Did you ever die as a phantom?
I did, once. I didn't realize it had an effect. My buddy told me about it the other day as I cried into my coffee.
The good side of not having an unlimited dickwraith item is that the average invaded dude doesn't even know what a dickwraith is. I have lost one invasion. Due to the poison mobs in earthen peak. Didn't see the host.
On NG+ you can buy them for 10k each. I had one char cruiding around on NG+ with 99 of them and I was pantsing mother fuckers left and right.
Nothing says "SURPRISE MOTHER FUCKER" like a +10 invisible avalyn with with dark bolts. The crazy thing is that since you can use two types of ammo you just check out their armour and hit them with whatever has the best penetration. Heavy armour you slap them with dark bolts. Light you hit them heavy bolts. But you save your burst up until you can get a kill shot with it and then nuke the sucker.
But like Tor said. Too much stupid shit happens in PVP. I had a 5min fight with a guy where he was just standing still and then teleporting all over the place and I would pound away at him and then shoot him with my great bow and then a 10-20 seconds later he would fly backwards from it slapping him in the face.
IMO great bow is the funnest weapon in the game for pvp. So many amusing options. I love watching people roll around trying to avoid the shot only to tap out their stamina and get blasted. At the dragon eirie you wind up shooting so many people off the cliffs it's just cruel.
Also at lvl 238 I was invading people all the time, which I wasn't expecting. Often I would get no souls after killing them so I must have been way outside of their league.
SL238 SM 1000000+