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Its in Caelid, at the fort with the shortcut to outside Rahdan's palace, but on the backside between to flame thrower carts (you can sneak in and grab it if you need to). Its not much for stat reqs (think Cleansing Flame) and has a massive impact on certain fights and weapons. Blasphemous...

No argument here, but I think that really only applies to the end boss (bad I agree) and maybe Bayle (who is optional so ... meh). The real issue is the MP/Summon scaling being fucked. At least I hope they address that, because I cannot get my wife to play this casually with me in its present...

He melts to several caster strategies... if you have a summon or co-op. I think I one shotted him with Ancient Rancor and I was not even expecting him when I found him. He is basically the mounted Black Knight fights with the dials up to 11. If you are melee, this is a good time to get a...

I read it and rank it up with your steam power derail in terms of Chris hot takes. The game is immensely replayable, even if you have seen every inch of it. Simply going through with an entirely different build (and there are tons) is a complete new experience. What makes it replayable is the...

I am up to the last boss. Watched my coop pal do it alone. He respecced into fingerprint shield and chicken leg club, eventually changing to the blood fork. Took a while but he literally just turtle counterpoked his way to victory at zero risk once he slotted the fork. I don't feel like...

Lol wut?

You can roll the thorns, but it has to be sideways and if you miss the first one you wont recover enough for the others. Also his range is huge and the windup is incredibly fast on his ranged thorns. You can shield block them, however. Stagger is not too bad on that attack as long as you are...

Yeah this is pretty much the entire DLC in a nutshell for most bosses, except they also will stop whatever they are doing and frame cancel into a wombo combo from a mile away the moment the AI notices you have pressed the flask input. I think ever player needs to work something ranged with high...

Nameless is straight up an execution fight over a long time. The first phase has some RNG to it, with how the dragon attacks time out with the rider. But Phase 2 is all about reads and knowing when to dodge vs block, plus patient punishes. But Midir specifically you can parry and then...

There is a cave path north of Moohr village by a lake (where you challenge Kung fu man, on the path to get to Metyr questline) that leads you to that area. Great place for some faith related gear and infants, plus a cool dungeon.

He is a mandatory parry fight. Parry once and crit, then you win. Simple as that. The npc summon is only there to give you some windows to set that up.

One easy one, one requiring Bayle to be killed. ARC reqs are similar to main game on both.

Bayle is similar to Melenia, but Mesmer is not nearly as hard as Melenia. He is just a ramped up standard DLC Spam AoE and wombo combo chip damage with froggy agro type boss. The big thing with him is you have to get a few things from the DLC before having a reasonable fight (certain spells...

It is literally the only item my sorcerer is wearing from the DLC.

Stuff you can do at Shard Level 1-3 reliably (in suggested order) Lion Beast (maybe Gaol guy first if you are unga and a masochist) Runebear Boss Rellana Shadow Keep Hippo Stuff where you want to be Shard Level 4-7 Clear out Shadow Keep, except Mesmier. The game will seem like you should kill...

Its way more mana efficient and better at dealing damage to bosses, if you need some distance to tap them from. Plus Strike seems to be the best universal physical damage type for most things, just like the main game. And it ragdolls a lot of stuff. Think it poise broke Mesmer in three hits...

PS if you rocked Blasphemous for the knockdown, you should really consider the Ruins GS. Its Strike damage and has always had the better poise damage, both with swings and the weapon art.

The overtuning will be addressed, but core AI and shit like Bayle belly flopping on you 0.0001 seconds after you walk through the fog wall or the forever fall that burns a half minute of buff timer before Putrid Rider likely won't. And I expect some shit to get nerfed, too. Frankly speaking...

The AI literally reads the control inputs and reacts before any actual visual indicators appear on screen of what you are doing. This has been the case for a while in ER (started in DS3, but got dialed up to 11 in base ER and over 9000 in the DLC), but the new part is when boss mobs like Mesmer...

You need to farm up enough Endurance to light roll, plus slot defensive talismans. The big ramp up in this DLC is that spamming dodge (unless you are dex) does not work very well. They added a lot of weird delays and changeups to the enemies that require you to learn the exact timing. Mesmer...

Its actually broken as fuck and probably the best weapon in the game, certainly for PvP. It has an animation that guarantees a two hit combo, plus can be custom fit with a weapon art of choice. Slap anything with hyperarmor on it and spam R1 ftw.

First of all, the jumping meta never existed in Souls games until Elden ring because it is literally the first game in the series with the option to jump. Second, how is spamming weapon arts to clear crash or horsing/running past a bunch of shit to the boss grace somehow more "skill intensive"...

Were I pure int, I would jump on that one. But I am INT FTH and nothing is coming close to the Uzi Spear. There needs to be a catalyst for pure INT thats at least competitive with the Death Prince Staff, because without that 438 scaling your basic sorc nukes are nerf darts.

Core plot seems to be Miquella divided into two aspects, St Trinna (feminine) and his now bodyless Miquella form (childlike and more mascaline). The former is sort of the nice one to her followers at least (but still a poison and sleep demigod) and the latter is tryign to ascend to full divine...

Many such cases..... Expect a couple dozen attempts where you don't even get to phase two to follow.

There is a tracking frost ring spell in the red area of the Cerelian Coast, guarded by a half dozen spell birds (Heima works great here) that tracks and chain casts faster than Ancient Rancor Call. It also completely melts Mesmer. This is the one spell in the expansion that has been money, as...

The wind up is long and it drops you in the middle of enemies, but the damage on this is unreal with the right stats.

FTH STR has plenty of options and weapon styles, plus you get to use the best buffs in the game. The various Beast Incants also are incredibly effective and efficient for such a character and require very little initial stat investment to be useful. Unlike the base game, there are not a lot of...

Because dumping all points into STR and spamming jumping strong attack is somehow more skill intensive..... Comet was never the problem (it was useless on most boss fights in even the base game) with sorcery. It was the ease and safety of trash clearing. You still had to learn reads off of...

Yeah it seems like Rancor/blackflame is the mainstay for a lot of this DLC, which kind of cements the fact that you need to pair Faith in an INT build to be viable. This has more or less been my experience, anyhow. There is a whole lot of "this would have been cool in the early base game, but...

I actually fucked around with the Thorn shit when I was helping my friend out, but the scaling for co-op is so horrendous that it made it almost pointless. I have gotten a lot of mileage out of opening co-op fights with the Malekith spell and the similar dagger weapon art dot, shaving a quarter...

Backhand Blade's are mostly for PVP and little else. They are good in that niche, especially with the PvE shit railroading people into using shields more and more. Relanna's pair is basically meant to be the MLGS / Nights Flame replacement. Its moveset is vastly superior, but the weapon arts...

One shots most trash and is good on bosses who dont move a lot and are weak to holy, so basically nothing if consequence. It is very mana efficient for trash clearing, though. At 80 faith and DLC rune level 10 its one shotting just about every trash mob I run into and has medium to long range...

Yeah thats the one, I am still learning the names of shit. And I know about the Magma Blades, but A) I am mainly playing a Golden Order/Death Staff build for my first run and B) With all the melee hate and AE spam bosses have in this DLC, standing back and firing an Uzi indiscriminately is much...

There is a sort of priest summoner boss who more or less spams holy arc spells and summons in random adds, right before the dark forest area with the unkillable dude in it. Its in the south central area of the map, iirc. Anyhow, the boss drops an remembrance and one of the options (and the...

Some general tips for some of the major cock blocker bosses: Chinese Dragon thing (Divine Beast?)- No major weaknesses but no major resists to anything. As a caster, Lightning Spear or Ancient Rancor Call work great, just be mindful of the AE sprinkler spam if you are pure Melee. Rellana-...

For sorcerers, Heima Cannon with enough INT also works for this.

If you are Unga Bunga or a Bleed Build, 120 is workable. If you are a faith caster and/or Dex build, maybe a bit more. Sorcerer? Well you basically need to be setup like going into NG+ because pure sorcery is flat out useless in about half the content, ESPECIALLY the mandatory story bosses so...