Covenants return in Dark Souls 3 more focused and streamlined than in previous installments. You may pledge your allegiance to any of eight, and each comes with its own optional tasks. Most offer a reward at each of two threshold goals.
To join a covenant, you first need to find that covenant's item. We'll show you where to find each in the sections below. After you have the item, open your Equipment menu, and place the covenant item in Covenant slot on the left. It's the one surrounded by the diamond-shaped box.
As has been said, covenants are clubs you join that give you certain rewards if you turn in covenant-specific items to the covenant leader. Most covenants grant some sort of spell, weapon, or item as you level up in the covenant. Covenants don't like it when you switch to a different one or attack their members.
Covenants are a staple in the Dark Souls franchise and online gameplay. Joining a covenant may change the parameters with which players connect to each other. The covenant the player is a part of will show with their nameplate to others and may cosmetically change the appearance of their phantom.
Each covenant in Dark Souls 3 holds some important details to the game world, and finding the best covenant DS3 will help players to harbor some greater power as they battle through all manners of dangers.
To join a Covenant, the player character must equip one of several Covenant insignias discovered throughout Lothric. Select one of the links below for more detailed information regarding each Covenant.
Aldrich Faithful: By far the best covenant. After some poor schmuck defeats Pontiff Sulyvahn and finally gets his ember back - you, another Aldrich Faithful, and two badass NPCs 4v1 him.
The base game contains eight possible convents, while the expansion of The Ringed City adds the ninth option. Unlike other games in the Souls series, Dark Souls 3 lets players switch between covenants by equipping specific key items.