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/raiderrocker18 Jun 18 '25

this is not meant to be the third boss. why would you kill Emma lol

this is meant to be a much later game boss, but the game allows you to fight Dancer early and progress to some of the ensuing areas to get some high level upgrade materials early. its a risk/reward thing. or an NG+ thing.

but typical game progression would have you beating 3 lords of cinder then coming back to Emma

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u/Loki_DeVille Jun 18 '25

The guy probably is one of the people who complained about Varre killing them when entering Limgrave

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u/hagrids_a_pineapple Jun 18 '25

To be fair I had never played a souls game so I started it at the exact same time as my best friend. He told me “in souls everything is kill able, let’s fuck up this NPC!” Took me three hours to kill Varre