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yeah no thanks, only if it would give you cool glowy eyes and/or buff body...

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COC: The only way to fly!

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Jesus christ, FIFTY awestones? Man, the covenant requirements in this game are absurd. Thankfully DS3 requires quantities like 30.

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It also increases detection range and some other bits

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RIP. The respawn function doesnt work on vanilla DS2. Its only Scholar of the First Sin.
Seems they patched it into vanilla in patch 1.10 however, but Im stuck on version 1.01, calibrations 1.05
RIP, no soul farm for me

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The company of chads

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suck on this champ - renala queen of big white balls

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love me covenant, love me stones, love me great magic weapon. amen.

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does joining company of champions made the DLCs also harder or just the main game?

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After joining, do the enemys give more souls?

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So amost everyone here just ignored the three, i repeat, THREE warnings about this covenant and simply pressed x like drooling dumbasses? And then proceed to blame the game for their own fck up? Morons...

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What makes the game harder: joining Company of Champions or using a Bonfire Ascetic?

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I wish this didn't make enemies more resistant, it makes it a bit of a shore. I just would like for them to be more dangerous not spongy. And as someone who appreciate DS2 ganks, it makes them too much. Though the extra defense makes early bosses better imo.

Overral, I don't think it's as fun to play like No Charm/Demon Bell in Sekiro, which is a bit disappointing since I was looking for a bigger challenge that's not self restricting like SL1. Got an early Great Magic Weapon though, which is nice.

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Just in case anybody wishes to read this comment section wanted to know this answer: no, you don't lose any progress if you leave this covenant. That applies to all covenants that you join. Progress is merely paused until you go back to that specific covenant.

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Does leaving cause you to lose your progress in giving it stones?

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Does leaving this covenant and rejoining later reset the covenant rank/Awestones donated?

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If I leave the pact, does the difficulty also change back to easier or is it more difficult forever?

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This covenant should not br located in Majula ou in a beggining area.

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No sir, i never signed up for this...

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How to gid gud:

Step 1: join this covenant
Step 2: clear heide

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Hey so quick question. Does enabling this covenant disable completing npc quests? Will I still get pate’s armor even if I can’t summon him?

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I joined this covenant but didn’t know it made the game harder, now I abandoned it. Does that mean the game isn’t harder?

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This would be really fun in Dark Souls 1,3 or Bloodborne (games I feel would really benefit from an optional difficulty increase) but for this game? Not that it's necessarily more difficult than Bloodborne or DS3 but the game is nearly entirely composed of ganks in tight corridors with the player being the most physically crippled they've ever been. Namely in regards to iframes, roll distance, lingering animations and overall attack speed. This games becomes a chore with this covenant added, it does however make the majority of the bosses somewhat more interesting in that they will deal a lot more damage. That is a genuine boon for the game as 90% of bosses in this game are easier than O&S

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Oh, come on. I joined this covenant at the start and had no idea it would make it harder. Anyway, atleast I got gud.

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This game starts at easy mode. And joining this covenant makes it normal mode.

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I've been in this covenant my entire playthrough without knowing it made it harder. Ive gone through so much unnecessary suffering ahhhhhhhhh

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Easiest by far are the shaded woods. Eyes of a Priestess makes this easier for targeting.

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How to please leave the contract ?

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Hunters? Lures? What the heck is that dark souls community is good at finding sheetty names.

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If I leave the covonent does everything go back to normal like enemy damage or is it stuck like that

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Does thsi affect the painting guardian Phantom?

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I have a feeling that it does affect the drop rates of the enemies after you've reached the point where they wouldn't spawn anymore. I've started farming and dropped random pieces until I've killed the enemies around 15 times. Then I have 1 hour and 30mins without drops. Then I've stopped. It doesn't seem like bad RNG.

Can someone confirm this? Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Chads notice no change in difficulty after joining the covenant.

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I love this covenant, makes the game really exciting to play. Joined by accident and I was holy ds2 is way harder than ds1. Well makes sense if you do 25% less damage and enemies do 50% more, you practically 1 or 2 shot material vs bosses and stamina management is a thing. Elana on ng+ and this covenant was a nightmare.
Your bastard sword on normal game does literally same damage as your black knight ultra greatsword on that covenant flat (without counter damage included)

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So that's why I was having such a hard time with no man's wharf

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Do enemies that were originally extinct Prior to joining the covenant respawn AFTER LEAVING the covenant?

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people: "damn i can't belive this is why i was dying alot"

litteral convenant stone monmument thing: "this convenant is only for the bravest and strongest"

me: Joins and leaves every convenant just so i have them marked down.

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So this is the covenant of infinite farming? Awesome, I honestly have thrown maybe 600 hours in this game and never knew that, and now I feel like a mad fool...

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Sorry if this is a stupid question. But does everything go back to normal if you abandon the covenant? New to DS2.... Just want to farm for a bit so I thought of joining this covenant...

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Ah, this is the reason I almost quit the game in my 1st playthough. I just randomly join covenants because I though changing them is easy like DS3. I keep wondering why the enemy hit really hard combine with my shitty knowlegde about ADP (I beat the main game with 3 ADP and still didn't know how I fking do it lol.). Then the DLCs hit me, that was when I know about this covenants and ADP. Almost make me quit the game because I keep getting one shot and couldn't dogde anything when fighting Sin.

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FARMING

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I'm already trying to finish the second time the game on the sl1 with this covenant, because the first time I forgot about her, and then the second time I caught her, and it's really complicated, but I'm almost done

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>be me
>playing dark souls 2 first time
>all the time thinking
>damn this game is waay harder than the first one
>getting two-shotted no matter how much I upgrade health and swap armor by almost anything
>lvl 80, still weak af
>start thinking I've done something wrong
>randomly come across someone mentioning this covenent making the game harder
>joined it the very first thing I did when I entered Majula
>**** me

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Holy ****, am I glad I came here to check, before joining...

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Alright, I came up with my own method to farm awestones in SOTFS, and it's kinda reliable: go to the shaded ruins bonfire, equip at least the covetous golden serpent ring +1 (+ dragon parma and prisioner's hood in my case, but you might wanna equip the prisioner's tatters or use some coins too, it's up to you). Now, go for the forest warriors in the area (the transparent dudes), there's one just as you come out of the bonfire heading to the ruins, another one to your right (near two curse jars), two on the slope near that hole and when you come back to the bonfire be sure to jump into the roof (where a wooden chest is located) that's the last one.

Feel free to use the aged feather, homeward bones or the homeward miracle to go back to the bonfire, these enemies might be a pain in the ass but make sure to stagger them as mush as possible and watch your back (I'm aware that there's another two around, but they are a bit out of this route)

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I think i know why DS:II has been so difficult now...
I'm small brained af

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Company of Chads

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Started playing DS2 last week. Now I'm at 20h in the game and I learned that the covenant I joined at SL 5 until now made my game harder.
I don't how to feel, maybe I got gud after all.

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Wow, i have 99 awestones and can't carry more of these. I guess i'm a champion.

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I’m just playing this game for the first time and I got halfway through without realizing what this covenant did. I made the game way harder for myself. No wonder everything killed me in one or two hits.

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Does this covernents effects disappear if you join a different covernent?

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Git gud: the covenant. I wish ds3 had this.

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above, it is said,
"Once you leave, all enemies will return to the spawning condition they had before you joined."
please confirm that those areas i already cleared (no enemies show up in several worlds anymore) will have zero enemies again once i leave the covenant.

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i'm pretty sure it does.

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This prevents enemies from despawning permanently, yes? Does it revert enemies that are already gone?

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arrrrg

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Does the covenant effect enemy drop rates? I e been farming for a really long time for all the Drakekeeper gear

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I was wondering why I couldn't see summon sign or why no one summoned me. Unfortunately I finished 2 playthrough. I guess dark souls 2 really encourage my messing around.

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Dear lord.. I am new to Dark Souls 2, just recently bought it, and joined this covenant just because I could.. I wish I had known that it buffs enemies.. I was seriously wondering why everything 2 shots me and I played like this for 21 hours

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Route that worked for me was do a loop of the shaded ruins. 7 ghost guys there, dropped 1-2 almost everytime for me. Or if you're absolutely hardcore, go to the foggy woods!

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When we left this covenant we can play online?

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I know what the point of this covenant is. I just do not want to deal with the bullsh*t that comes with belonging to it. I will leave that to all you really hardcore mother f*ckers.

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For farming later in the game, I like to use the Shrine Entrance bonfire at the Dragon Shrine to farm awestones and dragon scales from the Dragon Knights. The Dark Knights can be taken out from afar using a pyromancy flame, then I kite the Dragon Knights down the staircase. I often die a bunch, but I find its a neat way to farm both scales and awestones at the same time. Plus, I can retrieve the souls without much difficulty because the Dragon Knights don't aggro right away.

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I joined this covenant at the start of the game to farm some souls at the Heide's Tower of Flame, but the enemies stopped respawning regardless, anyone know why? Also, the elephant-looking knights in the area where Bowman Guthry appears in Doors of Pharros have infinite respawns wether you're in this covenant or not, but they drop awestones at a good rate if you are. I usually farm them for souls as a hexer from the Royal Rat Vanguard bonfire, and the dwarfs drop titanite chunks and some stones for infusion.

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I joined the Company of Champions, cleared Shrine of Amana about a dozen times (a blast, especially when it's even harder, right?), then enemies stopped respawning, just like in other areas before joining. What gives? Some facts: I joined Champions once before reaching Amana and abandoned it. And before I joined again, I have cleared Amana maybe three-four times. Could that affect anything?

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thats why I cant summon NPCs

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I think this causes the skeletons at Majula to stop spawning. I'm playing right now after burning a bonfire ascetic and seeing seven skeletons, then I went to go join the covenant to farm them for effigies and they're gone.

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There is a bit of irony in this covenant. After you have been getting your butt kicked and exhausted your enemy respawns (like I have been) you might feel inclined to join. That way they will respawn again and you can spend some time farming those souls. Doing that though is just a double edged sword making it harder for you to git gud. xD

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I'm brand new to ds2, does the difficulty go back down if you take the covanant off?

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Pretty sure I despawned all the dragon acolytes in Aldia's keep, then after joining and leaving this covenant they still spawned (SOTFS.) Can anyone else confirm?

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If this covenant makes it so enemies dont stop spawning when resting at a bonfire, does this mean you could get basically infinite souls/items, if you’re determined?

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I have farmed several enemies out at different locations until they stopped spawning, while in a different covenant, and then after switching to the Champion’s covenant, i noticed they all respawned again. Does this always happen when joining Champions or is there some other reason for it?

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wooowoowowowwowwoowow im pretty sure i played my first playthrough of this game with this covenant in 2014

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absolute chad covenant

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Joining this covenant makes enemies spawn infinitely.

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So for my first playthrough I found this thing as soon as I entered Majula. No idea what it did. 3 hours later I find out I've been playing on Hard Mode. 10/10 would You Died again.

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Does anyone know if abandoning a covenant gives you penalties like in the previous game?

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Ruin sentinels in SOTFS by the Kings Gate bonfire.

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Fun fact, the grave wardens in the grave of saints by Agdayne drop awestones. Another fun fact, as long as you don't directly target them, you can kill them with poison/toxic mist without aggro-ing them or Agdayne. Ergo, easy awestone farming.

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cool

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Enemies only respawn in patch 1.10?

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Enemies still stop spawnkng when after i join help?

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I love this Covenant. No phantom babysitting and infinite respawns? Yes, please.

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Vanquisher’s Seal is the best covenant reward in the series But what a chore

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I see a lot of people in this comment section joined this covenant by mistake, well me too, kinda, i actually intended to join it, ds2 is known for being the easiest one and when i saw it saying it would be a greater challenge i went for it, bu then i stopped playing for a few months and when i went back i didn't remember i was in this covenant, and i was thinking i was a noob for dying so much in the easiest game of the souls franchise, but then i saw something about the enemies stopping their respawns on the internet and was thinking why that never happened to me. After finding out it was this covenant i decided to keep on it, since i was used to the way ds1 was and really hated the idea of the enemies stopping their respawns, also i never really liked using summons (i only use them on ng+ to make things faster), so it didn't bother me, this covenant helped me make this game what i wanted it to be.

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It's amusing to see so many people go: "I joined it without knowing what it does and it made my game harder!" Because I did the opposite mistake: I thought it looked kinda suspicious and scary, and I didn't know it made the enemies keep respawning, so I spent my first two playthroughs worrying about running out of soul and item farming opportunities and used a bonfire ascetic at one point even though I didn't need to, which I ended up regretting. On the other hand I'm now surprised to find out it also makes the enemies harder because I never noticed that. I thought it was just the infinite respawns and no phantom summoning.

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I'm fucking idiot, I started the game recently (played DKS3 only prior to this one), as soon as I went to Majula I joined this covenant without even doing any research. I play the game and think to myself "Damn, this is so much harder than DKS3". Then I was watch YT video for secrets and saw a guy doing boss with npc summons, but I don't see any signs. Googling why I don't see summon signs someone pointed to this covenant. Reading this paged and I'm shocked from downsides of being member of it.

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Bowman Guthry appears in NG too..

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The old knights at heide towerof flame also ddrops awestones

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I need somebody to spell this out to me if you leave this covenant does everything go back to normal?

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Activate covenant. Farm as much of anything as you want. Abandon covenant.

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So I know If I join enemy's will infinitely redrawn but will they still drop there's items even if they despawn also any tips for farming the shadow set

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Chad covenant

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In SOTFS, Shaded Woods bonfire the first white ghost enemy sitting down also drops them, rare but it drops them. Lol found out farming lions warrior set to drop down the Majula well

(trying to see how far I can get with Deprived SL1 SM39,990)

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It mentions that the enemies in doors of pharros drop awestones. Is this farmable? And does the gold serpent ring increase the chances of them dropping?

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It seems like you take aditional damage when in this covenant.

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what's the upside to joining other than the items; more souls?

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I've gotten an awestone drop from one of the the Ruins Sentinals at the King's Gate bonfire in Drangelic Castle

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So, stupid question probably, but if I join this covenant, do the difficulty amplifying effects persist even after abandoning the covenant?

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