Should I reverse hollow?

[Perilous]

I am new to the game and not the best at PVP. Should I reverse hollow or not? I know you can kindle if you do but is it worth possibly being invaded for?

[brownie689]

There are certain points in the game where you want to be human (reverse hollowing) so you can be invaded by an NPC enemy. You kill that enemy and get nice loot. This will happen several times throughout the game.
There are also times when you can summon an NPC or/and human players to help you fight bosses. You must be human to do all of this.

[brownie689]

Blighttown,The Depths, Painted World, Tomb of The Giants are all places you need to be human to fight an NPC mob. I might be forgetting some.

[kNIGHT]

Originally posted by brownie689:

Blighttown,The Depths, Painted World, Tomb of The Giants are all places you need to be human to fight an NPC mob. I might be forgetting some.

Demon Ruins. Lost Izalith.

[LagMan_PT]

Being human is important in this game thats why they made it harder, when your human (not hollow) you get better loot (lot more titanite drops for ex), make more damage and are harder to kill, resistences go up, also only in human form can you kindle bonfires summon allies etc. I allways try to stay human as long as i can. the biggest your humanity counter is the most benefits youll take from it. Even npc speeches change when your human. The downside to this bonus is of course being invaded, its the main cost of it

[kNIGHT]

Originally posted by LagMan_pt:

Being human is important in this game thats why they made it harder, when your human (not hollow) you get better loot, make more damage and are harder to kill, resistences go up, also only in human form can you kindle bonfires summon allies etc. I allways try to stay human as long as i can. the biggest your humanitie counter is the most benefits youll take from it

You don't need to actually reverse hollow to get the item find benefits. Maxes out at 10 soft humanity for item find. No need to go human to get the benefit.

I really only reverse hollow if I want to summon for a boss (not required, they add 50% hp to the boss anyway). OR mainly do it to kindle bonfires and when I have spent all my souls and feel like some PVP. Basically when you're human, don't carry souls/high humanity if you don't mind the risk of dying. Carry what you are willing to die with and have to go recover.

[B4ssara]

Dont reverse hollowing in the early areas (undead burg, undead parish) if you can manage. Going human also opens you up to invasions, and you'll run into a lot of griefers in the early areas

[LagMan_PT]

yes true but in human form you get much more drops, sometimes i get three titanite shards in a row when im in human form killing enemies, once hollow drops are worst and lesser, even with a hight humanity number

[LagMan_PT]

the problem with invasions is the brutal hackings that ruin your game so make sure you backup your saves often

[kNIGHT]

Originally posted by LagMan_pt:

yes true but in human form you get much more drops, sometimes i get three titanite shards in a row when im in human form killing enemies, once hollow drops are worst and lesser

Open your status screen with 10 humanity and hollow vs. 10 humanity and human. Both will have equal item discovery.

[LagMan_PT]

Sorry i was wrong about the item drop, it was just a coincidence i guess, After searching the nets what knight says its true, heres a good article about humanities and human forms http://darksouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Humanity

[LagMan_PT]

It seems human form only serves for online play and to kindle bonfires, i really though it gave you other benefits, you also get diferent reactions from characters and covenants