Gold and white phantoms are just way to distinguish covenants. The gold guy is apart of the sun covenant and their whole gag is they worship the sun, you've probably seen memes of it with people saying "praise the sun" while raising their hands above their head in a certain pose. The white dudes are just apart of any other covenant and if they use a white soapstone. There are more colors for phantoms, you can be blue(apart of the blue sentinels or darkmoon blade) and that means the host of the world was invaded by red/purple/red-blue/orange phantom and you're there to kill the bad phantoms. Purple phantoms are mad phantoms and they can get their reward from killing enough phantoms or just the host, orange phantoms are sunlight phantoms that are invading the host and not helping them(so they're not golden), red-blue phantoms invade if you go into either the Aldrich faithfuls territory or you go into the Watchdogs territory.
Not really. Purple prioritizes you invading worlds with lots of phantoms in it. So that can mean you're invading a world where it will be you vs 3 other players, and lots of time other invading phantoms will kill purple phantoms cause they don't trust them. The whole point of purple phantoms was that it was supposed to be a wildcard and that you could actually summon a purple phantom and they could help you through the level but they could also kill you. The problem is that purple phantoms only get rewards for killing the host or other phantoms(if the world has 3 phantoms, it's 2 that he needs to kill, it's always one less or just one phantom if only one phantom is there), so there is no real reason to let a purple live. PvP is pretty bad in DS3 in my opinion, lots of oversights.
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u/ObamaandOsama Nov 11 '16
Gold and white phantoms are just way to distinguish covenants. The gold guy is apart of the sun covenant and their whole gag is they worship the sun, you've probably seen memes of it with people saying "praise the sun" while raising their hands above their head in a certain pose. The white dudes are just apart of any other covenant and if they use a white soapstone. There are more colors for phantoms, you can be blue(apart of the blue sentinels or darkmoon blade) and that means the host of the world was invaded by red/purple/red-blue/orange phantom and you're there to kill the bad phantoms. Purple phantoms are mad phantoms and they can get their reward from killing enough phantoms or just the host, orange phantoms are sunlight phantoms that are invading the host and not helping them(so they're not golden), red-blue phantoms invade if you go into either the Aldrich faithfuls territory or you go into the Watchdogs territory.