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Selia dudes are ghost burger kings. Not sure if it was the shattering dust up itself or the rot nuke that took it out. Fire giant can be rotted and bled to death too.
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Mustached Demon posted:Selia dudes are ghost burger kings. Not sure if it was the shattering dust up itself or the rot nuke that took it out. But we see ghosts and they tend to be stationary in places with good views. Also, no one gives a crap about them as opposed to Those Who Live In Death.
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Fire Giant P2 has a lot of trouble damage racing a bunch of estus sips and mag dumping barrage into him with a good upgraded bow. If you can free aim a long range spell then same idea. Huge telegraphed attack, doesn't hit that hard if you beef it. Better than fighting the duo boss of Fire Giant and The Camera and trying to hit the eye with melee!
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Dec 31, 2023 02:32
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Poor fire giant, hurt their ankle sledding then some jerkbag shows up to pick a fight.
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fire giant is comically weak to bleed, much like almost every other boss in the game, and having a backup bleed infused weapon for that specific purpose is very helpful. just get something fast and cheap stat-wise like the uchigatana so you can run out of his fire field when necessary
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Did they ever fix that funny bug where if you proc bleed at the end of phase 1 it skips phase 2 entirely?
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Vermain posted:fire giant is comically weak to bleed, much like almost every other boss in the game, and having a backup bleed infused weapon for that specific purpose is very helpful. just get something fast and cheap stat-wise like the uchigatana so you can run out of his fire field when necessary Flamberge with frostbite infusion then hit them with catch flame or a fireball or something to reset the frost after it procs.
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Glad I could catch up on this thread and learn about all the ways I’ve played FromSoft games incorrectly. Remember folks, you don’t need to min-max stats for optimal single-hit damage, you can instead just play Whatever Is Fun.
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Re: fire giant phase 2. I just untargeted him and hit him in the gooch with a giant brick. Seemed easy enough.
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ElehemEare posted:Glad I could catch up on this thread and learn about all the ways I’ve played FromSoft games incorrectly. Remember folks, you don’t need to min-max stats for optimal single-hit damage, you can instead just play Whatever Is Fun. Not entirely true. I have a bad habit of trying to have access to all-the-things on a first run and end up being a jack of all trades master of none build. It forces me to learn enemy weaknesses just to manage and some of the later bosses can be absolutely miserable to fight. Having a major/minor (not min-max) in stats seems to be the way to go. That said, if anyone still hasn't played with the sword of night and flame I totally suggest trying it out sometime. Its triple damage type might hit 3 defenses but in many cases enemies will be weak to one of them and make up for it.
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I would like to know how to gently caress a game as hard as it tries to gently caress me. If that means making a specific build then so be it. So much stuff hits so loving hard.
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War Wizard posted:Not entirely true. I have a bad habit of trying to have access to all-the-things on a first run and end up being a jack of all trades master of none build. It forces me to learn enemy weaknesses just to manage and some of the later bosses can be absolutely miserable to fight. if you are building for the sword of night and flame, you may as well also fully cap out the golden order seal and the prince of death's staff and go for a very potent omnicaster. it's what I did for three playthroughs, and it's actually quite effective. ancient death rancor may not be the spirit bomb that people are quite fond of, but it basically doesn't miss and does a ton of work. I used deaths poker instead of the sword of night and flame in the end, but the sword is not bad.
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The issue I had was doing it as a first run on the release date before even knowing about death magic and also being confused by all the mismatched stat requirements of it. Also a lot of those spells weren't good until they got buffed much later. I've been meaning to give it another go, mainly because I really want to try out the death poker.
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sure, I mean, my experiences were at launch as a first character but I am nothing if not foolishly persistent.
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Is a build bad if it sucks and dies a lot but you have fun playing it? My John Sekiro Uchi+Wazikashi Fastroll build is objectively bad, but I’m having a lot of fun trying to tackle every single minor dungeon. 
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ElehemEare posted:Is a build bad if it sucks and dies a lot but you have fun playing it? My John Sekiro Uchi+Wazikashi Fastroll build is objectively bad, but I’m having a lot of fun trying to tackle every single minor dungeon. Fast-roll is automatically good. I've only had one build (using daggers) that could do it, but I was blown away by how powerful it is. A lot of enemies have roll catching moves and fast-roll lets you ignore them and just keep rolling. My only suggestion is to eat crab/prawn to make up for a lack of armor.
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I just got cocky item farming and got dumpstered by a knight I could usually three-hit, losing almost 20k runes in the process. Elden Ring is truly the mirror to my clown of a self.
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FROM games have this funny thing that you get too confident and the enemy you've killed a hundred times will gently caress you up because you got distracted by whatever like a phone notification losing progress/souls/anything in the process or even a quick return to a boss fight. I always get pissed but then I have to smile because Miyazaki did what John Romero couldn't in 2000.
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Guillermus posted:FROM games have this funny thing that you get too confident and the enemy you've killed a hundred times will gently caress you up because you got distracted by whatever like a phone notification losing progress/souls/anything in the process or even a quick return to a boss fight. That and poison swamps.
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I still don't know if bosses are actually programmed to get more aggressive when they're down to a sliver of health or if it just feels that way because that's when they most commonly kill me
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2house2fly posted:I still don't know if bosses are actually programmed to get more aggressive when they're down to a sliver of health or if it just feels that way because that's when they most commonly kill me It's probably you (and me, it happens to everyone) subconsciously relaxing because you feel like you've got it "in the bag".
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Many bosses in Elden Ring do get access to new attack patterns and AI routines at certain health thresholds (even if they don't outright have a visible phase 2 or 3) but it's usually more like 70% / 50% / 30% than the last sliver.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Many bosses in Elden Ring do get access to new attack patterns and AI routines at certain health thresholds (even if they don't outright have a visible phase 2 or 3) but it's usually more like 70% / 50% / 30% than the last sliver. Elden-Ring-But-Every-Enemy-Gets-Waterfowl-Dance-At-10%-HP.mp4
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ElehemEare posted:Elden-Ring-But-Every-Enemy-Gets-Waterfowl-Dance-At-10%-HP.mp4 Give rune bears the duck dance.
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ElehemEare posted:Elden-Ring-But-Every-Enemy-Gets-Waterfowl-Dance-At-10%-HP.mp4 Monstrouscrow Dance.
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They should make the big crows black and white and simply call them Australian magpies. Every single one should get a boss bar at the bottom. Additionally, they can't be killed, and will chase you through graces and map regions. (more accurate).
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Speaking of crows, does anyone here ever bother going into melee with the bloody crows? That is one enemy that over multiple playthroughs I just cannot get a feel for. They scare me and they hurt a lot. I'd rather fight a laser beam golem inside a phone booth.
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Crows fake being stunned, mimicking the sound effect even, but it took me so long to encounter that because they're terrifying and I'd rather just avoid them.
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Node posted:Speaking of crows, does anyone here ever bother going into melee with the bloody crows? That is one enemy that over multiple playthroughs I just cannot get a feel for. They scare me and they hurt a lot. I'd rather fight a laser beam golem inside a phone booth. if by "melee" you mean "point blank use of poker weapon arts", yes
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I have to say the flying enemies in this game suck so much rear end and those banshee poison bat fuckers are probably the worst enemy in the game I've encountered so far.
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doomfunk posted:if you are building for the sword of night and flame, you may as well also fully cap out the golden order seal and the prince of death's staff and go for a very potent omnicaster. it's what I did for three playthroughs, and it's actually quite effective. ancient death rancor may not be the spirit bomb that people are quite fond of, but it basically doesn't miss and does a ton of work. Can confirm this is a very fun build and a chance to try out spells you'd ordinarily never use. I power stanced it with St Trina's, another weapon I hadn't used, because the straight sword power stance moveset is very good.
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Crows aren't too bad when you're fully set up and happen to be a great shield user(Blood Palace) but otherwise are begging for a humbling death in the first half of the game.
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oh wait, you don't send your sign to summoning pools across the whole map? just the general area, so my sign can't be at halligtree/ash leyendell/farum azula all at once? I am going to go right back to ignoring this mechanic
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LazyMaybe posted:oh wait, you don't send your sign to summoning pools across the whole map? just the general area, so my sign can't be at halligtree/ash leyendell/farum azula all at once? I am going to go right back to ignoring this mechanic Uh, what? Where are you getting that? Just select "Near and Far" and it'll be sent to every summoning pool you've activated.
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Game-wide automatic co-op signs is the best thing they've introduced. Imagine if covenants come back, there'd be 30 sunbros piling through every noob who just needs a little boost's summon sign, each instance being one that invaders use as wellParacelsus posted:Can confirm this is a very fun build and a chance to try out spells you'd ordinarily never use. I power stanced it with St Trina's, another weapon I hadn't used, because the straight sword power stance moveset is very good. Honestly it'd probably be worth it just to have a Discus of Light that is not only taking levels from other areas like in a faith build, but also being casted with its damage boosting seal. Between that and healing spells/warming stones you'd almost never run out of anything Picking the best of both worlds spell-wise is just a bonus Like any quality build though it seems pretty stat hungry to get anywhere near the power level endgame of a character that is focusing on one or the other. There's so many bullshit OP incants tho that I wonder if 10-20% damage less would even make a difference.
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I tag every single summoning sign I pass, also random dungeons that I don’t explore because playing boss roulette is fun. I still get summoned to stuff in Limgrave when I’m in Caelid and Altus. Helping newbies kill the tree knight and dragon at the start is kinda heartwarming  ElehemEare posted:Glad I could catch up on this thread and learn about all the ways I’ve played FromSoft games incorrectly. Remember folks, you don’t need to min-max stats for optimal single-hit damage, you can instead just play Whatever Is Fun. Absolutely play whatever is fun, just don’t get mad if a strat you looked up on Reddit doesn’t work
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War Wizard posted:Uh, what? Where are you getting that? Just select "Near and Far" and it'll be sent to every summoning pool you've activated.
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I'm a big advocate of the "do whatever is fun and don't worry about min/max, but always keep a 'BREAK GLASS IN CASE OF DRAGON' OP option ready to go" approach for dragons or anything I find annoying to fight and just want dead. Usually the Envoy's Long Horn because most builds would require me to change talismen or physik tears to use it which is enough of a hurdle that I'm never tempted.Fruits of the sea posted:I tag every single summoning sign I pass, also random dungeons that I don’t explore because playing boss roulette is fun. I still get summoned to stuff in Limgrave when I’m in Caelid and Altus. My personal favorite is Castle Morne, which you get to really show them every nook and cranny before the boss fight with way fewer and way more fun invasions than Stormveil gets. I like co-op as pure faith guy because it's an excuse to show off all the cool poo poo incant users get. Crucible Horn into charged Tail, followed up with Flame of Frenzy/dragon roar OR a bunch of blue rocks
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