Elden Ring: YOU DIED on a horse

oh you can definitely do it without co op. in some respects beating bosses without is more satisfying.

Fgti what's your Radahn strategy? I got him to within a few hits last night but couldn't clutch it out.

Crimson rot! Ha!

I have done zero co-op so far, but might use it if and when I get extremely stuck on a boss somewhere.

I had an elden ring dream last night! I was destroying those 8 torches that light up in the underworld, and realizing that they each are worth thousands of runes. Very sad to wake up

GOT 'EM.

Lol nice. I was starting out by poisoning him in phase ,and considered poisoning him in phase 2 and then running far, far away. But it worked out in the traditional style, just had to stay close and not panic.

At some point I had a dream about the end of the game, except it turned into a retro 2-D format.

when your souls dream turns into Salt & Sanctuary

i want to get a therapist that can interpret my soulslike dreams

Just took out Radahn myself. After many tries. Spammed the Hoarfrost Stomp Ash of War to victory. That thing slays.

i want to get a therapist that can interpret my soulslike dreams

the therapist that you can call Tank

correct.

i think i would be a good tank therapist. maybe a tank navigator build? pay me $90 an hour and, i will tank for you in elden ring and also point out some things in your game surroundings that you might be interested in exploring further

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I switched from poison long swords to a poisonous fang (from a dragon?), with Quickstep. That way I can escape from all the crazy dragon head and katana attacks, and switch the swords to a more useful skill (trying flaming strike first).

No idea where to find Radahn's fallen star , lol.

completely cheesed bloodhound darriwil using the one starting spell you get as a prisoner (i've done most of limgrave and i haven't found a second one yet). magic makes a lot of things really really easy.

also went back and finally killed tree sentinel. was not hard at all with a horse and +4 flail. at the end was considering abandoning the fight and trying again on foot just so i could have some sort of challenge. now i have a weapon i'll never have enough strength for and a negligible amount of souls.

LOL I didn’t mean to complain that much, I knew what I was getting into. I just don’t enjoy feeling stressed out by a game, it’s why I’m not generally into horror games either. Anyways I’m making some slow progress. Got to the Round Table, bought some new incantations, found my first Ashes of War but can’t use it because it’s for bows, opened up some new areas. Mostly just exploring and collecting runes from the easiest sources possible.

this is my first ever FromSoftware game and i am truly terrible at it. never really been big on "difficult" games so the combat in this has been a bit of a step up from my usual casual fare.

have been grinding up through the levels but am still getting killed by absolutely everything everywhere. doesn't bother me in the least, frankly. in fact it is pleasingly reminiscent of playing Super Mario Land on Gameboy as a kid or whatever.

finally beat Margit last night but only realised tonight that there is a whole other area to the south of the original starting location (over the bridge) which is completely doable even at lower levels and with cackhanded non-mastery of the combat mechanics. have therefore spent the last few hours exploring / cleaning out Castle Morne

what a joy this game is!

on at least 3 separate occasions i went down what appeared at first glance to be (at best) a speculative punt of a route and at worst a total blind alley and every single time i ended up exactly where i needed to be. i can appreciate the comparisons to BOTW. you can't see the join, every dicey "ok i guess this might work" bit of orienteering has clearly been so carefully designed. played 8 hours last night and 5 hours again tonight, worried this is gonna start taking over my life quite soon

Be careful! it will take over your life. I'm working ten/eleven hour days these days so I just decided start sleeping four hours a night so I could play more Elden Ring. Happy Daylight's Savings everyone!

I BEAT MARGIT FUCKIN FINALLY

+2 ash wolf pack and a +3 staff with glint sigil stabby spell = stand back and let the magic work

Got through Margit yesterday w/ Rog, the Jellyfish & the confessor starting broadsword @ +4 w/ blood slash. Poked around the castle a bit but want to go bash some of the mini bosses that I backed away from - the tree avatar, that evergaol thing, horse sentinel. And I saw a dungeon I haven’t done. SO MUCH STUFF.

Blood slash is so fun!

I played for about an hour last night before bed and had a private administrative meltdown. This always happens with From games! Is my weapon as strong as it should be, by now? Is there a better way to use my statistics? Does this armor make me look fat? etc.

It's so weird to have a well-powered normal longsword and a well-powered Super Halberd. The latter is reliable, but the former is flexible. What am I doing with my life? etc.

I feel like this game would benefit from "hint lines" except instead of telling you where the secrets are, an expert examines your character, assesses your needs, and makes recommendations

Fine, you jerks, I think I'm going to buy this. Happy? Won't be able to start until mid-April, though, which is fine, since I need to finish what's left of HZD first.

And yeah, I'm with you, fgti. I always get character build FOMO - did I pick the right class? am I attributing stats right? - and I have a bad feeling this will be even worse than usual, since I really want to use some of the cool magic I've seen people use, but I've never used magic in a From game before. I will probably as usual focus on a strength build, but this time build up intelligence a bit, too, to use some spells.

I always want to have a flexible build that isn't too reliant upon a bonk or a spell or a breath or a cheese

I'm having this problem right now and constantly. I just made it to the ashes dealer in limgrave and I'm completely overwhelmed, I have no idea what would go well with my weapon and build

I also forget L2 exists in combat anyway though

I assume this game, like the others, more or less limits how many times and how much you can upgrade weapons? Is there a rare, finite upgrade material, like titanium slab or whatever?

Yes.. titty slabs are now Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones and they are limited

I like a versatile build too. For pve it's pretty simple - do I have something fast enough to react and interrupt attacks, something with a wide horizontal sweep for groups of enemies, something with a vertical or thrusting attack for tight spaces (also flying/crawling enemies), something with burst damage? Some kind of ranged attack? They pretty much covers it.

For pvp it's different but also pretty clear once you start getting killed in different ways and need an answer.

(also wtg trace!)

i finally knocked out margit and started castle crashing. damn, stormvale is amazing. there's platforming!

I got hopelessly lost as soon as I went into the castle via that side hole. PIcking off the soliders on the various ramparts was easy enough, being a spellsword is handy for that. I got my ass more handed to me by those bloody eagles with swords in their claws!

But then when I got inside i went up and down and around and back and all I can find is a door that says its locked. Have I missed something? I'd kill for a map when in the darn castle.

i think you’re probably looking for the “rusty key” which is in the area near-ish the locked door?

Ah, I shall keep hunting!

I finally hve ranged weapopns and some rudimentary magic. Definitely switches up the dynamic of the game as I only had melee weapons till now

a bow and arrow is super handy for aerial enemies and spamming tough guys

I was amazed how quickly I was able to kill some minibosses who I'd struggled with till that point. Merked the troll in Limgrave Tunnels within seconds (with the help of some items I found down there). And made short work of that Tibula Ferryman or whatever it's called (who I only stumbled on last night even though he's very obviously there quite near the start of the game).

i got a bow because i wanted to take advantage of the one ashes of war i've found, but so far its main use seems to be baiting enemies to leave a bigger pack and come over to you. it feels too weak and difficult to aim quickly to be an actual effective weapon. but i'm sure it improves as you level it up.

it's interesting how in this early phase of the game there are so many situations where you enter a new space and you see an overwhelming number of baddies but then you realize they are either not very aggressive unless you attack first and/or they're pretty oblivious to you unless you stand right in front of them. i guess this is the game teaching you the utility of sneaking around.

i played this for a while yesterday and then went for a walk after dark. just a block north from my house i could see through a window someone else playing elden ring. hello neighbor.

As part of a walk the other day I went to an old millhouse with rafters and beams (the Coppermill at Walthamstow Wetlands, mill fans) and all I could think about was jumping across the voids to reach an exposed beam, and what treasure I might find on a corpse there.

There was a period when I was playing a lot of GTA3 when it came out, I'd go for a walk and my mind would be naming all the parked cars according to their make/model in GTA world

haha! to be clear: there wasn't actually a corpse on a beam at Walthamstow Wetlands!

Yeah GTA 3 got me thinking about urban architecture embarrassingly more than I had ever before.

finally getting around to stormveil castle at level 48. messing with a dual dagger dex/arcane bleed build. i can't tell if it's super effective or if i'm just wildly overleveled rn.

Both, most definitely. I finally went back and found my way to the basement in Stormveil, pretty cool.

In other news I've just been going around exploring Liurna and Caelid for all the things I've missed before moving on to any new areas, and doing some invasions as I go.

-I found the amazing shield skill that lets you parry spells and turn them into magic daggers that you send back at the caster, so good! You can even break those meteors that people love to spam at you.

-I ran into a semi-hilarious bug when invading in the town of Sellia - every time someone lights one of those torches and the "Somewhere a seal has broken in town" message appears, the invader is preventing from doing anything that requires button input. Can't attack, can't leave, can't do anything but walk until the message goes away.

Officially bought the game! Can't start until second week of April, by which point I'm sure you all will have tons of, well, pointers.

Jealous of your bleed build!

I think I was just feeling overwhelmed by the options and wanted a straightforward blocky/dodgy/rolly/bonky time

I’ve been buying all the spells as I go so I can do a proper respec later, have a magical rebirth

i've been doing that too!

my bleed build could be better--haven't found any good light armor so the dodging, weaving whirlwind of knives in my imagination is kind of creaky and slow. maybe i should just go with it--anyone tried a ridiculous heavy armor dex build?

I've seen people do it with the Bloodhound's Fang sword or dual katanas. The claws and the Reduvia are common for bleed builds too.

I'm still mostly using my starting samurai armor, but I did finally find a cool helm that was worth switching out: https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Nox+Mirrorhelm

Finally found this weeping peninsula everyone's been banging on about (It's right there, how did I miss it). Slayed a bunch of Mick Hucknalls and even a couple of Thicc Hucknalls, no real issues that is until I had to face the miniboss, Lionel, who is vicious as anything!

It is crazy to me that I spent a couple days sniffing around Liurnia at the start and today I blew through the Darkroot Depths in 90 minutes. This game is messing with my sense of scale

I just found some area I knew i was underlevelled for and some giant disembodied hands mashed me. Fun.