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I’ve made a stupid amount of characters in this game. something about the early/midgame power curve is really addictive for me, you can choose to make like half the zones in the game your “first” depending on build goals and pain tolerance. I’ve only taken two chars to NG+. specifically, my original character to see what it was like, and my death sorcerer, who basically needed NG+ to hit the stat goals. I was a bit disappointed with NG+ to be honest, I thought Sekiro was as good as they’ve ever done NG+ mechanics and Elden Ring seemed like a step back from that. In particular it sucks you lose your great runes. I earned that buff once, you should be letting me power it up more, not making me lose it. And if I want to do Morgott and Fire Giant as my first two bosses in NG+, that should be my grace-given right. Also, if you ever want to make a new character start a bit gentler, add FEXTRA to your group passwords. Super busy group, you will constantly get rune bonuses from other people killing bosses skasion fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Feb 6, 2024 |
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I used Shard Spiral against large bosses and it absolutely shreds.  I think it's even easier then the golden toot because I don't need to sit and channel the bubbles. I don't understand why anyone would not help Sellen because you get all the actual good rewards (cosmetics). And she gets what she wants too. Which is to become a Graven Mage so everyone's happy?
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Feb 6, 2024 01:06
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Yeah I am keeping my original to do random MP and find more secrets. My fresh start is just to redo the Volcano Manor quests that I hosed up and also a different ending. My next guy is going to burn everything to the ground. 
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Feb 6, 2024 01:07
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OGS-Remix posted:I used Shard Spiral against large bosses and it absolutely shreds. Because it requires betraying Jerren who is a chad a fellow Carian bro as well as this games rendition of Grandpappy Gale.
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Feb 6, 2024 01:52
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Ionicpsycho posted:My God, I finally beat the game for the first time. My terrible build right before choosing an ending. Lol. Only thing I'd do differently is turtle talisman instead of swaddle cloth. Rofl. "Terrible", as in destructive. (Also you should use the lower level elemental resistance incantations to resist holy for the final fight) War Wizard fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Feb 6, 2024 |
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Feb 6, 2024 02:37
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OGS-Remix posted:I used Shard Spiral against large bosses and it absolutely shreds. Sellen's stuff is great for Int builds, not so much for non-Int builds, and Jerren gives you what I believe is the only ADSS you can get pre-Morgott.
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Feb 6, 2024 09:53
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skasion posted:Also, if you ever want to make a new character start a bit gentler, add FEXTRA to your group passwords. Super busy group, you will constantly get rune bonuses from other people killing bosses SA's is LLJK as always and I've seen a few pings from it. SOULS and BEZERK are also supposed to be fairly big. E: 'help' is supposed to be popular as well. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Feb 6, 2024 |
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Feb 6, 2024 10:42
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 got into this again after a near two year sabbatical and it's even better than the last time
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Feb 6, 2024 13:35
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When you were at the windmill village, I studied the uchigatana. When you were grafting troll arms to yourself, I mastered the Ashes of War. While you wasted your days at the festival of Radahn in pursuit of gravity, I cultivated a DEX/ARC build. And now that the erdtree is on fire and the tarnished are at the gate, you have the audacity to come to me for jolly co-operation?
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Feb 6, 2024 13:52
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My friends and I beat the Fire Giant last night finally, we then attempted to beat Malenia a couple times but the seamless co-op scaling combined with an easily tilted friend who has a great shield and no concept of "don't absorb hits with your shield" we decided to say gently caress it and lit the forge and left that fight for the next solo, non-modded playthrough. I am actually quite curious to see how many of these long drawn out boss fights we've had in co-op will be a breeze solo because the extra HP scaling for the mod really is a bit insane.
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Grappling with Mt. Gelmir I successfully defeated Rennala after a few more attempts, and finished out Raya Lucaria Academy - everything I could find, at least. Just like Stormveil, I'm sure there are a few hidden areas that I have yet to uncover and I'll be returning after a while to give it a full clear before I call it done. In the meantime, holy crap! All this useless sorcery bullshit for my strength/faith build character! At least i know where I"ll need to head to first when I start my Dex/Int character for my second run. After killing Rennala, I did a little bit of exploring. I figured that her Great Rune would be activated at the Divine Tower of Liurnia, so that's where I went next. It took me a couple of tries to kill the NPC that kept teleporting around, but eventually I was victorious - and discovered I was at a dead end. There's a pedestal at the bottom of the tower that needs something which I don't have - I'm guessing that will give me access, whenever I find it. I went back south into Limgrave and took care of a couple of the evergaols, including one where after I killed the boss, Blaidd was waiting for me outside. I guess he asked me to kill this one? Sure, no problem, done and done. And then I discovered the ramp leading down to the beach, where I absolutely murderized everything I found including the Coastal Cave. Yeah, I should've come down here much earlier than this, but it's always nice to demolish enemies in Souls games, so it was a fun diversion. This also led to an amazing moment where, after I killed the two bosses, I continued further into the cave expecting to find an exit somewhere else in Limgrave. When I emerged and saw I was on the small island off the coast of Limgrave, I had a taste of the feeling I got waaay back in DS1 when I used the Undead Parish elevator for the first time. It was around this time I switched to using the Golden Halberd, and holy(!) poo poo does this thing absolutely smash. Love killing shithead skeletons without worrying about them rebuilding themselves afterwards. While riding around, I also came across a pathetic sort, a guy named Haight. I recognized that name - I cleared a fort with that name. He asked me to kill the commander. Already done buddy, so now he's chilling at the Fort (I'm guessing, I haven't been back yet) and I'll go see him eventually. Ah well, moving on. I ventured north into Carian Manor, cleared that place out (gently caress those hand monsters, those guys are absolute assholes)and met Ranni as well as a creepy rear end sorcerer. That guy gave me a potion to give to a woman who I have no idea where she is. I took the potion back to Roundtable and agreed to give it to the leader of the Roundtable because gently caress that skeevy rear end magic user. Maybe I broke that questline, but I don't care - I'm not gonna give someone this random potion that does god knows what. Maybe next run, when I do magic stuff. Finally, I explored the grounds around Carian Manor. I found a way down into the river that comes out of a mountain. I thought it was going to be a short little cave dungeon like I've found a dozen times over, but nope - it just kept going up. And up. And up. And I killed another dragon. And made it to the Altus Plateau, land I've only ever heard about. Continuing to explore, that took me to the foot of Mt. Gelmir. And I found a nice little trail made of rainbow stones. Now, I'm not an idiot - I knew what was coming. But I had to let it happen. Patches has to have his day. I got my rear end kicked into the ravine, avoided being killed by the basilisks, and went back to Murkwater to confront the fucker. He's no longer there. So I'll keep my eye out for that traitorous scumbag as I continue forward. He mentioned Volcano Manor (that sounds metal as gently caress) so I'm guessing that's where he'll be next. So that's where I am. I have two great runes and have been told to go to the Capital, but I still got exploring to do. Mt. Gelmir awaits, Caelid and Redmane Castle are still practically untouched, and I have a few other quests that are pushing me away from Leyndell.
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Don't drug strangers, yeah. Also, Ranni is great, definitely do her quest even on a STR/FTH build. The reward you get won't be usable for you, but the questline itself is really cool and a major source of lore about the history of the Lands Between.
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Feb 6, 2024 16:59
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If you can handle Altus you can probably handle Caelid (with the exception of Radahn, that's a fight I honestly don't ever think I'll do legit - you either cheese it or luck out on summons who can survive the second phase). I am looking forward to attempting Fire Giant again later tonight, this time with the firedrake +2 talisman equipped  E: also out of curiosity I saw Elon Musk's build just now, and uhhh...
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Feb 6, 2024 17:13
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The game literally gives you an army of NPC summons for Radahn. Please respect the traditions of the festival.
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Seperate 'oh no' seperate post: https://twitter.com/PaulTassi/status/1754873420704059884
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Lucas Archer posted:Grappling with Mt. Gelmir So much fun to watch you work through all this. Btw if you look at the runes you'll notice that the one you got from renalla is already active. Maybe go back and talk to her, see what's up.
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Annath posted:Don't drug strangers, yeah. Yeah, I was accepted into her service and am currently on the quest to find Nokron. I think I'll do that before continuing to explore Mt. Gelmir, since I already know where the Siofra river is, and I have a site of grace already uncovered down there. Benagain posted:So much fun to watch you work through all this. Btw if you look at the runes you'll notice that the one you got from renalla is already active. Maybe go back and talk to her, see what's up. I can't check now, but when I've sat and looked at my Great Runes at sites of grace, Godrick's was the only one visible. I'll have to check again next time I play. I have no doubt I"m capable of missing something obvious.
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Lucas Archer posted:Yeah, I was accepted into her service and am currently on the quest to find Nokron. I think I'll do that before continuing to explore Mt. Gelmir, since I already know where the Siofra river is, and I have a site of grace already uncovered down there. This is going to sound dickish but I swear isn't: check the inventory not just whether you can equip it
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Benagain posted:This is going to sound dickish but I swear isn't: check the inventory not just whether you can equip it It's all good. I'll take a look later on today when I get a moment to load it up.
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oh the beloved fromsoft tradition of just throwing things at you wtihout ever mentioning what they actually do.
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Extra fun when you nab something under fire and then when you get a minute try to find wtf it was 
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Yeah I would appreciate it if I didn't have to hunt through all of talismans/key items/spells/info/tools/everywhere to find out whatever I just pulled out of corpse or a beetle actually is.
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Feb 6, 2024 19:01
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You can sort inventory by most recent.
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I was watching a video that said the icon in the top left of the popup tells you which section it goes in, but that relies on you recognising the section icon while also, as pointed out above, trying to dodge the two sword lions trying to fillet you.
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Feb 6, 2024 19:13
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Glimpse posted:You can sort inventory by most recent. 
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Bobby Deluxe posted:(with the exception of Radahn, that's a fight I honestly don't ever think I'll do legit - you either cheese it or luck out on summons who can survive the second phase). i got my rear end kicked about ten times where it was not even close and I couldn't see much recourse before I went "hmm, scarlet rot ate this guy inside out, maybe rotten breath ... ???" and then he died
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Zodium posted:i got my rear end kicked about ten times where it was not even close and I couldn't see much recourse before I went "hmm, scarlet rot ate this guy inside out, maybe rotten breath ... ???" and then he died the two most powerful things in the game about a giant tree are tree cancer and fire. also shoutout to Radahn, such a badass in life that his followers continue to fight to contain the rot after he went bugfuck :metal: wait poo poo what's the one smilie with the axe? edit: oh in regards to inventory: You can sort your weapons by attack power Benagain fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Feb 6, 2024 |
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Benagain posted:the two most powerful things in the game about a giant tree are tree cancer and fire.  Also, I think people are probably traumatized from launch day Radahn. He is not that hard since his nerf, especially since you can do the fight whenever you want. A character leveled for Leyndell will trounce him. skasion fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Feb 6, 2024 |
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is there a way to get the dung eater puppet without getting boggard killed? apparently the trick with aggroing him and then seeking absolution after the moat fight was fixed in 1.10, and I need my crab.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:luck out on summons who can survive the second phase). Casting Golden Order (either the spell or the weapon art version) on a horde of NPC summons will drastically improve that luck.
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Zodium posted:is there a way to get the dung eater puppet without getting boggard killed? apparently the trick with aggroing him and then seeking absolution after the moat fight was fixed in 1.10, and I need my crab.
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Yeah, presumably the only thing you miss out on is the seedbed curse, but I don't think you need all of them to complete the quest.
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Raygereio posted:According to the wiki buying a prawn while he's at his Liurnia shack is what triggers him to move to Leyndell's moat. So don't do that until after you've finished off Dung Eater? i already did because i didn't know about the change until I looked it up when I got to leyndell 
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You can still get delicious crab from his bell bearing?
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... oh yeah, he drops the bell bearing. duh.
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smh if you don't keep crab man alive
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LazyMaybe posted:smh if you don't keep crab man alive This. Keeping homeboy alive far surpasses any reward from the poop guy especially of you already gave away Seluvis's potion.
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Zodium posted:i already did because i didn't know about the change until I looked it up when I got to leyndell You ate prawns together and he trusts you. So keep the man alive.
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explosivo posted:My friends and I beat the Fire Giant last night finally, we then attempted to beat Malenia a couple times but the seamless co-op scaling combined with an easily tilted friend who has a great shield and no concept of "don't absorb hits with your shield" we decided to say gently caress it and lit the forge and left that fight for the next solo, non-modded playthrough. I am actually quite curious to see how many of these long drawn out boss fights we've had in co-op will be a breeze solo because the extra HP scaling for the mod really is a bit insane. If you're curious, you could always go back by yourself and try it - you can just load your Seamless Co-op save file and not actually host/join with other players. If you decide to take another crack at it, Malenia can also be bullied by effects that launch such as charged Crucible Horns, so it's possible to keep her mostly stunlocked and just be whaling on her constantly. I'm doing a seamless co-op run with a couple of friends and we have the enemy and item randomizer mod going, with the bonus feature of everything has a 1/1000 chance of being Malenia, which is a blast as every so often when we're running around someone will just go 'poo poo gently caress gently caress gently caress' and visibly panic flee.
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i killed him. 🖕
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