the game gets stupidly hard in the end game, much harder than any other souls game by far.
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For me it's Dark Souls III, Demon's Souls and Sekiro all close together as the easiest.
The framerate made BB a nightmare for me, but still easier than this one by like a hundred fold
I'm only in mid-game and already around 150 deaths although like 30 of them are due to falling
Yeah i'm like 25-30 hours in and it's one of the easier ones if not the easiest.
It's driving me up the goddamn wall. Dealing with that is the real test for the Elden Ring.
Cripes, Mohg feels like a fight explicitly designed for tanky greatshields and strong weapons where you only get time to swing once anyway and focus on poise breaking
Meanwhile It's like chipping away at a wall for me over here with miniscule downtime between attacks so I can poke him in the ribs with one whole scythe swing.
If an ash summon can do well, I may be blessed with one crit opportunity. This is the kind of boss I'd usually do solo, but fuck it, I'm getting WRECKED.
In some ways it reminds me of Margit but for 40 hours later in the game, sweeps, SWEEEEEEEPS, delayed SWEEEEPS
and the tracking, this guy has evolved the art of tracking, he now applies it to combustion incantation.
Can't even get much good out my summons because they like to bathe in that scarlet fire
I feel like I must be missing something, I thought on one run I'd found the secret sauce by cracking open that chest mid fight, like he was about to go through some seath crystal shenanigans, but nah, just early treasure I guess as compensation for my 12 deaths on one session, that's it, I'm done for the night, he's broken me.
And that's saying something because I fought a certain duo boss in the underworld area earlier who drove me nuts
Meanwhile It's like chipping away at a wall for me over here with miniscule downtime between attacks so I can poke him in the ribs with one whole scythe swing.
If an ash summon can do well, I may be blessed with one crit opportunity. This is the kind of boss I'd usually do solo, but fuck it, I'm getting WRECKED.
In some ways it reminds me of Margit but for 40 hours later in the game, sweeps, SWEEEEEEEPS, delayed SWEEEEPS
and the tracking, this guy has evolved the art of tracking, he now applies it to combustion incantation.
Can't even get much good out my summons because they like to bathe in that scarlet fire
I feel like I must be missing something, I thought on one run I'd found the secret sauce by cracking open that chest mid fight, like he was about to go through some seath crystal shenanigans, but nah, just early treasure I guess as compensation for my 12 deaths on one session, that's it, I'm done for the night, he's broken me.
And that's saying something because I fought a certain duo boss in the underworld area earlier who drove me nuts
I've died more in one playthrough than my 2 playthroughs on Demon's Souls and 5 on Dark Souls III last year lmao
When does endgame in Elden Ring start in your opinion? (Please put it into spoiler tag)
I've reached the Mountaintops and it doesn't seem to have changed much in terms of difficulty so far. Could change, though.
Ah I must have missed that.
I was too busy trying to read the whole thing before one of the aggro'd minotaurs reached us -__-
That dude is harder than anything else I've fought in the game bar none. My +16 hammer barely damages him. Not even the main boss of the area was as hard.
I don't know, endgame bosses are a lot more interesting and mechanically engaging than any previous game IMO
thats about where i'd say the difficulty starts to spike
edit: not spike, where it starts to ramp up dramatically.
No worries, I'm not amazing at these games but still have fun.
My takes while trying to remain spoiler free:
- Do not feel like you are meant to defeat an obviously bigger enemy because they are there in front of you. The point is being able to go off and just explore and discover things to come back
- There are encounters that seem like you have do them early on, do not forget you can run/ride past them
- Read the pop up tutorials, they mostly explain the starting mechanics that will help a lot if you leave them on, which they are by default
- At the start take a chance and do what a NPC character tells you, it will help you understand some mechanics
- There are sites of grace where you rest, level up etc, if you are wondering where to go next if you want to progress the actual game they have lights/particles showing you the direction to go in
- Take combat slow and don't sweat dying, all part of learning an an area or enemy
- As you progress, mapping items that you use a lot to the shortcuts are handy. You use these by holding triangle (not sure about Xbox) and clicking a d-pad direction. You assign these by hitting start then going over the RHS and assigning items to a direction by clicking (I think) triangle, then you select what you want in the items menu. For example I have an important traversal item mapped to right on my d-pad.
And ah, good luck and have fun :)
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Can't wait to die more to one boss the entire Dark Souls III and both DLCs when I reach those haha
Magic and Mimic Tear ash are hard carrying my bumass. I had to respec to lower my Dex and up my Int. No clue how I beat DS 1-3, Bloodborne, and Sekiro. I'm so awful at these games, I have the response time of a fucking snail, but I always find a way to bullshit a win.
Thank you rock sling and Mimic Tear for making those bullshit twin gargoyles beatable because otherwise I would've thrown my controller against the wall. Now I need to tackle that annoying ass Crucible Knight, this guy is giving me a significantly harder time than Radahn did. Radahn was a cakewalk compared to this asshole because I can't distract him with all those summons.
Thank you rock sling and Mimic Tear for making those bullshit twin gargoyles beatable because otherwise I would've thrown my controller against the wall. Now I need to tackle that annoying ass Crucible Knight, this guy is giving me a significantly harder time than Radahn did. Radahn was a cakewalk compared to this asshole because I can't distract him with all those summons.
Melania and Mohg in particular I like a lot and think they're cooler and more engaging fights than the likes of stuff like Maria, Orphan of Kos, Nameless King, and most if not all of the big fights that people say are From's best, the former in particular. I also really liked Fire Giant and think its a far more interesting boss than say Soul of Cinder, Gehrman, etc and its not even the final boss.
It's SW of the capital. You have to go through a mine called the "Sealed Dungeon" to get through.
For all the talk of difficulty, folks should remember that a lot of it also has to do with what build you run, and what equipment you've found/chosen to use. The latter is especially variable in this game compared to previous souls games, given the open world structure. There's going to be some stuff that's just... much stronger than others; there was some earlier discussion about the blood slash ashes of war being very powerful, and from what I've seen of some other folks' gameplay, Moonveil katana does incredible damage. Shields make some enemies a joke but are kinda worthless on others, magic can trivialize some encounters (especially with spirit summons to tank), etc. In the end personal skill trumps a lot of that, but I feel like in general the game's difficulty is somewhat a roll of the dice if you're going in blind.
Check out these two articles. They are spoiler free but contain links to other pages that may contain spoilers.
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Elden Ring is the latest From Software game, and while it is not a sequel to the Dark Souls series, it does share many similarities - as well as many new
Cleared most if not all of Weaping Peninsula tonight. Probably the weakest area so far and i was overleveled too but it still had some nice surprises.
Once again i am blown away by a new location and the music was excellent too.
Now it's finally time to go north of Stormveil Castle
Another chest teleported me to Leyndell(?)
Now it's finally time to go north of Stormveil Castle
I'm looking forward to your reaction to some of the late game bosses then.
If you aren't a decent amount of distance away from her before she starts that you're straight up fucked.
How I did it was you basically have to run like hell away from the first set of attacks (it's impossible to roll and dodge the first set), if you perfectly time your roll for the second set, you can get by without getting hit, and rolling under her while shes in the air, you can dodge her third set usually.
It's an insane attack, and I wouldn't be surprised if they change something about it because her doing it right next to you is impossible to fully avoid the first part of it (unless a shield would help,maybe)
How I did it was you basically have to run like hell away from the first set of attacks (it's impossible to roll and dodge the first set), if you perfectly time your roll for the second set, you can get by without getting hit, and rolling under her while shes in the air, you can dodge her third set usually.
It's an insane attack, and I wouldn't be surprised if they change something about it because her doing it right next to you is impossible to fully avoid the first part of it (unless a shield would help,maybe)
if you quit the game inside of a boss encounter you'll reload back outside the fog door. so just run in, grab your runes and quit out
I agree. Seems like they were designing a spectacle over something that is actually fun to play. Up to now I haven't found any of the boss fights all that great, although Radahn easily tops the worst thus far, but I play for the exploration because wow is this world a delight.
Wth I played for 2 or so hours last night, rerolled as a Hero. Played through the Tutorial, got Tempest, the wolf summon, explored a bit of the opening area.
I get off work and boot up the game, and find that I'm right back at the exit from the tutorial area with zero progress saved.
Huge bummer and I have no idea how when I sat at multiple bonfires plus did a manual save when I quit at 2am. This is on PC btw.
I get off work and boot up the game, and find that I'm right back at the exit from the tutorial area with zero progress saved.
Huge bummer and I have no idea how when I sat at multiple bonfires plus did a manual save when I quit at 2am. This is on PC btw.
Man, the dragon fights so far, after the first one of course for the novelty, are incredibly boring and repetitive. Maybe there are some i havent seen yet that are different, but tis just like, hit and run on horse and chunk out small amounts of damage and dont get hit by one of their 4 very predictable moves (likely by running into some random obstacle or the game stuttering during a dragons move). And if one of those very infuriating ways to die happen, you get to spend another 20 minutes trying to very slowly wittle away the health.
I wouldnt be surprised if Im missing soemthing about a more interesting way to fight them, but so far this is my only successful method w my heavily melee build. I wouldnt mind it as much if there were variety in the fights.
I wouldnt be surprised if Im missing soemthing about a more interesting way to fight them, but so far this is my only successful method w my heavily melee build. I wouldnt mind it as much if there were variety in the fights.
FINALLY BEAT
Took me 2 freaking days of tries. This guy is gonna gatekeep for a lot of people I fear.
Radahn
Took me 2 freaking days of tries. This guy is gonna gatekeep for a lot of people I fear.
Just compared some of the clips from my DSIII playthrough last year and the difference of the HP of enemies is really considerable, I was doing almost double the HP length with each R1 attack than in this game with the same stat allocation, I'd say the HP of these bosses is between Gael and Midir(that one is ridiculous)
Thank you very much for the help and advise! I will keep all of these things in mind. It's honestly been a while since I've been this excited (and scared!) to start a new game in years. I'm just gonna try to enjoy myself and not beat myself up over any hurdles or obstacles, explore, take it at my own pace and enjoy myself! My main trepidation with these games has always been "whats the best way to enjoy these games" and "how to min/max everything" but i'm just going to try and go and do what feels right instead of worrying about whats the "best" way to do things, that feeling of the unknown is what's both scaring and exciting me lol. However I'll defo make sure to come back here if I get stuck! There's probably a lot of jargon and whatnot that will be new to me, and certain things that i'm still wondering about. Hopefully I can impress my brother once he's back from uni, he platinums all these games and has always wanted me to jump into one lol.
Thanks for taking the time to find these links for me, I will check these out for sure!Check out these two articles. They are spoiler free but contain links to other pages that may contain spoilers.
Beginner's Guide - Basics and Features - Elden Ring Guide - IGN
Elden Ring is an Open World Action RPG from From Software. As a Tarnished, it is your destiny to explore the Lands Between and become an Elden Lord. Elden Ringwww.ign.com
Things You Should Know in Elden Ring - Elden Ring Guide - IGN
Elden Ring is the latest From Software game, and while it is not a sequel to the Dark Souls series, it does share many similarities - as well as many new
Spellcasters are gonna have an easier time I think. Got recommended a video where it didn't even get to the second phase.
Yeah. Overall I think the fight is just overtuned for how important it is. He should be an optional boss at the END of a route instead of right in the middle of one.
Same, I like the fight visuals but besides some bosses like the red wolf and Renala they kinda went overboard, Godrick is great too tho, the rest of them I have mixed thoughts
Took me about five hours, but I managed to finally beat
solo, without summons. Was level 58. Definitely one of the hardest FROM bosses.
Radahn
I don't agree, I went from getting my ass handed to me in the beginning to beating nearly every boss on my first try towards the end of the game. I was charging into over world boss battles taking on everything I could because I was so over powered. There are some seriously powerful tools at your disposal in Elden Ring.
Rhadan is the one and unsure if you wanted the npc name dropped but its a certain witch you've met has a long quest all related to that place
Bloody Slash if lucky can also skip the second phase but it's way more risky
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