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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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SJRB
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manlisten
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simpatico
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I had a summon who did things with Dryleaf Arts that I did not know were possible. Dude was kicking birds out of the sky, comboing mofos with tiger uppercut finishers. It was crazy. I couldn't even help him fight. I just sat back in awe.Decided to do a fresh playthrough of the entire game using Dryleaf Dane's stuff. Hadn't done a fists only run as I don't find them especially fun but the martial art moveset is quite nifty. Probably gonna wind up using a fist weapon in my offhand just to get access to parry since you can't put that AoW on hand to hand weapons for some reason. By the time I get back to the DLC areas I'm sure From will have done another patch or two of rebalancing and bugfixes.
Newuserdontflame
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Thank you all for the suggestions. Was able to do it with unbreakable thorns or whatever it’s called. Probably 150+ tries but it is done. Only boss that ever took 100 attempts before this was Sigrun.
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Danjin44
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My suggestion is have weapon skill that can attack him from mid distance, his kind of boss thats hard to deal with in close range combat.
In my second plathrough of the DLC I just used Glintstone Kris on him, it does really good damage while not using all that much FP and able keep safe distance from him.
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Danjin44
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this and also have carian retaliation ash of war on small or mid size shield, it VASTLY improves parry timing.
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captainpat
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I've generally been avoiding using bleed builds but that final boss broke me and made me desperate enough to respec into bleed. And I still don't even feel like I actually beat it cause I died but my mimic got the final hit in before the game over.
Pancakes and Sausage
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The martial arts can be infused with bleed and it’s absolutely devastating.
Those red knights that shoot homing fireballs used to give me a tough time but I simply destroy them now
Those red knights that shoot homing fireballs used to give me a tough time but I simply destroy them now
Antwix
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I really want to do a martial arts playthrough. Definitely gonna do that soon. It just looks like too much fun.
bender
What time is it?
Finished the DLC tonight and went ahead and rolled credits on the main game to get the Frenzied Flame and Platinum Trophy. I think the DLC just further complicated my feelings on the base game. It remedied a few of my complaints but also magnified others. While there are things I absolutely love about the game, particularly how hand crafted the open world feels and just how stunning the art direction is, in the end this will remain as my second least favorite Souls title from FromSoft.
DelireMan7
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Beat the Scadutree Avatar. Targetting the head and staying in front of him was the best strategy for me. Also got lucky that he only did his big AOE, at the end, only once.
Visually my favorite boss so far. Gameplay wise not so much, but I enjoyed it better once I was focusing the head and stay in front.
I am now on Messmer. I think I got to him not from the intended way. I pretty sure there is a way to move the wooden beam in the storage room but I can't find the mechanism. So I explore a lot and made some risky drop... Then I arrived here xD.
Cool boss. I don't like how the flames can cover his next move but enjoyable fight. I almost got it on my last attempt before going to bed. For the first time I reached phase 2 and almost got it He killed me with a combo ender I had never seen so far. I just have to learn a bit more his moveset from phase 2 and I should beat it .
It's funny I was expecting him to be extremely hard or oppressive but actually he feels less oppressive and unbeatable than any other main boss so far. For all the other main boss, I was "How is it possible to beat it solo ?" then after many tries I started to see their weakness.
But here from the beginning, I was like "Doable, challenging but doable". Not really a complaint, quite the opposite actually.
Visually my favorite boss so far. Gameplay wise not so much, but I enjoyed it better once I was focusing the head and stay in front.
I am now on Messmer. I think I got to him not from the intended way. I pretty sure there is a way to move the wooden beam in the storage room but I can't find the mechanism. So I explore a lot and made some risky drop... Then I arrived here xD.
Cool boss. I don't like how the flames can cover his next move but enjoyable fight. I almost got it on my last attempt before going to bed. For the first time I reached phase 2 and almost got it He killed me with a combo ender I had never seen so far. I just have to learn a bit more his moveset from phase 2 and I should beat it .
It's funny I was expecting him to be extremely hard or oppressive but actually he feels less oppressive and unbeatable than any other main boss so far. For all the other main boss, I was "How is it possible to beat it solo ?" then after many tries I started to see their weakness.
But here from the beginning, I was like "Doable, challenging but doable". Not really a complaint, quite the opposite actually.
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yet_another_alt
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I wish they'd release the balance patch already so I can start optimizing properly. The only one I'm playing without worry is my INT build because the only thing that changed from based game is that I traded in Moonveil for a Milady with Carian Sovereignty. INT didn't get many toys in the DLC and they even nerfed some of our best ones right before it released lol.
DelireMan7
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Looks like a new patch is coming today. No patchnote yet.
Be ready for the bragging "I beat x boss before the nerf".
Malachai
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It's just dropped for me. Not sure what it's done though.
DelireMan7
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ok.
On reddit some report mention nerf of Rolling sparks (whatever it is) and a new weapon (Bloodfiend arm). And perfumer bottle nerfed also it seems.
EDIT : it looks more like glitch fix than were abused for cheesing boss
Patchnote should come soon I guess.
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TheDarkPhantom
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DelireMan7
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Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.12.3
ELDEN RING Patch Notes Version – Version 1.12.3 Targeted Platforms PlayStation 4 / PlayStation 5 / Xbox One / Xbox Series X|S / Steam
Mainly bug weapons fixes (which act as nerf for most).
Gaius and Hippo have now their original placement for each subsequent fight. I don't know about hippo but it will make Gaius less oppressive at the beginning of the fight.
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yet_another_alt
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RIP perfumes but atleast carian sovereignty is untouched.Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.12.3
ELDEN RING Patch Notes Version – Version 1.12.3 Targeted Platforms PlayStation 4 / PlayStation 5 / Xbox One / Xbox Series X|S / Steamen.bandainamcoent.eu
Mainly bug weapons fixes (which act as nerf for most).
Gaius and Hippo have now their original placement for each subsequent fight. I don't know about hippo but it will make Gaius less oppressive at the beginning of the fight.
newtypepilot
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gdi, they fixed the perfume rolling sparks cheese as well as thrusting shields having near infinite stamina.
JCK75
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I use the crucible tree armor set, blasphemous blade, brass shield..
Only buffs I'm using are golden vow and fling. Grant me strength, potion that grants increased fire damage... And I use my summon which is usually Black knife Tiche.
If people are going to complain about difficulty and not you summons I feel like that's on them... They're in the game for a reason.
DelireMan7
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I agree with you.
I personally play solo on my first playthrough. But I get that some people prefer playing with all option.
I always do a first solo run on Soulsborne game but the DLC is, on this matter, much harder than the base game. I had to work much more on boss to get them. But so far I still get some enjoyment on most bosses eventually.
But I question if I'll continue playing like that if they continue this trend or actually if I'll play at all their next game in this genre. I don't enjoy much playing with summons or coop. I get a satisfaction to learn and punish the moveset of a boss solo.
I don't complain about difficulty but I start to think that FromSoft is maybe moving in a direction that might not suit my enjoyment of playing solo. It saddened me a bit and think a bit "This is too much" .
So I guess some people feels the same but thought that FromSoft game would stay forever as enjoyable as they were and are now salty about it.
Good on you to adapt and use everything.
I am curious about a tank build with shield and buffs. I actually plan to do that on my next run.
Northeastmonk
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RIP Bloodfiend’s Arm
Cyborg
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Just used to upgrate it to +10, fcking hell.
Saber
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After finally defeating the boss(took me more than a week), I can finally say the DLC is a mix bag in not a good way. The worst offender is the story. I was there wondering "what the fuck my character was here for? Whats his purpose? He could have left this shithole and it wouldn't make a difference". Not to mention it damage the base game with a sort of "aliens" meme explanation being used everywhere.
Most of weapons are either underwhelming or just reskin(one of my favorite weapons, which isn't a great weapon, was done kinda dirty). The only good thing perhaps is the open world itself which is great content for a DLC(though it came with alot of inconsistences) and the battle between Miquela followers(which was EPIC).
Collecting those things to feel stronger(aka return to what you were) did nothing to me. Make the whole process of retreating more like a chore and made me feel like it has not effect on my character at all. During the entire time I felt basically the same and was like "they could have removed this thing and wouldn't make a difference".
Enemies are basically a mix of hyper-aggressive and very high poise. So theres not much diversity here.
No comments on the last boss. Difficulty is one thing, but have to abandon my entire build because the boss just attacks endless sucks real hard(reset my build for the first time). Second phase its just a spam of blinding flash lights that even bugs the game(showing big retangular pixels). After beating it I just watch in the youtube, maybe I was doing wrong. It was worst than my fight. The guy spends 2 minutes rolling and strike once and then go back to rolling. If this isn't a red flag for boss design I dunno what is.
The new spells are great though. Too bad most bosses didn't gave me much of chance to use them.
This is the least favorite content they ever provided to me.
Most of weapons are either underwhelming or just reskin(one of my favorite weapons, which isn't a great weapon, was done kinda dirty). The only good thing perhaps is the open world itself which is great content for a DLC(though it came with alot of inconsistences) and the battle between Miquela followers(which was EPIC).
Collecting those things to feel stronger(aka return to what you were) did nothing to me. Make the whole process of retreating more like a chore and made me feel like it has not effect on my character at all. During the entire time I felt basically the same and was like "they could have removed this thing and wouldn't make a difference".
Enemies are basically a mix of hyper-aggressive and very high poise. So theres not much diversity here.
No comments on the last boss. Difficulty is one thing, but have to abandon my entire build because the boss just attacks endless sucks real hard(reset my build for the first time). Second phase its just a spam of blinding flash lights that even bugs the game(showing big retangular pixels). After beating it I just watch in the youtube, maybe I was doing wrong. It was worst than my fight. The guy spends 2 minutes rolling and strike once and then go back to rolling. If this isn't a red flag for boss design I dunno what is.
The new spells are great though. Too bad most bosses didn't gave me much of chance to use them.
This is the least favorite content they ever provided to me.
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Toytown Assassin
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It's still fantastic. Especially using 2 of them. At 80 arcane the bleed buildup is still great at 204. It still staggers. Still nuking bosses and all those hard DLC enemies.
Clear
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It's fine still, all they did was down rank the arcane scaling by 1. So blood version is now C not B.
SCB3
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So Scadutree 9, beat Messmer, Rellana, Bayle and Romina, I can get to Radahn now but want to go back and explore and beat a few other bosses I've miss, the Putrescent Knight is currently kicking my ass and I've gotten close a few times now though, this area is so DS2 it's unreal, I am missing a lot of the North and East of the Maps though, I am using a Map "Guide" showing locations but no idea how to get to some of them, thats all part of the fun!
Also, I've not found a single Catacomb yet, I know they're there but not come across one yet
Also, I've not found a single Catacomb yet, I know they're there but not come across one yet
Antwix
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They barely nerfed anything. Bug fixes aren't the same thing as nerfs.
Northeastmonk
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I haven’t tested it yet, but people are saying it isn’t noticeable.
Once I memorize these new paths I’ll try Ng+ with some of these new weapons.
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Am using it and can confirm it’s barely noticeable. Still tons of damage. Stagger is the same. It lessens bleed by like 20-25 damage but that’s all.
TheDuskwalker
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Still strong as fuck. Arcane scaling change means it's now 696 damage at 54 strength and 80 arcane instead of 784, but that's mostly negligible. Blood proc is still super high and the high stagger seems unchanged.
Tested changes on a boss I remembered I hadn't done on my Bloodfiend's Arm playthough.
Completely botched the first half of the fight and DPS was still insane.
simpatico
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Dex Int player here. I’m up against the soft cap in all my stats. In an effort to open up more weapons, I’m thinking about putting a few points in faith or arcane. Not sure which way to go. Anyone done this with a build like mine? Rocking 50 dex anf 75 int. Arcane is at 10 and faith is 6.
skneogaf
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The last boss is one of the best video game things I've ever seen!
I'm so impressed how good the last boss and fight looks and feels, the fight is absolutely kickmy ass but I'm loving it.
My only negative about this game which is the best ever in my opinion is I believe the mimic tear needs to be nerfed again.
Its far too strong.
I'm so impressed how good the last boss and fight looks and feels, the fight is absolutely kickmy ass but I'm loving it.
My only negative about this game which is the best ever in my opinion is I believe the mimic tear needs to be nerfed again.
Its far too strong.
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
From Software will never recover from the Zanzibart memes. Everytime someone asks for forgiveness I burst in laugher, and it happened quite a few times on this DLC alone.
lmao
DelireMan7
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That's Messmer done. Good fight. And kind of easier that the rest so far. He's quite readable but still challenging. Kind of boss I really like.
Also did the hippo and grab the map of the area (I really have the feeling I didn't this whole area in reverse).
I'll do some exploration before goinf to Rauh.
Also did the hippo and grab the map of the area (I really have the feeling I didn't this whole area in reverse).
I'll do some exploration before goinf to Rauh.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Why nerf it? It’s meant to enable shit players to do the content.
It doesn’t affect people not using it in anyway.
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