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ELDEN RING: Shadow Of The Erdtree |OT| ⋆☽ Delve Into The Land Of Shadowy Embrace ✰ The Age Of Stars Is Almost Upon Us! ☾⋆
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balls of snow
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Got the Lion down lol. Wasnt really trying just experimenting on some tactics. Latenna you the mvp.. Just plop her down at the edge of the arena and keep mr Lion busy while she just goes full on auto turret.
balls of snow
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You know whats funny, if you switch the map from shadow realm to normal Lands Between, it goes to the Crumbling Farum Azula which was in its own pocket dimension.
Antwix
Member
Honestly thought Sennasax was more difficult due to the camera. I've never complained about the camera in these games but Sennasax was ridiculous in that regard. That arena should've been a bit bigger or something. Honestly they should've just stolen the Midir fight from DS3. I got lucky on Bayle though. Like the last 10 seconds of the fight he got weirdly locked in some animation and acted like I wasn't off to his side. I'll take it though haha.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
Beat the knight and his beloved cross bow fire hell. lol reminded me of many other fights against the arrow onslaught. Beat a catacomb boss as well. Slowly exploring. Is it possible to get all the tree perks for stats before venturing too far?
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
There's 4K textures mod with higher LODs etc. for absolutely everything in the game (it takes a lot of additional space, but it's totally worth it if you've at least 12GB GPU and playing at 4K with RT), which makes From's art even more beautiful and highly detailed. All my screens were taken with all these mods intalled and maxed out settings with RT.
Basically all we need now is dynamic shadows from all light sources in the game and that's it - there's a mod similar to the ones for DS2 and DS3, but it's WIP for now and it needs to be updated to be compatible with the latest update.
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tommib
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For the ray tracing, look for shadows being cast on stone surfaces with those little jagged glitches or movements. All of that is gone with ray-tracing on. If I remember I’ll make a video in an area later tonight which shows this. It’s subtle but it turns the beautiful world into a perfect beautiful world.
And yes, HDR is probably the most impressive to date. Armored Core 6 already showed a glow up but this DLC kind of puts even Sony first party to shame with its HDR. It’s interesting that From not known for being technical gods have absolutely mastered HDR implementation. Watching YouTube videos of this and then starting the game on my A90J set is like getting eye laser surgery.
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TheDarkPhantom
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Shadow Keep really is peak FROM design, intricate and expansive, beautiful in its design language and art, filled with secrets. Also, fuck Mesmer 
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Cyborg
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Started playing
- Exploring feels much much more confusing then the original.
- I hate (I cant stress it enough) the big stone birds. There is a place where you have to fight like 20 (in total) of them
- I do love the atmosphere and the level design (Im not that far into the game)
- Most of the caves I found feel less special than in Elden Ring.
- Exploring feels much much more confusing then the original.
- I hate (I cant stress it enough) the big stone birds. There is a place where you have to fight like 20 (in total) of them
- I do love the atmosphere and the level design (Im not that far into the game)
- Most of the caves I found feel less special than in Elden Ring.
TheDarkPhantom
Member
Beat hippo on my 3rd attempt, had to use NPC summon but the hippo deserved it lol. Funny thing is I stumbled upon it by complete accident since I essentially did Shadow Keep in reverse entering from the Church district. I love that we have the freedom for that kind of thing, literally saw the level and noticed potential secrets/routes in a different way then I imagine most other players, cool stuff. Mesmer next, finished the NPC quest in this area and got a cool shield for my troubles. As always with a first playthrough, zero guides, just the way Miquella intended 
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Toytown Assassin
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and even with level 20 the last boss can kill you so fast you leave the bloodstain outside the fogwallGet your scadutree blessings guys, don't focus on leveling up:
If you have your weapons at +25 your only focus should be on finding the scadutree blessings if you're struggling with a boss/area.
And FYI, there are a total of 50 blessings to be found.
GHG
Gold Member
and even with level 20 the last boss can kill you so fast you leave the bloodstain outside the fogwall
Skill issue.
I'm just kidding.
Maybe.
Toytown Assassin
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Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
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GHG
Gold Member
Another thing I've seen, if you're using any scarseal talismans, remove them in favour of something else that suits your build.
In the DLC area they reduce your damage negation significantly while offering up little in the way of benefits (unless you're leaning on them to meet weapon level requirements).
It's not, unless you completely ignore the information the game gives you in the opening few minutes of the DLC.
The leveling mechanics are completely different in the area and I don't think many people are quite wrapping their head around it.
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Lucifers Beard
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Yeah this is really important. If you're not using the blessings then you're going to get absolutely fucking ruined. They are there for a reason, use them. Levelling up is good and you should do it, but the blessings are much more important, I feel like they determine how far you can go.
GHG
Gold Member
That’s beautiful. And it reveals all her openings for people struggling.
My cowardly mess is an embarrassment compared to this but hey I it’s done.
That video prompted me to test out the milady weapon and the moveset is glorious. I thought the backhand blades were a work of art but this takes it to the next level.
You can combo string R2, R1, R1, R1 and it's stunning.
The double slash art of war works great on it as well, fantastic reach.
M1987
Member
It makes the base game bosses look like a joke
Danjin44
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Very true, Radegon is not even that hard compare to some of the bosses I faced here.
tommib
Banned
If you can’t do it, I’ll never do. Anyway, still have so much to explore before reaching the last boss.
Fabieter
Member
So basically the endboss of the second dks 3 dlc all over.
DelireMan7
Member
It depends on your build and lvl you go in.
The DLC expects you to have finish the main game (so maxed weapon and at least lvl 120)
Looks like lvl 150 and maxed weapons is a good starting point. But it will still be quite challenging.
Then there is this new leveling system that gives quite a boost.
If you're using Spirit, NPC or coop it will be easier obviously.
In general it's more challenging than the base game. Boss hit really hard and from the few I've seen, they tend to be hyper aggressive with long combos string and few opening.
As in the base game, experience may differ a lot according your playstyle. That's why you see people claiming it's really hard and impossible (because they play solo and/or underleveled and undergeared) and some other claiming it's not that hard or even easy (because they are at good or high level, using summon or have a perfect build for a particular boss etc...)
So basically it's objectively harder than the base game but you can easily modulate the difficulty (as in the base game).
Rellana fight finally clicked. At first I found her too agressive with very little opening and never ending combos. But now I can read her better and see a lot of openings. The fight is like a dance : dodge, jumping over her attack, squeeze attack betwen her strings etc....
Once you stagger her, you can do some good damage : I use the "Lady" weapon and once she's staggered I can hit her 3 times, then to the critical then a charge attack while she stands up and finally the weapon art (Impale, but it's not 100% safe this one).
I brute force her a bit once I stagger her and once I stagger her 3 times in a row xD. Especially during her switch to phase 2, where she's defenseless for few seconds.
Still my weapons are only +18 and I don't do enough damage. I'll go back quickly to main game to beat Fire Giant and do Farum Azula to have easy access to smithing stone 7/8 and max my weapon.
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tommib
Banned
There’s one thing that has been making From bosses super hard and that’s bonfires just in front of boss rooms. This allows endless tries.
Going back to Demon’s and Dark, the stretch to reach bosses could be brutal: think of 4-2 and 2-1 or even reaching Taurus demon.
So, to give you the chance to avoid the whole level difficulty they ramped up boss difficulty.
Personally, I prefer the tension from long levels and easier bosses.
Going back to Demon’s and Dark, the stretch to reach bosses could be brutal: think of 4-2 and 2-1 or even reaching Taurus demon.
So, to give you the chance to avoid the whole level difficulty they ramped up boss difficulty.
Personally, I prefer the tension from long levels and easier bosses.
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Cyberpunkd
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TBH, I only learned about this due to YT review:Get your scadutree blessings guys, don't focus on leveling up:
If you have your weapons at +25 your only focus should be on finding the scadutree blessings if you're struggling with a boss/area.
And FYI, there are a total of 50 blessings to be found.
Which is why I posted it numerous times - the difficulty scaling in the DLC is not based on SL, but on a number of blessings you gather. My guess is this is not communicated to the player in any way, thus the frustration.
Revolutionary
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Sup
tommib
Banned
I think it is communicated right at the start but people ignore it because they’re just too used to soul levelling?
Bartski
Gold Member
I did it. Fingerprint stone +lance + mimic tear. + Ansbach. Any other more legit way with my fav build I made it 75% in after maybe 30 attempts. No regrets this is probably the hardest final boss FROM has ever designed, good luck team gitgud soloing that. In the meantime if anyone needs help there hit me up
Chiggs
Gold Member
That is a legit shield. Congrats on the win!
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Well, well, weeelllll!
Who would've thought that upgraded to the max Radahn's blades will come in handy ones again someday and make one SOTET's particular boss fight a trivial task.
Who would've thought that upgraded to the max Radahn's blades will come in handy ones again someday and make one SOTET's particular boss fight a trivial task.
DragonNCM
Member
You will love phase 2....there fun begins
TheDarkPhantom
Member
This little shrimp has got moves
SJRB
Gold Member
Get your scadutree blessings guys, don't focus on leveling up:
If you have your weapons at +25 your only focus should be on finding the scadutree blessings if you're struggling with a boss/area.
And FYI, there are a total of 50 blessings to be found.
100% gauranteed they're going to patch in more messages in the beginning to emphasize this system. Bandai Namco even put a message on Twitter saying people need to use the Scadutree blessings.
Remember when Elden Ring just came out and no one jumped in the tutorial hole because the description was super vague and made it seem like it was a challenge and people were like "fuck that"? They fixed that by adding a message and a prompt.
It's gonna happen here, no doubt.
Buggy Loop
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Get your scadutree blessings guys, don't focus on leveling up:
If you have your weapons at +25 your only focus should be on finding the scadutree blessings if you're struggling with a boss/area.
And FYI, there are a total of 50 blessings to be found.
In fact I haven’t leveled up in erdtree once, there’s no point as it will not help that much compared to blessings.
I went on an exploration rampage to find them before doing any big boss battles. Beat Lion on first try. Now I think. I would have died 50 times if I had went there before blessings.
Pancakes and Sausage
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GHG
Gold Member
It is communicated upon entering the DLC area, it's very clear.
If you want fast wind ups on the backhand blade then try the running heavy attacks.
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