Dark Souls: 10 Cheats & Glitches That Broke The Game
4. Teardrop
(Patch 1.04 or earlier only)
In a similar vein to the parry and riposte abuse listed above, what became known as the “Teardrop” was a spell and death cam abuse that was used in Dark Souls 3 to skip huge portions of the game by the same idea: - specific barriers being unloaded due to your glitched state.
There is a spell called “Tears of Denial” which acts as an extra hit. When your character was reduced to 0 HP, they would die. If you had TOD active, instead of dying you would remain alive with a single hitpoint. It was used extensively in PVP as being able to take an extra attack could be all the difference between victory and defeat.
Once the spell was cast, in very specific places you would take a drop that would normally kill you but your spell would allow you to pass through the killbox and roam out of bounds. It was used to skip a barrier to Irrithyl which required a small doll, skip Wolnir and skip the Dancer of the Boreal Valley.
Just grab the Divine Braille Tome, give it to Irina and buy the spell. Have fun.