Advanced Tendency Strategies

Advanced Tendency Strategies

Mastering World and Character Tendency in Demon's Souls goes beyond simply understanding the basics; it involves strategic manipulation to unlock the game's deepest secrets and most powerful rewards. Advanced players leverage tendency to create specific scenarios and acquire rare items.

Achieving Pure White or Pure Black Tendency in a world or for your character requires meticulous planning and often involves specific farming methods or sequence of actions. These extreme tendencies unlock unique events, powerful Black Phantom enemies, and exclusive items.

Achieving Pure White World Tendency:

This is often the most challenging to achieve due to the prevalence of actions that push towards Black. The general strategy involves:

1. Start in Neutral: Begin with a fresh world or reset tendency.
2. Defeat All Bosses: Ensure all bosses in the world are defeated.
3. Clear All Enemies: Systematically kill every enemy in the world *in Soul Form*. This is crucial as dying in human form pushes tendency towards Black.
4. Return to Nexus: After clearing an area of enemies, return to The Nexus to save tendency changes.
5. Use the 'Seeker's Ring': If available, this ring can help reveal hidden paths that only appear at White Tendency.

Achieving Pure Black World Tendency:

This is generally easier and can be achieved by:

1. Dying in Human Form: Repeatedly dying in human form in the target world will push its tendency towards Black.
2. Defeating Bosses: Boss defeats also push tendency towards Black.
3. Invading and Dying: If you invade another player's world and die, it pushes your own world's tendency towards Black.

Pure Black World Tendency Events:

• New Black Phantom Enemies: Powerful versions of regular enemies appear, often dropping unique gear.
• New Paths and Items: Hidden areas and rare items become accessible. For example, the 'Northern Regalia' sword requires specific Black Tendency actions.
• Boss Soul Farming: Some bosses can be re-fought as Black Phantoms for additional Soul farming.

Advanced Character Tendency Strategies:

• Pure White Character Tendency: Requires assisting other players by being summoned as a Blue Phantom and defeating bosses. Killing invaders as a White Phantom also contributes.
• Pure Black Character Tendency: Achieved by invading other players and defeating them as a Black Phantom. Killing NPCs also pushes tendency towards Black.

Pure Black Character Tendency Rewards:

• Mephistopheles Questline: This assassin NPC in The Nexus offers a dark questline that requires you to hunt down and kill specific NPCs.
• Unique Dialogue: Certain NPCs react differently to a Pure Black character.

Manipulating tendency requires patience and often a willingness to die repeatedly. However, the rewards—access to powerful gear, unique boss encounters, and deeper lore—are well worth the effort for dedicated players.