Covenants, Best and Worst ?

[rawfodog]

So share and tell your opinions about covenants in DaS2

Personal favorites: Heirs of the Sun because lots of people and praising the sun is always nice, also i miss Solaire. If i would need to chose PvP covenant, i like Brotherhood of Blood most, i didnt see too many people using cheates or using exploits.

Personal worst: Blue Sentinels because it seems to be nesting place for "hackers" and ranking up takes long time and there are lots of Cracked Blue Eye Orbs but find a sinner seems to take long time and most of the time they have summons or they use cheates.

[Lorfar]

Well, BoB isn't that great either. My advice: screw the covenants, I'm just in the BoB to buy orbs and invade like I want.
But for PvE/Co-op, HotS is a very nice covenant.

[rapu ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)]

Yeah, Heirs of the Sun is the only decent covenant. PvP covenants are ruined by Soul Memory and lack of orbs. Arenas don't even have proper matchmaking system, so SL 50 can be placed agains SL 800.

Rat covenant is just unfair and 99% of the time the ratbro wins. Way of Blue is pointless because of lack of invaders (in NG, it's unlikely you get invaded even once in the entire playthrough, except for NPCs).

The champion covenant is kind of interesting, but nothing special.

[Nyarurin]

dragonbros

great for duels
and if host drinks estus - you can do it too

[Wheeout]

Sunbros and Bellbros are the best. Sun for helping people. Bell for being the biggest jerks on the planet.

Bluebros are the worst.

[rawfodog]

Originally posted by Nyaha:

dragonbros

great for duels
and if host drinks estus - you can do it too

yeah dragonbros are good too, only issue i had with Dragonbros was that lots of them did use ai enemies as shield or run away and left the my world

[jrubz]

to me the BoB is the absolute worst covenant in the game, and is a sorry excuse for a covenant. Yea it's dueling arena can be used infinitely for PvP (it's like the only good thing though...) but when it comes to actually ranking up? It sucks... I believe its been confirmed that you can only rank up in the arena, and losses make you loose progress, making it the stupidest thing ever if you want to get any of the covenant rewards (without having to complete the game twice...).

It seems if you actually want to duel forever, the dragonbros are the best. I haven't tried them yet, but I hear you actually become human by winning, meaning you can host dueling and fight clubs until your hollow, and then use a dragon eye to become human again without having to spend effigies.

The BoB can go die in a hole when it comes to rewards and actual benefits...

[jrubz]

Originally posted by Yuno Effin Sai:

Sunbros and Bellbros are the best. Sun for helping people. Bell for being the biggest jerks on the planet.

Bluebros are the worst.

Honestly my opinion of the bell bros is divided, I love doing it when I need chunks, but I hate getting killed by them. Honestly, if you could calm them down, they'd make a fun fight club, the winner duels the host for a chance for a chunk.

Although, if you ever bell bro for chunks, try to set up your sign if they come back human.

[Acidworm]

Best - Pilgrims of Dark - Cause it is just PVE and gives some more content even if Darklurker is a pretty terrible design since it favors ranged so heavily.

Worst - Bell Keepers - Very few of them play fairly and love to exploit all the little minions for unfair advantages.
Rat One - So all the rats attack me when I am forced into invading them but not attack them? Yeah this is dumb.

[jrubz]

Originally posted by Acidworm:

Rat One - So all the rats attack me when I am forced into invading them but not attack them? Yeah this is dumb.

actually, that covenant is cool for everyone! You don't lose any progress if you lose, and you can try a Dark Runner speed run to the boss bonfire for a chance to skip the entire area in your world. Trying to attack anything when your summoned by a rat bro is a bad idea, just run.

[G.C._madGin]

Originally posted by Acidworm:

Best - Pilgrims of Dark - Cause it is just PVE and gives some more content even if Darklurker is a pretty terrible design since it favors ranged so heavily.

Worst - Bell Keepers - Very few of them play fairly and love to exploit all the little minions for unfair advantages.
Rat One - So all the rats attack me when I am forced into invading them but not attack them? Yeah this is dumb.

I fought the dark lurker in melee and really enjoyed that fight lol. One of the few well designed boss fights of DS2 imo. Just wish it had more of an reason for being there. I would've liked some more lore/story bits for it.

[rawfodog]

Originally posted by G.C._madGin:

I fought the dark lurker in melee and really enjoyed that fight lol. One of the few well designed boss fights of DS2 imo. Just wish it had more of an reason for being there. I would've liked some more lore/story bits for it.

i would agree that Darklurker is one of the coolest and best designed bosses, i think he was designed so that theres only one at beginning so you can learn his attacks and then use what you learned against him when he splits in to two. And his one of the rare bosses that you cant win by hugging and circling around.

[Pythios]

ive been in nearly all covenants and i have my favorites i liked rat king for awhile never joined way of blue the blkue sentinels was boring as ♥♥♥♥ the sun coveeant was a great one stayed in it a long time didnt a tall enjoy the blood covenant i killed that little ♥♥♥♥ stain befor ei stayed in it

[King Robert Baratheon]

Originally posted by Thicctelle:

Sunbros and Bellbros are the best. Sun for helping people. Bell for being the biggest jerks on the planet.

Bluebros are the worst.

Rat covenant people can be huge jerks. Source: I was one once. For example: You can technically raise the enemies in the doors of pharros (only the ratbro covenant side) to ng+7 by beating the royal rat authority over and over with bonfire ascetics while still remaining at your soul memory by using the agape ring. Also if you are sorcerer, hexer, or pyromancer you can setup "traps" for the person being pulled into your world (casting homing crystal soul mass or affinity before they spawn in then just walking up to them while casting crystal soul spear or darkstorm to catch roll spammers. Also toxic mist or acid mist and then firestorm for pyromancers).

tl;dr magic users are the most dangerous ratbros

[SurDiablo]

Best covenant for me is Heirs of the sun since I like helping people and had a lot of fun beating bosses again and again.Worst one is BoB since every single player I fought in there was a havel noob who can survive like 10 backstabs and spams ice rapier/estoc, stunlocking you to death from a mile away with crazy lag. I pvped in iron bridge after that and it was interesting with fightclubs and everything.