>farming for covenant items
Who the fuck thought this would be a good idea? I've literally been farming for 12 hrs straight and still need 22 more vertebra shackles, 17 more sunlight medals, 8 more human dregs, 8 more proof of concord kept, and 2 more blood swordgrass.
Holy fuck these drop rates are so stupidly low even with gold covetous + mimic head + sage rapier + coins
you only need to farm for the proofs and the leaves, the others are really easy to get
>>336069661
The dregs take like 10 fucking runs to get one, vertebra shackles require you to sit there for ages for someone to take your sign and then you have to hope you don't get ganked, swordgrass are pretty common but still take a good 2-3 hrs of farming with max item discovery setup, and sunlight medals require you to sit at the fucking boss door for ages and hoping dumbass host doesn't die
>>336069575
>run game blind, but know there will be miracle/sorc/pyro achievements so do my best to collect 'em as I find 'em
>finish game, find out there are spells from covenants
>too high for pvp
>darkmoon broken for me anyway
>try for like an hour to farm and get nothing
lol helper engine to the rescue
For shekels and medals just use a red sign outside Sullivan
>>336069818
you realize you can invade as madman right? just fucking invade
aldrich has constant invasions, and sunlight is quick as fuck because you get them through both invading and doing easy as fuck quick bosses like ancient wyvern or oceiros
don't farm those, it's way easier and way more fun to actually do the intended way
>>336070141
>invasions are constant disconnects, server errors, running cowards, and gank squads
I'd honestly rather farm
>>336070242
invade in good areas, i.e. not anor londo
especially for mad men, where you can kill the phantom for the covenant item, it's easy as fuck - plus, even if you win only like 1 in 4 invasions or whatever if you're crap, it still tends to be faster
>>336070352
What would be a good area?'Seems 3/4 of the time is just roaming around to find the fucking host. Then when I do he either runs away or has like a 2-3 person ganksquad ready for me
>>336069575
>Who the fuck thought this would be a good idea?
>>336070242
You're fucking delusional if you think farming is anywhere close to as fast as invading even considering all those things you just listed. The only time farming is better is for Proofs and Swordgrass.
>>336070242
Just duel nigga
>>336070491
>The only time farming is better is for Proofs
literally the complete opposite. You get called up all the time and it's easy as hell since you have a ganksquad. And sometimes you get multiple invaders or Aldritch invaders so you can get 2-3 proofs in one session
>>336070463
i don't know what level you are, but i assume you're end-game so like 60-80
the very first area of archdragon peak tends to be great, because pretty much no-one has phantoms there, as well as the initial consumed king's garden and early lothric castle, because it's a smallish area and there's few phantoms. either way, experiment a bit
for mound-makers you can go to the anor londo area if you want because you also get rewarded for killing other invaders, it's pretty quick
>>336070616
>You get called up all the time
what kind of magic game do you have
>>336070463
I invaded in the king's garden because usually people just die to the black blobs before I get to them.
>>336070616
>You get called up all the time
This is player dependent. Some people get invasions very often while for some it takes hours, even with matching SL and weapon reinforcement level. The matchmaking for Blue Sentinels and Darkmoon Blades is just fucked right now.
Maybe if there was a fucking BLUE EYE ORB people wouldn't be having this fucking problem.
>>336069575
>Majority of covenant rewards are rings and items for mages and faith users
Fuck you From, why don't melee users ever get shit
>>336070739
I'm SL130 in the duel arena and I've been summoned like 4 times in ten minutes before. It varies, and sometimes I'll go an hour with no summon. But just toss in blade of darkmoon patch while farming for other ones and it adds up quick
>>336070796
I've ran Blue Sentinels/Darkmoon for pretty much my entire game except when I was invading, never got a single summon
>>336070868
damn, I finished the game at 65 and never get summoned, guess I just gotta level
are you on NG+? not that that seems to matter
I have 115 platinums and this is by far the most repetitive, long, and grind heavy of any of them.
Fuck From for attaching rings and spells to these fucking low drop rate items
>>336070858
Are you joking? Magic got absolutely fucked in every other area this time, worst its ever been in a souls game besides maybe pre-dlc BB. Be grateful you're at least viable.
sunlight medals are easy to get through co-op and vertebra shackles aren't that bad since you can just invade high traffic areas and kill anyone
the rest are shit though, and I have no hope of them fixing the covenants ever
All I need to find is the blue guys shit and so far this is the most annoying shit I've done in a game. I never get summoned and the drop rates are low as hell
>>336071068
You can't get vertebra by invading. Only by killing invaders
>>336071068
>Tfw not able to get vertebrae shackles cus I pissed off sirris and killed greatwood before knowing about the covenant so now I can't get mirrah mask
>>336071206
>You can't get vertebra by invading.
What? Yes you can.
>>336071208
Can't you just summon a purple and try and kill them?
>>336071208
you get mirrah mask from pump a rum pickle pee
Just got summoned again as we speak. Blade of Darkmoon seems to have much, much higher summon rates than way of blue. And it's really easy to kill the reds in 2v1
>>336071304
I know, and you trade a vertebrae for it.
>>336071246
If by invading you mean setting down a mad summon sign then yes. But not thru red orb
>Never do PvP in any Souls game
>Have no idea what's good since some weapons are just better for PvP than PvE
Should I just make a Bleeding Estoc or something?
How the fuck do you get dregs in PvP? Because I've only found one in two hours of farming deacons.
>>336071430
You definitely do, that's how I got my shackles.
>>336071208
>>336071398
You get one for killing Hodrick when he invaded you before the Tree, enemies also drop them, rarely.
>>336071398
just use the vertebra that you get from hodrick for it or if you lost that one just kill a few skele swordsmen
>>336071483
most people are utter trash at pvp in das, you can do pretty good in 1v1s if you just have a good grasps of the mechanics of dark souls, but if you want to destroy, grab the estoc or any other rapier
>>336071430
you totally do dude, i've never used soapstone as moundmaker but i have my warmth
>>336071483
you should just use what you want, but if you want to be a fag then use an estoc or a straight sword and make sure to fish for parries periodically
>>336071604
estoc is trash. Anri sword with buffs destroys in pvp
>>336069575
If the auto-invade covenants worked half the time, this wouldn't be a big issue.
>>336069818
This is why you get vertreba shackles the moment you find the purpals.
Tons of noobs are summoning for easy kills.
>>336071719
>estoc is trash
?????????
>>336071971
It's parry fodder
>>336072157
And straight swords aren't? Anything is parry fodder, its up to the user to play unpredictably.
>>336071719
do you infuse it with bleed and stack luck, or something?
>>336072282
You can't infuse it. It already stacks luck and soft caps at 40
>>336072157
Most people are shit at parrying so it's still ez win.
Stack item discovery fuckboy. My buddy got all the swordgrass he needed in 30 minutes or less.
>>336073176
>"Holy fuck these drop rates are so stupidly low even with gold covetous + mimic head + sage rapier + coins"
That's what OP is doing?
>>336071430
Yes you can. Spent the morning invading and got 10 shackles. You either have to kill however many phatoms the game tells you or the host has to die. It tells you the moment you invade.
>>336073176
>My buddy got all the swordgrass he needed in 30 minutes or less
"Your buddy" is bullshitting you
>>336069575
Farming wasn't that bad in DaS, took me around 3 and a half hours with 10 humanities and the gold serpent ring, how's farming on other game? I only played DeS and DaS
>>336073481
How dare you.
>>336073330
Sounds like someone needs to respec and dump every stat into luck then don't they. You have to account for your personal item discovery irl.
For example my life is pretty decent and things usually go my way so I generally get the items I want.
Clearly OP is accursed and life fucking hates him so he likely has a base item discover of -200 or so.
>Darkmoon is broken right now beacuse it never summons you
>You need 30 proofs if you want all achievements
>Only way to get them right now is by farming 2 annoying enemies
>Even with maximum drop rate possible they still barely even drop
Fuck you From, after 2 hours I had enough and used cheat engine to get those, I feel pity for people on consoles who can't do the same.
>>336073683
Respec-ing everything into max luck still doesn't make it that much faster.
>>336073832
>implying autosummoning doesn't work in consoles
>>336073954
Then you need to stop wanting them. I can't believe people don't know about the desire sensor in fucking 2016, goddamn amateurs.
>>336073832
>Darkmoon is broken right now beacuse it never summons you
No it isn't, I've had plenty of summons as darkmoon
>>336074476
>>336073516
Farming in 3 takes about 10X the amount of time. The drop rates are about three times less likely than DaS and you need three times as many, plus the enemies for vertebra shackle are way too scarce.
>>336074476
You do realize the queuing is fucked right? Some get summoned every 5minutes while others never get summoned even after 100+ hours. There's nothing you can do to fix it. It's 100% luck.
>>336074476
This. Everytime time I invade past pontiff that glowing orb appears and a darkmoon gets summoned.
>>336074597
>>336074823
sucks 2 b u lol
>>336073683
Luck only adds one point of item discovery per level. 99 luck is less than the mimic head alone. So luck isn't really relevant
I used coin+mimic+40 luck+sage rapier+covetous serpant and it took me 3+ hours on the most efficient route never dying
>>336070963
I am at 67 and dont want to level up. Should i do it?
>>336074823
>get game on PC
>surprised when servers are shit and community is dead
WOOOOOOOOOOOW
I've had zero issues with summons nor has anyone on PS4
>>336075013
Not saying I have this issue. I'm saying you're ignoring a flaw in the covenant just because you're not suffering.
>>336070014
There's hackers that will softban you in irithyl atm
