EVENT 7/13 - 7/14: Invasions 101: Invasion of the Lowbies

I am currently at 64 host kills and much fewer phantoms, a lot of the time it seems better to just ignore them and go straight for the host. Strangely, I have seen lot's of hosts with high level armour but very low level weapons.
I have also seen the usual ridiculous phantoms.
Though strangely I did see a low level cleric with a +5 weapon using wrath of the gods which I thought was very strange as  well as a mage using pursuers and dark bead, unfortunately I only managed to kill the former.

I don't have an exact count but I've recorded it.  After some editing I'll post the kills on Youtube.  I'm thinking I got in the 40-50 range overall...with about 1/3 of the invasions in the parish and the other 2/3 in the depths.

Guess at most killing weapons from most to fewest:

1. Reinforced club +5
2. Spear +5 (good vs builds I can't trade with)
3. Broadsword +5
4. Chaos Zweihander +5
5. Longsword +5
6. Hand axe +5

- Straight swords are pretty fun.  1h r1 is fast and the 2h r2 breaks decent poise and can dead angle.
- Chaos zwei reserved for games where at least one player has non-lowbie gear.  I died frequently in these scenarios obviously, since I have paper thin defenses vs proper PvP builds.  Still, it was fun to kill a SL 100+ phantom in the parish and end a Gravelord host who gave me 9k souls (!) in the depths.
- Spear matches have to be some of the most dull things ever.  Still, when the other guy is 20 levels higher and packing a zwei, tower kite shield + spear poke will wear him down.  I try to avoid spear mirror matches, but the rare times I got into them I kick spammed and 2h r1 after a while to break guard and answer with more dmg if they tried to turtle poke lol.

Now, why did reinforced club steal this show?

- I got 16 str for the zwei, but it scales with the club too and is brutal 2 handed.
- It has bleed damage and can stunlock.  I got a few kills off the bleed proc, because my opponent either had his guard broken or was staggered and didn't have time to both toggle and roll cancel it.
- Staggerstabs coming from an effective 22 str are absolutely brutal.
- If my opponent was turtling hard this was a great weapon to deal with it; simply kicking their shield once or twice and laying in with the club was a near instant guard break --> high damage + bleed threat.  It's no shotel but you can't turtle on that forever either.

Reinforced club is one of the best low level invasion weapon. It has good damage, bleed, and stunlock. It requires minimal stats and is easy to obtain.

It's all about the Longsword.

In the forest pointing down is always necessary.

You see some weird stuff at low level invasions.  I had a tarkus role play drop me 99 twin humanities, and grabbed 1.6 million souls from one red phantom death.  When I killed the SL 120ish gravelord it told me disasters were gone even though he couldn't GL me.  I had one match that was SO laggy that the person took damage a good 2-3 seconds after I hit him...and still won that because they were probably just as lagged.  It was awful.

There are a surprising number of AFK hosts and such too, and I had like 8 or so plug pulls...sometimes even when they had a phantom (I check recent players to see if I'm invading one man or several).

So, how did everyone make out? I had a great time. Both before and during the event.

I invaded in the Depths for a bit. Got one phantom kill and one host kill It was fun though  

The build I used