Dark Gem | Dark Souls 3

Dark Gem is an Upgrade Material in Dark Souls 3.

Dark Gem Usage

• Used for Infusion to create Dark weapons.
• Requires the Profaned Coal to begin infusing.
• Dark weapons inflict Dark Damage, and scale with Faith and Intelligence.
• Also adds Faith scaling to innate Lightning Damage in weapons (Dragonslayer's Axe, Drakeblood Greatsword and Lothric Knight Greatsword) and Intelligence scaling to the Drakeblood Greatsword's innate Magic Damage.

Dark Gem Locations

• Very rare drop from Rotten Slug in Consumed King's Garden (0.5%)
• Rare drop from Pus of Man in High Wall of Lothric (2%)
• Rare drop from Pus of Man in Lothric Castle and Consumed King's Garden (1%)
• Rare drop from Harald Legion Knight in The Dreg Heap and The Ringed City (3%)
• Drops from the second rolling "boulder" in Catacombs of Carthus. You must destroy the hat wearing skeleton for the boulder to stop rolling.
• Consumed King's Garden: Under the left set of stairs leading up to the courtyard full of knights just before the boss room. (Video location)
• Located after the Corvian Settlement bonfire (Ashes DLC). Head up toward the large NPC wielding Crow Quills and turn right before the gate at the end of the path, drop down and into the open window and defeat the two fly type mobs inside. Gem is on a corpse here.
• 1 located on a corpse surrounded by baby locusts at the entrance of the giant swamp in The Ringed City (Ringed City DLC)

Notes

• Requires the Profaned Coal in order to start infusing weapons.
• Some weapons have higher Dark scaling than others (e.g. Corvian's gets E scaling at +0, while a Notched Whip gets D).
• An alternative to the Dark Blade miracle for a non-caster character. and an alternative to Human Pine Resin that scales damage.
• A variety of enemies (Silver Knights, for example) and a couple of bosses (Vordt, Dancer) are fairly weak to Dark damage.
• With minimal Intelligence and Faith, it's best to stick to Deep gems.
• Damage Scaling softcaps at 30/30 INT/FTH
• It offers the exact samge damage as the Chaos Gem, the only difference being the damage type. This being the general rule with some exceptions like player vs player or Murky Hand Scythe.

Trivia

• To our dismay, the Dark Sword gets renamed to Reinforced Dark Sword when infused with a Dark Gem.