Should I join mound makers covenant?

[Edible Banana]

I just got darksouls 3 I thought the mound makers covenant was really cool, but now I'm thinking mabye not, joining this covenant will allow you to play down a purple summoning sign we're people can allow you to join there world but the catch is you can kill them or the npcs in there world meaning people whould not want to summon you if they could backstab you, my question is should I join this place or not, if I want help nobody will join me for real help becAuse they know I can just backstab them. Tell me your thoughts, also I just got the game so if I'm missing something or want to explain how the covenant systems work that should be appreciated

[Halfpaststate]

you can join all the covenants in the game, and switch between them when you want, so sure, go for it.

[Nippochi]

u can join every covenant but joining mound makers will fails sirris of the sunless realms's questline

[Vinyltavia]

Originally posted by Nippochi:

u can join every covenant but joining mound makers will fails sirris of the sunless realms's questline

Citation needed.
And no... it won't fail the questline.

[Vinyltavia]

Originally posted by Edible Banana:

I just got darksouls 3 I thought the mound makers covenant was really cool, but now I'm thinking mabye not, joining this covenant will allow you to play down a purple summoning sign we're people can allow you to join there world but the catch is you can kill them or the npcs in there world meaning people whould not want to summon you if they could backstab you, my question is should I join this place or not, if I want help nobody will join me for real help becAuse they know I can just backstab them. Tell me your thoughts, also I just got the game so if I'm missing something or want to explain how the covenant systems work that should be appreciated

Mound makers more or less is one of those covenants that falls under trickery, betrayal, and greed.
You can be summoned in as a white phantom but everything can hurt you. On the plus side, any aoe spell affects you and the host meaning you both benefit from heal miracles and what not.
You can ambush the host when they're at their weakest to get an ember and shackle. You can also kill other invaders for the shackle as well.
My personal method is to wait for them to get themselves killed to the enviroment. You dont dirty your hands and you still get souls out of it.

[Dialask]

Yeah, Sirris's questline is tied to the Fingers of Rosaria, failing once you start turning in covenant rewards. Also, I don't think you can directly harm another player's non hostile npcs, and you can't backstab your own summoned white or blue spirits, regardless of covenant.

Plus, as said previously, you can change covenants at will with no penalty.

The only meh part is that everyone knows about mound maker "white spirits" now, so people that summon you will likely try to kill you if you were hoping to trick people into thinking that you are a friend.

[fantastictuna]

no, don't join that embarrasing fencesitting covenenant, join the reds the true bro's...the only bro's.