Official Elden Ring Thread

[SteveGrabowski]

Yeah I figured all of that out and then all of the NPC's were dead quick af lol. I don't think I got him down more than 1/4 of his health after a bunch of tries so I just rolled out to something else.

Also if you're getting one shot by the arrows I highly recommend leveling up your vigor a bit. This fight is such a pain if you can't mess up even once dodging the arrows.

 

[KentState]

"Completed" the game finally. Pretty good game and at just over 110 hours, probably the longest single play through. Only have the collectables left to get the full trophy but will probably move over to the PS5 and try beating it there.

Overall, one of the best games I've played in a long time. Same gripes as others, but no game is perfect and this one stands out were many other open world games fall flat.

 

[JujuFish]

I beat the tree sentinel today as well as 2 crucible knights.

A dungeon I did last night was both miserable to go through and had one of the worst boss fights yet. Two crucible knights. At the same time. Screw that place.

 

[sze5003]

A dungeon I did last night was both miserable to go through and had one of the worst boss fights yet. Two crucible knights. At the same time. Screw that place.

I hate those guys. If it wasn't for the one elevator near the castle stormveil cliff, I would not have been able to kill the second crucible knight. This one is out in the open as you make your way around the castle.

Buy the no skill shield perk from the guy at warmeister shack. It uses a bit of magic each time but it really helped me cut down on the crucible knight's health.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Jeez the fourth Bell Bearing Hunter was tough.

 

[purbeast0]

Magma Wyrm was fun.

After almost beating him like 3x after 30 mins, I finally beat him, and then like 1 second later I died because I was standing in Magma and couldn't see where I was because the camera angle goes to shit in this game sometimes.

THANKFULLY it still counted as me defeating him because I killed him before he killed me.

Would have been salty AF if that didn't count. It was a tough battle.

 

[purbeast0]

ELDEN RING - Patch Notes Version 1.03 | Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.

<p>An update has been released to improve the stability of gameplay in ELDEN RING, and to adjust balance.</p>

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I like the buff to the great glinstone shard since I rock that all the time, but I also use the Sword of Night and Flame and I hope they did not nerf it to shit. I use the L2 moves with that ALL the time and they do great damage.

I am also curious to see what has decreased with the weapon skills because I am using that Raya Lucaria 2 headed helmet to boost my intelligence to 24 to be able to use that sword.

 

[otho11]

Do you recommend magic or melee for a souls beginner?

I usually play as a mage or archer in open world or CRPGs and don't pay much attention to resource management or min/max.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Do you recommend magic or melee for a souls beginner?

I usually play as a mage or archer in open world or CRPGs and don't pay much attention to resource management or min/max.

Whichever you think will be more fun. Expect to die a lot either way.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Oh man the what I think is final area is a very very big upgrade in difficulty from the rest of the game. I had this one cave where these enemies would basically be summoning my mimic against me. In one area I was fighting two of my own mimics at once lol. Though it was an optional cave that I had to use two Stonesword Keys to get into. The three bosses in a row I had to fight at the end of the cave were way easier than fighting two of my mimics at once.

 

[KentState]

Do you recommend magic or melee for a souls beginner?

I usually play as a mage or archer in open world or CRPGs and don't pay much attention to resource management or min/max.

My first play through was a strength build is much harder than the int build. For bosses, I can kite them around and let my summon take aggro. With strength, I had to go in to do damage even if the summon had aggro.

 

[Oyeve]

I'm level 43 and I still get beat by the first real boss. I killed a couple of dragons and some minor bosses but I need to smith my weapon more. Opened up much of the map but damn, I suck.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I'm level 43 and I still get beat by the first real boss. I killed a couple of dragons and some minor bosses but I need to smith my weapon more. Opened up much of the map but damn, I suck.

Yeah Margit's delayed attacks will wreck you if you just start rolling when he winds up.

 

[JujuFish]

I heard the endgame bosses get hard and I didn't realize just how true that would be until I got to Malenia last night and got my ass thoroughly kicked (and by an Ulcerated Tree Spirit right before her).

 

[KentState]

I heard the endgame bosses get hard and I didn't realize just how true that would be until I got to Malenia last night and got my ass thoroughly kicked (and by an Ulcerated Tree Spirit right before her).

They also messed with all of the game balance so strategies need to change. I felt that after the Fire Giant, the game was much easier. I was able to pick up 19 trophies within a few days after that, where it took me almost two weeks to get to that point.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

The Haligtree is pretty challenging even with my uchigatana at +25. Find myself just running past enemies or running to grab items without regard to the enemies in parts of it. Like in one small room with a chest protected by three of those crystal women so I just said screw it, used all my runes + stored runes to level up at the nearby grace and then did a suicide mission to open the chest and take the item in it. Turned out to be a sword, was hoping it would be a max somber smithing stone.

 

[KentState]

The Haligtree is pretty challenging even with my uchigatana at +25. Find myself just running past enemies or running to grab items without regard to the enemies in parts of it. Like in one small room with a chest protected by three of those crystal women so I just said screw it, used all my runes + stored runes to level up at the nearby grace and then did a suicide mission to open the chest and take the item in it. Turned out to be a sword, was hoping it would be a max somber smithing stone.

At least it's a good amount of runes if you clear them out. That area was more about patients than running in and taking on too many at once.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

At least it's a good amount of runes if you clear them out. That area was more about patients than running in and taking on too many at once.

My build is focused almost entirely on bosses since I two hand an uchigatana with high dex and the unsheathe R2 is great for high damage plus high posture damage. So I don't use a shield, which hurts me in these long dungeon sequences since even with 200 FP I can run through it pretty quickly using unsheathe attacks to take out some of those knights. Twice I have lost a couple hundred thousand runes in that long palace section lol.

 

[JujuFish]

They also messed with all of the game balance so strategies need to change. I felt that after the Fire Giant, the game was much easier. I was able to pick up 19 trophies within a few days after that, where it took me almost two weeks to get to that point.

I finished up the rest of the bosses. After Malenia, the last 5 major bosses were absolute pushovers. I had 3 total deaths among the group. Malenia is just on a whole different level of difficulty for me.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

This game is so addictive. At 105 hours now but quickly running out of bosses. Took care of Astel, Malenia and the Gargoyles today. Had a mini panic attack when things started to look like Anor Londo. Was half expecting to be sniped by archers while trying to scale the place.

Any hints to beat Malenia? I have been summoning my +10 mimic and then getting on the other side of her and using unsheathe R2 and jump R2 attacks, which can stagger her if you do a couple quickly. Then I got her to half her health in the second phase but she did that undodgeable 6 or 7 hit anime slash combo and offed my mimic, basically kills my mimic like that every single time I fight her in phase 2. And of course that anime slash combo restores a bunch of her health too. First boss I have fought where I'm starting to regret not putting points into intelligence so I could use some of the magic weapons.

 

[KentState]

Any hints to beat Malenia? I have been summoning my +10 mimic and then getting on the other side of her and using unsheathe R2 and jump R2 attacks, which can stagger her if you do a couple quickly. Then I got her to half her health in the second phase but she did that undodgeable 6 or 7 hit anime slash combo and offed my mimic, basically kills my mimic like that every single time I fight her in phase 2. And of course that anime slash combo restores a bunch of her health too. First boss I have fought where I'm starting to regret not putting points into intelligence so I could use some of the magic weapons.

I used frost stomp on her before it was nerfed. Between myself and my mimic, we just wore her down. It feels like after the patch, strategies have to change a lot.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Beat Malenia finally by respeccing away from mind and vigor and putting points into endurance and changing my ash from unsheathe to spinning slash, as the extra endurance let me do some pretty good combos on Malenia with my +25 keen uchigatana on a dex build. Unsheathe has been killer on every other boss but spinning slash is a monster when you have enough stamina to launch 3 spinning slash attacks in a row, at least against Malenia whose one weakness is she isn't too hard to stagger with power shots. Kind of sad I won't get to beat her with my original unsheathe keen uchigatana+25 dex build though. Think I might try a blood build for NG+ or a strength build with Radahn's greatsword.

 

[purbeast0]

Finally beat Radahn last night. I hadn't tried facing him again since early last week so I had leveled up a bit,.

But yesterday I also did not realize how many smithing stones I had and upgraded my Kitana from +9 to +14. I hadn't used that weapon in a very long time as I was rocking other weapons that use magic. After doing that I changed up my build quite a bit and put on some heavier armor and still made out with a medium load.

This time I faced Radahn I got him to like at least 1/2 health every time so I knew I would get him.

Then on the one I did, I had him down to like 15% health in his first phase. He was about to go into phase 2 with about 50% health left and right as he was about to take off I landed a critical hit that stunned him (and also took off a HUGE chunk of health) and then myself and the summons just completely started going in on him with free shots as did I.

With the quickness of the kitana attack too I was able to basically stay right behind him on my horse and keep slashing at him without him really being able to hit me. That helped a ton.

I could nearly level up twice after I beat him with all the damn runes you get lol.

I also just completely walked passed that bull/scorpion mix thing up near the Volcano Manor and went back to him with this kitana build, and he still completely whooped my ass. I got him closer down with my magic build.

 

[JujuFish]

Beat Malenia finally by respeccing away from mind and vigor and putting points into endurance and changing my ash from unsheathe to spinning slash, as the extra endurance let me do some pretty good combos on Malenia with my +25 keen uchigatana on a dex build. Unsheathe has been killer on every other boss but spinning slash is a monster when you have enough stamina to launch 3 spinning slash attacks in a row, at least against Malenia whose one weakness is she isn't too hard to stagger with power shots. Kind of sad I won't get to beat her with my original unsheathe keen uchigatana+25 dex build though. Think I might try a blood build for NG+ or a strength build with Radahn's greatsword.

Congrats. She was *easily* the hardest main boss in the game for me.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Finally beat Radahn last night. I hadn't tried facing him again since early last week so I had leveled up a bit,.

If you want to do a strength build, say in NG+, Radahn's greatswords are an awesome weapon. Need 38 strength and to trade in his remembrance for it with the old lady next to the two fingers in the roundtable area. I respecced to a strength build (I have a million larval tears at this point) and was playing with it for a bit yesterday and the L2 attack where you can draw enemies in and then follow with an L2 where you smash your swords into the ground and kill everything around is pretty awesome.