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[TheDarkPhantom]

And that's Ghostflame Dragon down first try, good times, I'm tearing through everything. Fully replaced my armor set/main weapon and found a secret incantation, too bad it's shit lol.

Edit: and I've got to say, I barely used the Black Blade incantation in my 230 hours with the base game but here it's become a staple

 

[Tomeru]

I can only speak for myself but it DEFINITELY harder than the base game. Eve some regular enemies can hit really hard.

I know right? I can't grasp how strong I am at all (sl170). It seems like the scsling of mobs is based on size. Like the normsl mobs have 2k hp, and special mobs have 10k, then you got that first towering wickerman with 1 million hp.

The first boss I beat just now... Sheesh that was like a different game. Im 60/60 str/fth, and I barely put a dent into him (900+ phys dmg,). Incantations also felt weak.

I felt I was fighting a gundam.


In a medieval fantasy game.

Onward I push.

 

[Antwix]

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Oh no I accidentally killed a friendly kindred of rot and now I’ll be missing out on loot! Noooooooooooo

Haha I almost did that too but I tried locking on to him but it wouldn't. You're not missing out on much. It's just a cookbook. I forget what it crafts but it's a single item I believe and it didn't exactly wow me.

 

[SJRB]

I love how typically low-key the start of the DLC is.

There's no fancy cutscene or intro, nothing flashy. There's just a random NPC in the Mausoleum who's like "yo man you want to join me and my homies in the fucking Shadow Realm? It's gonna be neat, trust me" and you're like "eh sure, I guess" and you touch the hand and again nothing special happens, it just bring up the default loading screen and it loads you into some cave. Zero explanation, zero introduction, no bombastic cutscene.

You just spawn in a cave and you're like "okay I guess I'm the Shadow Realm now, I better get going".

 

[Bartski]

Karate mode is so awesome when not underpowered. I'm taking stuff you get from the monk after the duel. I'm at the third legacy dungeon giving everyone a spanking, it posture breaks in one combo so mopping the floor now with team Mesmer now. Fire bucket giants are piss easy once you get a hang of their very simple moveset, regular bosses however are really something else... fashion went out of the window it's about survival here. Can't wait for people who were complaining about speed combos get to the end of the second castle.

Got plenty of new weapons but nothing that could dethrone my Eleonora's Poleblade when things get serious. Also love the new "throwable" I guess that's also a category, I only got one.

Haha I almost did that too but I tried locking on to him but it wouldn't. You're not missing out on much. It's just a cookbook. I forget what it crafts but it's a single item I believe and it didn't exactly wow me.

A cookbook and something yellow



PSA watch out for those guys (I've seen another).

 

[Tomeru]

And that's Ghostflame Dragon down first try, good times, I'm tearing through everything. Fully replaced my armor set/main weapon and found a secret incantation, too bad it's shit lol.

Edit: and I've got to say, I barely used the Black Blade incantation in my 230 hours with the base game but here it's become a staple

What build are you running? Im reslly struggling with str/fth with bosses. Feels like I'm hacking away at rocks. I can down most enemies with a couple of lightning strikes, but they do jack shit on bosses.

 

[Buggy Loop]

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

What build are you running? Im reslly struggling with str/fth with bosses. Feels like I'm hacking away at rocks. I can down most enemies with a couple of lightning strikes, but they do jack shit on bosses.

My own custom Faith build I've been playing from the start, my stats:

Vigor 60
Mind 33
Endurance 39
Strength 22
Dexterity 36
Int 9
Faith 94
Arcane 11

Talismans: Faithful/Flock Canvas, Erdtree Favour +2, Dragoncrest Greatshield

My build is based around super powerful incantations but also being able to take hits with heavy armor (Med load) and moderately high HP. Main weapon should have Faith scaling + Dex/Strength or both so you are viable in melee combat too. I never use stat boosting incantations, Lightning Spear is still my most used spell, Erdtree Heal obviously, everything else is situational depending on what I'm fighting. Black Knife Tiche is my summon, flasks 8-6 FP-HP.

 

[Draugoth]

 

[Arsic]

I am going with the ice katana build so far into dlc and it has proven to be a great choice.

Only boss so far I’ve found that packed my fudge is death knight because of his heal mechanic. Basically mandatory to not get hit at all that boss. :/

 

[Tomeru]

My own custom Faith build I've been playing from the start, my stats:

Vigor 60
Mind 33
Endurance 39
Strength 22
Dexterity 36
Int 9
Faith 94
Arcane 11

Talismans: Faithful/Flock Canvas, Erdtree Favour +2, Dragoncrest Greatshield

My build is based around super powerful incantations but also being able to take hits with heavy armor (Med load) and moderately high HP. Main weapon should have Faith scaling + Dex/Strength or both so you are viable in melee combat too. I never use stat boosting incantations, Lightning Spear is still my most used spell, Erdtree Heal obviously, everything else is situational depending on what I'm fighting. Black Knife Tiche is my summon, flasks 8-6 FP-HP.

Which weapons are you rocking? I'll lower my str and put that into fth (similar build more or less).

 

[Antwix]

I need to find this Death Knight people keep talking about

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Which weapons are you rocking? I'll lower my str and put that into fth (similar build more or less).

Just got a new weapon in the DLC area, it's a quick sword that has Str/Dex/Faith scaling. Before that I was using the Halo Scyth for the past 60 hours or so, used the Blasphemous Blade for a while before that but it's too OP=boring lol. Erdtree Seal.

 

[ClanOfNone]

Blasphemous Blade still does great damage, but without the knockdown you can’t stunlock stuff, which is a bummer for scrubs like me.

I wanna try out the dlc weapons anyways, just haven’t found too many yet.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Blasphemous Blade still does great damage, but without the knockdown you can’t stunlock stuff, which is a bummer for scrubs like me.

I wanna try out the dlc weapons anyways, just haven’t found too many yet.

My character is sitting in the DLC starting area with the blasphemous blade in hand. Good thing to know it’s not that weak.

 

[geary]

 

[Chiggs]

^^^^^Total fucking prick.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Rellana...oh boy lol. Met my first real challenge

 

[Tomeru]

Found Sphiroth's blade. Imma go back to being a weeb for the time being.

 

[DeaconOfTheDank]

For those on PC that are hitting GPU bottlenecks, I would heavily recommend this DLSS mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/4513

You have to play offline of course.

 

[Madflavor]

Managed to defeat a few bosses so far but goddamn. Bosses have so much poise in this DLC. I’m running a colossal sword strength build and it very difficult to stagger them.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Nevermind, smoked his monkey ass, let's go

 

[Tomeru]

Wait, Rellana is a... dude?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

 

[VideoGameEnjoyer]

Fuck me dude, just those first minutes with the music, the views, the atmosphere. So fucking good. I don't know how FROM is so far ahead of the entire industry.



Was a great feeling compared to anticipation of a whole new game. Going in just knowing you're getting more of the best of the best feels good.

 

[Dusktildawn48]

Rellana dead, took me like 20 tries. But that fucking hippo man, the camera is absolutely brutal.

 

[R6Rider]

Wasn't able to play last night, but after work today my journey begins (again!).

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

My solo victory over Rellana, took about 10 attempts



Now I'm helping others in Jolly Co-operation

 

[winjer]

Started playing and difficulty too a couple of steps up.
On a positive side, my bloodhound fang still packs a punch. This weapons is very good for crowd control.
Still haven't taken on any boos. Only a great enemy boss, the Blackgaol Knight. It was a bit harder than what I was expecting and it took me 6 tries to kill him.

 

[Chiggs]

Can you imaginer being a gamer stepping into the world of Elden Ring + Shadow of the Erdtree for the first time? It's a total content overload.

Will there ever be a game like it again? I think From is always going to be trying to live up to it, quite frankly.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

I haven't touched this game yet (not until it reaches a staggering price of 5 pence) but I'm watching people play it and a mild criticism that I have just from observing is that there are many big ass shadow of the colossi type bosses. Seems kind of annoying if you ask me.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

Well, I clocked close to 7 hours today, need sleep but I can already tell this will be GOTY. Can DLC qualify as GOTY? When it's better and more substantial than entire games then you better fucking believe it, Praise Kind Miquella

 

[VideoGameEnjoyer]

Can you imaginer being a gamer stepping into the world of Elden Ring + Shadow of the Erdtree for the first time? It's a total content overload.

Will there ever be a game like it again? I think From is always going to be trying to live up to it, quite frankly.

It’s the greatest content package in video game history at this point. It has to be.

And I can’t put any kind of ceiling on From. They are on an absolutely unprecedented run for the last 15 years.

 

[Little Chicken]

Like the main game, arriving in the overworked certainly leaves an impression! Beautiful.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

Can anyone give me some enthusiasm to continue?

Spoiler

I mean I'm going to regardless. But I've explored a lot of the first area. Beat the fire boi and now am on Relanna. Seems like a good fightm So much has felt samey so far regarding base enemies. Also feels super easy besides bosses. Does it get better?

 

[winjer]

 

[Agent_4Seven]

Man oh man, SOTET is even more astounding visually in terms of art and art design than original game. It's also more complex visually with way more foliage and objects, debris flying around etc.

Uh, if only the goddamn game stopped downgrading everything visually and turning itself into pixelated mess on the final screenshots when the camera is far away, but oh well, fuck Agent with his perfectionists needs....

 

[Danjin44]

Can anyone give me some enthusiasm to continue?

Spoiler

I mean I'm going to regardless. But I've explored a lot of the first area. Beat the fire boi and now am on Relanna. Seems like a good fightm So much has felt samey so far regarding base enemies. Also feels super easy besides bosses. Does it get better?

"Samey"!? are you kidding me!? I put over 700 hours in the base game and this expansion feels so much different .....heck I just fought an enemy who used Radegon's hammer abilities.

 

[Pancakes and Sausage]

Those walking tumour guys that come out of pots are a pain in my ass.

The giant steel fire guy is a savage. He is a never ending fire shooting bastard. Will come back later.

Currently stuck on Rennali or something like that. Attacks are incredibly fast and the magic attacks are too fast. This boss is going to cause many people grief

 

[Antwix]

Those walking tumour guys that come out of pots are a pain in my ass.

The giant steel fire guy is a savage. He is a never ending fire shooting bastard. Will come back later.

Currently stuck on Rennali or something like that. Attacks are incredibly fast and the magic attacks are too fast. This boss is going to cause many people grief

Yeah Rellana is pretty tough. Some delayed high damage attacks and seemingly never ending combos. Then comes sword buffs haha

 

[tommib]

Bloody hell at the visuals and level design of Belurat. It’s like I’ve been playing fake games between Elden Ring and this.

That Dancing Lion, though.

 

[SJRB]

The difference between the regular mob and the boss in Belurat Tower Settlement is INSANE.

That thing bodies me in two hits, wtf.

 

[Draugoth]

I think i will make a new character and built if for the DLC, Miyazaki clearly didnt want people to have an easy time in this

 

[tommib]

The difference between the regular mob and the boss in Belurat Tower Settlement is INSANE.

That thing bodies me in two hits, wtf.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

"Samey"!? are you kidding me!? I put over 700 hours in the base game and this expansion feels so much different than.....I heck just fought an enemy who used Radegon's hammer abilities.

It mostly felt like birds and those shadow people. The invasions were challenging. Relanna is the first true boss I've seen. Just needed encouragement for more challenge bc it's seemed easy so far

 

[ChoosableOne]

-I'm currently at level 170, and it's kinda easy at this point (though I haven't encountered any bosses yet). Maybe I'm a bit overpowered for this area? However, that fire chandelier giant seems impossible to beat at the moment. We'll see

2 hours later...

 

[Madflavor]

Christ almighty did I pick the wrong build. This DLC is not for Big Bunga heavy hitting strength builds. Bosses have so little down time between attacks, and their poise is so high. So I respeced to Dex/Holy, got my new Light Greatsword to +25, and the difference is night and day. The special thrust ash of war is so much faster than any big hit from a colossal weapon, cost almost no FP, and it staggers the bosses in 3 hits.

 

[xVodevil]

Damn just got to love how this game looks. True artist magic here, such a damn shame that stutters are also the enemy and sadly even on PC it can't be unlocked nor dlss for the killer ray tracing performance..
Anyway hats of to FromSoftware for doing best while they are already steps ahead most others.

 

[NeverYouMind]

The difference between the regular mob and the boss in Belurat Tower Settlement is INSANE.

That thing bodies me in two hits, wtf.

You can stack Golden Vow, Black Flame Protection, Opaline Hardtear in flask, and Talismans to give yourself more tankyness.

 

[SJRB]

You can stack Golden Vow, Black Flame Protection, Opaline Hardtear in flask, and Talismans to give yourself more tankyness.

I got him thanks to the summon and my mimic. I can't believe that thing only gives 90.000 runes.