What are the benefits of reverse hollowing in Dark Souls?

Becoming human (that's what reverse-hollowing means) means that you can summon other players and your world can be invaded. You need to spend a point of soft humanity (the number next to your health) to become human. You can raise this number in various ways.
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Should you reverse hollowing Dark Souls?

You don't need to actually reverse hollow to get the item find benefits. Maxes out at 10 soft humanity for item find. No need to go human to get the benefit. I really only reverse hollow if I want to summon for a boss (not required, they add 50% hp to the boss anyway).
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What is the point of restoring humanity in Dark Souls?

With Humanity you can:

Reverse hollowing, returning you to your Human form. Kindle bonfires which increases the total amount of estus flasks you are permitted to carry while saved to a specific bonfire. (If in Human form) Summon player allies to aid you in battle against the game's epic bosses.
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How does reverse hollowing work?

Reversing hollowing makes you human (i.e. non-wrinkly-dead looking) and you can summon phantoms in that form. Cists one humanity. Kindling a bonfire costs another humanity and can only be done in human form. You can only use humanity for these actions in its liquid form.
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Does reverse hollowing increase item discovery?

Note: you don't need to reverse hollowing for max item discovery, just have 10 humanity in the counter to the left of your health. Anything that increase you item discovery in other words yes.
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What is the highest possible item discovery rate in ds1?

The item discovery stat on your character sheet refers to the ratio of your current item find rate to the base one in percentages. 100(aka the default) is 100% drop rate. 410(the absolute maximum achievable in the game) means you find items at 4.1 times the normal rate.
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What happens if you reverse hollowing in Dark Souls 1?

Reversing hollowing means you stop looking like beef jerky, and can use online features like summoning and invasions (Also for some NPC stuff), also at the cost of a humanity.
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Is there a point to reverse hollowing?

Being human (reverse hollowing) also allows other players and NPCs to invade you which is a critical part of the fun. You have to be human to invade others. It also unlocks special "adult only" scenes that you can't get when you are ugly. Reverse hollow makes u human, so u can summon other players.
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Is there a downside to hollowing?

Hollowing has no negative effects on gameplay. However, it is required for certain NPC questlines and provides a bonus to luck when wielding Hollow weapons with a hollowing level of at least 15. Hollowing can be temporarily cured by paying the Statue of Velka to reverse hollowing, or by consuming a Purging Stone.
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How do you get all 5 Dark Sigils?

Every time you get your true strength drawn out, you will gain another Dark Sigil, up to a total of five. To get more Dark Sigils, you must accumulate Hollowing by dying. The first one can be gained by simply talking to Yoel, the second at 2 Hollowing, another at 6, 12, and finally 16 Hollowing.
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Why do I sometimes get 10 Estus flasks?

If there is a visible Firekeeper who controls the flame of a Bonfire, that fire as standard will give you ten Estus Flasks. All other standard Bonfires will give you 5.
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How do you farm humanity in Dark Souls 1?

One easy method to farm humanity is to warp to the bonfire in The Depths. The surrounding areas contain undead rats. If you have the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring equipped, the chance of a rat dropping Humanity is relatively high. Having a high humanity count (up to 10) also increases your item discovery rate.
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Is kindling a bonfire permanent?

Kindling is permanent, but it only strengthens the kindled Bonfire; other fires are unaffected.
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How do you get soft humanity in Dark Souls?

There is a hidden soul "table" that awards soft humanity to the player once he/she accumulates a certain amount of souls from killed enemies, but only if the area boss is still alive.
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Can you reverse hollowing while cursed?

While Cursed, you'll have your total HP reduced by 50 percent, there will be a skull in the top-left corner of the screen where you'd usually see your Humanity counter, you won't be able to reverse Hollowing or Kindle Bonfires, and the Curse will persist even when you die and revive.
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What happens if you cure the Dark Sigil?

Once healed, all Sigils will be removed from the player's inventory and Hollowing will be reversed. Yoel of Londor will no longer speak to the player if healed prior to his death. Should they be healed after, Yuria will leave Firelink Shrine upon being spoken to.
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How much hollowing does it take to draw out true strength?

Just die till you reach 99 hollow. You need like 16 or 17 Hollowing level to get all five levels.
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Is being hollow bad in Dark Souls?

Doesn't affect anything gameplay wise. Hollowing is just for Yuria's questline and for luck builds, which aren't really great or popular anymore. Oh, and it also makes you look like dried leather, so there's that. Usually when I'm done with Yuria I'll kill her and cure the hollowing.
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How to get 5 free levels in Dark Souls 3?

If you want to gain all 5 levels at once, simply draw out your strength, then jump off the Firelink cliff two times. Rinse and repeat until finished. After gaining these 5 levels, Yoel will eventually die and be replaced by Yuria.
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Does humanity increase damage in Dark Souls?

Chaos weapons/pyromancy will increase in damage with humanity (up to 10). I've heard some chaos spells might not scale right, but weapons definitely do. You can't make an omelette without crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning.
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Can I buy humanity in Dark Souls?

You can buy humanity from Marvelous Chester for 10k Souls (DLC Needed),Buying it from Female Undead Merchant for 5k Souls,Buying it from Patches or farming Rats,Humanity Phantoms that are in DLC or the best way for me is to get Dark Hand and take humanity from NPCs (It dosent make NPC's Hostile and i think to use a ...
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Should I cure hollowing?

Reversing Hollowing

Thus, this "cure" is only cosmetic in nature, as well as losing access to the bonus Luck of Hollow-infused weapons. Consumption of a Purging Stone will immediately remove all Hollowing. Purging Stones may be found as loot across Lothric, or purchased from Yuria of Londor for 4,500 souls.
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Can you lose humanity in ds1?

When you die, you lose both your souls and the humanity stored in your counter. You can retrieve them from your bloodstain, but if you die before getting back then you lose both. The "solid" humanity you have in your inventory is safe though.
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What is the most powerful weapon in ds1 remastered?

The Dragon King Greataxe is arguably the most powerful, at least in terms of single-hit damage potential. It can be obtained from the Gaping Dragon.
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Is resistance or vitality better ds1?

You will want to put your points in to vitality. Resistance is largely considered the useless stat in this game for almost every build unless you are doing a gimmicky pure tank build or something strange like that. Originally posted by Tharamesh: You will want to put your points in to vitality.
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