Dark Gems are upgrade materials in Dark Souls III.
In-Game Description
- A gem of infused titanite.
Born of disembodied humanity.
- Used in infusion to create dark weapons.
- Dark weapons inflict dark damage, and scale with faith.
Availability[]
- High Wall of Lothric
- Dropped by Pus of Man.
- Catacombs of Carthus
- Dropped by the second Skeleton Boulder.
- Consumed King's Garden
- Found on a corpse under the left set of stairs that lead to the courtyard in front of the boss room.
- Dropped by Pus of Man.
- Dropped by Rotten Slugs.
- Lothric Castle
- Dropped by Pus of Man.
- Painted World of Ariandel
- Within the rotting house at the top of the Corvian Settlement, near the locked gate, guarded by two Giant Flies.
- The Dreg Heap
- Dropped by Harald Knights
- The Ringed City
- Dropped by Harald Knights
- Found in the Ringed City Streets, shortly after the great stairway.
Usage[]
Infuses weapons with Dark damage, adding Intelligence and Faith scaling but reducing Strength and Dexterity scaling, as well as reducing base damage. Intelligence and Faith scaling will also be increased for any pre-existing Magic, Fire and Lightning damage.
For the Dark damage, scaling soft caps at 30 Intelligence and 30 Faith.
Notes[]
- In order to be able to use Dark Gems for infusions, the player is first required to have obtained and given the Profaned Coal to Blacksmith Andre in Firelink Shrine.
- Even though the item description says a Dark weapon scales only with Faith, it actually scales with both Intelligence and Faith.