Its staff attacks are bad enough – the vertical slash is deceptively quick, and the horizontal combo has huge reach. It fires slow-moving but nasty projectiles, but it generally won’t use that in this first rush unless you hit it with a projectile of your own. One of the figures is a murkman sorcerer - the upright one with a staff. Bear in mind that if you walk over a spawn point for a murkman it will grab you, which does a lot of damage. Watch out for their combos, which can be a nasty surprise if you’ve baited them into what you expected to be a single swing. They move slowly, but there’re a lot of them and their attacks are very painful they’ll also sometimes disappear in the snow, because they’re so low to the ground. Pause here and watch the slopes below as several enemies rise up.

On the ledge, keep facing the same way and drop down on the right again – you won’t take damage in the soft snow. To begin, walk outside and hug the right wall, ignoring the instruction to jump, to circle the dome and grab an ember. Speak to the NPC on the ledge outside the bonfire room she can sell you bits and pieces, including a new weapon. The first bonfire run is littered with one-way drops, and you will not take fall damage. This area is made up of bits and pieces of other environments, stuck together with no regard for physics - especially gravity. The Dreg Heap: meet the murkmen Useful linksĪfter travelling to the new area, activate The Dreg Heap bonfire. I strongly considered chucking a sickie and leaving you to it, but how could I abandon my cheeseburger assassins like that? One last time, cats one last time to pay for all. If you're just tuning in and don't even know how to access the DLC, check out our guide to starting Dark Souls 3: The Ringed City. We'll also kick off a new NPC quest, which longtime series fans will really enjoy, and bypass some exciting new hazards. This Dark Souls 3 walkthrough begins at the first bonfire of The Ringed City DLC, The Dreg Heap, and continues through to the second available bonfire, Earthen Peak Ruins.Īlong the way it introduces a bunch of stuff The Ringed City brings to Dark Souls 3 - notably enemies and weapons - and gathers every loot item we could see. Dark Souls 3: The Ringed City starts in The Dreg Heap, which - not to ruin it for you or anything - is not a very nice place.ĭark Souls 3: The Ringed City walkthroughĮarthen Peak Ruins to Within Earthen Peak

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