What does making a weapon hollow do?

Infusing your weapon with Hollow does a few things. It reduces the base damage of your weapon slightly (almost always by a lesser amount than any other damage-reducing infusion), it DOES NOT change your weapons natural scaling, and it adds damage that scales with luck.
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What do hollow weapons do?

Hollow weapons are said to peer into the essence of its wielder, whose luck boosts attack.
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What is the point of hollow infusion?

All right, before any of you call me dumb or something, I know what hollow infusion does. It gives your weapon luck scaling and +5 luck, provided you're hollow.
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What does hollowing do?

Hollowing is caused by the Dark Sigil brand and turns player characters into zombie-like creatures after it reaches a certain level or counter—15, to be specific. This Hollowing increases after subsequent deaths.
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Do hollow weapons scale with luck?

It adds Luck scaling without jettisoning your other sackings like most infusions. It's pretty niche and not very good in general. At 15 Hollowing or higher, a +10/+5 Hollow-infused weapon will give you a +5 Luck bonus.
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Dark Souls 3 Hollow Build (Onikiri & Ubadachi)

Can you buff hollow weapons?

Because hollow is considered a physical infusion (adds luck scaling to the weapon) you can still apply buffs to the hollow weapon.
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Does hollowing increase luck?

Hollow Weapons and Shields scale with Luck, and also grant a bonus amount to your Luck stat. Hollow weapons grant up to +5 Luck at +10 upgrade level, only when your character is Hollow.
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Is there a downside to hollowing?

Hollowing has no negative effects on gameplay. However, it is required for certain NPC questlines and provides a bonus to luck when wielding Hollow weapons with a hollowing level of at least 15. Hollowing can be temporarily cured by paying the Statue of Velka to reverse hollowing, or by consuming a Purging Stone.
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What are the downsides of hollowing?

1 more con about being hollow is a hollow weapon can damage you more. The only negative effect is that your beautiful character you spent hours in the customization screen for will turn into a shriveled up prune.
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What does 99 hollowing mean?

A character can have a maximum of 99 Hollowing. Being Hollow gives the character a progressively more shriveled appearance, only visible when naked or wearing gear that reveals the body. Hollow characters also receive a bonus to Luck when wielding a Hollow weapon.
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How do you get crow quills?

The Crow Quills are located in Corvian Settlement. From the bonfire, cross the first bridge, turn left and make your way behind the building, cross the next bridge, and follow the ledge.
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Where do I get the Carthus curved sword?

Location / Purchased. Drops from the large Carthus Skeletons wielding the two-handed blades in the Catacombs of Carthus.
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Where can I find deep gems?

Deep Gems can be obtained from:
  • Primadon (roughly 10% drop chance)
  • In any chest from Layer 1 (very low drop chance, betters odds from corrupted monsters)
  • Hell Mode completion chest (guaranteed)
  • Chaser (very likely)
  • Scion of Ethiron (guaranteed)
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How do you get hollow weapons?

Buy the appropriate glyph from Silencia the Archmage and combine with the refined ore. Hand the Infused Ore to Silencia's Magma Golem to receive your Hollow Weapon.
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How do you get rid of hollowing?

Reversing Hollowing
  1. Consumption of a Purging Stone will immediately remove all Hollowing. ...
  2. Praying at either the Statue of Velka or the Purging Monument will present the option of "Request Dissolution," which will also remove all current levels of Hollowing at a cost of the player's Soul Level times 100.
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How to get 5 free levels in Dark Souls 3?

If you want to gain all 5 levels at once, simply draw out your strength, then jump off the Firelink cliff two times. Rinse and repeat until finished. After gaining these 5 levels, Yoel will eventually die and be replaced by Yuria.
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How much hollowing does it take to draw out true strength?

Just die till you reach 99 hollow. You need like 16 or 17 Hollowing level to get all five levels.
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Can hollowing be reversed?

Provided you have +1 in your Humanity total, resting at a bonfire will allow you to reverse the effects of Hollow, transforming you from Undead into Human. But what is the point of doing this? Does it have any purpose other than transforming you from a charred husk into a normal looking guy or gal?
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How does reverse hollowing work?

Reversing hollowing makes you human (i.e. non-wrinkly-dead looking) and you can summon phantoms in that form. Cists one humanity. Kindling a bonfire costs another humanity and can only be done in human form. You can only use humanity for these actions in its liquid form.
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What is the reason to reverse hollowing?

There are certain points in the game where you want to be human (reverse hollowing) so you can be invaded by an NPC enemy. You kill that enemy and get nice loot. This will happen several times throughout the game. There are also times when you can summon an NPC or/and human players to help you fight bosses.
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What is the benefit of reverse hollowing?

Being human (reverse hollowing) also allows other players and NPCs to invade you which is a critical part of the fun. You have to be human to invade others. It also unlocks special "adult only" scenes that you can't get when you are ugly. Reverse hollow makes u human, so u can summon other players.
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What is the difference between hollowing and Hallowing?

hollow. To hallow is to make holy or honor greatly. Hollow is primarily an adjective meaning (1) having space inside, or (2) lacking weight or substance.
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What is the benefit of hollowing in ds3?

no invasion, just like DkS 1 but a shorter health bar. that's called being unembered. Hollowing allows you to get 5 free levels from Yoel of Londor, as well as introduces Yuria of Londor and her questline for a "secret" not really secret ending.
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Does reverse hollowing increase item discovery?

Note: you don't need to reverse hollowing for max item discovery, just have 10 humanity in the counter to the left of your health. Anything that increase you item discovery in other words yes.
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What happens if I heal Dark Sigil?

Once healed, all Sigils will be removed from the player's inventory and Hollowing will be reversed. Yoel of Londor will no longer speak to the player if healed prior to his death. Should they be healed after, Yuria will leave Firelink Shrine upon being spoken to.
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