Loyce Soul drop rates are horrendous

[AzureVizor]

I was an idiot and killed the Ivory King pretty much immediately and have no desire to bring it up into NG+ just to farm the souls, mainly because I'm locking myself at 100,000 SM.

Really wished the armor drop rates were rarer or came off a corpse, because I'd be done by now with the 5 full sets of armor and weapons I already grabbed.

[theshadowotter]

you have two options, use the bonfire ascetic or join covenant of champions if you already defeated the burnt ivory king. the charred knights will despawn after being killed enough times. the drop rates are quite poor for the souls so they will despawn before you can get enough souls from them.


if you ascend the area to ng+ you will still have the loyce knights if you found em all. just fight the charred ones till the ivory king shows up and use your aged feather to go back to the bonfire and rinse and repeat till you have all 50. its that or hope you get summoned repeatedly to farm the souls

[Catarii]

3-4 mil SM and I was getting summoned quite often yesterday. At least I could do to make this farming less tedious was to help as sunbro.

Ivory king dead, I went to fight the charred knights while my summon sign was down. You get summoned even if you are into the old chaos.

[Enderspoons]

I have heard that the drop rates for Loyce Souls is much higher when you're a summon in somebody else's world; I'm not 100% sure if that's the case, but from my own personal experience I believe it is so.

Most people roll up to the Ivory King (either for killing him or for farming the souls themselves and bringing along jolly cooperators to help out) in the 4-8 million SM range though, so that might be a bit difficult for you if you're trying to stay around 100k.

[Sunsetter]

Just find a jolly cooperator and you will finish it in no time.

[Edgarek]

Full discovery build including coins should be 365.
NG+ also adds a flat 50-100+- discovery rate.

So burn bonfire ascetic, summon 2 phantoms, clean arena, bail, repeat.
Took me last time 4 hours.