Welcome to our weekly series that features a community submittedDark Souls 3build.Dark Souls 3 build craftingis one of the most enjoyable parts of the game and a big reason for its longevity. Who better to turn to when in need of a new idea than your fellow players? To have your build featured on the blog, you may submit your best setups on ourforum threadand every week we will select one at random to be featured here. Feel free to discuss and debate the build’s strengths and weaknesses but as always be constructive with your fellow Dark Souls players. This week’s build, “Exiled Wolf” comes from community member Nunkuruji and is aStrengthfocused build.
Dark Souls 3 Build of the Week: Exiled Wolf
A very basic high efficiency, highdamageper-hitinvasionbuild. Has enoughpoiseto overcome lightweaponattacks and consistently allows for invasions betweenSmouldering Lakeand through thelocationsof thefive lords. This provides a wide variety of appropriate invasion areas. It also avoids interacting with maximum weapon-reinforcement levelplayers. And the usualend-gamesuffering of invading a higherlevelhost, who has even higher level phantoms.
Stats & Vitals
Weapons, Armor, Rings & Spells
As this build is very straightforward and has little to do with tricks, basic operations consists of:
Buildsfor lower level characters and for earlier area invasions can be accommodated for by reducing the Strength and Vigor. Builds for higher levels are the standard fare.

An alternateBleedbuild swaps STR/DEX and trades them for theSharp Carthus Greatsword&Blood Barbed Straight Sword. While this is fun for 1v1 fights, it is not as efficient at eliminating pesky phantoms. I may post on this later.
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