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I freely admit as a long time Souls and From fan, I generally do my first play using the Monnlight Greatsword setup. I mean, its their signature weapon and been in every single game. But I also fuck around with other builds. In fact, yesterday I decided to try running three characters through...

Haven't beaten it as a caster.I don't think sixty vigor is required. But I do think you need at least forty and probably with a decent shield to manage against the later bosses. The red flask Talisman and good conservative play Or enough to close the gap with sixty vigor Unga in most cases...

The funny part here is that the big dude is entirely optional. You only really need to kill him if you're doing the sorcerer quest.

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Spiked+Spear Yeah. For Casters with high faith, the weapon art outclasses the DMGS. And it's solid as a melee weapon in general with it being a bleed proc spear.

W3 main strength is its story and characters. The story was flawlessly executed and it had two very different yet amazing endings. The one where O Dimm wins was incredible.

As for me, I wrapped up most of my first semi casual run tonight. I did not feel like leveling up a finger shield and repeccing just for the last boss, so I got my co op buddy (who did ) to tank both the final boss and Bayle for me. After taking many tries to drop the final boss, we one...

I literally said you were wrong. ER is fun for people who are not pussies, or at least deal with challenge constructively. And yes, you absolutely can just log on and bang out a dungeon. I regularly just put myself in coop for randos to help them out because it is stress free fun for me...

Largely agree but the key is two fold. First, take a couple twink items from your comprehensive play to dump to your new guy. Second, just skip anything not relevant to that specific playthrough. You always need to run the bell bearing stuff (and Ranni quest at least long enough to get the...

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...