Lol it does apply to every player, man you're stupid. Yeah killing one NPC doesn't change it. You have to go kill at least 10 or more NPC's that are not considered traitors or whatever, as killing some NPC's does not effect sin. Your sin will stay as "---" or whatever until you've killed a lot of NPC's or invaded a lot of people. Also being in the Blue Sentinel covenant (if you are) may or may not decrease how much sin you get (if any), although this is not confirmed. Killing 1-2 NPC's does not do anything. Go kill every NPC in the game and you will have a "Sinner" level.

Licia is a traitor and killing her decreases sin by alot.

Definition of factitious. 1 : produced by humans rather than by natural forces. 2 a : formed by or adapted to an artificial or conventional standard b : produced by special effort : sham So... maybe look words up before using them, because you said the exact opposite of what you were trying to say. Also, why start off by mentioning that you got a platinum trophy for a game? Just being good at something does not make one an authority on its inner workings, ex. Just because a person might be an expert musician doesn't mean they are an expert of the science of acoustics. A world class racecar driver does not equal a world class auto mechanic. Being able to beat a game does not mean you understand all the math that goes into its making... those are two different things.

Plus I have done a TON of invasions

Are you sure youre looking at the right thing? It doesnt actually say son lvl it just shows a chain below where it shows your class and covenant under player info.

Sin not son haha sorry man

OP's an idiot, don't waste your time. By default there is a dash to determine 0-9 sin, when he said there's never been a symbol he immediately forfeited his worth, troll or not. Also killing Licia does count as sin. I've done so specifically with the Lost Sinner's GS to test both statements

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If u don't have Internet connection in ur console/pc that u have dark souls 2 in then u can't sin Maybe because of that

I took it to mean that your health can drop below 50% when you have Wretched status.

go beyond? go below? go over? go above?

Considering everyone should know that dying decreases your health when you hollow saying that it will go Beyond 50% means its gonna keep going down. Not the wiki's fault.

Wiki really should have read 'below' rather then 'beyond' 50% hp.

No, only the KILL adds Sin, dealing damage to them only aggro's them and you must be pardoned which isn't classed as a sin, this can be tested easily with the Lost Sinner's Sword, as the AR on it changes if Sin is aquired (More Sin = Less Damage)
Keep in mind, that the First Pardon is a free Pardon that REMOVES ALL FORMS OF SIN, once per new character (so even if you NG+ you can only ever do it once) Just incase Sin was gained via an old bug, this can be exploited to have 0 sin if you do everything you wanted to do like Pate/Creigton, Licia and general NPC slaughter + DLC's (OIK and BIK may be bugged still to give sin randomly) and then use Cromwell to go back to 0 Sin and have a 200% damage Lost Sinner's Sword without much hassle of carefully maintaining it.

considering the fact that there are less than 100 npc's, I do not believe that this is true.

Correction: I've already killed the woman of the miracles before the Ancient Dragon, but that sin was pardoned for free.

I've killed the ancient dragon and i have zero sins, the souls Cromwell is asking you are to reset the aggro because you attacked him, but you not get any sins for killing Ancient Dragon or Vendrick.

You need to pay 1k souls per soul level
201000 souls mean that you are soul level 201

hitting AD will aggro the dragon NPCs, your sin will not increase, the "cromwell pardon" doesn't actually show if you've be sinned, only if you pissed off an NPC. Lost Sinner's Sword is the way you can test if sin has increased.

100% false, the KILL is what causes the death, not the souls gained, as it's hard coded to up your sin if you do, besides, you cannot get to sinner or wretch without having sin points anyway, besides, no sin is better than full sin just because of lost sinner's sword multiplier. (it gives roughtly a 2x damage increase if you haven't go a single sin point, and it'll max it's damage nerfing at 100 sin where it'll have roughly 50% damage, so about a 1.5% damage decrease for every sin collected)

I guess you could still get it removed if you want to but there would be no point

Not much point except not wanting to become a wretch.

In that case the server sends a signal to a company that sends people the home of the IP address associated with it, and they cut your balls off. So you might want to play offline for that

can confirm with the fellow anon, my testicles were removed because of it.

It's sin that's well worth it. Creighton for the win!!

-StormShadax