cosplay run. If you’re a pyschopath who likes PvP in this game it’s pretty good for trolling too I guess.

What an idiot, he called the amulets "badges"!! 😂 i kid i kid. Nice video but flynns ring is actually good. The damage boost is percent based so its great for upgraded weapons.

10:05 if u have a bigger health bar then u shouldn't be using that ring anyway?

Two-handing gives 1.5x strength, not 2x strength. Knights ring is still good, but it gives +7.5 when two-handing and not +10. This is also rounded down, so at even levels you won't gain value from that extra .5 strength

Unrelated to the video but my guy you need to know how easily and with minimal effort you could do an insane Markiplier impression, you sound so much like him in a lot of this video lmao

disagreements I had flynn ring should be higher because it provides an actual affect other than some of the rings that come immediately after shield ring should be higher just for how useful it is for sl1 and I used it for a fight against havel because without it he 2 hit kill me but with the ring he takes 3 hits to kill me ring of the evil eye should be lower on the list because at the end it barely does anything and you're better off just using a ring that negates damage of the estus ring for more flask health or the ring that heals 2 hp every second two handing a weapon does not double strength but it does multiply strength by 1.5 times so knight ring gives 5 or 7.5 strength when two handing red tearstone ring should be lower due to the dangers of trying to stay low enough for its effects because you could get hit and lose your attempt at the boss +5 faith should be a little higher since most classes start with around 10 faith and with the ring you can cast tears of denial which is a broken spell and take it off immediately to open up your ring slot and save 5 unneeded levels

The stat rings are generally good for sl1

I thought the milkring boosted roll s so i was always wearing it...

Reversal ring should be worse than the phantom ring because at least throwing off invaders is a use.

In dark souls 2 the blue tearstone ring was so good, maybe they nerfed it too much

MATT WALSH JUMPSCARE

The Knight Slayer's ring is actually hot garbage in pvp cause nobody blocks. What it's really good for is any enemy type that uses spears. Lothric Knights, Silver Knights, Ringed Knights, those obnoxious hollows that just straif around you until you try to run past them, if it does spear and shield, the Knight Slayer takes it apart. Which I really appreciate cause I hate dealing with those bastards.

I've played dark souls 3

Flynn’s ring pairs well with dragon form

That's an okay tier list, but: 1) I don't understand whenever you take into account challenge runs or not, because rtsr is otherwise not nearly that applicable, don't get the gap between lloyds rings either even tho they're to be used in tandem on any limited health run 2) The sage ring becomes obsolete the moment you find the bellvine chime and put it in the other hand, which you can obtain 5 minutes after the sage ring depending on the progression. It's not essential for casting speed at all 3) Are you even taking into the account the dlc +3 rings? Most of them are busted beyond repair 4) Not about the tier list itself, but have you ever tried using soul spears or crystal soul spears as an example sorcery? I wrote a script for a sorceries ranking myself and soul stream is one of the worst spells in the game due to all of the potential damage of it getting curbed by defense, and it deals around 25% more damage than CSS assuming every single tick lands, which is near impossible, and the casting time makes it really impractical to use in most cases There's more but I'll stop here. You get a B from me

lloyds shield ring is ESSENTIAL at sl1

untrue dark ring is #1 because you look good while invading.

5 dex is pretty gud when u only have 30, that’s literally a 6th of my main scaling(this is what i had going into lorian, better than the 3 dex ring i had before)

Fap ring #1 prisoners chain #2 cat ring #3 cloranthy ring #4 life ring #5 faith+5 ring #6 regen ring #7 thats all us invaders ever need :)

We all knew what #1 was gonna be let's be honest

Ehh forget the tier list and the blackjack

2:59 the femboy Ring

find it funny you used footage of you struggling with a shielded opponent to talk about not having a use case for shield break in pve

4:25 its not true its actually even worse it increases the damage based on your equip load and not weight ratio % so increasing your max equip load is pointless for this ring and even when I had naked katana run I've got max of 11% more damage without grass shield and 8% with

21:28 the ring actually DOES get diminished in pvp, and to a laughable 2% as well, it's essentially useless and would almost never save you to any degree in pvp(Even the +3 version of the ring only goes up to 4% absorption lmfao) other than that you're right on the facts of most things but I can tell you like the unga bunga str weapons(I do too no hate just saying the playstyle is clearly showing some of the preferences in your ranking) and I can't tell if you were trying to include pvp in the list fully or not. I know you said you don't have much experience with it and most players don't delve too far into the pvp of a game that game out 8 years ago anymore, but just wondering if you tried to use pvp as a factor in this, and if so, why flynns ring is that low lol. Good video though and I'll keep my eye out for any future content of yours, keep it up man

Lol, I dont agree at all. Great video tho!

The wood grain ring has like no purpose I don’t know anybody that would use it

A bit of a rant here, but caster builds really suck in DS3. If you min-max your spell damage as a sorcerer, you'll still do more damage with a Crystal infused Lothric Knight Sword. That's fucked. Dusk Crown Court Sorcerer Staff Magic Clutch Ring Young Dragoncrest Bellowing Dragoncrest Sage Ring And Crystal Soul Spear is still outdamaged by the aforementioned sword. DS3 hates all magic users, not just Faith builds. Hells, at least faith builds actually have any utility, because of buff spells, heal spells, and Tears of Denial.

Smh, didn't even mention how calamity ring works in pvp, stacking it with clutch rings can get you comedically oneshot in full heavy armor That's it The only use

5:36 this sux even more than the other one

No way reversal ring wasn't #69...

watched a few of your videos, theyre great, would really appreciate it though if you could stop saying the r-slur in them

Your really sleeping on casters. DS3 pyro, sorceries, and miracles are totally viable. Also you keeping asking shit like "when am i going to need 15% more _____ damage?" Like bro, have you heard about min-maxing?

Hornets ring doesnt work on bosses

why the fuck do you show elden ring content when this is a dark souls video bro

Calamity ring not at the bottom, bad video

Bro sorry to be the karen of grammar but it is irithyl

Of course the FAP ring is no.1 🤣

dark souls 3 is disappointing

appreciate the ranking boost in the name of trans rights🦾🏳‍⚧