Drop Rate of Vertebra Shackles

This guide goes over the drop rate of Vertebra Shackles for the Mound Makers covenant. This only does the offline farming option and does not mention about pvp.

General Information and Item Discovery

Vertebra Shackles are a part of the Mound Maker covenant. These can be farmed at the Catacombs of Carthus bonfire by killing the two Carthus Swordsman Skeletons past the rolling skeleton ball.

10 = Bloodlust (Katana) and 30 = Warmth (Pyromancy)

The item discovery was 360 and the items I had to boost my item discovery are as follows:

Crystal Sage Rapier (+50)
Covetous Gold Serpent Ring +2 (+100)
Symbol of Avarice (+100)
My base stat of luck was 10!
Game default of 100
Totaling to 360 Item Discovery:

Statistics

I did my own experiment/farming and these are my results:

Kill count: 126 Carthus Swordsman Skeletons
Time: 42 minutes
Shackles: 4 Vertebra Shackles
Average drop rate: 32 Carthus Swordsman Skeletons or 3% drop rate per Skeleton.

Got drops on the following Skeletons:

18
44
5
59

Please ask if you any questions also attached is the youtube video where I go in more depth!

[MrBongjangles]

I farmed the 2 near the catacombs of carthus bonfire and would run back and reset. It took me about 5 hours to get 26 of them. I was on ng+ so I already had 4 in my inventory from just picking them up during regular gameplay, and item discovery was 350.

[define]

Just finished offline farming these took me 2 days with over 700 killed skeletons.I had 312 item discovery when doing it [162 with ring +100 and +50 rusted coin]

[HiDdeN SQuiDZ]

@Saqrin yeah... I got most of mine online and these shackles sucked!

[Gravity]

ngl i really wish i farmed for these before the servers went offline

[Yone The Betrayed]

I had to kill a little over 1000 of them to get all 30 for the "Warmth" Pyro. Having 400 item discovery the whole time btw. I don't know if I'm just very unlucky or they changed it but I'm 99 hollowing irl now.

[Engylizium]

PS4 here. 42 min:
Got 8 Vertebrae Shackles
Overall killed 140 skeletons
Got dops in following skeletons: 2, 6, 40, 54, 88, 106, 112, 118

[atoN]

Guess that's good, I had around 330 to 374 (374 when I use coins). The hammer allowed me to kill them quickly so I could rinse and repeat at a faster rate.

[Agent Omega]

I use Symbol of Avarice, Gold Serpent Ring +1 since I'm not yet on Ng++ (I don't own the dlcs yet), Crystal Sage Rapier +10 and luck stat is maxed out. By using the coins this sums up to 474 item find rate. Should be enough, right?
The rapier doesn't deal that much damage but the knights are also staggered every two hits. So you can R1 spam them to death pretty easily ;-) I just have to be careful about their strong attacks because when I get hit I am the one who gets two shot :D

[atoN]

With that method I would get about 3 to 4 proofs every half an hour, maybe less maybe more. Also I had the Serpent ring +3 from the dlc; if ya don't have it you can always use luck to compensate or something else.

[atoN]

@Agent Omega For me I just used 9 Luck, the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring, Symbol of Avarice and sometimes I would use a rusted coin (though tbh I got more drops without using the coin so lol). Using Vortds great hammer with about 30-40 strength destroys their health and allows them to be two shot since they are staggered by the first attack.