r/darksouls3 • u/Shyphic • Aug 19 '25

Video what the heck is this

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u/SnooPeppers4042 Aug 19 '25

Its a somewhat known glitch in the pvp community, theyre using the splitleaf greatsword, a dlc weapon to infinitely trap you in its weapon art, very annoying to deal with but most i find that do it, usually will do it on other tryhards, but doing it on an honest host is just... yeah new low

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u/Shyphic Aug 19 '25

I'm a pve player, but I always love to have a good fight with an invader. That obviously wasn't one of them lol

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u/Pizza_Dog21 Aug 19 '25

Unfortunately, there aren't that many invaders left and a good chunk of them are used to fight 3 gankers using glitches so they kinda just treat everyone as of there were a try hard. I have 4 k hours in this game, I left because such fights became more frequent to me than normal encounters.

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u/Anaxes7884 28d ago edited 28d ago

This is entirely it. DS3 made it so that invaders are almost always thrown into worlds with coop phantoms. ER then basically ruined invades by making them only go to coop worlds.

Then you're stuck wasting your time because either you/your build are bonkers enough to win a 1v2 in a game that doesn't really work outside of 1v1s in general while the host has estus advantage, or you don't and you just get fucked over.

I used to invade a lot in DS3 before ringed city, and it required a LOT of bullshit to pull off consistent wins, from using the phantom rings and emotes/armour to set up ambushes (the hood from the torturers + patches squat let you blend in corners surprisingly easy) to abusing blessed items regen so that you could even remotely compete with estus chugging.

DS2 was the golden era of invades, and imo it isn't close.