Co/op Debuff?

[Hex]

Whenever I join my friend who is around level 45 (im level 65) my stats get heavily debuffed and I cant use half my things and just overall my stats seem to be decreased by a lot. Is there anyway to fix this? Id really appreciate any help

[Imperator Ricardo]

This is an intended game mechanic. The only way to "fix" it is to have your friend level-up closer to your own level.

[Konno Saeko]

Yes your stats get decreased when joining someone that is a lower level than you, its to make it more of a balanced experience or something. It isn't as noticable later on when you both level some more

[Knavenformed]

It's an intended mechanic to balance the game

The mechanic is undertuned though and you will be quite powerful even after the debuff

Personally I'd wish they removed co-op outside level brackets all together
But as someone who likes all aspects of the online experience I'll get some clowns for having an opinion lol

[nfinite.recursion]

1. Your Great Rune gets deactivated. If your build requires a Great Rune to be active in order for you to wield a weapon effectively, you'll need to level up some more to meet the minimum requirements for that weapon for co-op and invasions.

2. When password summoning is used, your HP and FP are affected as well as your attack damage and your number of healing flasks are cut in half. Equip load and hard (base) stats are not. This happens when you are the cooperator being summoned.

TLDR: the debuff is probably due to you relying on Godrick's Great Rune which gets deactivated when you get summoned as a cooperator which further causes another debuff due to no longer having the minimum stats to wield your weapon.

[Nihrahk]

Originally posted by Knavenformed:

It's an intended mechanic to balance the game

The mechanic is undertuned though and you will be quite powerful even after the debuff

Personally I'd wish they removed co-op outside level brackets all together
But as someone who likes all aspects of the online experience I'll get some clowns for having an opinion lol

Nah, you get no clowns from me. I actually agree that they're undertuned, so have a unicorn.

[Knavenformed]

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

1. Your Great Rune gets deactivated. If your build requires a Great Rune to be active in order for you to wield a weapon effectively, you'll need to level up some more to meet the minimum requirements for that weapon for co-op and invasions.

Good catch, OP is definitely using Godricks rune for stats, since the co-op scaling doesn't do anything to your leveled stats

[Knavenformed]

Originally posted by Nihrahk:

Nah, you get no clowns from me. I actually agree that they're undertuned, so have a unicorn.

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