Grinding to the Max Level in the Tutorial of Dark Souls III 

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Imagine 50 years from now , dark souls is already dead and forgotten when, suddenly someone uploads a time lapse video of them reaching max level in undead asylum only

“Do not kill the sword master until later” bold of you to assume I *could* have killed him at the start

I don’t know why but for some reason I actually expected him to get to max level in the starting area

Finally we can go hollow in peace, knowing that our desire to see this video has been fulfilled.

Small funfact: The foggate at the shrine is not connected to a "the outside world is not fully loaded" reason. After many tests i decided to hack myself through the fog to see how much is loaded on the outside and everything is loaded quite well. So in the end, i've absolutly no idea why the firelink fog exists but loading durations is not the answer.

Btw, the area outside firelink doesn't take forever to load, the game doesn't load it by default because most people stay inside firelink. The game waits a standard amount of time the developers thought would be adequate for people to utilize firelink and maybe explore after. This helps with load time when traveling to firelink so often.

Great work once again! I'd agree that Firelink Shrine doesn't count as a different area from the tutorial/ cemetery btw. Not just out of convenience but because I don't trust area title cards as the sole factor in what distinguishes a location. I already disregard that in Dark Souls 1 in a bunch of places for a variety of reasons.

You can walk between the shrine and the Cemetery without a loading screen or fast travel. Its all part of the beginning area no matter what people says.

If I was stuck in a swordart online scenario but in the dark souls universe I would definitely spend 10 years tryna to get to max level 😂

tbh getting the jump right first try is more impressive than the gundyr fight

By the way, those are Hollow Clerics, the Grave Wardens appear earliest in the Cathedral of The Deep. They do appear in the Untended Graves as well. The Grave Wardens wield Grave Warden Twinblades that deal bleed damage, and you can get their entire set and (armor and weapon) from loot drops. I do not know why Hollow Clerics are there in the first place, but I am glad the Grave Wardens are _not_ in Firelink & the spawn grave area. They are annoying AF.

This hits different because I've done Convergence mod runs with the starting gifts that reduce damage or health to 1/4th, and farmed quite a few levels before the mods Gundyr replacement...

A madman is surely busy grinding it, the souls community deserves it

Im lvl 505 and still playing my first character in DS3. God I love the grind

That wait at the fog wall felt just as endless in real life.

Thanks for the guide. I am finally confident enough to enter the next area after grinding for 10 years.

Always great to see an upload from you my guy as they're always pretty quality and a good time, not sure how I missed this one over the Holidays but I'm glad I found it in my recommendeds.

For anyone wondering about Elden Ring: From the bonfire down the pit you can kill four enemies and get back to the bonfire in 30 seconds (done using hero). The enemies give on average 50 souls per run (each one can drop 11 or 14). Average 100 souls per minute, 6000 souls per hour. Since I don't know how to calculate the total souls required for max level and I haven't seen a number for it anywhere I'll just use the total of 20,150,000 to reach level 205 that's given on the wiki. 20,150,000 / 6000 = 3358 hours 3358 / 24 = 140 days Let's say you spend 12 hours a day farming, so 280 days. Or 9 months and some change. Or about one human pregnancy. Just to get two stats maxed out. Out of eight. To do some rough extrapolation: Every 89 levels maxes out a stat, since each start at 10 (and I believe all the classes are stat balanced). To go from level 1 to level 90 takes 1.5 million souls (Which you could actually do in about three weeks of 12 hours per day. Very reasonable, as far as things like this go, at least.). To go from level 90 to 179 takes 11.4 million more souls. That's about an 8.6 fold increase on the total number of souls. Assuming that holds steady then getting your third stat maxed out takes 110.4 million, your fourth takes 946.8 million, your fifth takes 8.1 billion, your sixth 69.6 billion, your seventh 597.2 billion, and getting all of your stats maxed out takes 5,121,463,205,083 or 5.1 trillion souls. That would be 853,577,201 hours, 35,565,717 days, 97,440.3 years. Let's hope that rough extrapolation is very, very wrong. Even on a computer that could simulate that run 100 times per second that would be 5000 souls per second, 300,000 souls per minute, 18 million souls per hour. And even then that would still take the computer 32.5 years.

Grinding max skill points before tutorial geni in sekiro

I knew you would do this from the last video you posted finally i can see this, love your videos dude keep it up

I have been waiting for this!!! Thank you 🙏 🙏🙏

Hi I just recently found your channel and really enjoy your content. Great videos with great explanations. Nice job

8:38 don't know if you misspoke or i misheard you, but it sounded like you said 20, the fading soul actually gives 50 souls

Awesome video, love these grind to max level videos, also excited to see what you'll do next with the channel! I hate to be that guy but you showed the farming route taking 40 second when you DON'T pick up items. But you used the number of souls from when you DO pick up items. You'd have to factor in what the average time for the route is considering how often drops appear.

I absolutely love these videos, maybe on the flip side you could make videos on what the absolute FASTEST way to get max level is on each game?

What an awesome concept for a video, really enjoyed it :)

Geez these videos are so much fun, can't wait to see whatever it is that you do next :)

What on earth. Overkill bonus damn didn't notice that was a thing in DS3 even though I've played it for hours

When the fog gate turns dark you can walk through it saving about 10 fames. I don’t know how much time that would save on your grind but more then 10 frames I think

This dude only had 10k subs... Damn well deserved sub!! Time to binge watch

I subbed the moment you said "I'm not sure how most people will feel about this, but what I am sure about is I don't care." Great stuff~

Damn! Not a single hit in that Gundyr fight! I don't think I've ever managed that despite over 20 characters and a bunch of new game pluses.

Woah, I never knew you could exit Firelink Shrine after teleporting to it. I always went to the Gundyr bonfire and moved on from there, thinking Firelink shrine is it’s own location and it doesn’t let you leave unless you teleport.

holy shit i didn't realize this came out today, perfect time to watch these lol

Man I felt so good when you said the amount of hours it would take and instinctively I said "DAMN THATS LIKE 10 YEARS!" glad I still know these things approximately, even tho the end result was closer to 11 years.

Wait... if firelink shrine is available, couldn't you level up and buy faster/stronger weapons from shrine handmaiden that way you could eventually get the overkill bonus from something like a weapon in the rapier class (damage would come out much faster than casting fireball). And for the further away enemies where fireball IS more effective, you could level dexterity to cast faster and faith/intelligence so splash damage also gets overkill

1:34 "this guy's souls aren't included in the final math don't worry" 🤣 took me like ten tries to read that

that don't care statement was beautiful lmao need more of that today

I really enjoyed the story of yorm the giant. I like lighting the bonfires at selective locations. It gives players a sense of accomplishment. This video takes all of that away.

Does dex scaling for the cast time on the fireballs help speed up a run? Even a second would add up over time

That Iundex kill was super clean. The first time I ever played I barely squeaked out the win (~10% health remaining with zero estus left). My buddies were over and they had been struggling with earlier games. They were pretty impressed and it got my heart pumping for sure. Assassin class, by the way.

What great information to have.

Hum using the algorithm again heh Good job mate hope you do more videos, and i wouldn't never find you if it wasn't for it.

I have a question, wouldn't it be faster later to just utilize the heavy gem hawkwood gives? you should be able to 1 shot enemies with enough str later I'm sure?

out of curiosity once you start levelling INT wouldn't subsequent runs be a bit faster since you wouldn't need to spend extra seconds aiming your fireballs-- the splash damage would be strong enough to net you the overkill bonus regardless?

Ive been waiting for this lowkey, nah highkey

1:33 Just the fact that this is the most replayed part of the video has me in stitches 😂

Ok but if you do your leveling as the challenge goes on, there will be time spent on selling the items as well as leveling up. However wouldnt the time it takes to do a run go down significantly if you leveled up enough to be able to get the overkill bonus with your axe?

Now that elden ring is out I think the parameter of a grinding video like this would be anything accessible before leaving the starting tomb into limgrave.

this is a very generous use of the word tutorial.

Thanks for posting this, you should do more videos like these

If we are able to utilize things in the firelink why don't we also level up while doing it, we can utilize the overkill mechanic much more easily with a melee weapon Also how long does it take to kill 5 of them instead of 9?

Are you going to do a grind to MaxBL in Central Yharnam on Bloodborne?

a nice boss fight from such a nice content creator

im setting a timer for 32 years. can't wait to watch the Dark Souls 3 Max Lvl Tutorial Any% Speedrun in my retirement home. it's gonna be so sweet.

That fog wall blocking the Cemetery from the Shrine is to mask loading? I thought it was just a complete barrier preventing passage for some reason.

Proud of a iudex gundyr fight that was absolutely awful in execution, jfc ur terrible at souls lol

Aw man can't to see how much time you sacrificed, And how much of your sanity is still intact. I would've gone hollow before even thinking of that idea.

I always wondered about the fog wall appearing in the Firelink Shrine exit. It's so ominous... I didn't realize it was for that reason so the game didn't have to load the outside area. :p

my prefered method for this challenge: - start with the Sovereignless Soul and proceed to firelink as usual - install the Honest Merchant mod from Nexusmods - use the Sovereignless Soul to by 2,000 Soul of a Great Champion-s - return to the merchant to purchase as needed

I was just thinking every time you got 99 of each item, you would need to make a run to sell those items, which would add up massively over the course of those 10 years...

Great video

Fun video, well done 👍

My wife tried Dark Souls 3 but had a very hard time with him. I however played the game enough that I can kill him as a thief without being hit. It is truly amazing to see your own personal skill improve over time, almost as if the player themselves level up in real life as your in game character levels up as well.

Now, about how long would it take for a NG+ with the Symbol of Avarice, Covetous Silver Serpent Ring +3 (The Ringed City DLC), the Staff and Shield of Want?

seeing the one guy fall off the cliff at the beginning was really funny to me

Was so relieved when I realised towards the end of that you weren't going to actually do it

Doesn't the fading soul give 50, not 20 souls?

Happy holidays to all & merry Xmas! DS2 is still my all-time fav.

This series has been super fun to watch i hope you manage to do BB and Elden Ring and Demon Souls too in the future. Cheers

“As is usual, dark souls 1 is still the king”

"I'm not sure how people feel about this, but I am sure that I dont care" Subbed

My best grinding place was high wall of lothric. Run down the left hand side. Kill the one walking, then the one that comes up the stairs. Then run up to the bit where the dead dragon is and kill the other one that screams. Then run to the edge and the dragon will kill all of them. Equip the sword and kill all the ones sitting down on your way back to the sword.

epicly awesome gundyr fight legit cunfirmed

Great work, but you will be happy to find out you don't have to do the tree jump twice. Just backtrack from the lizard to the ledge where the archway into the scaffolding is.

now do Elden Ring (Cave of Knowledge)

Honestly I want to ask how long would it take to max out your level in level one of boletaria Palace in Demon Souls that includes all the enemies before the first boss phalanx do it on the PS5 version of you have a PS5 because you actually have lightning fast loading times so you can reload the area many many times

The meaty feeling in dark souls 3 when you are hitting an enemy ❤

Now for the spinoff. Grinding to max in the elden ring tutorial area

Oh god that firelink loading reminds me of playing day 1 on my xbone external hdd, it took like a full minute to load

I love this game so much

Nice video I'm surprise that it take really less time than my method

Imagine if someone was close to complete and they died and had to recollect their souls…. The stress would be too much.

The Shawshank Redemption of Dark Souls III

The joy is temporary the climb is forever

The title led me to believe you were actually gonna do it

Awesome

Man cutting those 8 years off the grind is gonna really save me some time

I am fairly certain the fog wall preventing exit from Firelink is just on a fixed timer independent of the area loading. In fact I made a mod deleting both fog walls and I'd run upstairs after spawning to find the area fully loaded or at worst a distant asset or two would pop in.

This is basically leveling anything in RuneScape

Newest run challenge for Soulsborne. Completing the entire Soulsborne series while grinding up to max level in the first area! Distortion2 in shambles.

Nice Gundyr fight man, although I started sweating with how long it took for you to lock on lmao

Iudex Gundyr is such a good tutorial fight. It's just challenging enough to people who are getting into the souls series (like me) without being something that is meant to kill you. The only from software game that did the. "Your not meant to beat this here and die" boss is Sekiro honestly because sekiro feels somewhat more narrative without a blank slate character

Compliting the triology takes longer than a human lifetime.

and now elden ring: farming max level without leaving the graveyard tutorial

Curious, did you try right handing the pyro flame to see if that lets you lock on for the first enemy?

It all counts as the same initial area since you need to get to Firelink Shrine to be able to level up

The only thought I have after finishing this video is "why would... Why are they..." Yeah it's just why would you do this. Great vid, painful instigating thought

I'm wondering that if you raise your strength or dex high enough, could you get the overkill bonus in a shorter time?