cabbitcabbit
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The only thing I want to know is how many total souls I’ve lost during corpse runs by blindly running into the elevator pit instead of pulling the lever first.
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Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin
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cabbitcabbit
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I don’t know what it was about Kalameet but I just got rocked by him over and over. He was pretty fast for a dragon boss and just did a disgusting amount of damage. I ended up just farming some levels to wear Havel’s armor without needing to fatroll and just tanked him to the face.
I completely forgot about Fume Knight too. That dude can go get fucked.
Drajakur
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I had to rely on some jolly cooperation. But I (we) did it. I just couldn't beat her solo. But then I did get better in the fight as well so maybe next time. That swan dive with rot is brutal. Was actually a pretty fun fight with a friend.
cabbitcabbit
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Started thinking about the grand overarching lore of the game and how it maybe relates to the Souls series. Marika doesn’t seem to be the first god as it’s mentioned that the dragons ruled before her. Once you start exploring the underground you find other pre-Lydell civilizations buried on-top of each other with one being a city who’s name has been lost to time after thousands of years and being pushed down to the bottom of the tree roots. Then you have the crumbling city that’s been shat out into some nameless hell-void off the map.
The whole thing reminded me of The Forgotten City where your just exploring various civilizations stacked on top of each other once their age has passed and been forgotten.
Everything that happens seems to cyclical like Dark Souls where one grand gesture breaks the ring and everything is buried in ash until it’s repaired and the bullshit starts all over again.
The whole thing reminded me of The Forgotten City where your just exploring various civilizations stacked on top of each other once their age has passed and been forgotten.
Everything that happens seems to cyclical like Dark Souls where one grand gesture breaks the ring and everything is buried in ash until it’s repaired and the bullshit starts all over again.
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Chris
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It's a very steep learning curve, I went though the same thing. I'm in midgame now and feeling comfortable.
The direction indicators on the grace points take you to the first major boss and dungeon immediatley, you need to ignore it and explore the map in Limgrave to level up. Mark on the map any dungeons you find (they have grace points anyway) or outdoor enemy encampments you can't do. You can go south across the bridge to a slightly higher level Limgrave area.
Don't be afraid to google a build and where to get some starting items, put your points into getting more health, to upgrade damage you need to find smithing stones to upgrade your weapon.
Eventually you'll start to snowball and be able to tackle content more effectivly.
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There are people going mad perma summoning outside Mogh knowing/not knowing the fight. Its a 50/50 on summons if you dont have 'that' item in hand cause he just sucks the hp of peeps that dont know the fight.
So crazy...
So crazy...
TJT
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This reminds me of when I played my first souls game (Bloodborne) and got my shit pushed in for like 12 straight hours in the starting area. Eventually I figured it out and loved it.
Keep on trucking fam.
Also, git gud fgt.
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Tuco
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That was my thought too, especially in Crumbling Farum Azula which clearly is the dragon's civilization and has all these long-dead dragonoid zombies.
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TJT
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Hateyou
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This one has a lot more options to practice on in the beginning. Previous games you basically had to learn the first mobs or quit.
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Rajaah
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Rajaah
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Seriously though I do feel your pain. I've told the story a few times on here of how I nearly gave up on Bloodborne on day one, then it became my game of the decade a week later. I've watched a lot of people tap out on Fromsoft games and I know a lot of them will be super-into these games if they break through that initial phase of "none of this works for me"
I went through a similar thing a couple times now with Returnal. I've never gotten past the first boss, and the game just doesn't make much sense to me, and I mostly just die of HP attrition over and over without feeling like I'm getting anywhere. But I really like the setting and know I'd love Returnal if I could make any goddamn progress.
End of the day it's just a matter of focusing on the game until you break through. Doing some research helps a ton as well. Yeah I don't like to have to research a game just to comprehend it, but a little research at the beginning can make everything after that go a lot smoother.
Rajaah
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For me, I'm gonna guess that I had the most deaths on Starscourge Radahn. Fire Giant is probably 2nd place. The Fallingstar Beast in the mines, Godrick in Stormveil, Draconic Tree Sentinel, Margit, and Malenia also all have a bunch of deaths. I one or two shotted most of the other fights in the game. A lot of that is because some of the rougher twin boss type fights I missed until I was way overleveled for them.
Ritley
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I easily died the most to the dual abductors in volcano manor. Was like level 45 and more or less pure sorcery build at that point. Summons died instantly and you didn’t really even have time to summon anyways, and the room is tiny as fuck with range and charging attacks constantly. Fuck those guys.
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Phazael
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I died a shit ton to Godrick because I was way underleveled and undergeared. Once I got him down and was able to equip the gold halberd, going back and helping others was a way to git gud and now he is a chump. Hardest part for me in this game has been getting used to the fucking move cancels and feints all over the place. That and realizing I can jump attack and that its always better than a regular ground attack.
DS2 had a total deaths counter in the main hub and it was hilarious when the death count exceeded the human population of earth at one point. Kind of wish that existed here. Hell, put it as a message next to every summoning pool spike outside each boss.
Also I think Bird farm s fine to stay as it is, because it would kill the replay desire of a lot of people to remove it and its not exactly super easy to get to in the first place, even if you know its there. Without it, AE explosion mage spam becomes the only viable rune farm, which leaves mele even more in the dust. And even being level one zillion won't help the scrubs get past the harder fights. Plenty of noobs who abused the dragon breath glitch in DS1 still could not get past four kings.
DS2 had a total deaths counter in the main hub and it was hilarious when the death count exceeded the human population of earth at one point. Kind of wish that existed here. Hell, put it as a message next to every summoning pool spike outside each boss.
Also I think Bird farm s fine to stay as it is, because it would kill the replay desire of a lot of people to remove it and its not exactly super easy to get to in the first place, even if you know its there. Without it, AE explosion mage spam becomes the only viable rune farm, which leaves mele even more in the dust. And even being level one zillion won't help the scrubs get past the harder fights. Plenty of noobs who abused the dragon breath glitch in DS1 still could not get past four kings.
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