Elden Ring: YOU DIED on a horse

arcane/bleed is good as well because iirc it massively scales scarlet rot dragon breath attack. i’ve gone in again with a strength build to warm up for the dlc. haven’t completed haligtree yet with my main build either. thinking of respeccing.

Yeah my initial build was a pretty epic Faith/Arcane build - a dragon blood priest if you will, used Mohg's spear and Rivers of Blood as weapons and all the dragon communion spells coupled with that epic Dragon Communion Seal, which scales with arcane insanely well. Was a ridiculously powerful beast of a build.

FWIW I'm now one three fingered Flame of Frenzy ending away from platinuming this game. Holy shit. And I was hesitant to play this at first - I'm now nearly at 200 hours of gameplay wtf

DLC can't come quick enough

I'm not a big fan of fextralife/youtube builds, I say use whatever feels fun and build around that. Moveset is queen. A lot of weapons put out a lot of damage, but are too slow or not versatile enough (I like to have a good selection of horizontal sweeping attacks, pokes, etc). And in this game it's pretty easy to fit in magic and adapt weapons to whatever stats or hybrid build you want.

I wouldn't say my main build was a 'bleed build' exactly, but the katanas do build up bleed naturally, I used Bloodflame Blade as my main buff, and kept some (frozen?) claws on as well for bloodhound's step and extra burst damage.

yeah that’s a good point. the whetstones pretty much allow you to do what you want in terms of effective scaling iirc.

thanks all. I agree on the Fextralife builds, a lot of them seem to be "get this very specific weapon and this Ash of War then spam this one attack through the whole game". Not much fun. That said some of the routes they identify are pretty amazing- the flexibility is astonishing even compared to previous Soulsborne games.

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— ELDEN RING (@ELDENRING) February 20, 2024

(that's in about 45 minutes, fwiw)

i am hoping this is trolly as fuck

lol there was a countdown, and when it reached zero ... another countdown started.

I am going to watch this, how fun!

346k people watching!

Oh shit! June!

YES

687k by the end! Fun seeing all the "Praise The Sun" and "Umbasa" and "finger but hole" in the chat. New environments and weapons look amazing. Kinda wished Miquella wasn't destined to be "another boss" and had a more complicated relationship w Mr. Tarnished but there it is

In From games, *you* are always ultimately the boss.

Ooooh, (Elden Ring) finally! I like June for this, that fits into my 2024 schedule. :)

They sure showed a lot of bosses in that trailer.

Yeah, it kinda makes me wonder if this DLC is gonna be a boss rush. I wouldn't be super into that, but who knows. It looks pretty expansive.

I am particularly excited to unleash some Street Fighter-ass flying kicks in a From game.

ELDEN RING!

I bet it's going to be massive. Souls games had pretty sizeable dlc areas (I forgot that DS2 had *3* separate dlcs with 9 bosses total, DS3 was split into 2 with 6 bosses total, etc) and I imagine this will be comparable, if not much bigger since that seems to be the ER house style.

surprised they've not gone down the "cosy farming sim" route, but apart from that it looks great!

This is the first From DLC I'll be getting in real time. In the past, have the DLCs been hidden? That is, do you have to explore to find them? They seem like they'd be that way, based on where they've been in past games, and its very nature makes "Elden Ring" even more primed for discovery.

Also, I just realized this is $40 and apparently even has a collector's edition. Does not sound like mere DLC.

Oh, and it's 60gb, too, which is the size of the base game. That's crazy.

― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, February 21, 2024 3:58 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Miquella's Dream Ranch

messmer looks like a asshole

absolutely stoked.

In the past, have the DLCs been hidden? That is, do you have to explore to find them?

Yes, in my limited experience, which is DS1's DLC, which I needed a guide to find. The trailer here seems to indicate that the entry to the DLC is via Miquella's egg in the Moghwyn Palace.

lol, affirming my worst fears, "Miquella's egg in the Moghwyn Palace" doesn't ring any bells for me.

That's Moghwyn's Palace in shot at the v beginning of the trailer, and suggests also that the opening spec for the DLC will be quite high? Mog's Palace is a pita.

Is it in the boss room? Definitely a check on your level/skill/ability to summon friends and hide in a corner.

Finding the entrance to the dlc is always a fun little community game...Dark Souls 1 was very obscure, Bloodborne too (you had to get grabbed by the right invisible Lovecraftian monster iirc), but DS3 was pretty straight-forward (talk to the new npc in a low-level area, and warp from the final boss area respectively?).

I bet that if I put my summon sign down tonight there will be a lot of people trying to beat ol' Mohg.

I have no idea how anyone found the DS1 DLC without a guide

Where are people seeing that his name is Messmer the Impaler?

Well, even so there's an Impaler's Catacombs on the Weeping Peninsula, so that's interesting

Is it in the boss room? Definitely a check on your level/skill/ability to summon friends and hide in a corner.

I am particularly excited to unleash some Street Fighter-ass flying kicks in a From game.

and i take it the full crucible knight move set wasn’t available before? you cd get the tail but don’t recall the winged attack?

Ya that's new for sure.

I had to confirm, but you can get to Moghwyn Palace very early using the medal you get from Varre's quest (which I just did on my new character). So that makes even more sense as a dlc entrance, for masochists who want to do it at low levels (although I'm sure people will be doing this as a way to rush and get crazy dlc weapons on their early game builds).

I have no idea how anyone found the DS1 DLC without a guide

I have no idea how anyone figured out how to upgrade weapons properly in DS1 without a guide tbh

lol, fr. I remember how absolutely obsessed I was by the oblique mysteries of DS1, poring over the wikidot and watching videos on the mechanics & secrets. And that's before getting intrigued by the pvp scene on youtube (though I didn't participate in that until the remaster, after DS3 finally hooked me on invasions).

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

tldr: it's a new area + new map, larger than Limgrave, they're experimenting with combining the open world and legacy dungeon area types, 10+ bosses/largest dlc ever, 8 new weapon *categories* (!)

jfc there goes my summer

I honestly wish they would wait until late fall at this point, lol.

I'm also hearing deathblight swamp, never change Miyazaki.

Yeahhh I'm giving my PS5 to a friend for the rest of the year, I can't have From Software commandeer my life again so quickly so soonly

Dumb question, but with a DLC like this, does it slot into the base game and you play it like another area/level? Do you have to start again? Need you have FINISHED (I still havent lol lol )

Couldn’t say for sure. Previous DLCs needed to be played through before completing the main game. You would typically gain access at a certain point (60% of the way through, 95% of the way through). The difficulty generally has been end-game and harder. Manus harder than Gwyn, Kos harder than [spoiler]. End of DLC bosses in DS3 were insanely hard

If you haven’t played From DLC before, Trayce, there’s a reason everyone is shitting themselves… the DLC of previous Souls games has been, like, impossibly better than the already spectacular main game.

Oh kerrrist, I havent been able to get any further than Farum Azula as it is :(

"It was only after creating it that I realised I really like to create poisoned swamps… So maybe, when players reach the poisoned swamp in the DLC, they will feel a little bit of this retrospection"

Yup, as we all suspected.

Farum Azula is end game and is the hardest area! (Aside from the Haligtree)

Idk, I’m so excited. The thrill of running through Dreg Heap into The Ringed City for the first time is one of the most incredible gaming experiences of my life. I hope to hit that high again

lol i will certainly feel some retrospection when i get to the swamp xpost

I'm with you fgti (and probably most here) - ridiculously excited but also worried about losing my whole summer