What are the advantages and disadvantages of being in human form?

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In Dark Souls, what are the advantages and disadvantages of being in human form?

In Demon's Souls, being in human form gives you a clear HP advantage, but attacks have lower power and you can be invaded (if playing online).

In Dark Souls, however, the advantages and disadvantages are less clear. What are they?

Why waste drop chances? You get to be invaded, which sucks, plus you're gonna die sometime and lose human form anyway. Waste of time I think. — user23487, Apr 8, 2012 at 9:55

MdaG · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-26 10:02:39Z

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Advantages of human form are that you can kindle camp fires and summon phantoms to aid you. These abilities are not available in Hollow form.

The only disadvantage is you're risking black phantom invasions.

answered Oct 25, 2011 at 9:50

MdaG

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In addition to the above, being in human form also increases drop rates for items.
– asmodai
Oct 25, 2011 at 11:17
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@asmodai No it does not. Humanity increases drop rate. Whether your human or not has no effect.
– Wipqozn ♦
Oct 25, 2011 at 13:15
So assuming I'm not having Estus problems and want to play alone, there's no downside to playing Hollowed?
– user2640
Oct 26, 2011 at 17:52
No. But I rather like the excitement that comes with being at risk of being invaded so I try to play as human whenever I can.
– MdaG
Oct 27, 2011 at 12:22
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There are story-related reasons for being human, as well as additional encounters you may have if you are in human form before defeating an area's boss. Also you have additional resistances while human. darksouls.wikidot.com/human
– Joshua Shane Liberman
Dec 2, 2011 at 19:22

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Kyle · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-13 03:03:54Z

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True you will get tips and different encounters when in human form, also stacking humanity in human form increases your stats.

answered Apr 13, 2014 at 3:03

Kyle

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