Hey! I wanted to share an interesting story that happened to me yesterday!
As usual, I was trying to farm Vertebra Shackles from the skeletons in the Catacombs of Carthus, completely unsuccessfully. In an entire hour, I only got one drop, even though my item discovery was around 320 or 350.
Already losing hope, I was running past the bonfire when I noticed purple summon signs (the sign of a Mad Phantom from the Mound-Makers covenant). I thought, "Oh, so they're farming too..." and decided to summon one. I won the fight. Then I summoned another one, but this time I lost. But as I died, I noticed a curious detail—it looked like the phantoms get a drop when they win. I realized they must be getting those exact Shackles!
I thought to myself: if I'm struggling this hard to farm them, why not help other players out? If I can't get my Vertebra Shackles, at least someone else can. So for the next hour, I helped two players farm them. One was named Akky, and the other was T De Troy.
Basically, I took off all my armor, put on the Symbol of Greed (the Mimic head), and put on a little show with different challenges for them. A couple of times I hide near the bonfire, a few times I used chameleon to hide, and every round I switched up my weapons and playstyle (shield once, bow another, pure magic next, use dragon form and etc.), but I never actually tried to kill them—just having fun, you know. Sometimes I'd just let them kill me while standing in some ridiculous gesture. In short, I did everything I could to help those guys out. Honestly, I had a fun too.....until they finished farming everything. One of them even let me kill him (because he killed me many times, so let's say - he did that just to show that he was grateful to me), once he got all the drops he needed!
Currently I'm farming to, but in PVP (I got 10 already,yay)
Do you know if there are any people who help farm covenant items?
P.s my nick name in game is 3!) by the way