Warrior of Sunlight questions

[Mako]

If anyone knows for sure (preferably from personal experience) please answer.
There are 2 ways of joining this covenant: from the altar with all associated requirements (faith or cooperator wins) or by invitation from Solaire after Anor Londo.
So the questions are:
1. Does Solaire path have the same faith/coop requirement?
2. If the answer to the first queston is "no" and you join through him can you then interact with the altar without meeting its original faith/coop requirement?

[Majorita]

I believe the Faith requirement never goes away, but. To get guaranteed access on like any character, that's only 4 co-op boss kills... go help some dudes! It's fun! Likely there's someone you can help at every stage of the game but earliest is best.

[InfernoX250]

The warrior of sunlight covenant has a hidden requirement.

It requires that you have 25 faith. However every time you complete a co-op run as a white spirit, this drops by 5.

So if you do 2 runs before joining the covenant, you can get the faith requirement down to 15 as an example.

The idea is that you do this covenant for the spells lightning and greater lightning spear with some overall focus on faith related builds too due to the requirements for the lightning spears. It also has one final NG+ reward and that is you can use the soul of gwyn for the sunlight spear, the strongest version of the lightning spears.

[Mako]

Yes, Im aware how it works in general.
Im interested in Solaire specifically. Mostly for science and maybe to setup an "all achievements" run. Guess I have to test this myself after all.

[Majorita]

If you do go for all achievements, the Altar of Sunlight is not going to be a great hurdle for you... you gotta go to NG++ minimum.