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If they did a second DLC for Elden Ring (aside from what will probably come with the Tarnished Edition) I would hope they add in more MP-centric stuff like they had in DS3. Not the grind, but the factions and stuff like Halflight or Belltower/Mirror Knight. Maybe make it a max of 6 players again.
Exactly this is what I feel like Elden Ring has been missing from the start: factions with rewards to encourage multiplayer engagement. I even miss Aldrich invasions and being a mound maker. Half the invaders in Elden Ring play like mound makers anyways and attack everything indiscriminately... may as well get some shackles for it.
That and the removal of the ember/humanity requirement made it less likely that people would be exposed to invasions. I remember beating bosses, forgetting I was ember-ed, and run into an invader at the worst/best possible moment. I know that some people hated being forced into PVP, but it got the blood flowing and made every play-through feel just a little unique. It added character to the world, made it feel alive.
Edit: What would some interesting factions be for Elden ring that would be lore friendly? I like the idea of maybe a SOTE invasion class being fire knights. In hindsight they could have locked some of the spells and weapon arts behind this instead of the NPC invaders. The bloody fingers and recusant fingers were clearly based on some of the invasion factions in previous games, would have been cool to see at least one of those have rewards based on invasion success/spoils. Golden order would seem to be the closest analogue to the Warriors of Sunlight, and has a handful of relevant spells and weapons that could have been chases. Maybe a faction for Those Who Live in Death that could have been like the Gravelord Servents or something?
It would be quite fun to take the "help other players with bosses" covenants in a different direction, I think. Many of the bosses you'd be summoned for are representatives of the Golden Order in one way or another. If we can become Godskins or Black Knives, they've already got track records of going after the big figures of the Order
I really like that line of thought.
That's getting pretty close to Nightreign in some ways, I suppose! But yeah, something akin to Dark Souls covenents would be fun. We were almost there and just didn't quite get them in the end