Your thoughts on champions covenant?

[nopr]

In my first playthrough I was dissapointed with the difficulty in some places. Now in my second playthrough I learned of champions covenant and joined it... I'm getting my ass kicked and I actually like it better now lol.

[KantaiHoloCollection (´・◡・｀)]

Cancer

[Corrupt_Player]

It's a great covenant for those who enjoy difficulty or for farming. On ng+ I joined to hone my pvp skills, i.e. Parrying most weapon types, learning Iframes, rolling, I was mostly a pve player in dark souls. It's pretty much a covenant with no physical rewards but plenty of skill boost for yourself.

[Pirate]

I enjoy the covenant. Much of the time I felt like the game while in the covenant was the "normal" mode while not being in it was the game's "easy" mode. but t be fair, I also started DS2 after having 1k hours in DS1 (and while yes there are some major differences between them, I often say they are basically two different games), so the only challenge I felt was adjusting to those differences.

Plus, the infinite respawns of normal enemies that come with it are nice for if/when you want to farm for something, bonus (unique enemies that don't respawn at all normally still don't respawn though, fyi for those who may not know).

[bmierror]

It's an excellent addition to the game. It gives players seeking a challenge more of what they're looking for with rewards. It's also a way to infinitely respawn enemies.

[nopr]

It's basically Dark Souls 1 mode lol

[boiling pie]

Awestones-placement makes no sense though.

I went through the whole game including dlcs and didn't have enough awestones at the end to max the convenant.

I felt it insulting that I had to farm some stupid phantom in the graves in ng+ to get all awestones.

Also effigies are a problem, since coc-members can not coop as phantoms, and it's tedious to leave covenant, coop to regain full health, rejoin covenant, continue.

[Fashionbeast]

Do DLC enemies even reliable drop awestones? CoC-powered Drakeblood Knights reach a new level of hurt, but i have never seen them drop anything...
Unless you want to compete with a guy on the CoC board who has gathered 3000+ awestones, you use this covenant farming rares and get the "Vanquisher's Seal". Then get out.

[boiling pie]

No awestones in the dlcs at all as far as I remember.

And I did it for the challenge.

Edit: btw. the most difficult boss in coc for me was Elana by far.

[Pirate]

As far as I can tell, awesones are simply added as additional random loot to many enemies (dropping at a similar or rare frequency). Which, yeah, does make leveling up in the covenant a bit more of a chore requiring a bit of farming.

Garunteed drop from invaders though.