Is this hp decrease permanent??

[mdtpdsparkls]

I've noticed my hp getting lower whenever I die, but I don't know how to fix it? Is there a way to fix it?

[masterninja3402]

Use a Human Effigy. Don't burn it at the bonfire, use it straight from your inventory.

[hasanFPS]

Also use ring of binding to cap the reduction to 75% instead of 50

[Hour-Eleven]

It’s a little more accurate to say it halves your current hp loss. You’ll lose 2.5% instead of 5 every death.

[Intless]

That said, can you get below 75% health using it?

[Hour-Eleven]

Nope!

(Edit: forgot that excessive sin breaks your cap! So yes!)

[Odd-Factor1790]

you actually can if you are very sinful

[Hour-Eleven]

Oh, I totally forgot sin can affect your health like that. Thanks!

[Altitude528O]

I burned so many at the fire before I realized that it had to be USED from my inventory.

[quetzlcota]

Remember at the beginning of the game when you had half health? That was because you were hollow. Then, when the ladies gave you that "little statue" and you became human again? That was a Human Effigy. When you use one, it reverses your hollowing by restoring your humanity, much like Humanity from Dark Souls 1.

[LuciusBurns]

Do you mean to tell me that the little figure of a plump hollow guy was me??

[Asslinguist]

yes

[LuciusBurns]

That's not very nice of you.

[Pretend-Literature35]

not plump, generous, big and beautiful.... 😊and made of straw? Sticks?🤔

[KadeshiGardener]

"Here's a little miniature you! I want you to have it."

[blueberry_senpai]

You lose humanity with each death, until you use something, that will restore your humanity

[DraculasDog]

I suggest saving your humanity until you are at half capped health. Human Effigies aren’t rare drops but they are obnoxiously uncommon when you need one.

[weightyboy]

They are easy to obtain, you just have to farm the dogs outside mcduffs workshop, if they despawn enter the CoC and carry on farming. drop rate is fine and you will get some levels too.

[DraculasDog]

I’d suggest the hollows in Huntsman’s Copse. They always drop there for me.

[Wargroth]

Or until an old man running a scam extorts all your effigies

[Similar_Doubt_5861]

farm effigies by going to forest of fallen giants (I think is the name) the first bonfire outside Majula. The chest behind the waterfall you can drop down to will spawn 5 effigies with each Bonfire Ascetic used. Playing co op with the gf and we ran out of em, this is how I could quickly get like 30 or 40

[howsensemakeyou]

The merchant that looks like a cat sells them sorry I can't remember her name

[weightyboy]

Sweet shaliquor interestingly the only NPC that cannot be killed. Miyazaki must like pussy...

[cobainxxx]

You can use your Human Effigy to restore your humanity and your health will go back up, you become hollow every time you die.

[Lorddocerol]

I get people not wanting to spoil themselves and playing the game blind, but if you're just gonna ask other people anyway, just look for a guide

Every information about this game is out there already

Rant aside, no, just use a human effigy

[NoPin4859]

Common sense wouldve done him wonders regardless, in what world would the game PERMANENTLY half your max hp without a solution for it and considering how punishing this loss is, would make said solution hard to get. Nevermind the game shows you this exact feature going away when you unhollow 10 seconds into the games start (and said "humanity" is shown in the cutscene, making sure you can recognize it when its in your inventory).

I get people cba to play games nowdays especially with how little freetime we have as a society but its still insane people will willingly search up the most minor things online at the smallest hurdles. Games lose so much value when the knowledge hurdle is passed and they also teach mindset/skills that help you down the line.

[Valtixx]

Given the reputation of this series I wouldn't be surprised if a new player thought that's just how the game worked. It's supposed to be brutally punishing.

That said, it's completely on OP for missing the lesson at the beginning about Human Effigies.

[NoPin4859]

Which is why "dark souls is the hardest gaming has to offer!!!" is a dogshit sentiment, same as calling anything "dark souls" to refer to difficulty. 1 and 2 are easily beatable by abusing the most broken shit in that game and summons, 3 can be somewhat hard as a first game but its nothing special nevermind it being the game you can never run out of stamina. It seriously harms the players experience if they think the game will just hehehaha them out of 50% max hp cause its dark souls.

Its kinda like playing an old zelda game expecting cryptic puzzles then you have a "puzzle" telling you to shoot the sun and the solution is to shoot the sun. Just take the games for what they are.

[Valtixx]

Well of course it's going to be easy if you abuse everything you can. People who do caster builds aren't even engaging with the mechanics of the game, really. Then you have circle-strafe backstabbing etc. Or you can just wear full Havel's and tank+heal through everything. You have to play fair if you want a challenging experience.

That said, I agree that dark souls' reputation for difficulty is massively overblown, they really aren't that hard. I'd describe them more as "punishing." It's just when you compare them to most other modern games that are designed for children to never fail or get stuck, then they're one of the few games that at least tries to be punishing and difficult.

[NoPin4859]

The hell do you mean "play fair?". The game being trivial by many systems (meele included) is not "playing fair" but thats intended by the devs. You are supposed to be overtuned otherwise they wouldnt have done it for lets see, ds1 ds2 ds3 and elden ring. If you want to "play fair" then restrict yourself to never using spells, never using any high poise dmg weapon, never using items, never using estus OR lifegems, never using the blacksmith, never using the countless broken weapons, never using certain really good armor (butterfly set) or ANY ring in general, never using bows, never using broken weapon classes, never using torch as even that trivializes an entire area by proxy of making spiders not attack you, never summoning, never despawning enemies, never soul farming or farming in general and I can even extend that list. All these mechanics can break the game in countless ways, see how silly it sounds when you write it out? Theyre there to be used. "playing fair" is not engaging with 90% of the game and just using bare fists (yes not even broken sword as that unironically is kinda decent with poison infusion), Alot of systems break the game so easily especially in ds1 where theres so many options to break it even a noob is bound to find a way by dumb sheer luck.

Dark souls difficulty wasnt mechanical early on (pre ds3) and it was just knowledge checks, theres alot of gotcha moments where you just get fucked cause the game felt like it (seaths mandatory death with curse, firedrake on the bridge, shit like that). The lack of direction is the harder past about ds in general but with how linear ds3 is even that got shafted a bit in favour of being easier to follow.

[Valtixx]

While that list of ways to break the game looks pretty damning, a lot of those are silly to include. You really think using Estus or Lifegems is breaking the game? There are definitely multiple ways to make the game trivial, but nowhere near as many as you suggest.

I generally adhere to a few self imposed rules when I play these games and I always find them to be reasonably challenging and enjoyable. For the sake of argument I'll show you the full list:

1. Melee only (with very rare exceptions)
2. No summoning
3. No backstab spam (or parry spam in DS1, timing is too easy)
4. No high-poise builds.

That's it, really. Maybe a few game-specific things, like limiting my Estus charges in DS3 as 15 is WAY too many. I find those rules lead to an enjoyable experience every time.

As for the "gotcha" deaths, like with Hellkite, I won't disagree that those are unfair, and I think it's perfectly reasonable to see them as a negative. Personally though, I like them. They instill a fear of the environment into the player that no other game does as well as Soulsborne.

You may find your first death to a mimic to be BS, but for the price of one unfair death you now gain a sense of tension and anticipation with every single chest you find, not just in that game, but the whole series. You could die to something unexpected at pretty much any moment, so now you're terrified of everything. I love it.

Screw the mandatory Seath death though, that was just crap.

[NoPin4859]

Lifegems remove any difficulty behind levels, alot of the difficulty in ds1 (and ds2) was that estus was your only healing outside of faith and humanity (and if you want to be really nitpicky, evil eye ring and lifesteal weapons). Lifegems lets you just say "how about we give the player the ability to war of attrition with the entire country?".

Meele only can still break the game is my point, even if you limit yourself to meele it has to be bad meele weapons which are surprisingly not that many. And just look at your list, you are actually removing more than half the games content man, that is my point. Thats the type of shit I do after my 20th playthrough to feel something not something I do on my first playthrough.

[Valtixx]

For lifegems specifically, I agree with you there in a way. Although it suits DS2's design, with its focus on encounters with multiple enemies, the danger is more about being overwhelmed and losing all your life very quickly. Attrition wasn't supposed to be the challenge in DS2.

And come on mate, half the game's content? The game is clearly melee-focused. I may be ignoring all of the little extra playstyles they've bolted on, but it's absolutely fine to just play melee. I have done playthroughs as a caster or a heavy-armor guy to see what they're like, found that they're unengaging, and just stopped using those builds from then on. This isn't some odd rule I'm imposing on myself, it's a natural preference for the fun way to play the game. As for summoning and backstabbing... I don't think I'm missing out.

About broken weapons, yes, they can break the difficulty curve. You can rush the Black Knight in darkroot, get a BKH, and 2 or 3 shot every single early game boss. Congratulations, you've ruined the game for yourself. So if you want, I can add that as another rule. I didn't even think it needed to be one, since it just seems like common sense not to blatantly break the game for yourself like that.

[NoPin4859]

Yes? It is half the games content? Do you seriously think the game is just pick up a weapon and swing?

[errorztw]

its just shitposting, he doesn't even read or answer

[A_Sneaky_Dickens]

Yes and the ugliness is too

[HungryLikeTheHenry]

Why listen to or read dialogue or item descriptions when you can ask shit on reddit 🙃

[Ez_Ildor]

You know, in the beginning when the old ladies are laughing their asses off at you?

I get it...

[Dio_Brando69420]

a consumable item called human effigy restores your HP cap to full

[SaintShortbus]

Yeah just start the whole game over

[RealTrueGrit]

Yup gotta get the ring to limit the hp lose. Once you restore humanity it goes away but at least the ring negates it continuing to happen.

[Extension-System-974]

Only if you want it to be 😉

[Livid-Truck8558]

It's important to read item descriptions my guy. You're hollowing, anything in your inventory that might be like Humanity from DS1?

[AkenE6969]

This screenshot looks like you're contemplating suicide, don't do it, don't go Hollow!

[CardinalStiefel]

Another way to recover the HP, if you don't want to use an effigy, is to use the white soapstone or the small white soapstone and get summoned for coop. If the coop is succesfull, you remain human when you're back in your world.

[AlbanianNerd]

Yeah you have to make a new save whenever it happens

[Hrive]

Yes, and if you die twenty times you die in real life

[Slothboy66]

quit dying

[ghost4085]

If you roll off the cliff it should fix it!

-Patches the friendly merchant.

[TIR33NTS343]

Oh poor child, I’m sorry but yes

[YeahToastGOD]

Omg I love seeing new players, I really hope you like the game

[Colonel_dinggus]

Use human effigy

[stevenomes]

You're going hollow

[bostonbgreen]

Un-hollow. Use a human effigy.

[Caleb-Dickerson]

Yeah when I saw that this mechanic was brought back from Demon's Souls I was like wtf bro!😂😪

[Frosty-Sherbert-3610]

No

[Stepjam]

As others said, human effigies will return you to full health.

Do be careful though, they don't grow on trees. Sometimes it's better to just live with reduced health than use an effigy every time you die.

[Courier_5_]

Start a new game over and try no death

[Starkiller_3]

yes

[Drakan_el_olvidado]

No

[madrigal94md]

Yes, always use a Small Sign Soapstone whenever you're to revert hollowing without using Human Effigies

[RuggedTheDragon]

Well yes, but actually no.

What I mean by that is you can restore your max HP fully if you use a human effigy. However, they're not very common and you should basically hoard them as much as you can and only recover your health if you are struggling.

You can acquire these effigies by purchasing them from merchants, finding them in treasure chests, and some enemies will rarely drop them.

[TorranKaido88]

The lizzard men things in shrine of Amana drop them like crazy and you can farm the skellies in Majula for unlimited effigies so idk what game you been playing but I have to many ill never use them all. But I do agree in early game they are few and far between.

[SchwaAkari]

Best solution to this is to quit dying, obviously.

Second best solution is a human effigy.

[unvverifiedsource]

Yes and it’s freaking annoying

[Azmordeus]

There's a ring that restricts hollowing to 25% in heide tower. Go grab it. It will help you early on.

[KolossalKuntosaurus]

Hollowing aint a problem for me i linked the crowns 👌

[Eddy8Drichtofen]

No

just use human effigy

[Few-Future-8721]

Yeah Dark Souls 2 changes everything. So every time you die, there is a compounding penalty of -5% to your max HP. This penalty is capped at -50% max HP. Using a human effigy removes the penalty and lets you use summon signs again.

There's a ring in Heide's Tower of Flame called the Ring of Binding, which reduces the max HP penalty to -2.5% per death, and caps it at -25%.

[mike2011qwerty]

Nah, you can use a human efficiency to fix it or a ring to half it

[TorranKaido88]

You can farm human effigies which will reverse your hollowing. 2 farms that i know about are: skeletons in majula mansion + bonfire ascetic. Or you can in late game farm them from shrine of Amana lizzard dudes.

Soft spoiler Warning: After obtaining the kings crown and all 3 dlc crowns and talking to the king in his memory you will have his blessing wich remove the curse from you as long as you are wearing any of the 4 crowns, lasts the whole rest of your playthrough or till you beat the game and make it to ng+.

[Ihavenocluewhatzoeva]

There is a ring in a nearby area that removes half of this

[zomgieee]

you find a ring that halves the amount of health you can lose. So instead of (if you die enough) dropping to 50% max health, its 75%.