Brotherhood of Blood | Dark Souls 2 Wiki

Just an FYI. You don't need to let your opponent buff. And if they do end up buffing its perfectly valid to run away until their buff runs out. You are under no obligation to be 2 shot by a buffed katana + sacred oath.

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Can I rank up while playing offline?

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I believe this covenant boost your invasion range for red eye orbs. I invaded someone 7 tier higher than me

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I love dark souls ii but this pact let me down a lot. The fact that I don't rank up for successful invasions is already frustrating, but it seems that the pairing is very pointless, I must have dueled about 20 times, SL 88, SM 800K, and I didn't find players of my level in any of those times. Either the guy had a cranked network, because of so much lag, or he was a guy that I didn't get 10% per hit, while a hit from him took 60% of my hp. Total disappointment, even though I'm new to the arena, in invasions or being invaded I usually do well. And walking into an arena and getting crushed is no fun. Even so, I still love dark souls 2, any recommendations for the convention? From SL since SM seems to make no difference. Otherwise I'm going to mallet this npc of the agreement and let it be chipped. :3

ps:It's sad to fall against players with less sense of the game than you, and do well because of this matchmaking system and the lag. The guys just spawn LA, and you, even dodging it, when it hits, the guy doesn't even get stunned, spams LA and the end of your career, bruh...

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please think about setting foot here if you have less than 50 vigor

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don't even think about setting foot here unless you have 50 vigor

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Now that the pc servers are up again... Don't try this before your character is essentially finished. At SM 500k and level 95 I'm fighting lightroll havels with sunlight blade helix halberds. You aren't liable to encounter someone anywhere near where you are in the game unless you're basically done already, because they all either will be themselves, or they're twinks

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I killed Saulden and Targray.
I have no regrets.
Go ahead, Send your blue "sentinel" bodyguards.
I don't care.
I'm a blood bro now.

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Trying to gain the aura at a "low" SM(1 million) is not fun

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Lots of ds3 gonkers whining here...

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Do you rank up when you kill an arbiter spirit (a blue that invades you)?

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Oh I do not gain from invasions? What a bulsit game just because of that stupid curved blade had to destroy 50 innocent lives! 50!!! Btw dear people whom I invaded Im so sorry :'(

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tried it on my SL 35 twink. Got matched with a SL 235 havel. Still wrecked the fool thanks to the Forbidden Fun Spam :)

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Using blue acolyte I can see the opponent SL. I'm SL 110 but constantly got matched with SL 250+ near instantly. Wtf

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My first DS2 playthrough playing online. Scarcity of cracked red orbs meant that for pvp i had to wait till Undead Purgatory. I get in, join covenant and prepare to expeirence famous DS2 pvp batlles, which were supposed to be best in trilogy.
Instead it was my first time experiencing PURE CANCER.
I wasn't prepared for this. Cheaters, tryhards and otherwise poor sports galore. Breaking all equipment, crashing game, insta healing, instakills, and propably other subtle hacks, that are hard to pinpoint. Metamancers doing nothing but running attacks with katanas and curved swords (phantom range). Players that when hit with backstap from maxed weapon lose only 10% hp (I don't know, is it hack or like max level). Players attacking when greeting them. Literally, in my experience only 10% matches were with people who weren't like that.

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"Players can be paired up WITH ANYONE IN THE SAME PLAY THROUGH." This gives me a LOT of pause about burning an ascetic at Undead Purgatory. Does it mean if I go into NG+ at that bonfire that I can ONLY be matched with other players who also are in NG+1? If not, then what is meant by the "in the same play through" qualifier?

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Anyone think this looks like an inverted hunters symbol?

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Out of many complaints I have from this game, the PvP is atrocious! Swords with longer range than spears, hitbox issues, no I-frames when dodging etc. etc. On top of everything, you do not GAIN rank from successful invasions.. I'm just going to buy all the stuff and kill the little guy.

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Sorry if this is a dumb question, but on the bridge map, if you jump off after defeating the other player does it still count as a win?

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why tf is everyone one shotting me and im doing pathetic dmg? My SM is 500k, lvl 90 vit is 30, armor is pretty good too. Im using mainly pyromancies with offhand uchi/washing pole

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So let’s say my freind who just started the game gets into this cov, I have 22million sm. Would he still be able to match with me?

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I want to join

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Did some legit testing on dropping items in the arena and ya... Its kinda broken. At first it may seem that it drops it to the winner, but if you try this more than once it just all comes back. So you can abuse this by having the character that you want to ... ahem, MULE to just drop some worthless crap item over and over again until it comes back, then have the high level drop all the goodies and let the low level win. It works every time. This makes twinking in the lowest soul tiers stupidly overpowered, and with the use of alternate account save mules you can have all the red eye orbs you want with going insane losing over and over again in the arena or farming the torturers. Twinking just got easy. And REAL BULL ****

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The Executioner’s Chariot is a foreshadowing of how often you’ll be running circles around the arena trying to escape the max level monsters that duel there.

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I did some legit testing on dropping items in the arena, and it is broken as hell. Step 1, get the agape ring. Step 2, get to the brotherhood of blood. Step 3, use the few red eyes in the early game to get an easy win in the forest of fallen giants. Step 4, get your high level friend to drop you items in the arena, the let you kill him. Easy. BUT. You will find that if you try to drop items again it won't work, this is because the game identifies mulers and tries to stop them. To manipulate this, try dropping easy to get items from the low level to the high level until they come back, then continue muling. In order to get infinite red eye orbs, just use an alternate account save backup mule to get all you need. Happy Twinking

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Why does the community have a 150 meta? In the other games it’s a great decision because you’re forced to match with those around your level so having a popular level equals max connectivity but this game allows you to pair with any level so if you decide on a fixed number you’ll always have players much higher than that taking advantage of it for easier wins ... there shouldn’t be any community decided level in this game especially in the BoB where even soul memory is irrelevant

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Invader build: soul memory
Arena build: soul level

dedicate time to getting better or just go back to blue

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cringe rankup system

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Brotherhood of Sweat

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This covenant is REALLY unbalanced. I got matched with a guy who had an everything build, and did negligible damage. Even with a backstab, it was only a FRACTION of their health.

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bullshit tbh that you don't gain rank from successful invasions... isn't that literally what the covenant is for?

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wish there was a covenant like this in ds3.. the grind to 150+ wins was fun and having the extra red glow thing was a nice way to show off.. was pretty sweaty though with SM and havels.. but w.e.

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Show can I join the brotherhood

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Do aomeone know if i need to talk to gren to gain rank 1 reward?

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I joined the covenant to be drenched in blood

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I need someone to spell it out for me, is the Brotherhood of Blood arena matchmaking based only on your soul level?

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Does anyone know if your covenant rank will carry over to NG+ and beyond ?

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Tell me if I'm wrong, but while playing SotFS on ps4, I've received one free weekend of online play per month, despite not paying for Playstation Plus. I guess if I want that Pyro trophy, I have to invade a crapton during those 2/3 days a month??

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As of now, I can say the experience in this covenant's arenas has drastically improved, I remember it being total cancer in 2019, but I've recently encountered players who fight more fairly and overall chill dudes, just watch out for the ocassional hacker/tryhard (btw if you're somewhat of a new player I'd still recommend blue sentinels' arena)

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If you are unable (or simply don’t want) to participate in the arena, you can kill Titchy and his armor and weapon will be sold by Melentia. As for the rank 1 and rank 2 rewards, I’m not sure but I’ve heard that Chancellor Wellager in Drangleic Castle can sell covenant rewards to you in either NG+ or NG+2.

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Can you lose your red aura when losing too many matches after gaining rank 1?

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So if you reached rank 1 do you need to win another 150 matches? And will it be 151 if I lose a match even if I reached rank 1?

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So 1 blue kill does not get you to Rank 2, so that was a troll. And I'm not doing arena so I guess I'll just invade for fun.

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The matchmaking is so beyond broken that you will typically face one of these 3 enemies.
1. This opponent will have an internet connection from the dark ages. They are usually quite bad, but impossible to hit or dodge because you have no idea what is happening.
2. Really good player who actually does similar damage to you because they are of similar SL and SM. These are my favorite to fight because it can be the most productive when trying to improve at the game.
3. Massively over-leveled, heavy armor wearing, fast weapon wielding, parry shield using player who is actually quite good at the game, making these fights very difficult to win since you will do d*** for damage while they destroy your health with a couple hits.

Matchmaking should be based on SM+SL and widen the pool if there aren't enough players.
Bonfire ascetic your way to glory, you will find yourself winning nonstop in no time.

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Just reached rank 3 the armor and scythe look awesome

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Hi mates, I've just played few duels today and got paired with some sick hacker named "Stalin double penetration" twice. First time he backstabed me even before I was teleported to arena and after that my game shut down to windows. Second time he killed me with some spell just before the duel gate open. It destroyed all my equipment and game shut down again. Just wondering if somebody met that guy too. He was pretty annoying.

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What happens in stalemate?

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Man they really just don't want you to have that fireball, huh.

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Is there a way to get 50 points offline? I want the curved twinblade, but I am way too bad in pvp

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I love being matched with people 5 times my level and who can deal more damage to me with a straight sword than I can to them with an ultragreatsword. Sure, I'm not very good at pvp to say the least, but at least give us fair fights.

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How do I join this covenant if I don’t have a initial token of spite from it? Like the opposite covenant I found a token of fidelity so i was able to join.

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SOUL LEVEL DOESNT MATTER EVERYWHERE ITS ALL SOUL MEMORY

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garbage covenant full of overleveled scrubs and no matchmaking restrictions,meaning you will get matched against sl500s in your sl150 character

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absurdly broken pvp

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most unbalanced PvP covenant in all of Souls. don't even bother trying to search for a fair fight because all you'll find is somebody that is SL 250 and has a weapon that 2 shots you.

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For people who don't want to play the game 3 times for the plat- I want to help in duels, we let each other win; I'm at about 4 mil total souls rn. PS4 DARKNiTE195.

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Just pure jesters, sl 831 spammers and stuff on this arena since sm doesn't matter. thanks b - team

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For any newcomers who want to have a good PvP experience, please do yourselves a favor and DON'T fight in the arena. Trust me, there's absolutely no fun to be had here, just stick to the other PvP covenants and the Iron Keep bridge.

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FromSoft should be ashamed of themselves.

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PSA to all BoB: Choose the right arena. Thank you.

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TERRIBLE CONNECTION. ALWAYS GET FRONTSTABBED OR TELEPORT BACK TO GET A BACKSTAB, TERRIBLE MATCHMAKING, I WAS DEALING LITERALLY 60 DMG ON A HAVEL WHO 2SHOT ME WITH A LIGHTNING ULTRA GREATSWORD.

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Found a op strat that makes you nearly undefeatable! Poor internet connection :/

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By far the worst covenant, no pryo trophy for me... need an update to let players rank by invading normally, after all, the whole point of this covenant is to go out and search for kills... alot of spear and straight sword users as well, both are broken with hitboxes

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I want to help in duels, we let eachother win, and its win win stuation ps4 account:dexteralp i m waiting

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is there anyway ti rank up offline?

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Can you be paired up with NG+ players

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Making succesful invasions not count towards your rank was a stupid idea. I never run into blue helpers and I have no intention of going to several million soul memory just to advance this charlie foxtrot of a covenant

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In the Arena, theres no limit to whom you fight against, NG doesn't matter

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What is it with the illuminati stuff lmao?

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My first ever duel and I come up against the f**king Terminator, Duel starts and hes laughing at me repeatedly even when I start hitting him (I am using a greatsword +10 with Raw Infusion, outputting over 600 damage with each swing) takes me 10 hits to get his health to drop to about 60% and the guy is still just laughing, after another 10 hits he strikes me twice and Im dead..........git gud is different to git f**ked

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I genuinely feel bad for these people that have to deal with hackers. May the flames guide thee.

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When you're only a SL65+ on NG and you join in the arena with a person that's probably SL200+ with a Crypt Blacksword infused with Dark and his first hit does 90% of your health so you just accept death and let him finish the job

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Damn, ever since the release of DS Remastered, I can't get anyone to show up in the arena, or even for coop.

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so how much rank points does a victory give then?

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Hi where i can invader iron keep red phantom?

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How ironic that all of the higher ranked people I come across lag around the arena and face stab constantly, oh how ironic indeed

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Jesus if anyone has trouble with max lvl fags just block them till the point that they'll no longer have any1 to fight against

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you can also use common fruit in the arena

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Is the arena still active? I only ever spent a day or two dedicated to pvp in this game and I really enjoyed it, dueling at the iron keep bridge about a year ago to get the dragon armor was one of my favourite times in souls and I feel like going back to this game to make a new build and pvp with it

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Ds2 pvp Lance's appears and straghit sword hitboxes are broken I'll be on the lava bridge in iron keep and the other guy can hit me when he's looking away and when the weapon is 3times farther away than when it's an actual hit come on you need to at least fix hitboxes in pvp

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For f@ck sake! Everyone in this*****ty arena runs away and cast some random healing bul*****after every 2 hits!! And this IF the ***** is not a fcking hacker with insane hp!

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BrotherHood of Blood? More like Brotherhood of bullshit.

Im always paired with SL500 Metamancers with*****ty internet on my SL150 characters.Its almost impossible to get a 60% winrate.

I need something to work with here, not a goddamn Havel assface shooting hexes, dealing 1/6 of my health with a straightsword, and running and healing when I get close to winning.

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Ok I can offically call Bull$&*t on Namco Bandai saying you can't lose a rank I have done JUST THAT! I have the curved twinblade in my inventory but my rank was reset to 0 even though I didn't restart the game! Who ever said you cannot lose rank was lying their ass off!

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if I lose being summoned as a red phantom with the red soapstone, do I lose rank?

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If you're a hacker go ahead you'll win, if not don't come here even if you got gut in pvp, full of hackers

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Uh, dude, this is a Dark Souls forum

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You think THIS is underrated? HAVE YOU EVEN SEEN THE BATTLE OF STOICISM IN DS1? NO, BECAUSE NOBODY USES IT, EVEN THOUGH IT'S THE EXACT SAME, WITH TEAM AND 4 BRAWL ADDED, IT'S LITERALLY THE SAME AS 3'S ARENA

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What happens if I leave this covenant and return to it later do my victories and defeats still the same or they will be drawn to zero

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Am I a decent player? Probably yes, because I finished the game multiple times in NG and NG+. Am I the best player around? No. SO I CAN'T GET A 500 POSITIVE WINRATE IN PVP, THIS IS COMPLETELY RETARDED, AND MAKES THE PYROMANCY UNOBTAINABLE. Also, I could buy it from wellager, but that would reqire a new game played trough 3 times withut using ascetic at most bosses to keep it doable what I am not fond of.

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This was the most underrated addition to the entire Soul Series... A form of rated / structured PvP. And look at these comments. The comments are cancer, Not the Arena. These are the twinks who invade fresh players... Roll up on dedicated PvPers and get Wrekt. Also the plebs who make desired SL limits as a community... Yeah, they hated proper PvP being introduced too. " we should all be SL 120 cause it's Dex Meta.... " ... Well I got news for you scrub, SL300 Hex. Get owned every time.

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if you want to pvp, visit treshold bridge or other pvp hotspots instead, the arena is pure cancer

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All these people complaining about the duelling system being broken... Two words: Git Gud.

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The dark souls 2 dueling system is really lame. I can't tell you how many times I get paired with some dude who has almost 2000 health when I'm clearly too low a level to win. The least they could've done was add a soul memory restriction.

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The brotherhood of the idiots................This group is just a bunch of hooded *****ing idiots.................They all need to be shot........

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if i got points for invasions, i wouldn't mind but this is one of the covenants i will never do unless i super level and poop on pplz faces. the lose points for losses makes ng++ seem easy in comparison n/ even a 1.0 wlr you make no progress

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suck it up those players got to that level one way or another if you cant win then your just a noob

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Why would they not balance the dueling in the same way they do with pvp in general? This just means all lower-leveled players are gonna get driven away by those, who have played through the game and just hang around for easy grinding, meaning the chances you'll find an equal opponent on a lower level are ***** slim.Speaking from experience here, as I try to get a few wins as someone around level 100 and keep facing people clearly outleveling and powering me in terms of stats and gear... Not to even mention hackers.

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Because of the fact that you lose points when you lose is really stupid because that makes everyone be as cheeky as possible

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can i lose it after i've earned it?

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If I kill Gren and use a bonfire ascetic will he come back?

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