Top 19 Best Dark Souls 3 Best Rings

Calling Dark Souls 3, a difficult game is an understatement. Fans of From Software’s and Sekiro franchises know what to expect from their games. Finding and equipping rings in Dark Souls 3 can help you out a great deal by making life a little easier for you. Today’s guide will take a look at the Dark Souls 3 best rings.

Key Takeaways

• Rings are items you get along the journey in Dark Souls 3 that provide effects and make things easier for you. They are 107 in total.
• Chloranthy Ring provides extra Stamina regen while also being able to stack with Green Blossoms.
• Silvercat Ring negates fall damage giving you the option to chase an enemy or run away from it.
• Sun Princess Ring allows you to recover HP, especially in longer invasion fights.
• Hornet Ring enhances your dealt damage. It is mostly useful at higher levels in the game.
• Prisoner Chain is good for players with low levels. It provides extra stats allowing more resistance from light weapons. Heavy weapons will still deal lots of damage.
• Blue Tearstone Ring acts as a great filler in invasions. It becomes active at low health.
• Aldrich Ruby helps you by giving you free health. It can also recover some HP in critical strikes.
• Obscuring Ring allows retreating and engaging in an invasion. You can also attack arrows from afar.
• Untrue Dark Ring makes you appear as a host or a phantom making it difficult for opponents to discover and attack timely.
• Ring of Favour is the jack of all trades. It buffs all important qualities of your character by some amount and should be taken in every PvE situation.
• Havel’s Ring is helpful for all builds as it enhances your equipment carrying capacity. You can get it by transposing the soul of the Stray Demon.
• Life Ring increases your max HP by 7% favoring you in PvE fights. It can be bought from the Shrine Handmaiden by trading the Dreamchaser’s Ashes.
• Lloyd’s Sword Ring enhances your attack in PvE and PvP by 10% when you have full health. It is located in the Cathedral of the Deep.
• Chloranthy Ring boosts stamina recovery by about 7 points per second. Its location is the Undead Settlement.
• Hunter’s Ring favors dex builds by granting 5 extra dex points. You can find it at the top of Grand’s Archives.
• Witch’s Ring is for Pyro builds. It enhances Pyromancy damage by 25%. It is the best ring for PvP. Its location is the Catacombs of Carthus.
• Sage’s Ring is another pyro-favoring ring. It increases casting speeds. You can find it in the Crucifixion Woods.
• Bellowing Dragon Crest Ring is another one for pyromancers and sorcerers. It increases casting damage by 20%. You can buy it for 20,000 souls.
• Saint’s Ring is one of the best for sorcerers. It grants an extra attunement slot which helps use extra spells. It can be bought for 300 souls from Irina of Carim.

You can find dozens of rings – 107, to be exact. Finding them all will grant you a trophy; so, if you are an achievement hunter, make sure to get them all. Furthermore, you can equip up to four rings at a time.

Hold on tight because we’re diving straight into what rings are the best and which ones you should equip to enhance your power.

Dark Souls 3 Best Rings

Rings provide a series of passive effects. You can think of them as a way to shore up weaknesses and highlight the strengths of your build. Some rings will boost the build’s effectiveness, where others your keystones required for a builder’s success.

I will not be noting down all the rings; instead, I’ll list down some of the best ones viable on most invasions, even if they are situational. The smaller scope leaves a scant few rings to discuss; so, let’s get started.

Chloranthy Ring

It is great for keeping active during invasions. While it does take up a ring slot, it also provides you with extra stamina regeneration. The best part is that you won’t need to stop using it. The ring stacks with Green Blossoms as well, making you much harder to catch and makes it difficult for enemies to flee from you.

The Silvercat Ring

This might be the most incredible tool in an invader’s arsenal. The ring completely negates fall damage so long the fall wouldn’t be fatal at full HP. This dramatically increases your freedom of movement. If you are running from a gank squad, you can roll down a mountain or stairs without taking any damage.

You’ll rarely be followed after a long fall. If the enemy decides to jump after you, you can just hit them when they land. Even some shortfalls become highly useful. You can use the damage from the fall to whittle away at enemy players.

The Silvercat Ring isn’t just a defensive tool. You can even use it aggressively. If you are chasing an enemy player, you can use shortcuts that would otherwise take away your HP. It makes catching up to a player much convenient. I think this entry deserves a spot in Dark Souls 3 best rings.

Sun Princess Ring

There are times when you can’t end an invasion in the first minute. Even if you quickly kill a player, it can take some time to reach the critical moment. Sometimes the host may flee, leaving behind phantoms. This is where the Sun Princess Ring comes into play.

It lets you recover a lot of HP over these longer battles. It is especially good with high absorption and flat defense, making each point of HP that much more valuable.

Hornet Ring

This ring is a staple for invaders. It is so ubiquitous and well recognized, making it almost a symbol for invasions. This is second only to the Red Eye Orb itself. It increases your damage dealt with a critical strike.

Most of the time it can assist you in finishing phantoms in one hit at full health. It is most viable at higher levels though – when your weapon AR increases sharply. The Hornet Ring easily pushes the resulting damage to the extremes. Many players use this ring to ensure they are never a moment away from victory, regardless of how many mistakes are made.

Prisoner Chain

If you are at a lower level, this ring will be highly beneficial. It provides 5 levels of Vigor, Vitality, and Endurance for a bit less absorption. The extra health and flat defense somewhat mitigate the loss of absorption. You can also recoup some of the lost absorptions with heavier armor.

With this combination of stats and penalty, you can think of the prisoner’s chain as making your build better against light weapons. Your only concern will be against heavier weapons. Since you will have the absorption penalty, the heavy weapons will yield a bit more damage than you might like.

Blue Tearstone Ring

The Blue Tearstone Ring is a great filler ring to handle emergencies. You might want to have it equipped if you are regularly scrambling to recover after being thrashed by hosts and phantoms alike.

It only becomes active when you are at low health. If you are usually successful in invasions, you might want to swap to some other rings that are active regardless of your HP.

Aldrich Ruby

If you’re good with critical attacks, Aldrich Ruby can be a great fit for you. The free health it provides is incredibly valuable when invading. Every backstab riposte recovers a good chunk of your HP and can save Estus in longer battles.

The ring also helps recover some of the health lost to establish a critical strike in the first place.

Obscuring Ring

Good invasions aren’t simply about the time spent engaging enemy players. A large portion of invasions is observation, posturing, or even taking time to regroup.

You have the complete freedom of retreating or engaging at will due to this ring. It’s often used to attack from afar. Arrows can hit without notice and a sudden crystal soul sphere quickly ends an unwitting phantom.

Untrue Dark/White Rings

They provide a way to inject a bit of confusion into a group battle. Appearing as a host or phantom can add a slight bit of hesitation to player decisions and every lapse in judgment can provide a crucial opening.

Due to how player names are displayed, it’s easy to identify the player posing as host or phantom. You may find that these rings are best used on the other side of the encounter, rather than when invading.

The Untrue Dark Ring at least makes it harder to spot the invader at a distance. It eliminates the bright red color typically seen on an invader.

Ring Of Favour

 

The ring of favor is probably the best overall ring in Dark Souls 3. It is one of the best PvE rings in Dark Souls 3 and is viable for all kinds of builds. It provides a balanced overall buff to your character.

The Rings of Faavour increases a player’s HP by 3%, their stamina by 8.5% and their max equip load by 5%. Such a buff is applicable to every kind of Dark Souls 3 class. All in all, the Ring of Favor tops the best Dark Souls 3 Rings list.

To acquire this ring, you will have to beat the first Sulyvahn Beasts you encounter in Dark Souls 3. After beating Pontiff Sulyvahn, head out and walk through the courtyard of Giants. Straight ahead you will find a building. Upon entering that building, go to the far left wall and smack it to get rid of its illusion. Climb down the stairs and beat the Beasts to acquire this ring.

Havel’s Ring

 

Havels ring is an iconic ring throughout the series. This Ring greatly increases your equipment carry capacity that can help all kinds of builds. While what this ring does is very basic, the benefits can be numerous.

See Also: Dark Souls 3 Strength Builds

Havel’s Ring increases your max carry load by 15%. This ring is known for being massive aid for tanky builds. Havels Ring is essential for creating builds with heavy armor and a heavy weapon. It is even viable for caster-type builds for it will help them carry a heavy weapon despite their minimal overall capacity. Overall, Havel’s ring is one of the best Dark Souls 3 rings and a very useful Dark Souls 3 PvE ring.

To acquire this ring, you need to transpose the soul of the stray demon. The Stray Demon is found by taking the elevator at the Old Wolf of Farron bonfire.

Life Ring

 

The Life Ring is one of the most underrated Dark Souls 3 rings for it can be a very viable Dark Souls 3 PvE ring. This Ring increases a player’s max HP by 7%.

While just an increase in max HP may not sound like much, it can be extremely helpful in PvE, especially if you have a high HP, to begin with. Given how easy it is to die in Dark Souls 3 PvE, this ring can be the difference between life and death. It can be especially useful against boss fights and can be a means of saving embers.

You can purchase the life ring from the Shrine Handmaiden after giving her the dreamchasers ashes. You can acquire the dreamchasers’ ashes behind the illusory wall at the watchdogs of Farron location.

Llyod’s Sword Ring

 

Another extremely underrated overall ring, the Llyod sword ring boosts 10% attack in both PvE and PvP when your health is full. While a decent boost in PvE, this makes it one of the best Dark Souls 3 PvP rings.

A 10% boost can mean the difference between victory and defeat in PvP. Through the use of this ring, you will be outputting massive amounts of damage on your foes. It will also be essential for people who use weapons like the frayed blade or spam R1 for the extra 10% damage will go a long way for chained attacks.

Llyod’s sword ring can be found in the Cathedral of the deep. You can pick it up in the ground after killing the first Giant.

Chloranthy Ring

 

No Dark Souls 3 PvP rings ist is complete without the Cloranthy Ring. This ring greatly boosts stamina recovery which can be a massive aid for PvP.

The Chloranthy ring boosts stamina recovery by 7 points per second, this boost can go a long way in PvP, where stamina is essential. Due to the amount of dodging that goes into Dark Souls 3 PvP duels, this ring can be of massive aid.

You can acquire the Chloranthy Ring in the Undead settlement, in the area where you fight a demon with Seigward. Here is Fextralife’s Video showing the location of the Cloranthy ring.

Hunters Ring

 

The Hunters Ring is a very basic ring but arguably the best Dark Souls 3 Dex ring. It increases dex points by 5.

Also See: Best Dex Weapons DS3

While what Hunter’s ring does is very basic, the benefits are numerous. It can help reach your goal dex level easily, letting you plot more points into other stats like vitality and endurance. We recommend using this ring at dex 40 if your goal is to reach the soft cap at 45 and then allot the extra 5 points you have somewhere else.

You can acquire the Hunter’s Ring at the top of the Grand Archive’s where you fight the 3 winged knights.

Witch’s Ring

The Witch’s ring is easily the best Pyro Ring in Dark Souls 3. It boosts Pyro damages by 25%, which is a massive buff.

The Witch’s ring is very viable for pyros and melee pyro hybrids for the insane boost in Pyro damage goes a long way, pure pyromancers can use it to further increase their damage, and melee pyros that prioritize melee stats can use it to make their pyro spells devastating. This ring easily tops the PvP Dark Souls 3 Rings list.

Also see: Dark Souls 3 Best Pyro Builds

You can find this ring in the catacombs of Carthus. After destroying the bridge before the High Lord Wolnir boss fight, go down and you will find it at the end of the hall. A decent alternative to this ring is the Ring of the Great swamp.

Sage’s Ring

Sage’s ring is essential for Pyromancers and casters in general. It is easily one of the best Dark Souls 3 rings, and a great Dark Souls 3 Pyro ring. It greatly increases a players casting speed.

The Sage’s ring can be very viable in all kinds of encounters and is one of the best Dark Souls 3 PvP rings for the numerous benefits it provides. The boost to casting speed can be very useful when casting against an online player. This ring will certainly make your chaos bed vestiges less readable.

You can find this ring in the Crucifixion Woods before entering the Road Of Sacrifices.

Bellowing Dragon Crest Ring

The Bellowing Dragon Crest Ring is another ring that makes the Dark Souls 3 Best Rings list. It is an excellent ring for Pyromancers and sorcerers. This ring increases casting damage by 20%.

This ring is amazing for builds like the Sorcerer Pyro melee and all kinds of melee caster hybrid build. It is an excellent Dark Souls 3 PvE ring and a strong Dark Souls 3 PvP list.

You can acquire this Ring from Griggs of Venheim for 20,000 souls.

Saint’s Ring

The Saint’s ring is one of the best Dark Souls 3 rings for Sorcerers. It increases one attunement slot. The extra attunement slot can be very useful for both Sorcerers and Pyros for you can never have too many spells. It also means you can a lot of skill points somewhere else.

The extra attunement slot can also help with better management of attunements that require 2 or more slots, making it a massive aid for Pyro, Sorcerer and Mage Builds.

You can purchase the Saint’s ring from Irina of Carim for 300 Souls.

Bottom Line

The rings discussed in this guide will go a long way to shore up your build, some even adding new abilities. As so few rings were talked about, they should only be viewed as a set of core choices. There are many other rings to try, but I found these to be generally impactful in invasions.

I hope you found this guide about Dark Souls 3 best rings helpful. Please leave a comment about your favorite rings and which ones you prefer to use in the invasion.