Elden Ring: YOU DIED on a horse

Ive respec'd to a strength build for late game and it's way more fun now than being a mage. I killed the fire giant with wild strikes on a great hammer

Trayce, I found the trick was to know when to use Torrent. You have to use him to get close, then dismount, hack away at one of the giant's feet, then know when to get back on the horse and back off. If you can use a mimic tear, do that!

Here's how I did it first time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Im5XUW40M

Yeah Jordan I tried that guy's video but I cant get fucking comet azur to actually hit anything (and I know you have to switch off targeting). If I'm under his feet for phase one I couldnt work out how to the get at that distance when he flops over to shoot him in the face, I guess its just try and try again.

Also lol@ "twisted fire giant"

I'm pretty sure when I fought the fire giant, as a melee build, it glitched, or otherwise wasn't as hard as I'd heard. I got lucky.

I wonder if theres a way to lure him off the cliff. even if I died too...

Was the glitch the giant falling off a rock? I just found a cheese youtube where that happened but it said it was since patched.

I did not struggle with Fire Giant on my actual play through but I struggle extremely when helping others in co-op. It feels like nothing damages him, especially in the second stage, and his fiery furnaces are unpredictable and one-shot

I found hima pretty tough boss - toughest to fight up until that point and probably about third toughest in the game

xxpost No, the glitch was nothing dramatic at all, like falling off a cliff or anything (RIP, that one gargoyle, though). Like I said, wasn't even sure it was a glitch, but I'd been primed for a fight and iirc beat him the first or second try. We were fighting, I was dodging and weaving, doing stuff, and then ... he just lay down and died (or whatever it does). It was pretty weird. Maybe I was somehow OP, I can't remember. Maybe I mentioned it months ago upthread, lol.

Hmm, didn't see any old post of mine, it's possible I didn't mention it before because I was embarrassed to get past it so easily! If I did this game again I would definitely grind for runes early on, now that I know some spots. Btw, got a cheap copy of PS5 Demon's Souls waiting for me in the basement, think maybe I'll hit it after LOT2 or some other suitably grim winter epic.

Kenny Garrett!
https://stellarlive.stellartickets.com/events/elden-ring-a-night-in-the-lands-between

Lol I would like to know how this came about. I would be delighted to learn Kenny Garrett is an avid gamer.

i would imagine he is an avid collector of paychecks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vS_6MrfRPY
"Elden Riiiiing!"
Kuroda seems plugged into the game but not so much Kenny

Haha. I don't know that I need these two parts of my life combined, but I admit to some curiousity.

For you online nerds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3gvvJ8JHs4

Neat, I'll probably mess around with this for a couple days but I'm not really into structured duels.

I think people always assumed those arenas were in the game for a reason. There are rumors of something bigger coming tomorrow, fwiw.

Maybe this will get me to play PVP?

I played for about 30 minutes. Duelling feels the same, but the Battle Royale format means a completely different approach. I've steered clear of Somber weapons (in general) because in a duel or an invasion, they become one-trick. Not so in Battle Royale. Massive AoE stuff, breath attacks, these seemed to rule the school. Insipid stuff like Mohg's weapon art, rot and frost breath, Marika's weapon art, dragon claw slam, these were doing the business. My duelling skills had no carry-over.

^ this isn't meant to be a sour post, quite the opposite. It does feel as if certain "good weapons" I've shied away from because of their seeming inflexibility (Stormhawk Axe, Axe of Godfrey i.e.) are going to prove themselves very useful in this format

Your description has me more curious to play arena pvp now than I mightve otherwise. TBH I've avoided it 100% so far, because the way it is talked about on Reddit puts me off trendously (I'm gonna be "doing it wrong" somehow because I'm a noob/female/playing a mage)

I watched a few clips of people fighting and it looked pretty fun ... to watch, lol. It does seem very different from the standard duels or invasions I've watched in that you are obviously much more limited in terms of environment (and iirc what powers you can use, depending on the colosseum). But it was def. enjoyable as a spectacle, all these power players going nuts with huge AOE attacks and whatnot, like watching a fireworks display. Honestly, gave me a shudder of PTSD, too, since I didn't immediately recognize some of the weapons/attacks, and then when they clicked made me realize how huge this game is and how long it would take, starting over, for me to get to some of the levels/powers these players were at.

The biggest thing about arenas is that stamina management is now much more in-line with the Souls games (no more mashy-mashy)

I didn't notice that, but I finally tried the arena part night and was surprised at how much fun 3v3 is. Very chaotic, but there's a gleeful energy to it.

Can't wait for Armored Core btw. :)

Running the Elden Ring half-marathon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN3P4HrOX7E

Wow:

https://kotaku.com/elden-ring-geoguessr-geography-map-world-pois-1850007231

time to merge this thread with Guess the City

i am not good at elden ring or geoguesser, but it seems like the elden ring version would be a lot easier because there's the constant landmark of the giant erdtree, and often the minor erdtrees as well.

i have kind of a sad/fun elden ring update. after several months, i picked it up again. i had stopped at the foot of the Fire Giant, where i needed to level up a bit and just didn't have the endurance (irl) to do it. so when i came back, i finally googled "rune farm". the last week or so i've just been shooting an arrow across the chasm at the giant bird by the Mohgwyn Palace Approach Ledge-Road site of grace. before that, i went back to the get the rune bonus talisman and a cookbook i had missed which allows the crafting of gold-pickled fowl foot. each little arrow in the bird (which causes it to freak out and immediately leap to its death) is worth about 17K runes. so now i'm just leveling like crazy. i went from 35 vitality to 60, which helped a lot, lol

Fire Giant can go jump off a conveniently-located cliff. What a jerk >:( ...actually, it would kinda own if you could lure him off the edge of the arena.

I decided to roll a new character out of boredom the other day, and got sucked back into this pretty quickly. It's obviously a very different experience than the first run, but the replay value is definitely there. There's a satisfaction in knowing a Souls dungeon/area like the back of your hand. I've been challenging myself to get past bosses without using summons, and I've managed to get past both Margit and Godrick this way. IDK how much of that is me getting gud and how much is be From's tweaking the difficulty in updates, but it's been a rewarding experience nonetheless.

The cliff-bird is easily the best way to grind, especially late game. Earlier, there's a great farming method with a giant ball you can repeatedly run off a cliff in Caelid.

I know these games can be won level one, in your undies, blindfolded, but for the average gamer (me) I can't imagine how long they would take to complete if I didn't farm to level up faster.

I still enjoy playing this game. I've tried other games since I got it but I just keep wanna dipping back into it. I'm running a very traditional paladin dude right now and it's very rewarding

Yeah I still grind via the bird in Mogwhyn approach road too.

I got to fire giant, got stuck and lost heart. Went back to Cities Skylines during my summer holidays :/

so did i! only it was my winter, but yeah. Birdieville was once again a bustling 22,000 pop town with the traffic of NYC at rush hour

BTW re farming, my farms were:
- initial/really early game: that spot along the northern liurnia road where all those ghost soldiers spawn fighting each other. With any ranged spell/the wolves you can take them all out, go back to the gracepoint, rinse and repeat.
- early/midgame: find the chest that sends you all the way up to Bestial Sanctum. Carefully run around the grassy areas beneath it and take out all the militiamen. They have a high rune rate, but careful if your vigor is low!
- later game: the high point in deeproot depths has some nice areas to snipe at gargoyles without any risk, as long as you have strong ranged weapons (I used rock sling or Lorettas greatbow) Then there's the bird at Mogwhyn at this point too.

xpost hahah nice, maybe I should revive the cities skylines thread.

You bird farmers also know that the Albinaurics on that hill are worth a whole bunch of runes too, right? Once you have a strong AOE weapon it's so easy to just kill all of them and trap the rewards

*reap

I dont have any AOE weapons. I tried using founding rain of stars and all that did was piss them all off and they came after me!

Every time I look up a cheese solution, it is "find X in Farum Azula" or "find Y in brace of the haligtree".

Wait maybe I'm misunderstanding how the albinauric area works now Ive looked it up. I assumed there was a spell/incantation that'd just sweep thru and wipe them all out but it seems not? I mean I could just run around with adzula's sword or something.

There is, yes. But you kind of need to have completed the game once as it's a weapon you get from the end boss. Still, if you've got a fairly good weapon or magic skill it should be fairly easy to pick a few off. Depends how far into the game you are. it does become a much faster way than shooting the bird

Ah. I fear I shall never arrive there :(

Aw you will. Where you up to now, Fire Giant? After that it's the last leg.

Something I thought was really cool was that it's been pointed out that the random ruins scattered around Limgrave/Liurnia/Altus etc. are all chunks of Farum Azula. The clue connecting this is apparently found in the lore of the ruin fragments you can always pick up? Anyway I thought that was very very cool

Man, I would LOVE it if the DLC involves some "going back in time", like I would love to explore Farum Azula and Lucaria in a pre-ruinous state

ohhhhhhhhh

Last night on a long streetcar ride I was scrolling through a subreddit called something like DarkSoulsSliders where people get very obsessive about using the face-creation utility to turn their characters into celebrity look-alikes or recreations of fictional characters. The intensity that some people have with such a seemingly inconsequential aspect of this game is really beautiful imo