Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

Penance said:

Nah. Double bunga is the way to go. However you need a shit ton more end, you'll want Great Jar Talisman, and Radagon's Soreseal/Scarseal. You should have them or you can get them for where you're at in the game. Jar +1 or 2(?) comes later I think. You can really stack so you can double the heaviest of weapons, and maybe even wear a couple key armor pieces.

And most importantly, your flex amulet should be Claw/whatever other type of damage you will do to boss. Claw boosts your jump attack and jump attacking bunga is the easiest way to play it. Huge stagger, huge damage, pretty decent startup animation for dual wielding massive fuck you weapons. If you aren't jump attacking you can use the Charge attack amulet (forget its name) or something else

Have you done Volcano manor? There's an ash of war in there that charges you're next attack. Very useful. Or Lions Claw for bosses. Very OP ash.

Make sure you have cracked tear recipes too. There's one that boosts stagger even more can't remember where you get it.

Unga build. Stagger the world.

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I've increased my endurance enough to wear the sage armor set, I swapped out my talismans for green turtle and arsenal charm (my others one suck), I've been 2 handing my weapon. I changed my weapon infusion to heavy. I've been using Lions Claw ash more (I like that it has a homing attribute so no matter where the enemy is next to you, the character will automatically turn to wherever he needs to smash, even in mid animation. My character has become noticeably more stronger and survivable.

I'm at Volcano Manor now and I joined them, found the secret hallway in the Drawing Room but it seems to be a dead end. Going to look for that Jar Talisman once I look up where it is

What are good buffs for Unga Bunga that I should be regularly using? I've been using "Flame Give Me Strength" but that's the only one I know.

Yesterday I was watching an Elden Ring speed run and saw a player go out of his way to kill some Tree Sentinel in the woods somewhere to get his halberd, and then regularly use the halberd for rest of the game as a click buff. Don't know what it is or what it does. Are the other clicky buffs I should be using?

Araysar said:

I've increased my endurance enough to wear the sage armor set, I swapped out my talismans for green turtle and arsenal charm (my others one suck), I've been 2 handing my weapon. I changed my weapon infusion to heavy. I've been using Lions Claw ash more (I like that it has a homing attribute so no matter where the enemy is next to you, the character will automatically turn to wherever he needs to smash, even in mid animation. My character has become noticeably more stronger and survivable.

I'm at Volcano Manor now and I joined them, found the secret hallway in the Drawing Room but it seems to be a dead end. Going to look for that Jar Talisman once I look up where it is

What are good buffs for Unga Bunga that I should be regularly using? I've been using "Flame Give Me Strength" but that's the only one I know.

Yesterday I was watching an Elden Ring speed run and saw a player go out of his way to kill some Tree Sentinel in the woods somewhere to get his halberd, and then regularly use the halberd for rest of the game as a click buff. Don't know what it is or what it does. Are the other clicky buffs I should be using?

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Braggarts Roar Ash of War is quite good and the effect stacks with the Roar Medallion and the Highland Axe (in your off hand)







I would also look into using Exalted Flesh consumable.

I loved using the single Nagakiba. Such an amazing weapon.

Fogel said:

I'd stick with FGMS for now, Elden Ring is horribly unintuitive with what buffs stack and don't stack. You'll have to study the wiki if you want to go with an optimal buff set up, but I'd only do that if you really want to min/max, but its not necessary to beat the game

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My god, FGMS stacks with Golden Vow (clicky buff from the Tree Sentinel halberd)

Golden Vow:

• Damage +15% (+7.5% in PvP).
• All Damage Negation +10% (+5% in PvP)

FGMS:



So you get a 35% physical damage boost, 10% damage negation defense buff and 11% Stamina recovery buff

Penance said:

Nah. Double bunga is the way to go. However you need a shit ton more end, you'll want Great Jar Talisman,

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Tried to do the Great Jar trial. Usually get killed by the first duelist and if I get through the first guy, the second one always finishes me off. These guys have attacks that one-shot me if I get caught in them.

Bald Brah said:

You can duck under a high spot on the cliffs edge and they will yolo over you right off the cliff.

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I didn't want to cheese them

This oddball build seems to be working out okay, trying to balance dual Blood curved swords with the Blasphemous Blade and the dancing curved sword (mostly for the fun of it on the last one). Blasphemous is the one I'm relying on more during boss fights, so I moved a ton of Dex and Arcane points to Faith and Mind. Leveling Dex now since it works across all 3 weapons.

Got the main game basically beaten (everything except Malenia, Maliketh+, and a bunch of random side dungeons). Afraid to take out Maliketh because I'm not sure if I got everything important in the capitol. Malenia just plain whooped me with this unfocused build, so I'll get back to her.

DLC time, really liking it so far, moreso than when I played it at launch. Goal is to beat all the bosses, especially the ones I failed on (Bayle, Radahn).

Only at 4/4 scadutree levels because despite tons of exploring, I can't seem to find scadutree fragments. Are they supposed to be rare?

Also, trying to fill out the map and have reached a bit of an impasse:


How do I reach that obscured northern area, the obscured northeast area, and Bayle's mountain? I can get to the valley of fingers, and it doesn't seem to have a way forward. With the north part of the map, I tried following the river and eventually hit an impasse there too.

Latest session, I beat two bosses that I couldn't beat the first time: The dancer and the Guts clone, which are basically gaol bosses. Pretty cool how they both drop their armor sets, but what I really need is some scadutree fragments!

Glad this game exists.

I decided to NG+ with my kung fu character. Palm Blast trivializes a lot of boss fights, but against some AE spamming bosses that move around constantly (Bayle) I bust out the Tree Spear with the big holy shot. Powered through the main game enough to open the expansion plus Ranni questline for materials. Since I already had Poopman, I got the Nepheli doll and holy shit did they buff the fuck out of her. Anyhow, made a beeline for Bayle so I could get the alternative rewards. Beating shit up with your bare hands in this game is shockingly fun.

Anyhow Rajaah, there are some underground tunnels that lead you to some of those areas. that are not obvious on the map. The major one that opens up the north is by a lake north of where you fight Dryleaf Dan. The NE section of the map requires you backdoor through the church area in Mesmer's fortress. Be advised moving towards that fortress will advance (and end) certain quest lines. Realistically, you mainly want to do the vendor guys quest (tell him to be sad forever and he wont show up for the final group fight) and the poisoner guy's quest steps prior to the enchantment lifting, especially if you want to do the second ending with the Dragon Priestess quest.

Thanks for all the advice here, the game is now much more enjoyable when i dont feel like Im going to die every fight.

Took everyone's advice here and added another 12 levels of endurance, helped me carry enough weight at medium load to get the Exile armor set

Switched Talismans to Green Turtle, Claw Talisman and Radagon's Soreseal. I did get the Great Jar's Arsenal but it wasnt needed after 12 more levels

Started practicing jumping attacks and R2 charge attacks a lot more and seen noticeable difference in breaking poise, giving me more openings to deal damage. Been also more intentional about stacking buffs.

Just killed Fallingstar Beast by Leyndell on 2nd try

Have you guys ever done Deeproot Depths area?