Eye of Death

In-Game description

Online play item.
Lure phantoms from other worlds.
(Only Covenanter can use the item while Hollows cannot)

The dreadful Eyes of Death spread disaster
across neighboring worlds. Phantoms lured
to the host world may end up as victims,
allowing the Eyes of Death to multiply,
and leading to further proliferation of bane.

Availability

• Dropped by Basilisks found in The Depths and The Great Hollow (common)
• Dropped by Spirit of Vengeance who invades by using your Gravelord Soul Sign
• Treasure (x3) from a corpse located behind the Prowling Demon in The Catacombs
• Treasure (x3) from a corpse located at the beginning of the Tomb of the Giants. Use the Skull Lantern to find them after the first coffin when you enter the Tomb, on the left side, then jump down
• Sold by Patches at the Firelink Shrine for 3,000 souls each (limit of 3 per playthrough)

Use

• Having at least one Eye in the inventory enables you to gain access to Gravelord Nito's sarcophagus to join the Gravelord Servant by nestling in the coffin near the Prowling Demon in The Catacombs

• Given to Gravelord Nito's sarcophagus in order to rank up in the Gravelord Servant Covenant

• Infect three other online players' worlds with the Gravelord Curse and leave your Gravelord Soul Sign to lure them into your world.

• To use an Eye of Death correctly you must meet the following conditions:
  • You need to be a Gravelord Servant
  • You need to be in human form (reverse-hollowed)
  • You need to be in an area where you have not yet killed the boss
  • You may not have an invader or summoned phantoms already active in your world. The Eye of Death will continue to work as invaders enter your world, but it will be 'greyed out' and unavailable for use if a phantom arrives before you use it.

Effects

• For the Gravelord Servant:
  • You will be unable to see white and gold soul signs by other players.
  • All your online slots will be for invasions.
  • You cannot enter boss fog gates.
  • You can still use Cracked Red Eye Orbs and the White Sign Soapstone.

• For the infected:
  • Appearance of a Gravelord Soul Sign in their worlds. The soul sign's position may change every 10 seconds, depending on the Gravelord Servant's position in their own world.
  • Gravelord Black Phantoms will appear if the world is in NG+ or beyond (the aforementioned Gravelord Curse). They're much stronger and more aggressive versions of the normal enemies in the area. The black phantoms will remain in the infected player's world until the Gravelord Servant accesses a loading screen¹. The infected player will get a notification informing them of the defeat of a Gravelord Servant² - even if they're in their first playthrough (New Game), and the black enemy phantoms never spawned. The infected player dying or resting at a bonfire will not cause the black phantoms to disappear.
  • Multiplayer is unaffected, infected players may summon or invade other players as normal.

Online Matchmaking

• The Gravelord Soul Sign appears to other players within co-op range.
• Co-op range calculation: Your Level, +/- (10 + 10% of Your Level). This means a level 100 player using an Eye of Death can have their sign used by others who are between the levels of 80 to 120.

Farming Strategy

Items Needed

• Weapon with a wide horizontal area-of-effect attack (e.g. most greatswords' two-handed strong attack, ultra greatswords' two-handed weak attack, Great Scythe, etc). Not only for efficiency, but the faster you kill the Basilisk, the lower your chance to getting Cursed. Wide attack weapons are for stun-locking multiple Basilisks or Rats, as they have low Poise and are easily stunned by almost all weapons.

• High Curse-resistant gear: Dingy Set, Paladin Set, or Havel's Set if you don't mind going heavy, also Cursebite Ring

• Item Discovery
  • Covetous Gold Serpent Ring
  • 10 Soft Humanities - also for Curse resistance

• Purple Moss Clumps in case you got Poisoned by the Small Undead Rats on your way to the Basilisks

• Homeward/Homeward Bones as needed.

How To

1. Start at the bonfire in Depths.
2. Run out the hall and take a right. Keep going past the hidden ladder and the kill 5 Small Undead Rats.
3. Continue and kill the rat in the box.
4. Keep going and kill 4 more rats.
5. Go in the hall nearby and take a right. Fall down the hole in the floor. Kill the Basilisks nearby.
6. Go up the stairs, through the door, and kill 3 Basilisks.
7. Head around the bend, straight ahead, drop down and kill 3 more Basilisks.
8. Through the nearby door and kill 3 more basilisks. You may teleport back to the bonfire here and repeat from step 1 if you're only farming for Eyes of Death, but you can continue to farm more rats while getting back to the bonfire
9. Up the stairs, follow the path and through the tunnel heading back. Down the stairs and kill 3 Large Undead Rats and 1 small one.
10. Up the stairs and kill 2 rats.
11. Take the shortcut back to the bonfire.

As you get Humanities from Rats, use it to increase Item Discovery and Curse Resistance. Rinse and repeat.

Footnotes

1. This includes dying, quitting, invading via Cracked Red Eye Orb, or warping via Homeward or Lordvessel.

2. "Disasters are gone after the defeat of the Gravelord Servant."