Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-16047389-20140416200536/@comment-5123071-20140418031637

I don't think it's that bad, I think the only problem with it is that it keeps you human. Retrieving souls when you die is usually not hard because of how many bonfires there are. The most souls I have lost in the game is about 10,000 at No Man's Wharf. The rest of the time it's been such a small amount that I didn't care. So it's pretty much wasting a ring slot. I only ever put it on after beating a boss just in case there was going to be something like the Hellkite Dragon afterwards. Also 3,000 souls might not seem like much but x100 deaths and it's 300,000 souls, which is a lot of levels.

It doesn't make any enemies or bosses any easier, if anything they are harder because you are aren't wearing a ring that will make you more powerful in combat.