Multiplayer Dark Souls III Guide

While playing Dark Souls III, you can cooperate with other players, invade their worlds or be invaded yourself. Of course, what you need for this is internet connection and to play in the multiplayer mode. In the case of the same game mechanic, you have to be "heated up" (after you kill a boss, or after you kill a boss using Ember). Only in this state, you begin to see summon signs and you can use multiplayer items.

Note: Offline game also differentiates between whether you are "heated up" or not. This is connected with your ability to summon NPCs to help you in some situations, with helping them or being attacked by them.

Reinforcements

The simplest way is to summon someone to help you. You can most frequently find summon signs of various colors in front of boss arenas. They have been left there by other players that you can summon to your world. Hey will help you fight a boss, but they can also die in the course. You should make sure that you do not die yourself, because the battle ends at the moment of your death. For this reason, it is players that you summon that should bear the difficulties of the battle, by which they let you to survive the battle. If you die, the players that you have summoned are sent away to their worlds and they are incapable of killing the boss themselves.

You can summon two players, at a time. Summoning a third one involves the necessity to use Dried Fingers (you can buy them from Shrine Handmaid). Remember that the more players you summon to help you, the more health your opponents have.

When you are summoned

To be summoned, you have to buy White Sign Soapstone from Shrine Handmaid. Then, you have to use it in any location (again, usually in front of a boss arena) where you leave your sign. If someone summons you, you will travel to the world of the summoner as a phantom. You cannot pick up any items then, but you usually obtain a soul. After you defeat the boss, you are sent back and you are rewarded with Ember.

Note: If you kill a boss in someone else's world before you do that in your own, you will still have to do this in your world. Killing the boss counts in the host's world.

Invasion

Your purpose in invading the world of another player is to kill him. Remember that you will then have half as many Estus flasks as you normally do.

As a phantom, you can not only help but also attack other players. The reward you receive for defeating them in their world depends on the covenant that you are currently wearing. To invade someone's world, follow Leonhard's quest - you receive Cracked Red Eye Orbs from him and later into the game, a Red Eye Orb that you can use as much as you want. After you do this, you will travel to a randomly selected player and your task will be to kill them.

Another way to invade is to leave the invasion sign after you have used the Red Sign Soapstone. You find it in front of Rosaria's Bed Chamber by the white bug. It allows you to leave a summon sign on the ground. If any other player wants to fight you, you will travel to his world.

How to set the password

It is possible to set a password in the game menu. This will allow you to ignore the level cap that is that is required for summoning and being summoned (+-10 levels). If you set the same password as someone else, you will then be able to summon regardless of your respective levels. Whenever you need help, leave your sign using White Sign Soapstone. As the player to be summoned, find the sign that has been previously made, in your world and enter the password that you have earlier determined.

Covenants

Someone attacks you, your ally attacks them

Playing in the multiplayer mode is tightly bound with the covenant that you belong to. Depending on this, the effects of invasion and being summoned may be different. Apart from that, for defeating the opponent, you receive an item that is characteristic for a given covenant (e.g. Rosaria's fingers).

Way of Blue - as soon as you are attacked by an opponent, you will automatically receive help from another allied player.

Blue Sentinels, Blade of the Darkmoon - you will be automatically summoned to help the player that is a member of the Way of Blue covenant and has been attacked.

Warrior of Sunlight - you receive a reward in this covenant after you help another player kill a boss in his world.

Mound Makers - your task in this covenant is to kill a player. However, you can attack his enemies also. This means that you an be either an ally or an enemy. You can be an ally for a moment to kill the host at the moment he least expects and kill him quickly.

Aldrich Faithful, Watchdogs of Farron - in these covenants, you will be automatically summoned to kill a player that has entered a specific location (Irithyll of Boreal Valley and Farron Keep).

Rosaria's Fingers - this is a typically predatory covenant. Your goal is to kill an opponent. You receive your reward only then.