Does black character tendency make the game harder?

If you have Black or 'lower' World Tendency, then: Enemies will be more difficult to defeat, giving them more HP. 'Black Phantom' NPCs can appear and attack you. There will be Primeval Demons in certain levels.
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Does black world tendency make bosses harder?

White Tendency will makes enemies easier, but as a result they give less Souls and have worse drops rates. Adversely, Black Tendency makes enemies harder but with better rewards.
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Are bosses harder on black tendency?

Yup, they'll hurt a hell of a lot more, but give more souls to compensate.
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What are the benefits of pure black world tendency?

In the case of Pure Black World Tendency (PBWT), enemies in the area become stronger and sometimes even greater in number. The player's health and power is also lowered, but in return they will get more souls from defeated foes. This is the only way to really tweak the difficulty in Demon's Souls.
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Does killing black phantoms increase Character Tendency?

Killing invading or named Black Phantoms moves character tendency towards white, while killing non-hostile NPCs or killing hosts as a black phantom shifts character tendency towards black.
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What happens if you have pure black Character Tendency?

Regardless of which Archstone is invaded, a Black Character Tendency will increase your attack power while invading, and if the world is Black as well, then you'll be even stronger. Succeed in your invasions and kill the host, and you'll return in Human Form, another soul consumed.
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Does Character Tendency make the game harder?

Tendency is a constantly shifting game state that affects the game's difficulty, your character's strength, and also what content is available in your playthrough.
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What does black tendency do?

Pure Black Tendency will spawn a Black Phantom and a Primeval Demon in each World. Killing these enemies will get you rare items (Weapons from the Phantoms, Colorless Demon's Souls from the Primevals) and raise your White Tendency.
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Does dying affect World Tendency?

If you lose your body within a region (which is to say, you die while not in Soul form), it'll shift Tendency towards black. These are your most basic ways of changing World Tendency, and your only options to initially stray from neutral Tendency.
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How do I change my World Tendency from black to white?

To get White or Pure White World Tendency, you must defeat Black Phantom invaders, clear out an area boss (With the exception of Old King Doran), or kill Primeval Demons, which only appear when you have a Black World Tendency.
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Is Elden Ring DLC harder than Dark Souls?

“Which means they've effectively dove straight into the hardest DLC the studio has ever produced. But there's a progression here that they may have missed, with the Elden Ring DLC being harder than the Dark Souls 3 DLC, which was harder than the Bloodborne DLC which was harder than — you get my point."
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Is Malenia harder than Ornstein and Smough?

If you struggle with any DLC boss after killing Malenia, they are likely way harder than Malenia, even if beating Malenia took longer. For Example. To me Ornstein and Smough was way harder than any Elden Ring boss.
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Does helping killing bosses increase Character Tendency?

World Tendency goes up the most from Boss Kills. Boss kills only effect Character Tendency, towards White, if you're human and summon a Blue Phantom to help you, do nothing to Character Tendency offline / solo.
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Does pure black World Tendency increase drop rate?

It only increases the drop rate. It does not improve the drop rates of rare items. To get better or rare drops, you will need to have your world in Pure Black World Tendency.
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How to tell if you have pure black World Tendency?

Pure Black is easy to identify, just compare your archstone with the broken one in the tendency menu.
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How do you get black Character Tendency fast?

If you help other players and vanquish evil from the world, you will become purer and your tendency will become White. If you kill NPCs and invade other players as an evil phantom, you will become darker and your tendency will become Black.
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Does killing red phantoms increase World Tendency?

killing those red phantom npcs just takes your world tendency up to neutral. but I don't think it changes your character tendency. Miralda, Scirvir, Rydell, Satsuki, Selen black phantoms will also boost your character tendency.
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Does killing NPCs lower World Tendency?

World and Character. World Tendency is changed when a human/npc or demon dies in any of the 5 worlds. Killing vendors and helpful NPCs or dying in human form will make the realm more demonic/closer to Pure Black. A realm at Pure Black will spawn both Primeval Demons and the 5 NPC Black Phantoms.
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Is Dying bad in Dark souls?

You lose souls that you've collected from defeating enemies & bosses. However, they can be recovered if you go to the spot where you previously died. If you die while getting to that spot, those souls are gone forever. You also lose patience & time when you keep dying to the same boss. :D.
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Does killing Satsuki affect tendency?

Killing Satsuki while he is in body form will lower World Tendency by -3.
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Does World Tendency affect boss difficulty?

Basically, yeah, world tendency will make a difference, Pure White would be a breeze compared to Pure Black, on most bosses.
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Does killing Yurt affect Character Tendency?

Killing Yurt has no effect on either World Tendency or Character Tendency.
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How to turn World Tendency white?

The main way to achieve Pure White World Tendency (often abbreviated as PWWT) is to defeat any of Demon's Souls' difficult bosses. In most areas, each boss the player defeats will increase their World Tendency by 45%, meaning beating all three will result in achieving pure white.
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How to get pure black World Tendency?

Die in the world you want to take to black in body form. Go back to the Nexus, then go back to the world in body form and do it again. World tendency only updates once you go back to the Nexus, so every time you die in body form you have to return to the Nexus to get the WT a notch closer to pure black.
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How to get rid of black tendency demon's souls?

How Do You Change World Tendency?
  1. Defeat one of that world's main Demon bosses.
  2. Best an invading enemy player.
  3. Kill a black phantom NPC that appears in Pure Black World Tendency.
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