Gravelords UNITE!

Tolvo wrote:Kind of think Firestorm, but faith based.

I'm going to be working on a new Int PvP toon soon, and I think I will be trying out gravelording with him. Are there any high traffic areas you would suggest for Gravelording? I've heard Duke's is pretty popular.

DxV04 wrote:

Tolvo wrote:Kind of think Firestorm, but faith based.

I'm going to be working on a new Int PvP toon soon, and I think I will be trying out gravelording with him. Are there any high traffic areas you would suggest for Gravelording? I've heard Duke's is pretty popular.

I have not done the Dukes but the bonfire after the Archers in Anor Londo is good, the bonfire in the forest is good. Right outside the bonfire in the Burg. The bottle neck that leads from the parish to Andre the Black smith. I have also gotten good results at low sl in the burg.

However I recommend sl 120 since this is apparently the sl where the majority of the population hangs out at. What is key is that you look for summoning signs on the ground. If you see a bunch of them then you have victims within your soul range.

Tolvo wrote:I actually have some information regarding a certain area to GL at, the only issue is while I'm using it as a mean to help people I can easily see this as being a means for a GL to take advantage of new players and grief incredibly easy. I don't really know if I should post my findings or not, I question the state of becoming a modern Prometheus.

Tolvo wrote:Now it isn't anything as easily abusive as the certain glitch, however there has been an observation I've made at SL29, an appropriate level for the area. I'm either being flooded with people who have no PvP experience, or are new players going into the depths. I don't entirely know if this has to do with people seeing a fancy sign near the bonfire and using it, or if some believe they are summoning in someone to help them. Either way out of the forty or so people that have invaded me, only two can I say had any clue what they are doing. And only one had obvious glitch gear. Because of this I had switch from my +4 Enchanted Rapier I got via some forest exploits at a low level and farming golems, I switch out rather to a starter weapon without upgrades. What I've been doing is using this as a means of a bit of practice myself, and giving these people a genuine low level PvP experience without me simply just one shotting them with their base line armor. Obviously there could be some griefing done with this knowledge, but I do advise anyone GL'ing to show some mercy. I kill them, but I give them a fighting chance. Many of them fat roll and use very slow swinging weapons, I noticed some would even be baffled by being an invader. Many did gang up on me, but again it seemed they were very afraid of fighting me one on one so I really didn't fault them for it. I even sent messages to some and indeed, they were on their first playthrough and wanted to see what the sign did. This may be common knowledge and I'm just blowing this out of proportion, but I think this can really be beneficial to the PvP scene by getting new players interested early on in PvP.

Tolvo wrote: I do advise anyone GL'ing to show some mercy. I kill them, but I give them a fighting chance.

Tolvo wrote:Well I plan on using this as a means to continue to get people introduced to PvP, since they are blue phantoms they also lose nothing correct?

By the way it always feels great to get Eyes from Dark Wraiths and jump about with them before the crystal. I never realized how much support one gets as a GL. Then again I also farm humanity down there so I leave humanity as gifts for each invader.

LittleLuden wrote:

DxV04 wrote:

Tolvo wrote:Kind of think Firestorm, but faith based.

I'm going to be working on a new Int PvP toon soon, and I think I will be trying out gravelording with him. Are there any high traffic areas you would suggest for Gravelording? I've heard Duke's is pretty popular.

I have not done the Dukes but the bonfire after the Archers in Anor Londo is good, the bonfire in the forest is good. Right outside the bonfire in the Burg. The bottle neck that leads from the parish to Andre the Black smith. I have also gotten good results at low sl in the burg.

However I recommend sl 120 since this is apparently the sl where the majority of the population hangs out at. What is key is that you look for summoning signs on the ground. If you see a bunch of them then you have victims within your soul range.

may be a kind of beginner question but i wanna know how you can gravelord in those "low level areas". i mean, you reach the burg and andre very early in the game. to become a gravelord you need to go to the catacombs, which means, you have killed all the bosses in the earlier levels and can´t drop the eye there anymore. or do you start your walkthrough in the catacombs? thats a pretty tough place to beginn with. just wondering.

Tolvo wrote:Well I plan on using this as a means to continue to get people introduced to PvP, since they are blue phantoms they also lose nothing correct?

By the way it always feels great to get Eyes from Dark Wraiths and jump about with them before the crystal. I never realized how much support one gets as a GL. Then again I also farm humanity down there so I leave humanity as gifts for each invader.

Glueguy wrote:I only have interest in two covenants and gravelord is one of them. I've made a handfull of gravelords and have little to no success with any of them. I'm off work in two hours and my lvl 125 faith/dex character is going straight to the catacombs to join.

Don't know how I can help or what exactly is going on but let me know what I can do or if anything needs to be tested.