Warrior (Dark Souls III)

For the Dark Souls class, see Warrior.

For the Dark Souls II class, see Warrior (Dark Souls II).

"Descendant of northern warriors famed for their brawn. Utilizes high strength to wield a heavy battleaxe."

— Character Creation

The Warrior is one of the classes in Dark Souls 3.

It is a Strength-focused class, with good Vigor for extra health and a decent amount of Endurance and Luck for more Stamina and Item Discovery. It does, however, have fairly low Dexterity and casting stats, with its very low Attunement of 6 making it notable for being the only starting class that doesn't immediately have an attunement slot for spells.

The Battle Axe is a strong weapon, if a bit slow, and thanks to its good Strength-scaling it will gain extra damage when two-handed. Its Weapon Art, Warcry, boosts the Axe's damage by roughly 10% for 30 seconds and turns the heavy attack and charged heavy attack into running charge attacks. This is a weapon buff and as such doesn't stack with spells such as Magic Weapon or items such as Charcoal Pine Resin, but since it boosts the weapon's base damage it can ignore the problems the other, elemental damage-focused options can get with having to bypass several different defences by instead focusing purely on physical damage. Be aware that due to the Warrior's low starting attunement it is only initially possible to get 3 uses of Warcry without either leveling Attunement by at least 2 points more or by carrying an Ashen Estus Flask.

The starting Round Shield has good Stability and surprisingly good physical blocking for a wooden shield, but unless the user wishes to Parry it is best exchanged for the Silver Eagle Kite Shield found in High Wall of Lothric to get a 100% physical blocking shield instead and will let them use skills more frequently thanks to the Weapon Skill Weapon Art.

Its Northern Set has good physical defence but is severely lacking in all elemental defences except for fire and has above average resistances, especially against Frost.

An already infused version of the Battle Axe can be found in the High Wall of Lothric. While this weapon is guarded by a strong monster, the split Physical and Dark damage of its Deep infusion can be enough to overwhelm early-game enemies defences and the second boss, Vordt, is weak to Dark damage, as is the Demon found in the area after him. While this won't last through the game, it is a good replacement for a bit until the original weapon can be upgraded more.