Cant use cracked red eye orb (greyed out)

[Scottus]

ive been trying to use a cracked red eye orb and win so i can join the brotherhood of blood but the orbs are just greyed out ive tryed going to lots of different places and im human and it still wont work so then i thought it might be because i was in the heirs of the sun, so i left and it still doesnt work ive tried restarting my game aswell anyone know how to fix this?

[Rasputin]

if you killed the area boss theres a human effigy effect that makes it so you cant invade nor can you be invaded you can disable it through a bonfire in the area

[MKJoker]

Look at your bonfire before trying to invade to see if you have an effigy effect.

I hate how they put the auto effigy in. Almost kills the purpose of invading :(

[Scottus]

ive gone on the bonfire at heide and it doesnt say anything about a effigy effect:/
i can burn a human effigy but thats the only thing i can see to do with effigy's

[Scottus]

nevermind the cracked red eye orb has started working i dont know why but it has haha

[gtgiygus]

Some areas of the game, like boss fight rooms when you already killed a boss, block all summoning naturally. There are other, transitional areas as well.

[MacroX]

Originally posted by MKJoker:

Look at your bonfire before trying to invade to see if you have an effigy effect.

I hate how they put the auto effigy in. Almost kills the purpose of invading :(

OH SO THATS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS, i though that was permanently kind of like in DS1.

Originally posted by Scott:

ive gone on the bonfire at heide and it doesnt say anything about a effigy effect:/

U may simply dont have nough, or have too high Soul Memory, since the Agape Ring showed up, ppl have been Caping ther SM to 1M or so, i still thinking capping to a certain Soul Level was stupid in DS1, at least in DS2 now it depends on how well u spend your souls, and still u ahve that +-2 Tiers to do some extra levels or upgrades and though while some ppl says dont accept items from invaders, well i say as long as the item its ''legal to keep'' i wont care how this guy got it, and some invaders are just nice ppl who like waste souls on others, so i just may accept their ''legal'' gift, for i was that lucky to meet that invader

[IndieBob]

Scott if you go hollow you can't use them.

[DezertPunK]

I know this is an old thread but if anyones paying attention I wanted to ask about this. I have a fairly high sm level since an invader dropped about 800k worth of souls on my around sl 70. I realise getting help for boss fights & other things is kind of out of the question now that my sm lvl is around 2mil & I havn't even hit the drang castle but can I really not use the cracked red orbs to invade npc's like the woman who sells miricals in majula? I thought that was something I could do to pick up the key for switching. I realise I can just kill her outright but this isn't the only place I can't use my red orbs. I have tried just about everywhere pre-drang castle & the option to use them is always greyed out. I am playing SotFS & if I really can't invade b/c of my soul level it's official that they have killed more of the sp aspect of souls2 too make the pvp community happy than I can handle & I don't really care to keep playing. If anyone knows whats up lemy know, thnx.

[Bear]

Originally posted by DezertPunK:

I know this is an old thread but if anyones paying attention I wanted to ask about this. I have a fairly high sm level since an invader dropped about 800k worth of souls on my around sl 70. I realise getting help for boss fights & other things is kind of out of the question now that my sm lvl is around 2mil & I havn't even hit the drang castle but can I really not use the cracked red orbs to invade npc's like the woman who sells miricals in majula? I thought that was something I could do to pick up the key for switching. I realise I can just kill her outright but this isn't the only place I can't use my red orbs. I have tried just about everywhere pre-drang castle & the option to use them is always greyed out. I am playing SotFS & if I really can't invade b/c of my soul level it's official that they have killed more of the sp aspect of souls2 too make the pvp community happy than I can handle & I don't really care to keep playing. If anyone knows whats up lemy know, thnx.

You never could use Cracked Red Eyes to invade Licia.

As for the SM stuff, that's unfortunate but you can always start another char and use them for lower level SM co op/invasions. Otherwise, at 2 mil you'll still see tons of action on the Bridge and in the DLCs, but you'll want to level up since folks around 2mil will generally be level 150 or higher.