How to farm Seed of the Giant tree

[Arthuria]

Items required :
- Way of blue covenant
- Young white Branch
- Dried finger

Step 1 - Use ember, equipe Way of blue, use dried finger
Step 2 - Hide somewhere with the Young White Branch
Step 3 - Go to watch some movie with the game on.

Every hours you'll get a giant seed.

You also can stay connected, add invaders as friend and laught hard since they cannot find you and are chassed by blue ghosts !

[Alltop]

Add:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E352JauFXk

[Arthuria]

引用自 NaCl：

Add:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E352JauFXk

Wow, this video is so nice, good to see after 350h of game there are still plenty of secrets around !

[DwzLT]

You still need to make the trip back to firelink though

[Arthuria]

引用自 DwzLT：

You still need to make the trip back to firelink though

Yeah, it's true. But you only have to travel to the firelink, not to fight for hours. So it's better than nothing :D

[Komprimierungsfehler]

"Go watch a movie"... you sir.. just made my day! Thaha

[Argstein]

i do this from Water Reserve bonfire without even using Tree Branches (chameleon spell would be preferable because infinite) but i only do it to let friendly blues get their chance to spawn etc while i'm minimized playing another game

Seed of Giant Tree is not worth farming, since it only seems to last for about 30 seconds.
if it stayed active until you died then it'd be totally worth it, but alas...

[Scheneighnay]

引用自 Gravelord Nito：

"Go watch a movie"... you sir.. just made my day! Thaha

quite.

In my experience, chameleon and white branches are less effective than just throwing on the dark ring and using an emote like "curl up" or "prostration" in a corner. Seriously, it works every time.

Ambient Occlusion doesn't apply to chameleon objects, so unless you're in a particularly bright area or the invader is running minimum settings, you're going to be practically glowing. I've caught hosts before like that.

Speaking of rings and hiding, how well does the obscuring ring actually work? Half of the invasions that I've used it in, it seemed like the host or phantoms could see me just fine from long distance, where I should be invisible with the ring.
I've even emoted at some and had them emote back.

The wiki says it works up until just within lockon distance, but experience says you need to be halfway out of rendering range.

[Sinsear]

引用自 Scheneighnay：

引用自 Gravelord Nito：

"Go watch a movie"... you sir.. just made my day! Thaha

quite.

In my experience, chameleon and white branches are less effective than just throwing on the dark ring and using an emote like "curl up" or "prostration" in a corner. Seriously, it works every time.

Ambient Occlusion doesn't apply to chameleon objects, so unless you're in a particularly bright area or the invader is running minimum settings, you're going to be practically glowing. I've caught hosts before like that.

Speaking of rings and hiding, how well does the obscuring ring actually work? Half of the invasions that I've used it in, it seemed like the host or phantoms could see me just fine from long distance, where I should be invisible with the ring.
I've even emoted at some and had them emote back.

The wiki says it works up until just within lockon distance, but experience says you need to be halfway out of rendering range.

Its a bit farther out than lock on distance, also depends on area (like elevation). I find the slumbering and obscuring is a better combo if you want to be sneaky.

[Malu]

引用自 asdfwasdf：

i do this from Water Reserve bonfire without even using Tree Branches (chameleon spell would be preferable because infinite) but i only do it to let friendly blues get their chance to spawn etc while i'm minimized playing another game

Seed of Giant Tree is not worth farming, since it only seems to last for about 30 seconds.
if it stayed active until you died then it'd be totally worth it, but alas...

you just gotta used it at the appropriate time. The invader is hiding behind a mob? He is hiding up the rafters where the archers are? Pop a seed and watch his demise. That's how they're supposed to be used, not as a one for everything solution

[Argstein]

引用自 Malu：

引用自 asdfwasdf：

i do this from Water Reserve bonfire without even using Tree Branches (chameleon spell would be preferable because infinite) but i only do it to let friendly blues get their chance to spawn etc while i'm minimized playing another game

Seed of Giant Tree is not worth farming, since it only seems to last for about 30 seconds.
if it stayed active until you died then it'd be totally worth it, but alas...

you just gotta used it at the appropriate time. The invader is hiding behind a mob? He is hiding up the rafters where the archers are? Pop a seed and watch his demise. That's how they're supposed to be used, not as a one for everything solution

i just feel like seed of a giant tree was way more worth farming in ds2 rather than ds3

[Malu]

I dks3 phantoms couldn't heal, host could spam summons etc. The balance of force was often in favor of the invader. In DkS3 the invaders are already at a massive disadvantage. Pop way of blue, summon two whites, use branch and hide until reinforcements come, you have double the estus etc. The nerf was sensible, enemies are the only thing the invader has going for him and SoG took it away for the entirety of the invasion. I agree that they should last a bit more (1:30 should be balanced enough imo)

[Arthuria]

引用自 asdfwasdf：

Seed of Giant Tree is not worth farming, since it only seems to last for about 30 seconds.
if it stayed active until you died then it'd be totally worth it, but alas...

At the time I posted this tutorial, seed of giant tree actually lasted forever in your game, unless you died or launched a boss battle. So it was worth it. Now it isn't

[Taco Cat]

Just kill the invaders, ez

[Rizer]

A more efficient method would be to do the above, except instead of using chameleon/branch, just hang out near the boss fog with the obscuring ring on if there are no enemies nearby that would aggro or lack of enemies tells the invader you cleared them. This does not really allow for AFK, unless you have a second monitor so you could watch and quickly switch back to ds3 when needed.

Once an invader or two comes in, wait for the blues, then go through the fog gate to the boss. You get the invasions to trigger the chances for the seed, and blues get a concord when the host enters the boss fog with invaders in the world.

I do not know if the blues get one concord total for this, or one per invader, as I have only done this as the host. One day I farmed about 20 seeds, so I handed out 30-50 concords using this method. After a while, some of the repeat summon blues caught on and we had a good time emoting etc while waiting for the second blue. Some of the repeat invaders on the other hand, decided to crystal out immediately on their fourth invasion.

[Arthuria]

引用自 Rizer：

Some of the repeat invaders on the other hand, decided to crystal out immediately on their fourth invasion.

Lmao git gud