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Bobby Deluxe posted:I can't even get down the sodding tree. I tried sneaking, i tried systematically sniping from a distance, I tried using one of the shockwave incantations to knock them off branches, but every time the long doots notice me I get one shot. have you tried just sprinting down to the haligtree town site of grace? just hitting da bricks instead of fighting through has done a lot of good work for me this low level game. light load dodge rolls help.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I can't even get down the sodding tree. I tried sneaking, i tried systematically sniping from a distance, I tried using one of the shockwave incantations to knock them off branches, but every time the long doots notice me I get one shot. Godslayer/Black Flame stuff doesn't have any particular effect on bosses, it's just that its gimmick - doing a flat % of healthbar damage in addition to regular damage - gets better and better the more HP you have. As for the branches, you can just hoof it past everything and it's just the big bastard that has any hope of hitting you. Doots are pure holy damage so divine foritifcation and the sacred resist amulet +2 you can get in Mohgville will massively reduce how much that's roughing you up. The area beyond that is much more traditionally difficult. Only one ending per playthrough alas. The big scary door is beyond sewer Mohg, if you've beaten him try a kinetic investigation of the altar at the end of the room
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Feb 17, 2024 15:26
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you can also just run past the next area up to loretta. i pretty much ran past everything.
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I don’t think you can redo the ending unfortunately. For Haligtree, yeah stack as much holy resist as you can (spell, talismans, etc) and make a break for it, focusing on dodge rolling. The long doots and mega doots are very easy to roll if you keep your cool. In the sewer, it sounds like you’re looking in the wrong place for the big door. Did you fight a non-human boss down there? If not, keep looking. If yes, poke around his arena more. If you want more guardbreak with the uchi go for jump R2s. It’s a really good move in general. If you want something that has more stagger on its normal attacks and still has the swooshy feel, try a curved greatsword. Dismounter is a good general choice. Morgott’s cursed sword can be really fun as well - it mostly scales off dex so you only need the minimum arc for it.
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Feb 17, 2024 15:35
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If you're playing uchi and thus have str/dex, get a greatbow set up and assassin's gambit. That combination basically makes the doot root section trivial.
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I beat her co op and and it was a ton of fun trying. I probably will never try to beat her solo but I also said the same thing about trying to beat her at all so who knows
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Feb 17, 2024 17:19
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yeah she's a lot of fun, I never really got tired of trying. the hardest thing about malenia for me was reliably dodging the third waterfowl dance spin. it took me way more tries than I'm willing to admit to understand why it always seems to go where you're going to be (she jumps over you). I ended up solving it by running away from the first spin, then rolling straight through the second spin, then waiting about one second, detargeting her, and rolling away from her manually. edit: also a small lol that her hair is actually part of her helmet model, implying malenia is bald. Zodium fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Feb 17, 2024 |
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Feb 17, 2024 17:29
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hell yeah
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It is also very satisfying to help others do Malenia. It is also cool when one of those times is with LET ME SOLO HER
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Party Boat posted:Yeah the DMGS laser does ridiculous poise damage, the only issue is she hops away from it easily so you usually have to get her locked into an animation before swinging The thing about DMGS is that thanks to its range, it lets you be extremely lenient with spacing on enemy recoveries. You still need to play properly, dodging their attacks. But during a big window, you can tap or charge an R2 and send out a poise breaking monstrosity at them. A shorter ranged weapon you want to be far closer to actually punish their recoveries. Benagain posted:giant hunt is also very good against melania Lion's Claw pancakes are even better because not only are you recovering on top of her, but you can charge an R2 on her wakeup. You can do some very silly cheese strategies with a humble +24 Hammer. Start a Lion's Claw during Malenia's recovery, then charge a 2-handed R2 on her pancake wakeup. This can poise break her. So take the critical grab, and then do another Lion's Claw to pancake her out of her critical wakeup. Rinse and repeat. I'm not completely sure if this works in 1.10 though.
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Feb 17, 2024 21:53
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UnbearablyBlight posted:I don’t think you can redo the ending unfortunately. I can't remember exactly where I made the save or backup, but I definitely got all the endings on my one character one way or the other. I may have had to refight the final boss for some of them? Can't remember, but I wanted to see all of em even if it was just a different cutscene slide and a few different dialogues.
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I summoned Rogier to fight Margit but then sent him away because I realized I had runes to spend and now his summon sign isn't showing back up, is he just not available for that fight now? 
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dialhforhero posted:It is also very satisfying to help others do Malenia. think I am well below summon range for malenia 
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explosivo posted:I summoned Rogier to fight Margit but then sent him away because I realized I had runes to spend and now his summon sign isn't showing back up, is he just not available for that fight now? Reload the zone (e.g. teleport somewhere else and back). You can't summon the same NPC twice without reloading the area.
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Feb 17, 2024 23:18
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explosivo posted:I summoned Rogier to fight Margit but then sent him away because I realized I had runes to spend and now his summon sign isn't showing back up, is he just not available for that fight now? You should be fine. Just warp somewhere else and come back. efb etc Your Uncle Dracula fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Feb 17, 2024 |
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Oh that's a relief, thanks. I stopped playing after that so hadn't gotten to try that 
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Benagain posted:I beat her co op and and it was a ton of fun trying. I probably will never try to beat her solo but I also said the same thing about trying to beat her at all so who knows Work your way up to it. There are like a dozen different things you can do to make endgame boss fights easier and harder. Ditch co-op but use phantoms. Use phantoms but not the totally broken ones like Mimic Tear or Tiche. Use frost pots to interrupt Waterfowl Dance or don't. Level up to 200+. Use one of the weapon arts that does ten billion poise damage and keep her stunlocked for the whole fight. Although I do kind of wish the game had some way to repeat boss fights without starting an entirely new run.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:
I know this is basically MP summons but yeah that would be cool.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Work your way up to it. There are like a dozen different things you can do to make endgame boss fights easier and harder. Ditch co-op but use phantoms. Use phantoms but not the totally broken ones like Mimic Tear or Tiche. Use frost pots to interrupt Waterfowl Dance or don't. Level up to 200+. Use one of the weapon arts that does ten billion poise damage and keep her stunlocked for the whole fight. Bloodborne got this right almost entirely. You couldn't redo EVERY boss, but enough to keep things interesting. This was also why I stayed at levels 60 to 80 or so drat near forever just so that I could fight Radahn over and over again. Some massive storming the beaches of Normandy energy right there.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Although I do kind of wish the game had some way to repeat boss fights without starting an entirely new run. I miss bonfire ascetics a lot
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they're gonna add something for that in the dlc. i just know it. it's not going to make any sense though so maybe you have to pay a larval tear to reset a completely random boss in your zone of choice or something like that
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Cavauro posted:they're gonna add something for that in the dlc. i just know it. it's not going to make any sense though so maybe you have to pay a larval tear to reset a completely random boss in your zone of choice or something like that oh boy cant wait to fight 300 more erdtree burial watchdogs
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I beat margot (with rogier!) first try this time around, it really is a lot easier coming into a new game of this after playing ~70 hours in the co-op mod with inflated HP values. I'm sure it's going to catch up to me soon but so far it's been real breezy. Really enjoying following along with that tldr checklist, there's so much NPC story stuff I missed.
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I have a few questions about mods. Will the affect my regular saves? Also, I watch a few youtubers that do LP's of souls games and I've been curious of some like the Convergence mods or mods that alter the game into an all but entire new game and what not. There was one where your starting class actually affected where you spawned in Elden Ring, but I can't remember the name as well as a DS3 mod that added entire new spell and sorcery elements same for Elden Ring and one that had some kind of huge statue not unlike the Valiant Gargoyles, but that rained holy attacks. Does anyone know which mods these were?
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You could eliminate all doubt about the integrity of your saves by manually backing them up and storing them in a different directory, or even on a different drive.
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I think i'm almost finished? I mean out of the things I was complaining about before, i just have: - the dragon and evergaol up at the moonlight altar, - Subterranean shunning grounds, Except it's just dung eater in the shunning grounds, and I'm still not sure I want to let him out. Apart from that, there's a dragon in Farum Azul who keeps flying off, and a wolf in the consecrated snowfield I just can't beat. Malenia was a hell of a fight. I knew I wasn't going to get it, but I tried it solo a few times, then with a mimic tear, and then finally summoned for a few attempts. I did see a LET ME SOLO HER, but the maidenless swine was in full royal remains, nary a pot or thong in sight. Incredible game though. The underwhelming ending sort of didn't matter really, they could have just flashed up a handwritten "Note: Ranni died on the way to I asked earlier but didn't really get an answer - Is there anywhere in game I can see what % i've done? Or do you tend to go by achievements? The PS dashboard says 100%, but that was before I even got to the haligtree, and I hadn't really started the shunning grounds or mohg's palace at that point either.
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There's something under the shunning grounds. Something deeper. Something hosed up. Also that wolf isn't worth it and only guards a sending gate that goes nowhere special. The only way to know if you missed anything is to pour through a wiki. War Wizard fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Feb 18, 2024 |
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Lmao, I've been doing a Melina cosplay/meme build co-oping for Godfrey, and I got lazy and used the little effigy dude so I could wander. Didn't even think about the consequences of doing near and far. Some poor bastard summoned me for Malenia. To my credit, I gave him 3 different buffs beforehand and got a few hits in lol.
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explosivo posted:If you press and hold the d-pad direction it quickly jumps to the first thing in the list. I always put my most important spells first so I could quickly switch to it when I needed to by holding the d-pad direction down. Same with flasks/items. I was today years old when I learned this, literal game changer. Thank you.
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I have finally made my way to the tower by Stormveil to get my rune activated. Probably should have done this earlier
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It's ok, you'll probably just forget to use a rune arc anyway
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Mustang posted:It's ok, you'll probably just forget to use a rune arc anyway I'm saving onto these 27 rune arcs for just the right moment, you never know!
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explosivo posted:I'm saving onto these 27 rune arcs for just the right moment, you never know! I went through about that many to kill Malenia
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if this is what the full body of the two fingers looks like is the three fingers represented by the lucasarts logo...? 
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almost done with this run. placidusax was a huge piece of poo poo, like malenia but way less fun. I had him down to 0% hp a couple of times using the same strategy I used for malenia, only for him to turn to mist and laserbreath me to death in one hit.  definitely enjoying getting summoned for low to mid level areas wearing full malenia armor though.
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Zodium posted:almost done with this run. placidusax was a huge piece of poo poo, like malenia but way less fun. I had him down to 0% hp a couple of times using the same strategy I used for malenia, only for him to turn to mist and laserbreath me to death in one hit. I find Placi to be really just about staying focused and not getting distracted or greedy for that extra hit. None of his attacks are difficult to dodge if you're paying attention, unlike some of malenias or swings with weird timings. On my last run where I fought him I spent like 5 or 6 attempts beating my head against the wall, leveled up a weapon to get pierce damage, and took my time instead of rushing, and then beat him on the next attempt.
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Placidducks really hates the Lion Greatbow. I have a habit of always thinking he'll be an easier fight than he actually is. However little else is as satisfying as breaking his stance out of the nuke.
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Question for the thread: on any run, regardless of build, what is the one boss, or boss archetype, that fucks you up the most?
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Fister Roboto posted:Question for the thread: on any run, regardless of build, what is the one boss, or boss archetype, that fucks you up the most? archetype: I hate fighting watchdogs. major boss: maliketh
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