I think yall are a bunch of whiners. From Software makes single player games, it's not meant to be co op. It would be way too easy

This system sucks i have RL 160
+10, +25 weapons and nobody can summon me for pve coop

I swear the matchmaking for some areas makes no sense. I made a build specifically to invade mid level areas (Raya Lucaria, Manor, etc.) at lvl40 with +8 normal weapons and rarely get to invade anyone. But when i tried out my Leyndel invasion build at lvl65 with +14 i get instand invades in Raya Lucaria every time. In Stormveil on the other hand i only really get invades at lvl23 with +3 normal weapons and even than usually only after waiting a couple minutes.

With this new coop mod, the multiplayer will be dead in a few weaks.

Please, for the love of God, level your Vigor, Hosts. Getting summoned in only for my Host to die from 450 damage is ridiculous in places like Caelid at level 60. If you want us to help you, you have to at least be alive!

This is all so unecessary. I get that if your level 100 you don't want someone at 25 showing up for a boss fight because they would be useless but bothering with weapon level and smithstone lv...its a waste. No matter what level you are, your guaranteed someone is playing at a similar level to you somewhere around the world. Im Australian and I've had more Americans jump in than other aussies.

Seeing a lull with a level of 260. And +25's of course. Duals are still fun, except for the one shots, but I'm thinking those will always be prevalent

Level 24, +0 - +3 all kept me EXTREMELY busy in Stormveil. Kept getting invasions up to about lvl 40 +6, although they dropped off a lot, and once I broke through to +7 stormveil basically dried up.

Midgame it is extremely tough to balance your weapon level and your rune level tbh. Plus there are just so many "midgame" areas that it is pretty tough to find anyone to invade. With lots of travelling around you can find some action but on both of my characters I've found it very difficult to get consistent invasions between lvls like 45-60. Levels 60-75 at like +14 you get a TON of action in and below Leyndell though.

After a total of over 500 invasions over different characters I found that:

RL35 +6 smithing +2 somber allowed me to frequently invade all of Stormveil, Limgrave, Castle Morne and Gael Tunnel, all very fun.

RL 40-50 +9/+3 the biggest spots were Caria Manor, Debate Parlor, Selia Crystal Cave, Gael Tunnel again, other early Caelid spots, and Siofra

RL 60-70 +12/+4 now covered all of Caelid frequently, Volcano Manor and Mt Gelmir as well. Some hits in the capital but Altus never seems to get much co-op for me. Caelid Divine Tower especially fun at this point.

Anywhere after that I invaded Leyndell or endgame, duels in Raya Lucaria and trolling ganksquads in Limgrave.

It's hard to find a RL/WL sweet spot especially in the Stormveil section but remember, bleed is the most popular weapon early/beginner choice and Greyoll early 90k runes is plastered everywhere online in guides. People will use that for 20+ levels, so we should expect RL30-40 for Stormveil.

Then if you want to progress, a good rule of thumb is smithing bell placements, almost no one will have a +12 weapon until they reach Altus, they'd have to save 12 smithing stone 3 and 4 which are hard to find until then. After the capital the last 3 tiers come pretty quick.

The only doubt I still have after invading all this time is if smithing/somber are calculated separately, and if not, what are the correct equivalences? Since we have 10 tiers of somber but 9 smithing, +1/+3 +2/+6 and so on shouldn't really be equivalent. +2 somber feels weak compared to +6 smithing, +3 feels about the same but I was always afraid to skew the matchmaking.

invaders get half the flasks, max amount of healing flasks they can have is 7 but most have 5