Phazael
Confirmed Beta Shitlord, Fat Bastard
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This might be the most factually accurate and informative post you have ever made on this board.
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Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin
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Phazael
Confirmed Beta Shitlord, Fat Bastard
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I started up again, doing a lance sometimes with shield setup snagging the fire weapon art that you can get early in Caelid since fire damage tends to be really good early in the game. Inching up my faith so I can transition to Winged Scythe a little later. So sort of a faith dex hoplite thing I love doing. I am curious how this will plan out in the expansion. Traditionally, each Souls game tended to go overboard with resists against what the core game got most abused by. In Dark Souls 1, this was mainly Pyro. DS2, pure sorcery and lightning resist went through the roof in the DLC. DS3, Dark Resist and status resists got cranked in the new content. I am hoping that the DLC is at least not like the core game with every fucking boss having full status immunity and mass Lightning and Holy resist. I think
Pemulis
might be right in that fire damage resist will be super high in the expansion, based on past precedent.
Pemulis
might be right in that fire damage resist will be super high in the expansion, based on past precedent.
Grizzlebeard
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Phazael
Confirmed Beta Shitlord, Fat Bastard
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No, but there is a fire based weapon art on a hidden bug in north Caelid that lets you make the weapon its applied to fire based. Pretty good scaling and the art itself is not too shaby for short range AE of annoying shit like rats and dogs. Plus Margit really hates being set on fire.
Grizzlebeard
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That the one that fans flames out in front of you? I thought they nerfed it's stance damage but it was still good last time I used it.
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LiquidDeath
Magnus Deadlift the Fucktiger
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So you just think that From spent years working on this DLC only to show a full minute worth of the final boss fight in the announcement trailer?
(x) Doubt
popsicledeath
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I'm disappointed in some of you. The only way to experience the Elden Ring expansion is to delete all your existing characters, arrange for someone to give you a massive concussion and then start a wretch. I guess some of you don't actually care about getting good.
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Seananigans
Honorary Shit-PhD
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Derkon
Trakanon Raider
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Never understood the obsession with wretch start in this; you get a greatsword for free at the first main enemy camp. The first vendor you run into has a cheap armor set. It's really not the "hardmode" start that people seem to think it is.
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Grizzlebeard
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I think it's just those guys who play a wretch female in a loincloth and spend the game playing with one hand.
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Fucker
Log Wizard
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Hatorade
A nice asshole.
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It isn’t about hard mode it is about no starting equipment so everything found is a possible upgrade.
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Derkon
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I mean sure but you get upgrades like 5 minutes into the game, no knowledge required. Heck the starting club is lowkey underrated; I've used it for a while on a character and it hits fast and the charged R2 stance breaks breaks like a champ.
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Seananigans
Honorary Shit-PhD
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Yes, and that minor upgrade feels good. What are you not understanding here?
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Derkon
Trakanon Raider
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I guess since it happens so quickly I just dont understand the big appeal? It's not really earned beyond killing one soldier near the carriage. But to each their own, not going to tell people how to enjoy the game or anything.
DickTrickle
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A person starting out isn't necessarily going to run into those things the first 5 minutes of the game.
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Utnayan
I Love Utnayan he’s awesome
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Exactly. Especially when the first 5 minutes will be spent dying for the next 500 minutes
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Rajaah
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I guess the game is hard at first until you find a weapon you like and the jellyfish pet. That pet got me through Margit the first time. Not because it made the fight easy, but because the poison effect does a ton of damage and allows you to be evasive on the second phase and still progress the fight. The jellyfish is on the weak side so you have to draw Margit's attention until the poison buildup sticks, which can take half the fight. It was a very interesting battle. Not too often is a boss fight winnable with a DoT-based strategy in these games. The final boss of FF13 is another fight that's tough but weak to poison, but nothing else immediately comes to mind. Phunbaba in FF6 maybe.
I was lucky enough to stumble on the jellyfish and a solid weapon (think it was the Greatsword) in the first couple hours of playing.
I was lucky enough to stumble on the jellyfish and a solid weapon (think it was the Greatsword) in the first couple hours of playing.
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Izo
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Caeden
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I spent 45 minutes learning the game against that first camp’s major mob. Then spent like 3 hours trying to strategically get through those crossbow guys and troll in the tunnel thing before a buddy told me to just run through like all souls games. What? I was ready to break the goddamn controller.
Still used summons to dad mode the game. Malenia forced me to cheat with rivers of blood. I could not get her pattern down. At all. I think I almost beat her in my second or third try then that turned into 3 more hours of her hollowing out my ass.
Still used summons to dad mode the game. Malenia forced me to cheat with rivers of blood. I could not get her pattern down. At all. I think I almost beat her in my second or third try then that turned into 3 more hours of her hollowing out my ass.
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