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Inquisitors spear from the virgins below volcano. Or the scavengers sword if you don't mind doing the grace warp thing to get there early, but that might not be great before you have occult infusion? Absolute early early game though is the winged scythe as others mentioned, or just the golden...

Anyone done/doing any heavy PVP yet? I'm basically done with my 2nd playthrough and am playing around with some respecs trying to find some fun stuff to invade with, but it's pretty lame so far. I can't come up with anything that even comes close to going toe to toe with the powerstance bleed...

Can confirm this is the way it works unfortunately. The beast seal doesn't for example scale any damage on the holy or lightning enchant either, those only scale on raw FAI regardless of the seal itself scaling from STR. The only thing it seems to actually scale is raw damage on nukes -...

If you wanna learn a bit about what the "idea" behind NFTs actually is, and how fundamentally flawed it and most of the web3.0/blockchain world are, this is pretty succinct: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

That list is pretty malarky. Half of his A-tier are just buffs that do nothing else of value, which is not what you want from your Ash aside from the hyper bleed seppeku builds. Hoarfrost and bloody slash being A-tier is similarly just a lie even though he's claimed to have "updated" his list...

It's Astel in the mine/dungeon in the snowfields, and it's not even close. Every attack he has is a hard knockdown? Check All his magic attacks are AoEs so large you can't possible get out of range of them if you were trying to melee him? Check Awkward as fuck hitbox with camera lockons that...

Anyone ever figure out what the shit is up with the ghost/summoned dragonskin soliders in the snow field? They show up fucking constantly and I've genocided this entire map multiple times now and never found any indication of what is summoning them or why.

Offense is the best defense against that dude. He has like 0 poise and you can stun lock him with 1h weapons even.

I just had to look at the old wiki and looks like I was wrong - you gained HP from leveling STR, not carry weight. The point still is kind of the same though, that leveling STR provided other side benefits that let you save on some points to try and handle the equip load from colossal weapons...

Gets me killed constantly. 3 jump R2s in and I think to myself SURELY THIS ONE IS THE STAGGER and the mob just eats it and continues on with their 32 hit attack combo while I stare at the YOU DIED words for the 85th time today.

I think the biggest issue is that STR in previous Souls games used to also scale your weight limit, so if you went big unga bunga mode you got some amount of the weight issues solved automatically for you, but now you also have to dump 30 or so in to endurance to even use the colossal weapons.

Bosses are never really the issue, it's all the trash mobs and how they scale in the final couple of areas. You suddenly have to treat every trash mob as a boss encounter and circle around them for 30 seconds waiting for a single jump attack opportunity or whatever. It just gets tiresome and...

STR/FAI is falling apart completely in the lategame. Mobs do too much damage to be able to trade with them and have too much poise to stagger with anything but colossal weapons. The entire middle section of like halbers/hammers/greatswords feels just awful against most of this - too slow to get...

I'm basically doing that right now with STR/FAI and using big unga-bunga weapons of various kinds. It's mostly fine? There's a few bossfights that are pretty ridiculous and very, very obviously designed with ash summons in mind. You learn some interesting stuff though kind of out of necessity...

I did it the "correct" way on my first playthrough because I was just farming those dragons lol. Moonveil was so busted against them that they were trivial to kill and then I kinda accidentally noticed the big dragon was taking damage as I did.

I mean, you can literally summon her for morgott and she'll go fuck him up lol, how is this news?

I'll be very curious to see what the dedicated PVP meta settles on for level in this one. People are already crowing about 120 pretty heavily again but I think that's legit too low here given how stat scaling has changed.

It was only hybrid arcane scaling that didn't work for whatever reason. That sword and the various other INT/DEX and INT/STR swords all worked just fine to varying degrees. The issue with almost all of them though is that the dark moon greatsword exists and is just better.

You can tune down the Moonveil specific numbers all you want, but what's actually busted is the katana weapon art it's based on.

Really having a hard time finding a weapon setup I like as STR/FAI. Seems like all the cool shit scales with DEX for whatever reason? Black knights halberd has pretty good STR scaling as heavy, but it's still the goofy halberd moveset that I'm not a huge fan of, and it's sloooooow. Slow is...

They massively reduced smithing stone prices from merchants, should make trying out a ton of different weapons a real option now. It used to cost something insane like 350k runes to get a normal weapon to like +22 before lol.

God fucking damnit I literally just turned Nepheli in to a doll to get her ashes. REEEEEEE

Anyone ever figure out what's up with those fake trolls in altus plateau? They are kinda near the old tunnel cave, and die in like one hit and also seem incapable of doing damage?

I'm convinced that bleed/frost are so strong currently that any viable meta setup has to include one or both of them unfortunately.

Someone a while back mentioned a torch that reveals invisibility or spirits? Where's that from? Sick of these black knive fucks, but I don't even know the name of whatever the item is to look it up.

You keep literally everything besides key items/quest items. Flask upgrades spells etc, anything you could deem an piece of gear or consumable.

More like almost every weapon either already comes with hybrid damage, or everyone mods their weapon to be hybrid damage because the numbers are so absurd this time around even after accounting for split resistances. Also grease only lasts like 60 seconds, which in elden ring terms is basically...

Almost every fight people claim is giga-hard is because they are some combination of super low level or refusing to use the various tools they have available (ashes, NPC summons, ranged, sorcery, whatever) and instead attempting to just slap the boss to death with their +7 longsword for 75 tries...

Yea the traditional Fromsoft formula for quests/NPCs really shows it's weak points here sometimes. It sort of worked in the Dark Souls games because they were highly linear and you could be reasonably expected to cross paths with NPCs in a relatively particular order, but that just doesn't apply...

Hah you're both right: Either collecting both Dectus Medallion halves and taking the Grand Lift of Dectus OR reaching far enough in Ranni's questline

Huh, what actually triggers the festival to start at redmane castle? My first playthrough it was just in that mode upon my first visit, but this time around that doesn't seem to be the case and i can't get it to swap over?

I feel really bad for all you poor fucks that tried to start melee only builds on your first run lol. Good christ some of these fights were never actually meant to be beaten that way with the amount of poise and attack spam some stuff has. There are so many side dungeons where the "boss" is just...

You can only be invaded if you use the fingercalling item that lets you see co-op summon signs. That essentially "turns on" multiplayer and invasions.

That's just the scaled armor set, it always looks like that. That lightning is weird, but the scaling shit on it is there by default: https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Scaled+Set

Alright my main save file is dressed and ready for PVP

I savescummed all the endings and I'm glad I did, they were really pathetic aside from I think I'll just start a new run then, having every weapon ready to go from the start feels like it'll be way less interesting than figuring out a str/faith type thing organically.

I am so torn on if I want to just go in to NG+ and respec or just start a fresh run and go like str/faith or something different. Does NG+ do the thing where you get +2 versions of the various talismans you couldn't before like old darksouls games did?

Fashion souls baby

Can confirm sorcery ultimately turned out to be lame. It's a bit of a bell curve really, where you suck balls for the first 30-40 levels, then you find the meteor spell and are a god all the way to level 90-100 or whatever, then you just kinda stop using sorcery all together in favor of which...