- For the character in Dark Souls, see Andre of Astora.
Blacksmith Andre is a character in Dark Souls III.
Location
Found in Firelink Shrine, at the end of the hallway that leads to the back of the shrine, further on from the Shrine Handmaid.
Description
Services
Andre allows the player to upgrade and infuse weapons, as well as reinforce their Estus Flask to increase its number of uses. In order for Andre to upgrade the Estus Flask, the player must bring him an Estus Shard.
Andre allows the player character to allocate between a standard Estus Flask and the Ashen Estus Flask. For example, if the player has five Estus Flask uses in total, they can choose to have three standard Estus Flasks uses, which recover HP, and two Ashen Estus Flask uses, which recover FP.
FP, or Focus Points, is the amount of points that allows the player to cast spells or perform weapon skills. This is depicted on screen as the blue bar between the player's HP and Stamina bars.
Andre can infuse weapons if the player brings him various coals found throughout the world. Certain coals yield different infusion upgrade paths. Once a weapon is infused, it may still be upgraded by using the type of titanite specific for it. However, the player should take into consideration if infusing a weapon affects it negatively according to their stats or if doing so will remove its scaling bonuses.
In addition to upgrading weapons, Andre can repair those that are totally broken. He cannot repair the Ring of Sacrifice, though.
The following coals provide the corresponding imbuements:
Farron Coal: Heavy, Sharp, and Poison imbuement.
Sages Coal: Crystal, Blessed, and Deep imbuement.
Giants Coal: Lightning, Chaos, and Simple imbuement.
Profaned Coal: Dark, Blood, and Hollow imbuement.