Developer From Software'southward latest Night Souls game is the final and most action-packed add-on to the series. Its gothic themes and role-playing elements are astounding. To make your task of returning the 5 Lords of Cinder to their rightful thrones in club to link the flame possible, the game is filled with items called "Estus Shards" that increase a player'due south Estus Flasks.

Not a single person has beatenDark Souls without drinking an Estus Flask. You could be the offset, but for everyone else, this Estus Shard guide will aid you along the manner. Conquering bosses like Pontiff Sulyvahn and the Nameless King is fabricated possible by the healing powers of Estus Flasks. This is Dark Souls 3: every Estus Shard location (and how to discover them).

For some people, this is the starting time Estus Shard you lot'll meet in the game. For others who wait to go the Belfry Key, they will obtain this Estus Shard last. For newcomers to the game, beating the dominate Iudex Gundyr is an insurmountable job. If you manage to get by this dominate, and so finding the first Estus Shard volition exist easy.

While standing at the Firelink Shrine bonfire, head up the stairs and walk to the top until you find three archways side-by-side. Walk through the archways and get up a minor loma. Turn effectually, and you lot'll see the roof, which you lot can jump on. Continue walking on the roof and proceed until you run across another archway. You'll at present be on height of Firelink Shrine, and you can find the Estus Shard on a narrow walkway situated to a higher place the Firelink Shrine bonfire.

10 High Wall Of Lothric

Beginning at the High Wall of Lothric bonfire, head down the stairs, walk into the first room, go downward ane more set of stairs, and take the first go out. Yous'll come to a ladder that you tin can use, and afterward this, yous can cull to run by all the enemies.

Take the first ladder down and do a 180° plow into the room beside the ladder. Continue running straight and take a right to go down more stairs—you lot'll find a room that contains an anvil. On pinnacle of the anvil, yous'll find your Estus Shard.

9 Undead Settlement

Starting from the Undead Settlement blaze, take a correct and walk exterior the bonfire area. Continue up the path and walk into the business firm straight ahead. You'll pass some enemies at the archway of the house.

Walk down the stairs inside the business firm until you've gone down 2 floors. Exit the house, and y'all'll be in a new area with a giant blaze (not a resting blaze) surrounded by enemies, including  an "Evangelist." Side by side to the giant bonfire is your side by side Estus Shard.

8 Road Of Sacrifices

This Estus Shard is a relatively easy one to detect. You'll find this Estus Shard in the Road of Sacrifices, but it will exist easier if you lot outset at the Halfway Fortress bonfire. Run outside, and y'all'll detect a path. Get downward the path and run by all the enemies. Go left and continue running until y'all meet a large archway.

Walk through the entrance, and y'all'll soon find a edifice. Hug the left and you lot'll walk beside the building through a narrow path. Keep walking directly and yous'll come across a pocket-size cliff. Below the cliff is the Estus Shard for Road of Sacrifices.

7 Farron Go along

This is ane of the easier Estus Shards to find because you don't take to motion far from the bonfire. Starting at the Farron Keep bonfire, walk outside and you'll see iii unlike fires in the altitude.

Walk towards the fire that is the furthest to the right. Just before reaching the fire, yous'll see an oddly shaped cleaved structure side by side to an Estus Shard.

half dozen Cathedral Of The Deep

Starting at the Cathedral of the Deep blaze, head outside the church and take your first correct to head upward the stairs.

You'll come to a shrine with a prayer group surrounding it. They don't pose much of a threat, and so you tin defeat these enemies and obtain the Estus Shard that they're protecting.

5 Smoldering Lake

So you made it to the Smoulder Lake bonfire. At the Smoulder Lake bonfire, you'll be in a room that contains an illusory wall. The wall role of an entrance, which shouldn't be likewise difficult to detect.

Open this illusory wall by striking it with your melee weapon. Head down the revealed path and take your showtime left. It comes quickly and then be sure non to miss this left plough. Once you've turned left, walk to the cease of the narrow passageway until you accomplish the end. The Estus Shard will be next to someone's remains.

4 Irithyll Dungeon

This is i of the most hard Estus Shards to obtain since it requires you to defeat a few different tearing enemies and complete several navigation steps. Defeating the Mimic in the above photograph may not be easy for some people.

Starting at the Irithyll Dungeon bonfire, walk directly and keep until you tin can take the first correct. Continue walking straight until you accept the first left. Walk straight and accept the outset left. And so take a quick correct, which volition bring yous to a set of stairs. Become down the stairs and exit the room, taking some other left turn. Keep going direct till you hit a staircase that leads to the right. If yous managed to follow these steps correctly, yous'll find the Estus Shard by slaying a mimic in the next room directly alee.

3 Anor Londo

Okay, so you made information technology this far. You should be proud that yous did since so many others have already quit by at present.

Starting at the Anor Londo bonfire, head up the large flight of stairs and proceed to enter the cathedral. Stay close to the left side of the hall and you'll see a chest next to a few goopy enemies. The side by side Estus Shard is found inside this chest.

ii Consumed King'southward Garden

Starting at the Lothric Castle blaze, leave the room, taking the exit that is closest to the bonfire. Take a right and bound downwards a floor. Continue down the stairs and support the side by side set of stairs. Continue straight and defeat the tough enemy called a "Consumed King's Knight."

After defeating this enemy, walk through the doorway to the right, and y'all'll come to an elevator. Simply take the elevator down, pace outside, and take your first right. The Estus Shard will be on top of a deceased person.

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Make your mode up the minor staircase to the right of the Grand Archives bonfire. Take the elevator up, and you'll discover yourself in a room with a ruby floor mat. Exit the room by walking to the correct and so have a quick left—this will bring yous to a large ready of stairs.

When you achieve the acme of the stairs, you lot'll detect that a section of the railing is in ruins. Yous'll have to run across the rooftop until you find the expanse in the above photograph and the Estus Shard.

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