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Proof of farming kept.

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So I'm on ng++, and with 99 luck and 99 int and about 35 att I farmed these at anor londo in about 3 or 4 hours-ish. Covetous gold serpent ring +3, symbol of avarice and the crystal rapier. With all that i think i had about 525 item discovery with the coin. On ng++ the Silver knights have a bit too much health to die to one CSS, so I used homing crystal soulmass too, hidden body and slumbering ring. Used the bellowing dragon ring and magic clutch ring, but at 99 int the increase isn't very noticeable so I switched out the bellowing for the lingering +2 so hidden body would last longer. Anyways it didn't feel to bad on my soul. I was able to make one coin last to kill the two knights twice, like this guide mentions. Hidden body really cuts down on their blocks and makes the run seem faster, and the slumbering ring makes it so if s**t happens you can roll away from them twice and they won't chase after you. I totes can confirm that closing the game out and restarting from the title menu makes it feel like they start to drop more, almost like resetting the drop cycle or something. I restarted twice after the first two batches of ten and got it all done in an afternoon.
I'm off to grind sunlight medals tomorrow and then vertebrae shackles the day after. I gather that the shackles are the worst, I'll post my experience on their respective pages.
B4 someone asks, I'm on xbone and too cheap to pay for xblive and that's why I'm grinding this junk out..
Hope this helps somehow guys.

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I love the super long winded strategy on how to kill the 2 silver knights. Just grab a giant club or hammer, roll out of their first attack and club them to death. Takes 3 seconds bro

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Here's my in depth guide on how to easily farm these for the 100%

- accept your masochistic tendencies and embrace the pain
- find a multi-hour long video on youtube that you really want to watch
- kill 800 silver knights

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i now have enough silver knight armor for an entire army

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Another easy way to get a backstab on the spear knight is to wait for him to start charging his lightning stab then take a few steps back like 2 or 3. Then when he attacks, roll towards him and out to the side a bit. That'll leave you next to him and a backstab is simple after that. Once you get the timing down you can backstab pretty consistently with no parry needed.

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just a tip, if you run 3/4 up the stairs , once you see spear guy charging up the lightning, literally turn aroun and stare at the elevator, the game breaks and he falls from the sky in front of you and you can smash him then if youre not good at parrying

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If you are on PC please juse use a cheat a program or a mod that makes dropping much faster. Just do it, there's no honor in killing thousands of silver knights over and over. you've already proved yourself you can do it, there's no difference between the 100th and the 1000th time. if anything it will make you less powerful since you won't have the souls. Please just use these methods and remember to stay offline while doing so.

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I'm slowly turning hollow

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Anyone need to farm this we can we just need two more people that are level 170. Ringed city just go there as one way of the blue and since the level is so high and hardly anyone there you partners can invade and the other will be summoned. My friends did this at level 80 but I am too high. anyone got a level 170?

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Found out how 3 people can cheese this. One person joins way of blue one is dark moon or sentinel and the third invades.. if you are a high lever like for me 171 and you pick a low populated place it will work. My friends did this but I am too high a level to do it with them if anyone has a 171 character and wants to try let me know

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SIR GIDEON OFNIR
THE ALL-KNOOOOOWING

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My statistics:

Prerequisites:
- 445 item discovery
- After obtaining a Proof concept go back to menu
- I killed only the 2 silver knights on the stairs in Anor Londo (~25-50s with an average of 31s)
- running back to the bonfire takes ~10-15s
- teleporting back to the bonfire takes around 20s

I got 1 proof of concept in 3-18 runs with a mean of 9 runs

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why the **** is this the hardest thing to accomplish in human history

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after around 4 hours farming, with 326 item discovery, I got 1, yup, after 480 of those idiots, just one, and I don't even get summoned, like ever

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COIN, PARRY LIGHTNING SPEAR, ONESHOT KNIGHT, DODGE LIGHTING ATTACK, PARRY, ONESHOT KNIGHT, REPEAT.
I am mentally unwell :)

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My friend did this in one hour. It took me 5.
A tip to stay sane is to be on call with someone that you can talk to and to listen to music of your choosing.
Just turn off your brain and go into autopilot.
Talking to my friend about stuff really distracted me from any boredom I had.
Praise the sun!

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I want to cry.

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I went back at very high level, respecced for I think 523 item discovery with 99 luck and items, 60 int to one shot the knights like the guide on this page and enough vigor so I don't get murked because of mimic head. Don't really need hidden body, you have to walk up to the top of the stairs to even see the sword knight anyway and spear knight pretty much always does the charge when you get in range while the sword knight will always lower his guard when he gets in melee range as you charge crystal soul spear. I did farm the red eyed knight the entire time as well just to figure out if he has higher drop rate but he shares the same drop rate it seems.

Quitting to the menu and rebooting the whole game afterwards when you get a concord actually works I believe. I've only done it for the last 15 but whenever I did it I would get the drop more consistently within max 7-8 runs (523 discovery, 3 knights per run) but sometimes in 2-4 runs. When I didn't use this it would take anywhere between 2 runs and 30. Yes it took nearly 90 kills for one to drop at some point and a few others at around 50 kills.

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The muscle memory is still etched in my brain. Rusted coin, run up, spear knight always does lightning dash attack, sprint right and backstab, R2 R1 dead, get item, run up to the next one, he also always does lightning slash, sprint around him to the right and he does a second follow up one, backstab that, R2 R1 dead, get item, run back to bonfire.

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Look. If you had, 1 million souls, would you level up? Or use it to buy? Yo. His hands spaghetti, knuckles weak, arms spaghetti. There is concords in his pocket, proofs of concord. He's hollow, but on the surface he looks calm, collected, to drop proofs, but he keeps on going, what he wrote down, the whole wiki goes spaghetti, he cuts up his knight but the concord won't come out, it's broke how? Everything is ruined now. Concord's run out, knights down, over, bloah!



Sprint back to bonfire, Oh there goes silver knight, oh there goes silver knight, Wow, he's so mad but he won't give up concords, no they won't drop it, He knows he keeps on forgetting that rusted coin isn't used. He knows that but he's broke, His mind wandering, he knows. After he goes to bed sleeping, that's when he's, back to grind again, yo! All these silver knights, he better go murder silver knights and hope it drops in the end!


Alright alright I'm done with the mom's spaghetti remix... but this was my experience.

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It seems like an actual mistake that the drop rate for this and bone shackles is so low, it just doesn't make sense why so low

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I have so much hate

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This is bullsh!t

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Yorshka, some child has caused me more pain then friede the Nameless king gael midir etc etc

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I got 9 in about an hour. Level 75, Knight class start, 15 attunement, 60 int, 17 luck.

15 attunement is perfect for hidden body and 2 crystal soul spears.
60 int to oneshot the silver knights along with the +9 Court Sorcerer's staff, Young and Bellowing Dragon rings, and the Magic clutch ring.
I had 367 discovery with all the boosting items: basic gold serpent ring, sage's rapier, mimic head, and rusted coins. You can make 2 runs per coin

The method where you quit out after finding a proof kept DOES work. there were a few times where I found them back to back. It's still a real grind, but it absolutely helps. Best of luck! [T]/

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this is miserable

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wtf, i got 2 in like 8 knights

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These covenant trophies are pretty bad design. **** WHOEVER AGREED TO INCLUDE THEM.

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Killed like 450+ silver knights in anor londo not one dropped, 425-445 item discovery too. Are you sure it’s a farmable item?

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But I still...haven't found, what I'm looking for.

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If anyone wants an alternative to 60+ int soul spears, 50 intelligence (probably even less) great soul dregs with young+bellowing dragon ring, dark clutch ring and Lothric Banner weapon art casted with preacher's arm +10 also one shots them, it's not a great saving but it's something.

the weapon art lasts a lot (around 2 minutes) so it's not even a bother to use, takes way less time than any staves' weapon art in the long run.

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If these dropped as much as the large titanite shards, we'd all be a lot happier

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I’m tired of looking at those stairs I’d rather be summoned and get a sloppy kiss from grandma then to farm.. so silly

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FromSoft really needs to stop making achievements include covenant items. Farming this **** is a major pain.

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those god damn stairs man..

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I think this farm was actually starting to get bad for my mental health. The day i actually got the platinum trophy for DS3, i only had sunlight medals (which seem to have a more generous droprate iirc ?), and these things to farm for. I ended up having about 10 left until i had the last sorcery, and spent my entire afternoon on those stairs. It paid off and i actually got the trophy, but when i went to sleep that night, i dreamed of going up and down the anor londo stairs, can't even remember if i was staring at the screen in the dream too or if i was the ashen one.

Don't do Anor Londo silver knights kids.

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Ive grinded hundreds of hours for certain things in games. Months even. But this? This is just insanity.

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how do I explain my therapist that I have anor londo stairs ptsd

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Atleast farming sunlight medals was fun because pvp and co-op is enjoyable. This is just hell

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Just finished farming this 30 pieces. Very low drop rate.

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Turned the servers off and didn't at least buff the pve drops. Thanks guys I already beat elden ring ng+5 I wanted a change of pace

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The drop rate is not one percent no way.

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Thank you Miyazaki for implementing an item with a drop so rare it avoids me like women avoid me irl.

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What, still here?

No seriously, if you are, just use lightning blade you poor soul

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Thank you Dark Souls, for making an achievement that gives me the strength to finally hang myself

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i got the dark moon blade on my first playthrought just by being summoned and boy look at me now farming like a scrub

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Would not recommend trying to get these from the covenant. The majority of times I was summoned, the host was already dead or the invader was already dead, it's more frustrating than dedicating a few hours to farm these. It just takes too long to get summoned, and when you do, you can't do anything and are sent back toyour world with empty hands.

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>omw to show my friends how cool I am because I have dm blade

>Realize I have no friends because I've killed literally everybody to get concords and I now have the dark soul

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Getting these Wouldn't be a hard if THE ****ING HOST HELPS FIGHT THE THINGS TRYING TO KILL THEM.

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where do i take it tho

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After I'm done farming this, I beg of thee, remember my name. For I may not myself.

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Just to serve as another data point: took me about 130 bonfire trips to farm 20 proof of concord kepts (tracked by counting how many coins used, one per trip). This would be 20 drops in 390 kills (includes red eye knight, I killed all 3 at the bonfire), or a ~5.13% drop rate at an item discovery of ~430. Took me about 2-3 hours. Got the other 10 from random Darkmoon/Sentinel summoning earlier in the game. Did the farming in base NG.

I respec’d to 39/39 int/faith and 14 attunement with the rest dumped into luck at SL 105. Used Power Within and Black Fire Orb to one shot the knights, used flasks regularly since my health/FP was extremely low at that SL. Also did the reload “trick” of reloading the game after getting a drop, seemed to help a few times to where I got another drop on the next immediate run.

Good luck!

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This is the kind of torture that Marquis de Sade would call "a little extreme and messed up"

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Gonna need someone to remember my name by the time I'm done farming these..

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F*ck this, I'm doing 15 NG cycles.

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After much experimenting I found that all of the covenant item drops including Proof of Concords could be obtained much more regularly by following these steps. I don't know how vital each step is but they were dropping very consistently for me doing this. As people have already stated, the items definitely seem to drop in clusters.

First, set the game to start offline in the options menu, and restart the game.

Ensure to completely quit the game and wait at least an hour between farming sessions - the drop rate seems to refresh every hour.

Start killing the covenant item dropping enemies with all item discovery pieces equipped - rapier, symbol of averice, rusted coin. I didn't bother levelling luck, they dropped quickly enough without doing that. Item discovery was over 400, can't remember exactly. I used a heavy warpick+10 to go round enemies' shields and kill them quickly.

Upon starting each session I would always experience a cluster of at least 1, up to 10
or sometimes even more - covenant items in fairly quick succession. The cluster has finished if you don't get a drop in a reasonable amount of time - say 10 runs or so. When this happens, quit the game and wait another hour.

Make sure also to save and quit then close the game completely and re-open between every drop.

If I did carry on farming once the cluster finished, it usually resulted in a very long wait for another drop. Much better to quit and wait an hour or so - it is much less frustrating and much more rewarding.

Hope this helps!

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Great soul dregs 40 int fth izalith staff +5 1 shots these guys with both sorc rings leaves room for gold ring and silver ring, hidden body makes it easier.

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If you're getting bored farming these offline, I found the drop rate increased significantly if I followed this
- kill the 2 knights
-warp to firelink
- Quit game and reopen
-warp to anor londor
- repeat

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A wise man once said, "Thank you dark souls."

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I wise man once said, "Thank you dark souls."

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Spell: Great Soul Dregs
Items: Man-Grub's Staff(+9) + SoA + Rapier + coins
Rings: Covetus +3 + Dark Clutch + 2 dragon rings

Stats: vig 14, end 15, int 40, luck 90 (visit Rosaria)

Now you can engage in endless suffering.

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Torture. Pain. Suffering. Insanity. Thing after accomplishing which every player just straight out deletes the game for the whole next year of maybe more.

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I killed about 300 Knight, and got 19 of them, then I felt that it's taking so much time so I googled how to farm it.. and I found that I should increase my item discovery so it went from 100 to 300
Went back again killed about 500 Knight got only 2
It feels like when you increase item discovery it get overshadowed by the armour and the large titanite
So I would say try it with no item discovery boosters

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here are some findings and other facts which I have verrified during the most painful grind (16-18 hours) after the sharpstone chunk grind in Demon Souls:

1. Changing trousers does help, at least for a limited time; quitting the game didn't affect the trousers buff
2. Both silver knights are dropping the desired item
3. While my wife was in the living room, drop rate increased
4. While my daughter was in the living room, drop rate decreased
5. While my wife and daughter were in the living room, I was happy, because they were cheering on me, drop rate was not important any more


Stay safe my hollow friends!

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Too all melee warriors

I'm excited as a relatively new soulsborn enthusiast to present my finding of a new glitch: at least I think it is a new glitch, because the most popular video on YT about this topic has a far more complex solution for it. At this point in time it would be too difficult for me to go through all found glitches, but I'm confident that I discovered at least a new use case for a particular problem.

If you are struggling with the speared silver knight or just want to slice a couple of seconds from each run on those two dudes, you can let him glitch trough the air in order to backstab him. Especially his lightning dash, which is the more common at the beginning of each encounter, does save a lot of time even while taking far less concentration from you, which is perfect for an 8+ hour grind. Try following steps:

1. Run up the stairs until you see "him"
2. Don't lock the camera on the target
2. If you distance is far enough, he will charge you with his lighting dash; don't get to close, otherwise you need to fight him in the normal way
3. While he is charging up, look at the ground and get a few step to the side, otherwise you will be staggered... because the following will happen:

Instead of moving along the ground with his dash, the knight will move mid air; he will fall down out of the air, where he was supposed to stop from this dash attack, which is roughly at the spot where you've been at the time he was starting to charge his dash. as a result of his fall out of the sky, he will be staggered and a perfect target for your backstab attack.

4. you can now lock on the target again and aim for his back
5. prepare for the second knight, which will be already on his way, but dealing with him in close combat is way more easy (at least for me)

A visual presentation can be found on YT, if you search for this title:
"Dark Souls 3 - Anor Londo Spear Silver Knight Stair Glitch"

I've uploaded the video yesterday, but apparently videos are not allowed in the comments (I can understand why that is so), but nevertheless I hope I can help someone with it, because I understand the agony farming this.

Stay safe my hollow friends!

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I finally got my dark moon blade. Seconds after getting it I killed that ***** for making me go through that. Good chime. Glad to have. you will be remembered Yorksha.

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Got in on a strength build (farmed till 28, got last 2 in ng+). Great mace makes it easy: perseverance, one, two three, dead, perseverance, one, two, three, dead, bonfire and repeat, kinda relaxing. Took couple of hours (not in one session, half hour farming, then did something else, and back to it), but got about 10 of them on summoning (sl 126, got summoned like every 15 minutes). Some summons are hopeless (host dies before you get to invader), some very easy (ganks molesting single red, fight clubs are also great, - every time red loses you get a reward and you just watch), some even end before you enter. Unfortunatly at least two times I didn't get a reward, I don't know why.
People, listen: you shouldn't complain. Yes, droprate is awful, but covenant rewards aren't worth it. Darkmoon blade isn't better than Llighnting blade, so why bother? For bragging rights? For completionism? If yes, I dont't have sympathy for you, nobody forces you to 100% the game, and nobody gives a damn if you did. I did it just to have a "full Dark Souls 3 experience", just like farming pure Bladestone in Demon's Souls. I'm not angry at From about it but I will never do it again.

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i went hollow after farming this

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You can tell when someone legit loses their mind farming this item when they spawn as a blue phantom wearing symbol of avarice but dont even bother taking it off in fight.

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little fun fact i just noticed with cheats on: only the one silverknight with the spear drops this item... the other one not

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Spent ~4,5 hours grinding this with a method similar to the one below, but I used backstabbing tactics and did not respec in Luck. I hate those stairs now. Thank God it's over.

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It took me 3 hours to farm all 30 off the two Silver Knights at the top of the Anor Londo stairs. Total souls: ~3,000,000 (including ~400,000 from selling all the items they dropped.)

Before the grind, I went to Rosaria and respecced to 99 Luck, 60 Int, and a little attunement for some extra FP. I equipped Symbol of Avarice, Covetous Gold Serpent Ring +3, Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring, Young Dragon Ring, Magic Clutch Ring, Crystal Sage Rapier (offhand) and Court Sorcerer's Staff +10. This setup gave me 377 Item Discovery and allowed me to one-shot the knights with Crystal Soul Spear. I ran up, killed both, ran down and reset. Being able to just delete them with a single spell is pretty crucial. You don't want to actually be fighting them or giving them a chance to block or whatever. You just want them dead so that you can turn around and reset.

Hope this helps.

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Good news, I can now afford to remove all 5 of the dark sigils on my character

Bad news, I th8nk I've gone hollow from lack of drops

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I have done it. After 6 hours with 99 luck + the usual farming gear i have 28. Killed yorshka for her chime so i will just start ng+. Holy ****ing **** this was torture. This is probably what hell feels like, they make you farm concords.

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I'm trying to farm Silver Knight armor but all I'm getting are these ffs.

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The good news is u can farm these. The bad news is you will prob gain 5 to 10 levels by the time u have 30. Great FromSoft thanks for hiding achievements behind Covenant ranking awesome idea.

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Just done 200 runs without a single drop. Broke ass game.

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What, still here? Hand it over that thing your ears. For my lady's covenant

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jesus christ, farming these is why people call dark souls a hard series of games

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Yeah this just sucks to farm. You either farm silver knights for an hour for a chance for one to drop or wait for an hour to get summoned to a way of blue and chance getting one shotted and having to wait another hour. Hope there’s nothing like this in Elden Ring

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if i use cheat engine to give myself 30 will i get banned? i do not have cheat engine, i have never installed or used it once, but these drop rates feel like the game is cheating ME sooooo...
all i’m saying is cheat engine looking really appealing now

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Found the elden ring while trying to farm for these...

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You can either farm them, or going to NG+15 and pick up 2 each times

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Everything depends on tactic and build, i got 30 in less than 3 hours. i had 465 (+/- 5) item discovery with rusted coin. I used dragon tooth which took 4 swings to kill one knight, could me 3 with more strenght, and i had just enough stamina for 4. first knight almost always rushed at me so i just walked right, and then killed him with four swings. another knight charges at you but with better reach i could attack before he atacked me. the both staggered all the time so in most cases i didn't recieve damage. worth mentioning, i didn't ever bother with pvp so my SL was about 200; i had to finish game 3 times to get platinum so it's very easy to get to this level. wouldn't bother farming before ng++ unless you do pvp.

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It's been two days. I have 8. I swear I'm fine

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If you don’t want to do a Luck Re-Spec like most people, don’t even bother farming for these unless you get the Covetous Gold Ring+3 from Ringed City (huge difference this ring made over the base one), Crystal Sage Rapier, Avarice helm and a tons of Rusted Coins.

I’m averaging around 3-4 concords every 30-40 minutes and log out and back in to reset the drop counter. Resetting is pretty crucial from what I’ve experienced because I’ve been logging my kills and drops on a counter app on my iPhone. Good luck.

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Around SL120-140 I have just been running around collecting rings + spells and completeing NG cycles with the covenant item equipped. I get summoned to the Ringed City about 1-2 per hour and the host always has full 3 phantoms so getting the kill on invaders is pretty easy. No PVP duelling required (which I suck at), I've been doing this for about a week and have 21 proofs so far. Should have the miracle by the end of this week.

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Funny how despite being such an incredible game plenty of people's best DS3 moment will not be an unforgettable PVP duel/invasion, beating NK/Friede/Gael or finishing it 100% but will be seeing this drop for that 30th and final time.

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2021 Can confirm that returning to main menu after finding one is the way to go.

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I didn’t give her the proofs all together
26-2-1
Does that affect any thing??

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Guys, please just equip blue sentinels the moment you get it in Crucifixion Woods. If you are decent at PvP you'll have minimum 10 concords by the time you reach Anor Londo, it'll save you a lot of time (and pain).

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if anyone on xbox around soul level 170 needs them make a post saterday with the numbers 8873.

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I know it says in the wiki, but I just want confirmation. If an invader uses the black crystal, do the blues not get the rewards? Thanks in advance.

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Hi, I discovered that the thing with reloading the game as was mentioned on this wiki, works better than one would believe. Try that and good luck!

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Farmed for nearly 5 hours with 436 item discovery and coins. got all 30. Why are we still here ? Just to suffer ?

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yes, indeed. it is called anor londo entrance. where the transitory place of the lords of concord kepts converge. in venturing to the staircase, the ashen ones discovered the truth of the farm strats. the covenant fades... and the souls fanbase go without getting the 30. when the ember hosts are threatened, the darkmoon comes, unearthing the players from their farms, the one who doesnt want to die to get the item, the ganker squad , and the SL802 player with dragonslayer axe... , only in truth, the players will abandon their 100% duty, and the invasors will rise, nameless, accursed etiquette players , unfit even to be hollows, and so it is, the people seeketh the covenant rewards...

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"task completed"
(checks inventory) no reward.

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If anyone has spares, I would appreciate it if they could give me 15, i cant stand those silver knights anymore (PC btw)

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These r so rare that i got silver knight straight sword from ds1 which no one knew about when i tried to farm them

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