Reignite Your Love of Dark Souls 3 With The Underrated Luck Build

Are you looking for a wildly fun way to shake up the Dark Souls 3 PvE experience on your next playthrough? Then I strongly recommend giving the oft-overlooked Luck focused build a shot.

As a fan who has poured over 500 hours into DS3, I can confidently say a properly specced Luck build rivals even the most optimized Quality and Sorcery setups.

In this guide from a fellow fan, I‘ll show you why Luck isn‘t just a worthless stat like some claim. Let‘s dive deep on making one of the most criminally underrated builds absolutely shine.

What Exactly Does Luck Do in DS3?

The Luck stat primarily provides two concrete benefits irrespective of your build or playstyle:

1. Boosts Item Discovery/Discovery

Every point in Luck increases your item discovery, raising the odds that enemies will drop rare loot. At the softcap of 40 Luck you‘ll have over 350 Discovery.

This makes a Luck build incredible for farming gear drops from locations like the Silver Knights.

2. Reduces Curse Build Up

Luck also passively reduces your Curse resistance stat, incrementally lowering the rate you accumulate the deadly Curse status when attacked by Basilisks or curse-wielding enemies.

But Luck only really shines when you specifically build around triggering two powerful status effects:

Luck Builds Excel at Bleed & Poison Damage

The main reason you‘d construct an entire build around Luck is significantly reducing the number of hits required to inflict either Bleed or Poison against enemies.

Based on community testing, here‘s the exact buildup bonus Luck provides:

As you can see, you receive greater returns scaling Bleed over Poison.

This allows weapons with innate Bleed to rapidly drain huge health chunks from enemies once the Bleed bar is filled.

Those are the primary benefits, but properly specced there are some serious upsides to going all in on a Luck of the Draw build.

Why a Luck Build Deserves Your Attention

While seldom seen in the wilds of Lothric and Irithyll compared to Quality builds, Luck setups have some extremely convincing strengths:

Devastating Damage Against Susceptible Enemies

Any enemy categorized as "Hollow" (like a basic Hollow Soldier) has significantly reduced Bleed resistance. This amplifies the rapid Bleed buildup provided by high Luck.

You can shred through certain zones faster than a Quality or Sorcery build could ever dream once you learn enemy weaknesses.

Innate Bleed Weapons Become Deleting Machines

Weapons with innate Bleed scale their Aux Effect exceptionally well with your Luck stat. Your Bleed will trigger for enormous percentages of health against weaker enemies.

Weapons like the Bandit‘s Knife can inflict Bleed in just 2-3 rapid hits on standard foes. This allows endless chaining of the Hemorrhage DOT against hordes once it procs.

Infusions Add Great Hidden Scaling

Infusing weapons with status-boosting gems like Blood also covertly buffs Luck‘s scaling too.

A +10 Blood Infused Bandit Knife S-Scales with Luck for terrifying Bleed potential.

Luck Builds Suit Aggressive or Patient Playstyles

Unlike pure mages, a Luck build adapts to basically any playstyle you enjoy. You can aggressively unleash endless status combos with quickstep or carefully space your strikes dodging between hits to whittle down opponents.

This versatility makes it fantastic for both PvE and PvP.

Let‘s get into the best weapons and tricks to allow our Luck stat to truly flex its might though!

Top Weapons for Shredding With Luck

Here are my personal top recommendations…