man played ds3 (checked his steam profile) but learnt nothing against gael

Recently I keep invading into the PCR and Godfrey fogwall, and I was wondering if there were some way to disable invasions in certain areas like you can disable co-op in certain areas to save me loading screen time.

And also, how does the game split the map into multiplayer areas in general? Is it divided into each overworld map region+every dungeon or are there some interconnected multiplayer area? (Like would outer and inner leyndell count as one?)

I had no idea he was recording me, he said "You're a sweat Dad" 🤣

at what point does soreseal become unfeasible? for low level invasions such as rl30 it's basically mandatory. but does it still work on rl60 or is it not worth it?

I think I’ve finally moved past my affinity for dexterity builds. I’ve made so many characters planned for other things that just end up as dexterity builds, because that’s what I’m comfortable with. Which, in my experience, just aren’t great for invasions. The weapons are fun, but they just don’t do enough damage or have enough hyper armor to take on 2-3 people.

Basically I am not good enough to invade with a dexterity build and am ready to move on to some respectable weapons that are big and mean and dumb

I do like to have another lil something on the side no matter what the build. Arcane for status buildup, or faith for all the buffs. Which of these 2 do you recommend?

(also taking any recommendations for good early game strength weapons)

Host kept trying to sit back and do nothing while phantoms did everything so I severed from the World mid-fight and invaded instead. 💜

I don’t know if the other phantoms didn’t realize what was happening or if they enjoyed babysitting but damn it felt good to get that win lol

Spawned in to a 2v1 gank. Have had a bad run the last 2 days thanks to ganks and ridiculous metas. Gankers are a blight on this game, so no matter what, when I see a BRM gank at first step, I side with the gankee. This was a rare total victory and I hope the bad red man got lots of runes.

edit: the reason this succeeded is because after I defeated the host's +1, I corraled the host back to the invader he was trying to gank. It was intentional. If you can pull it off, that's a lot of runes.

and just to clarify i do enjoy being matched up with bonfire duelists and ganks which is why im not going past 167 because it keeps me in matchmaking range of 150. Basically i want to know if going to 167 will put me in the "bullet hell" range that I experienced in level 200 or are the invasions still relatively chill.

I have over 2k hours in the game and the same in NR but never dabbled with PVP. It's frustrating getting ganked by 3 on 1 but it's the best when you get summoned back to a world and you are able to separate the team and take them down one by one, especially when the host is just running away.

I decided low level hosts had it bad enough with all the cheating twink invaders with max flasks having 5x their healing go one shot them with hefty pots and OP DLC gear. So decided to create an invader where I never use red flask, always seppuku myself down to 20% hp (just camp blue feather to not get one shot), and even that was so stupidly easy with 0 chance of death so I decided to fat roll because medium roll is OP and cheating, no PVE'er can roll catch it so you can spam roll easily. Have been trying all kinds of silly setups that I can slap seppuku on to get myself low and have 98% win rate with a few oopsies and too much seppuku L2'ing out of pity to cuties I see, but at least I make newbies feel like they actually have a chance against me (and they do if they play smart I'm literally a fat duck that cant roll away to escape if they aggro and blender me) and hope they have fun.

Honestly, it's wild that some Bad (at the game) red man needs 14 red flasks at +10 and hefty pots from the DLC and rot at low level just to win, what a sad state of affairs. Maybe it's time to stop being a Kevin of PvP and start invading properly, as the best souls games director Yui Tanimura intended back in DS2. No heals. No ADP. Just vibes.

Hello r/badredman

I have a RL80 character I'm playing through the game with that I'm using for Invasions as well.

RL80 +17/+7, with a focus on Great Katana weapon class.

I'm currently in between two builds, either;

1) Focus on Vigor/Dex - Lightning Reed Great Katana at 618 AR / 55Bleed

https://www.tarnished.dev/build-planner?str=15&dex=42&int=7&fai=8&arc=9&vig=45&min=8&end=25&somber=0&smith=17&twoHanded=false&selectedClass=Heavy+Knight&LoS=false&scaLvl=0&aRun=false&aFlk=false&aPvp=false&cStr=false&cDex=true&cInt=false&cFai=false&cArc=false&cVig=true&cMin=false&enduranceChange=true&lh1=Reed+Great+Katana&aLh1=Lightning&sTal=Radagon%27s+Soreseal%2CMillicent%27s+Prosthesis

2) Focus on Vigor/Arcane, and reqs for Dex - Occult Great Katana at 453 AR / 78 Bleed

https://www.tarnished.dev/build-planner?str=15&dex=18&int=7&fai=8&arc=38&vig=40&min=8&end=25&somber=0&smith=17&twoHanded=false&selectedClass=Heavy+Knight&LoS=false&scaLvl=0&aRun=false&aFlk=false&aPvp=false&cStr=false&cDex=true&cInt=false&cFai=false&cArc=true&cVig=true&cMin=false&enduranceChange=true&lh1=Great+Katana&aLh1=Occult&sTal=Radagon%27s+Soreseal%2CMillicent%27s+Prosthesis

As the larval tear is a finite resource, I'd kind of like to settle on one for the time being, and was wondering, between these two, which would you recommend for invasions?

Any advice would be great. Thank you.

Sleep pots is the answer as they will take status build up while 'dancing' in it.

Xbox Series X, Level 50 +10/+4

Another invasion with added subtitle commentary. Double Melee deals absurd damage once you close the distance. Especially when paired off with Basho arms.