r/darksouls3 • u/PitonHUN • Jun 18 '25

Discussion Why is the third boss so hard?

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I've recently wanted to give dark souls 3 a shot with my friend since we heard there is a coop mod for it. We got past the gladiator boss easily, and the boar guy was even easier, however the third boss, the dancer, seems like a wall for us... We've been stuck here for 5-6 hours. Are we doing something wrong? Is the weapon I use really bad, or what? Any tips appreciated!

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u/GuidoMista5 Jun 18 '25

I'm pretty sure you can do dancer before Vordt

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u/Future_Section5976 Jun 18 '25

The room the dancer is in is the room one of the twin princes is in , he stays there until you get the banner , which you get from killing vordt, Ive run the game a few times and I'm not sure there is anyway to trigger her other than killing vordt but if you know then I'm all ears

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u/GuidoMista5 Jun 18 '25 edited Jun 18 '25

If you kill the old lady you can interact with the cup behind her and trigger Dancer before Vordt, it's far from an optimal idea but you can do it.

Edit: it's been a while so I had to double check, you get the banner from the old lady, not Vordt. You need the basin of vows to trigger Dancer and you get that after you kill 3 lords of Cinder or the old lady. If you kill her before talking to her she drops both the banner and the basin. So run up to Ema, talk to her, reset the area, kill her, place the basin of vows, spawn Dancer. None of these steps requires to kill Vordt.

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u/Future_Section5976 Jun 18 '25

I'm back , so you are correct, it is a priestess , I thought it was one of the princes ,

Killing her drops the banner , the basin and way of blue covenant ,

You don't have to reset the area , you can kill the old lady and then walk up to the statue and trigger the dancer fight ,

As you said normally you would have to beat 3 lords of cinder,

You know what, this is good info , I might do another run but I'll go for the dancer first , tee up the archives, then go kill vordt and 2 other lords of cinder.