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Nah. At its core DS games are repetitive. Meet new mob, memorize its moves, learn how to juke them and then move onto the next challenge. It's a fun loop but got tiresome for me after 3 games. ER breaks this up with other gameplay loops and repeating mobs throughout so you can re-use the...

This is what made me stop playing DS3. I beat some boss in the middle of the game after a few tries and opened up some new shithole zone and just totally lost interest in slowly muddling my way through another grueling zone with new enemies to learn, new traps etc. It wasn't even hard, it just...

Plus the repeated dungeon biomes and mobs/bosses are a nice break. When you just finish a legacy dungeon like Stormveil and find a catacomb you get some relief because you're familiar with the enemies and familiar with the layout enough to make it a nice palette cleanser.

Yeah I don't think I lock onto the birds at all. Anything bigger than a crucible knight and I'd rather just use the joystick/mouse to control my movement/camera.

Hmm, maybe. The camera is fine with the PC mod I use though. Increase FOV, ultra widescreen and no motion-driven camera adjustments.

I don't know what it is that I hate so much about fighting death birds. I think it's just the sheer embarrassment of getting pecked by a black Tweety.

I hope the first dlc has a bunch of nut buster bosses.

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+1 vote for waiting for a respec. A lot of people are rerolling constantly and it's a mistake. The game is really massive and you'd be better off hitting that ~100 hour mark having respecced a few times than doing Limgrave and the Lake a bunch of times.

Pure conjecture: there was some bug or other issue that prevented it.

I don't think they care that much about PvE balance in coop. Once you introduce another player (or even summon) you're playing such a different game already.

No horses in coop felt like a temporary thing to me. The justification is for PvP balance, but they could also just dismount the player if they are invaded.

bah, they nerfed the bowling bowl against https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Moongrum+Carian+Knight . You used to be able to drag him out into the ball. I thought his only purpose was for the player to squish him with the ball and now he is parrying all my shit. I need to invest in a whip or...

I use buckler parrying against crucible knights. It increases how much time it takes to learn a boss because you have to learn their moves and then choose between dodge / parry for each attack. Executing it is satisfying in its own way, but I find it more fun to use dodge's i-frames and...

The harpy cave is a pretty hard dungeon. The finger reader is bulllshitting.

You're on PS5 but I really enjoy the camera mod. https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/118 Makes playing with a mouse + gamepad so much nicer.

all remembrances is way more interesting than winning the game though because there are more bosses.

It's fine. EQ has settled into a paradigm where they release an expansion every year. Every other year that expansion increases the level cap. From what I can tell, they have to spend so much effort increasing the level cap that there isn't much content in the expansions and they apparently tune...

Yeah I kind of agree. Even with easy rune farming it's still an investment to get a new weapon to your current one even in mid-game. There are ways to do that easily in PC, but not a mod that does it in an integrated kind of way like you're thinking. Easiest way would be to reduce the rune cost...

plus you can save scum when you do this so it's basically a dupe exploit.

Don't worry bud, I'm not on a pedestal here. I did my first playthrough riding on the back of my mimic ash summon using broken ass builds that have since been nerfed. There's no shame here.

Would love this. Even if it was the trash tier enemies.

ditch the summons, if you're using them. Then if it's still too easy, ditch the talismans/physik. I wouldn't stop leveling.

Yeah that's the issue with PK-driven PvP like invasions. The PKs are strategized around PvP which is a huge advantage with or without cheating. It'd be interesting if some of the "invasion" events were replaced with someone else on that step of the quest. Such that if it's the first time you...

Taunter's Tongue? I'm running modded PC so no online play. Taunter's Tongue doesn't impact gameplay during bosses, right? So it mostly makes the non-difficult parts more spontaneously difficult, which is cool. If I wasn't running mods I'd probably use it.

I've been enjoying my 'git gud' playthrough that eschews summons, talismans, OP builds etc.

The best spells/ashes are ones that take advantage of the AI. Just a matter of figuring out how. Hoarfrost was great for that, the initial blast would force a reaction from the enemy who would then be open for the culmination that followed.

I did Godskin Peeler with occult or bleeding affinity + Dragon Incantations, which scale with Arcane. Was pretty fun. The running heavy attack on twinblades is a ton of hits that can proc bleed. Once your faith/arcane/mind gets high enough the dragon incantations get high enough to shadow your...

I dunno if the game would be improved from any of that. Even the imbalanced rune rewards are arguably fine because it adds "flavor". I didn't just play through the game four times in a few weeks though. 600 levels in elden ring is uhh, a lot of dying to bullshit.

When I got that quest I thought, "yeah right, I'm not going to go assassinate Blaidd and Turtlepope or whatever dumb shit these guys want me to do." then when I read the targets were all unique to that quest they got riperoni'd

Original WoW's goal was to make a better version of EQ and strip out Soulsbourne-like elements from it. I love ER, loved original WoW and loved original EQ.

No.

a person whose ideal gaming experience is being handed bite-sized bits of "fun" is exactly the kind of person I expect to work at Blizzard.

I liked the hard drive and exploration part of the game but it got stale long before I finished unlocking everything. If I replayed I would 100% cheat to get all the hard drives. And probably to get all the slugs. I ended the game with a huge sack of slugs that I never used.