Way of White Circlet | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

this is a pc only thing, right? have like 2k hours on PS4 DS3 but never once did i get this "soft ban". Folks dc'd on me i quit a few hide and seek invaders, yet never did this item get usable. Same story on xbox with less hours.

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this is a pc only thing, right? have like 2k hours on PS4 DS3 but never once did i get this "soft ban". Folks dc'd on me i quit a few hide and seek invaders, yet never did this item get usable. Same story on xbox with less hours.

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Being punished for alt-f4-ing away from obvious hackers is so ****ed up.

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Wait, Black Separation Crystal adds points? Damn, and here I was spending hours playing a friendly invader and BSC'ing out after toasting with hosts.

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3 seconds ago I realized this isn't an "inventory decoration"

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Sometimes I wait to be invaded just so I can disconnect and piss them off haha never had to use this

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Okay but, how do I USE it? My character is banned and the item is always grayed out? Searched and everyone just says to "use it" but you literally can't.

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Why couldn't they have just kept ds1 pvp

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"Unknown if losing connection to the game server which results in being sent to the main screen adds penalty points. (Most likely does)"

No, it doesn't. Disconnect your ethernet wire when you're invaded and don't want to bother with it, you go offline and there's no penalty at all.

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Racist item

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Sry i dont understand…i used the circlet…now i must stay 10-14 hours in cimitery of ash or can change area?
And the 10-14 hours need to be consecutive? Thanks;)

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After 600+ hours of invading I finally had to use this thing. I can't tell you how many times I've had the host disconnect so at least I know now that it probably wont happen again anytime soon.

Still annoying that it punished me for other people being salty lol

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Why are so many people mad in the comments ?
I have been playing this game since release for more than 600h doing mostly invasions, had hundreds of disconnect because of servers instability etc. and never got penalized

The reason I'm on this page in the first place is because I had no idea what this thing was when I started a new character recently
I guess people complaining are just your regular "alt f4 when I start losing" gang you see everywhere in this game

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bans related to this item are character bans, correct? like, if one of my old characters is banned and I start a new playthrough I don't need to worry about it right

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does this penalty system even actually apply? I see people invincibility glitching and moonwalk flying in pvp and i see people who fight until they feel they are gonna lose and then proceed to force disconnect as they run away and yet they are seen over and over again while invading/defending people. Just makes me hate the online community compared to the jolly cooperation and bloodshed seen in trued ds prime

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i summon someone for help at dancer. i walked in started boss fight after this he used black crystal i fought boss alone then i dead at last hit. fromsoft ban these guys. if i tried it alone i can kill it easily but i just wanted to give someone a sunlight medal.

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I got invaded by some guy in the ringed city and he starting lagging around everywhere and then forced a blindfold mask into my inventory and now im banned :)

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Got invaded in Irithyll Dungeon today by someone who weapon swapped a Rapier with a Lothric Knight Greatsword and was showing it off while I stood by the bonfire. I applauded, he bowed, and I pulled the plug of my PS4 with my foot.

Actually the first time I ever had to use one of these, and it was because I wasn't interested in fighting a weapon swap lmao

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Kinda sucks that losing connection/sudden crash/a damn power outage (like what happened to me last night-) will cause penalty points. I swear the only way I'm gonna get banned is via sudden crashes.
Just a few days ago, both me and my friend crashed at the same time trying to load into the Grand Archives, so at least we got penalized together <3

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what the **** does this do

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Have a few questions. First, what does it do? Second, what are the penalty points i keep reading about? And third, something about alt f4 whatever it was, so that means pc only?

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please dont read these comments, your brain cells will deteriorate. I beg of you

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Make a simple batch file that backs-up save file automatically and when invaded, Alt-tab, click the batch file then Alt-F4... recopy the old save back and never get penalised, just a thought I have yet to try it.

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Invader: dupes siegbrew and divine blessing and keeps chugging them
Me, a man of culture: dupes way of white circlet

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When you have 3 people on high wall with ultra weapons, the game send you a red to balance things out. As an invader i rarely get a solo host. The "forced" pvp if a big feature and people who know more about games, than you tought i adds some spice. Don't cry is my point

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I have over 400 hours playing DS3, never hacked, never cheated, I wiped my hard drive about 3 months ago and decided to reinstall. Lost my character and all my progress and collections, probably my own fault for wiping my own hard drive, fine, w/e, but why in the hell do I have this? Cant even remember the last time I played before today.

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i disconnect every time i see a gundyrs halberd and i haven't been banned yet it must take a lot

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I have no idea why everyone is mad I’ve been playing this for the four years it’s been out mainly doing invasions and never been banned

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Going to write a book about this comment section

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How can you tell when you get penalized? I don't think I've even been.

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its honestly a really dumb system when it seems most invaders are duping Siegbräu, divine blessing and are healing 15+ times.

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host disconnects: invader penalized
invader black crystals: invader penalized
server ****s up: invader penalized
game crashes: invader penalized
internet outage: invader penalized
host disconnects: summon penalized
summon black crystals: summon penalized
host disconnects: host penalized
host black crystals a summon: host penalized

jesus christ fromsoft: fix your damn game

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cited: incorrect usage of then/than
"Using the Black Separation Crystal may add penalty points to your account, significantly less then illegally disconnecting would. See ongoing gamefaqs discussion:"
- Grammar Police (to correct and serve)

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Often times when I invade, the host will immediately DC which makes getting the covenant rewards to 100% this game almost impossible because farming takes forever

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Stupidest ****ing idea ever fromsoft. I never run from an invasion but sometimes I have to go do something or your just over playing and turn the Xbox off. Then let’s talk about the ****ing invaders that just sit there to **** with you. Fromsoft get it together next time.

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I've played this game all four years, still don't have any clue as to what the purpose of this is. What does it mean by "restores the link to other worlds"? I read the page, but still can't make sense of it. Is it vague or am I just an idiot?

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Not so sure on the inclusion of this item.

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i never knew what this***** does, so from does have a way to punish tryhards eh.

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The people that complain about invasions are the same people who play through the entire game with over leveled phantoms and learn absolutely nothing. Want a tip? If you hate invasions, start invading. You'll learn way more than your phantoms can ever teach you. If you can't beat em, join em. Especially if the reason you can't beat em is because you've refused to learn anything. Run through the game solo at least once, invade for fun, learn your opponent. Don't refuse to understand.

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After 2 disconnects due to bad wifi and black crystalling out so that my friend can rest at a bonfire I have to wait 10-14 hours? Perfect just what I wanted

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Is a ban per account or per character? I'd think character?

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Scroll down you'll thank me

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I love how this one tiny little white ring has sparked up an entire comment section full of salt, tryhards and idiocy. Real entertainment right here.

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Waiting 2 years to get rid of penalization. Nothing happend Finished NG+5 with 2 characters, no hacks at all Still Penalized

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I have been reading comments from YT that if you delete all of your characters and start freshly and then wait for 2 weeks or 1 month to get you unpenalized. My fresh character playtime is 14h and an half. My theory is that if you wait for 2 weeks or 1 month and after that you receive the message "You may use the Way of White Circlet" thingy in Cemetery of Ashes, you'll get unpenalized. But idk, just my theory.

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If black crystal adds points towards a ban, you probably have to try to get banned, because I've had to BC out of 5 hacker worlds consecutively (yay for pc) and didn't have any penalty. If the circlet is only for the losers who force-DC the second you kill them, a second chance shouldn't even exist for them (for that character, because totally nuking them runs a small chance of banning someone who just crashes a lot)

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Say ye if you arent a pos and have never had to use this.

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So I get penalty points when I black crystal out because I felt bad for a cornered host who'd just cleared the last of his enemies but had no estus and almost no health left? Why must From encourage people to be assholes

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2k19 squad

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So I'm supposed to "got gud" when I invade a cheater who prevents me from using black crystal and curses me to death but every time I still match up with the same guy so I decide to alt f4 "like a casul" and get some sort of a ban because I didn't want to become the amusement element of a 12 year old kid or a middle aged troll who just kills the fun of the game for other people? Alright buds

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I guess there is a rule that only total tryhards or total casuls can post comments.... But if thats true, then I'm a filthy casul

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PSA for low-skill players that want to get invaded less (so you don't have to DC): SIMPLY STOP SUMMONING PHANTOM HELP AT THE START OF EVERY ZONE. IT *GREATLY* BOOSTS YOUR MATCHMAKING PRIORITY TO BE INVADED. PvE most of a zone solo, and you will be invaded by human players faaaaaaar less often -- it'll happen occasionally, but the majority of your invasions in a playthrough will be the scripted NPC invasions. The PvE in this game is not that hard. It really isn't. You can do it without a gank squad. I promise.

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If you invade and get mad when a host DC's wasting your time, stop invading? You're coming into their world and probably ruining their PVE/Co-Op experience HOWEVER disconecting with the stone item shouldn't softban you because like, well, that's lame?

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Huh. I got banned after my wifi shut off idk why. And i used the way of white circlet yet i still cannot invade. Any help on this matter?

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Easy fix: If a host DCs after a certain amount of time has elapsed, the invader should immediately be entitled to the rewards. The problem with the system as is, is that innocent players that get unlucky with crashes, etc. will be caught in the crossfire. If an invader or summon DCs, I see no reason for a softban as they don't negatively impact anyone.

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I am a knight low lvl with***** equip and some man with a giant spear with thunder full of magic with one bilion buffs comes and invade me. How this is supposed to be fair? I just want to play online and see the mesages, I already die to "balanced" "same lvl" enemiess, imagine fighting this son of a *****.

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The softban should last longer because it is very annoying invading a bunch of bankers as an Aldrich Faithful or a watchdog of Farron and then as soon as they start to lose the host disconnects with no penalty, it is extremely frustrating when this happens due to no rewards and it wastes my time.

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I still want to know how these points are accumulated, as the rare but ever possible power outage or other natural event could disconnect me from online activity; and I do want to know if I should avoid gaming during a storm to avoid a possible ban. Also does this item refer to softbans or another form of ban?

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Nice to know that cucks are only banned for 12 hours. I’d have 999,999,999 Spear Ornaments where it not for you disconnecting twats.

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I got banned 2 years ago when an hacker invaded me, he killed me and I transformed into the dragon and gave me a lot of souls, this guy was perma invading me and I got a softban. I talked with Bandai Namco support and they are taking 2 years to answer me and tell me that they can't do anything for fix it, that this ban was did by From Software and it's funny because you go to From Software's support and they tell you that you have to talk with Bandai Namco's support... Unfair this game desing, suck a lot of

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I disconnected like 500 times and never got baned, it's funny doing it specially if you are going to lose the battle xD

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The funny thing is there are hacks that crashes your game so you can get penalized for being invaded by a hacker 10/10 game design

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reading these comments are making my cholesterol levels skyrocket

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So question is there anyway to check your penalties? I've been d/c'd from game worlds before just randomly and want to know if i've accumulated any.

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if you get band you get a second chance

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i dont get it

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Turned off auto shutdown on PS4 and left my game running in offline mode over night. WoW Circlet was in my inventory the next day.

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So I found out that if you put the circlet on your characters *****, it lets you shoot Way of White Corona's without spending focus. However, the charge up time takes between five to thirty minutes, and you can only do it once or twice an hour. Still, amazing power!

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So that is what it is for.I thought it just was there for nothing.

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The complete "banning system" is just great joke in this game.

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Literally just got banned because my power went out in my house now I have yo play 10 hours just to pvp again. This is honestly the most ridiculous thing. I got banned twice before too because of my internet acting up and lagging out of games. This really just kills the game for me it really does. Like now I'm never gonna get on this game for another year or so probably.

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I'm not gonna lie, I have used the separation crystal a few times after being summoned as a dark spirit, but only if the host challenges me to a duel then continuously chugs. I had no idea that any of this contributed to sins. But my question is can the Statue of Velka or the Purging Monument eradicate these PVP sins? Because I know they can get rid of the other kind, and I recently went to Velka to have my sins forgiven, I wonder if I'm in the clear now or at least more so than before.

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Came for the info on exactly what this item does, stayed for the saltposts.

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I was banned, and I have one "way of white circlet", so why can't I use

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i have been baned and i have 1 "way of white circlet", why i can't use it?????

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I've been softbanned for my internet acting up. This is my second penalization, so I have four questions.

1. Are in-game hours logged? Do you have to be playing Dark Souls 3 consistently for the circlet to spawn?

2. Will my connection be purposely filtered to play with "bad sports"?

3. My characters in-game hours is max. Will this affect the circlet spawning?

4. On the third offense, am I permanently BANNED?

If anyone knows it'd be appreciated, thanks.

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And all this time I thought this was a giant cockring

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wtf is this, I have 300 hours in this game never knew the mechanic and how do I use this. what are penalty points? and how does this work what the hell does this reconnect you to the previous world you were summoned to? Does it work for auto-summons?

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So will using it send you and the invader/host to the title screen?

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Git gud kids. Got invaded twice with a phantom and while we were dealing with other enemies. How is that unfair? It isnt they invaded us they could have just left but they took the fight and died with honor instead of being salty because they got ganked

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What if you get summoned but you never get teleported to the host and a connection failed message appears?

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I hate how people complain about invaders being "cowards" or "makeing the game un-fun" , these aren't duels, it's someone forcing their way into your world in an attempt to murder you. It's to be expected. On the other side, ganking is perfectly acceptable, people are expected to do whatever they can to defend themselves. Both invaders and hosts need to stop being so salty.

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You don’t get uninterrupted co-op in dark souls, so stop crying.

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is there any way to stop invaders in co op or jus throw game in the trash

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invading is a joke trying to co op enjoy game with a friend and f...ing idiots invading and ruining game I will not buy another game under these ppl again 90 dollars wasted thx

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I see a lot of people complaining about invasions, and how they’re “unfair to the invader”, but I say (literally) get good or get rekt. As an invader you’re forcing yourself into someone’s world and trying to kill them. How should this be fair? It should be common knowledge at this point that 90% of invasions will be a gank squad, so you should be prepared. If you want fair PvP, just go on undead match or place down a red sign soapstone. And if you still insist on saying ‘oh but invasions are more rewarding’, then invade and get ganked. And if you complain about losing your souls to some “casul gank squad who have no skill”, stop taking high amounts of souls into your invasions. It’s really simple, and yet people complain about it all the time.

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You can also ban a friendly phantom by using black separtion crystal to send him back home

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What sucks is ive had points added up enough that ive used one of these, just because i crashed a few times

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DOES getting fps kicked count?

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If people want to pvp just use the red soap stone.

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Why tf all the people that like invading so salty of disconnects. Get over yourselves.

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Question for y'all, if somebody invades me and my summon while we're working on the Ringed City Streets, would it be respectful for me to send my summon home and summon him/her back after the invasion for 1v1 or just carry on killin stuff, invader included? This situation came up yesterday and a invading scrub "reported me for ganking." Part of me says if you invade, you gotta deal with whatever is in their world (gg), but part of me wants to honor a 1v1 throwdown if that's what they want.

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Only time invasion is justifiable, is Spears of the Church. All the others just run away because they know they're gonna get stomped by a Blue spirit, a Sunbro, and the host. To all the invaders, you suck. I really wish you scrubs had a time limit.

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You people are so retarded the game was literally designed so that you don't get invaded unless you want to, by being embered. You hate invasions? Don't ember, and kill yourself after each boss. What's the use in complaining you have all the tools to play the game the way you want.

I personally love both being invaded and invading, its the only thing that keeps this game from being boring on ng+++ etc...

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So you can cheat in an item that unbans you?

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I'm confused. So people who have a bad internet connection get penalized? I got "Banned" because my network pooped out on me...I cannot control that.

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Not an invader player, if I want PVP I'll do Fight Club or Undead Match. That said...

Anyone get the idea that FromSoft kinda didn't set this up correctly? Like... invaders get shat on often. Too many gankers leading to lack of duel honor and a toxic "git gud" community where no skill was used by the winner, just more attacks.

And on the flip side, I get WHY inexperienced players DC when invaded at inopportune times. Who wants to deal with some invading asshole when you're just trying to make progress?

FromSoft, make it so DCing and stuff DOES add to this penalty counter, but make it degrade over time. If the events are few and far between, a player shouldn't be penalized for any amount of time.

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The number of invader tryhards pretending they love it when players disconnect is hilarious. Nobody believes you, so maybe stop pretending mmmk bye :)

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You can lie to us, but you can't lie to yourself. ^

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