
For example, you can use a Broken Straightsword or Torch to vastly limit your damage and make your fights much more difficult.ĭifferent movesets, swing speeds, split damage, Ranges and Damage values are bound to make some of the bosses extremely challenging. This also means you cannot experiment with elemental infusions as well as you cannot infuse some weapons with Blood. Not infusing a Broadsword to Raw costs you 58 Base damage for example. Not using buffs mainly hinders the use of elemental weapons such as Dragonslayer's Axe or Firelink Greatsword. The inability to use rings to increase Defense and offence, as well as the lack of attribute rings in order to use different gear will for sure make the SL1 run harder.

Interesting bonus restrictions to add, on top of SL1, however, you can also do these separately, on a leveled character if you wish to take smaller steps. Limited gear compared to a leveled characterlimited health and limited damage will make the player approach the encounters strategically, and will require a certain degree of knowledge of every fight in order to come out victorious. This likely should be the first challenge of a player who is thinking of getting into challenge runs. Most common one is restricting your soul level also known as SL to 1. There are several different kinds of No-Hit runs with various additional conditions.

No-Hit runs are a type off challenge that involves completing the game without getting hit by any enemy. Thanks to the weapon variety, there are a lot of weapons a player can use to keep them interested in their SL1 runs.ĭark Souls 3 allows for many different challenges that are fun, consistently challenging and make you change your play style. The game allows you to feel like every death is your own fault, not due to the game's limiting mechanics or unavoidable attacks.


All these allow for a very fun experience when doing challenge runs.
