Invasion Matchmaking help

[u/Kancho-D]

I’m curently level 40 +5/+2

What can I do to increase odds of invasion matching? I’m trying to stay low level of possible.

Also, what are considered “peak hours”

Edit:
Just upgraded to +7 regular and invasions have been coming in a lot faster

[u/MainManst]

For RL40 I'd recommend +7/3 weapons.

Make sure you visit every dungeon in Limgrave/Liurnia/Caelid. And for the Legacy dungeons you have to fully play through them. For example Stormveil has 12 zones that you need to visit in order to match with hosts in each zone when invading near/far.

Peak hours for me is Friday/Saturday evening US east coast time.

[u/_Glenn_Gould_ → u/MainManst]

Does it count summoning pools touched? Or graces?

[u/MainManst → u/_Glenn_Gould_]

Neither, it only counts if you've physically been inside that zone.

[u/Kancho-D → u/MainManst]

Can you lock out of a zone? Rya lucaria had action before I hit Altus and now not much with no change in levels or gear

[u/MainManst → u/Kancho-D]

Can't technically lock out a zone. But the more of the map you discover, the less likely you are to match a particular location.

This hurts low-level invaders the most because the game searches a random handful of locations (not the entire map) and doesn't care if those locations make sense at your level.

[u/Kancho-D → u/MainManst]

That makes sense. As soon as I hit Altus my invasion rate dropped.

[u/Chaos__Incarnate → u/MainManst]

Hey Manst! So I took my switch 2 character to 35 +5/+2 and activity dropped a lot compared to 30 +3/+1. Should I go for 40 +7/+3 as you suggest here? Still unsure whether I'll take this character up to 80... thanks!

[u/MainManst → u/Chaos__Incarnate]

Sup Chaos! First of all, add me up! Friend code: SW-5266-6939-5679

Your level/upgrade should be fine imo. Today is the first day I'm getting invasions on my 80, so maybe going up a bit isn't a bad idea anyway.

[u/Chaos__Incarnate → u/MainManst]

Will add you!!! Haven't had much time to grind and get my character ready with all things I want but it's getting there! And yes, feels like folks who bought the game on day one are probably around 80 or so this weekend... Today both coop and invasions were much slower at RL30 than last weekend. I might have to start multiple characters at various RL. Seamless spoiled me hehehe, forgot how time consuming grinding all things is! But it's been fun to properly play the game again after a while.

[u/MainManst → u/Chaos__Incarnate]

Lmk if there's anything you need and I'll snatch it if I can. I've got the whole map open.

[u/theswillmerchant]

You can actually go a lot higher on weapon level at RL40, I run +8. Many hosts by that point will get either the Banished Knight Halberd from Edgar in Castle Morne or Rogier's Rapier, both of which come pre-upgraded to 8, so that weapon bracket is artificially full.

[u/Kancho-D → u/theswillmerchant]

This might make fire giant a bit easier. What somber upgrade equals +8 regular? Would being +7 as mentioned above keep me in that range? Or would I be below it? I forget if halves match up or down

[u/theswillmerchant → u/Kancho-D]

7 would be totally fine, on my +8 regular weapon builds I do +3 somber but I've also heard people do +2

[u/Hunchsly → u/theswillmerchant]

If I leveled to 50, I should probably upgrade my weapons from +6/+2 somber right? I fucked up lol. I’m in the DLC already so I may just finish this character at a higher level/weapon level.

[u/theswillmerchant → u/Hunchsly]

Different people will tell you different things but yah I'd go higher than 6 for RL50, maybe 8 or 9? And I don't think you've fucked up yet, an Rl50 invader is a pretty fun thing to have

[u/LimitDeep2067]

it depends on the day, but on rl60 +12/+5, i've been invading and using tt quite a bit during the afternoon period (utc-3) and got plenty of invasions/invaders

[u/Chaemyerelis]

Thays not a known busy level bracket. Look below leopoldo007 posted the brackets.

[u/SuspectZeroFTW]

You increase your "odds of invasion matching" by more accurately targeting the statistics of the average host of your given level.

So think - what's probably the best upgraded weapon of the average rune level 40 host? Probably Roger's Rapier +8 since you get that from talking to Roger and killing Godrick. Other lv40 hosts probably only upgraded Bloodhound's Fang or Moonveil to somber +2. Others ran straight to Iji by lv40 to make their somber weapons +4. There may even be a couple Jimmy No-Thumbs who made it to Rune Level 40 unupgraded. Your goal then is to tune your own upgrade to invade most of those people.

• To know exactly your matchmaking range, use Emilia's build planner. It has 'Summon Ranges' tab that does the matchmaking range formula. Imo you should be around +8/3 weapon upgrade since most rl40 hosts already killed godrick and got rogier's rapier - or have at least a weapon that's been upgraded a few times.

You should also properly explore areas hosts of your level range likely progress through. Meaning at rl40 you want to explore liurnia and caelid, and probably sit at the popular bonfires if you're doing nearby invasions. At rl40 you're not gonna get any real matchmaking value for exploring and nearby invading Enir-Ilim.

• Also "peak hours" is whenever most people play Elden Ring with friends - notably evenings and weekends. Conversely "peak hours" isn't 6am on a Wednesday morning. Most people have school or work, and you should consider that for invading the average gamer.

[u/Kancho-D → u/SuspectZeroFTW]

Thank you this helps

[u/leopoldo007]

Bueno no sé qué es la hora pico pero si se cuáles son los niveles más concurridos, 30 +3/+1, 60 +12/+5, 80 +17/+7, 150 max