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[Samus Aran]

You can join every covenant in a normal game I think.

Also I'll do DeS NG+ with you guys if I'm in your level range lol

join yeah but finishing them all in a single playthrough would probably be a huge pain

[Placebo Headwound]

I think I'm the only one here that's beaten Dark Souls and Demon's Souls a thousand times already.

[Placebo Headwound]

I really only do PvP in Dark Souls because there's nothing more for me to do.

I could never get into PvP. It's boring trying to run behind each other endlessly.

I hope it's better in Dark Souls 2.

[Samus Aran]

was smashin up some skellies with a divine club in the catacombs last night

gonna play dark souls a ton after work tonight

[Kalahari Inkantation]

gonna experiment with covenants before making any progress i guess

which ones are generally considered to be the best/most relevant to the lore of the game, i'll focus on the most important for this playthrough

[Kalahari Inkantation]

[spoiler=also, on a somewhat related note][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3MdOBH-jDc[/youtube][/spoiler]

that vastly improved lighting, omg

[Samus Aran]

i suggest looking them up (i use the wikidot dark souls wiki just like i used their demon's souls one to look stuff up) and getting an idea of the ones you want to do

def at least do the chaos servant one because it helps you save solaire, although i would save it until right before you want to save him because you need to still be chaos servant +2 WHEN accessing the shortcut that allows you to save him - if you get to +2 and then leave the covenant and then try to access the shortcut, it won't work, and your offerings to the covenant will have been cut in half for leaving it...and since said offerings are humanity, that's a huge pain

so yeah generally speaking, don't leave a covenant until you've milked it for everything it offers because otherwise your offerings for it will get cut in half and you'll lose serious progress

[Samus Aran]

and at the point you're at, it's probably too late to join the easiest one, way of white, at firelink. the guy seems to stop selling miracles and offering the covenant membership at a certain point in the game (i think it was after i rang the second bell)

[Kalahari Inkantation]

and at the point you're at, it's probably too late to join the easiest one, way of white, at firelink. the guy seems to stop selling miracles and offering the covenant membership at a certain point in the game (i think it was after i rang the second bell)

i actually did join way of white at some point lol, probably as soon as i first reached firelink

but since then i've just been comfortably ignoring the covenants

[Kalahari Inkantation]

neither at the moment

i guess i wouldn't be opposed to assisting as a phantom in the worlds of other players, but i don't really want to invite anyone foreign into mine just yet

[Samus Aran]

i like the covenants more for the stuff you get from them lol

but yea a couple specifically require you to engage in pvp or co-op in order to progress

well sort of, since you can find sunlight medals and souvenirs of reprisal in the game on your own, just not all that many

[Samus Aran]

although way of the light (i thought it was white??) has no rewards of any kind so yeah

warrior of sunlight has great offensive miracles as a reward

btw being in these covenants also lowers your chances of being invaded

[Kalahari Inkantation]

way of light does that for me already lol

but yeah i guess i'll at least try to join warrior of sunlight and chaos servant at the very least

[Samus Aran]

requirement for joining warriors of sunlight is 25 faith initially, you have to lower it by killing bosses as a summoned phantom in other people's games

lowers by 5 per boss killed as a phantom

[Samus Aran]

i just fought pinwheel

how is that weenie even a boss