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Beat Margit and went to the round table place to spend my runes. Ended up in a fight with an invader who does WAY more damage than Margit did. Can't find a way to get the runes out. Is there one? From some Googling I'm pretty sure the answer is no but I figure I'd ask. It's really frustrating because From games are normally really fair, and normally when there's a cheap trick it's something that you can just keep in mind and avoid the next time around, like the barrel that gets kicked down the stairs in DS1. But this time the trick is that they straight-up tell you the area is safe when it isn't, and the punishment is your runes are gone forever? EDIT: Nevermind I beat him. It wasn't as bad as I thought, though it was... weird. Whatever AI they use to make it seem like another player made him react differently to the stuff I did, so rather than adjusting my strategy every time and slowly getting closer and closer to victory, I basically just did the same thing over and over until it worked. Which took a while since he killed me in two hits, but eventually it worked. So it wasn't as big a problem as I thought, it was just boring.  Someone please tell me there's no more of those.
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BasicLich posted:spend those runes as fast as you get them and be sure to use your consumable runes to fill the gaps. you had an opportunity to level up safely right after you killed Margit because he's one of those bosses that spawns a site of grace on defeat. I wanted to use them to buy stuff and then level up with what I had left.
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Dec 22, 2022 08:03
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Can anyone offer any tips for predicting the Crucible Knight’s stomp attack? I’m currently working on beating one and trying to do lots of parries, which is super cool and really fun. However, the stomp attack is an absolute killer for me. The animation is so fast and so, I don’t know what the right word is, low energy? It’s not the animation I would expect for a stomp that cracks the ground in a huge wedge in front of him and deals half my health from far away. So it’s really hard to tell the difference between the stomp animation and a normal step forward in the short amount of time between when the animation starts and when the attack happens, especially when I’m focusing on his weapon for parries. Any tips?
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Dec 27, 2022 08:18
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Ariong posted:Can anyone offer any tips for predicting the Crucible Knight’s stomp attack? I’m currently working on beating one and trying to do lots of parries, which is super cool and really fun. However, the stomp attack is an absolute killer for me. The animation is so fast and so, I don’t know what the right word is, low energy? It’s not the animation I would expect for a stomp that cracks the ground in a huge wedge in front of him and deals half my health from far away. So it’s really hard to tell the difference between the stomp animation and a normal step forward in the short amount of time between when the animation starts and when the attack happens, especially when I’m focusing on his weapon for parries. Any tips? For anyone else who is having trouble with this, I figured something out. If you focus on the knight’s chest, you can keep an eye on the foot while still being able to tell when a weapon swing is incoming. Don’t ask me what to do about the fire breath though. Anyway, I just beat the crucible knight in this Eternal City of I Forgot What It Was Called that I got sent to by one of The Four Belfries. I figured defeating it would give me another one of the special keys to unlock another one of the belfries, but nothing happened, and I can’t see anything else to do here. What exactly am I meant to do in this place? Is there something I will need to do here later?
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Dec 27, 2022 09:23
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Oh, that’s super anticlimactic then. Well, thank you.
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Dec 27, 2022 09:32
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Information on Spirit Ashes is frustratingly scarce. Which is better for inflicting bleed: Avionette Soldiers or Fanged Imps? I would also appreciate alternate suggestions for bleed-inducing spirits but they have to cost less than 85 FP and ideally less than 65.
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Jan 6, 2023 02:36
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7c Nickel posted:Fanged Imps are hard to beat as far as economical spirit ashes go. Doubly so if you want bleed. Imps sound great to me, the little fuckers sure are fearsome enough when they’re not on my side. Thanks!
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Jan 6, 2023 02:42
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:I’m a huge fan of any ash I can refer to as “the lads”. Demi humans, any group of soldiers, wandering nobles, all good. Yes! My go-to ashes up to this point has been The Boys (wandering nobles.) The more individuals I can summon at once, the better. Are there any ashes that give you more than five?
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Jan 6, 2023 04:07
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I need a hint. I’ve been in Nokron, Eternal City for some time. I’ve defeated Mimic Tear, Ancestral Spirit, and Regal Ancestral Spirit. Since then I have wandered around the whole area for a while and can’t find anything to do. The half-wolf guy was supposed to meet me here but I haven’t seen him. Can someone point me in the right direction?
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Jan 16, 2023 05:49
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Vermain posted:go to the grace by the southern ledge in the area where all the ancestral followers are, and then think about where you might be able to jump Wow, I definitely never would have found that site of grace. Thank you.
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I’m currently fighting a boss called Astel, Naturalborn of the Void. It’s a very weird boss and I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around both how to hit it and how to avoid getting hit by it. Hitting it: the vast majority of the boss floats above my head. The only parts that are consistently on the ground are its skinny little limbs. If I aim for the limbs, I hit most of the time (but they’re so spindly I do still whiff sometimes) but that makes it almost impossible to read when an attack is incoming bacause I have to turn my cameraa away from the main body. The other obvious target is the head. If I aim for the head, I can read attacks a lot better, but the head is a fair ways off the ground so the only way I can consistently hit it is by jump attacking, which obviously is not the best for getting damage off and building up bleed. Getting hit: so basically the big problem here is that a lot of its attacks have this… I don’t know exactly what you’d call it, but basically it leaves behind glowing purple circles that do damage over and over again. The attack I have the most problems with is the one where it slams the ground and then a bunch of shockwaves come out for a couple seconds, each shockwave bigger than the last. If I roll through the attack then there’s no way I can get out of shockwave range. Another one I have trouble with is the one where it makes a big glowing field, and a few seconds later, if I’m in the field I get hovered up in the air and slammed down. If I’m in melee range when this attack starts I can’t seem to get out, though if I sprint as fast as I can toward the edge I do seem to be able to reach a point where it just does a bunch of damage and knocks me away rather than doing the whole animation. I would appreciate any advice for this boss. I would also like some input regarding my build. Is this a good stat spread? code:
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Jan 29, 2023 02:59
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War Wizard posted:Have you tried a bow? Or throwing rocks at it? Deathroot can be traded in for throwing rocks. Hmm, I do use a bow quite a bit but never tbought of using one for a boss fight. Cool idea! I’ll try it. One thing though, where can I find the recipe for poison arrows? I’ve wanted to use them for so long but I haven’t found the recipe, even though I found the recipe for scarlet rot arrows like a million years ago. Video Nasty posted:If you get behind his head you can jump attack the body pretty easily and dodge things by going behind him. I beat him around RL90 and did everything with the mimic tear. Thanks for the tip. It’s been a while since I fought Mimic Tear, did it drop an item or something I can use?
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Whoops, I forgot to take off my dexterity talisman before I posted that. My dexterity is actually 5 pointslower, naturally.skasion posted:More vigor, less damage stats. Astel can be a kind of awkward boss to fight melee, as you note he has some attacks that are hard to avoid and so you better be able to take a hit. In general, the game is much easier if you meet your weapon requirements and then level vigor above all else, only focusing on your damage stat once you’ve got enough health to survive (and ideally some upgrades in your weapon—this is usually a more important source of damage than your stats until late game). This is especially important with builds that use two damage stats because levels will be spread thinner all around. You get this awkward midgame stretch where the character is just mid at everything. I’m interested in doing a bleed build, and my current weapon is a Blood Hookclaws. However, I sometimes switch to the Dragonscale Blade, which has a dex req of 20. I can certainly lower my dexterity to 20, but what should my Arcane be? War Wizard posted:The merchant in North limgrave has the recipe book. He's near the bridge. You can also buy serpent arrows from the merchant near the abandoned shack in Calid. Thank you! Say, on the subject of arrows, are there fire arrows?
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Arcvasti posted:It's worth noting that, due to the mechanics of affinities, you actually get very little extra bleed from applying the blood affinity to a weapon with innate bleed. If you're going full bleed then occult will get you better mileage, since it will scale the bleed with your arcane without replacing the innate bleed, as well as gaining more base damage. Ah, very interesting! EDIT: Hmm, looks like changing my Hookclaws from Bleed to Occult would bring the blood loss buildup from 80 to 54. How high does my Arcane have to be before Occult becomes better? EDIT 2: Wait, the natural bleed amount on Hookclaws is 54. So giving in the Occult affinity is actually lowering the amount of bleed? Ariong fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Jan 29, 2023 |
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I tried fighting the enemies the way I normally would a couple times, but after realizing how strong and tough they were I figured I was meant to take advantage of their infighting to slip by as many of them as possible. Getting through the catacombs took a while and mostly consisted of me finding a route I could use to run through while getting into combat with as few enemies as possible, and making sure I could lose the ones that did notice me. Ultimately I nailed down a sequence that let me run by every enemy before the room with a bunch of imps, one soldier, and another solider on the other side of a window. I then nailed down a sequence that allowed me to take down the enemies one at a time. Maybe I only had to do all this because I wasn't as powerful as I was meant to be, but it was very fun. I don't remember having much trouble with the boss.
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Hey, what’s the deal with Stonesword Keys? The game presents them as rare and valueable items that must be used with care, but I don’t think I’ve ever had less than I needed. I currently have 24 in my inventory and I would be surprised if I’ve even used 10 throughout this whole playthrough. Have I just been overlooking a ton of imp statues?
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Wow, really? I swear I’ve seen like 8 imp locks. It’s been ages since the last time I saw one. It’s kind of annoying because it feels bad when I go out of my way to get a purple item and it turns out to be something I already have dozens of and haven’t been able to use in like 10 hours of gameplay. Can anyone please give me a tip for jumping on the chariot at the end of Gelmir Hero’s Grave? It’s really tedious running through the same long hallways and hiding in alcoves over and over just to clip through the thing and die again and again. The worst part is that the first time I tried it I swore I got it dead center and clipped roght through, so I assumed that wasn’t the right thing to do and spent 20 minutes looking for another path.
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Thank you for the chariot advice. One last question for the day: is there a calculator or somethhing I can use to determine how high my Arcane stat needs to be before Occult infusion makes the bleed buildup higher than it is with no/bleed infusion?
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War Wizard posted:motion control emotes 
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FreudianSlippers posted:Those guys are adorable. I love how they all shout in terror when they see any enemy at all.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:What does the Arcane stat do, other than stuff that scales with Arcane? Are there any good items that need high arcane? Or is it just drop rate? If a weapon has Arcane scaling and inflicts any mind of status effect, the buildup of the status effect will also scale with arcane. So for example if a weapon has inherent bleed, giving it an Arcane infusion will cause the bleed to scale with your arcane stat, as well as the damage. The bleed won’t be as high as it would with a Bleed infusion, but Bleed infusion reduces the weapon’s scaling. Arcane scaling allows you to increase both the damage and the status with the same stat.
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Elden Lord Godfrey posted:Sekiro swimming is completely hacky and bizarre and results in a variety of weird loving bugs. This is also exactly how water works in Spyro the Dragon.
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I need a hint. I’ve been working my way through Crumbling Farum Azula. The latest site of grace I’ve hit is the dragon temple rooftop. When I proceeded from there and went right at the place where that weak lightning bolt dragon was, I hit a dead end with a ball bearing. When I went left from there, I hit a door with a talisman in it that led back to the site of grace. I have no more ideas for where to go.
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Epic High Five posted:If the bell bearing temple is the watery one with the beastmen, that's not a dead end. Okay, thanks.
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I’m seriously running into a wall here. I’m 130 hours into the game and I really really want to like it as much as I did at the start, but jesus christ. The bosses are so samey, there is not nearly enough enemy variety to justify the inexplicable length of each area, and I kinda just want it to be over. How much longer will it be until the end?
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GlyphGryph posted:What do folks like for assignable ashes, anyway? Kick
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I was planning to go for the Great Club for my next playthrough. The latest update gave it holy damage and faith scaling. Is this a straight buff, or did it come with a reduction in physical damage and/or strength scaling? Does it have a faith requirement?
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I’m currently fighting a boss called Malenia, Blade of Miquella. She has this one attack where she flies in the air, hovers there for a few seconds, and then flies toward you and does a few flurries of attacks. I can’t seem to figure out how to survive this attack! I’ve tried running away but she flies toward me very fast once the attack starts and I don’t think it’s possible to make enough distance. I have only used shields for parries this run (which is annoying because I can’t reposte her) so I’m not really equipped to block it. Any hints? So far the only way I have been able to get past it is by having my spirit ashes take it, but ideally I would like to save them for the second phase.
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Am I missing a trick re: staggering enemies? People online are saying the Fallingstar Beast (Selia) is vulnerable to being staggered, but I just hit it with three Watchdog’s Staff heavy attacks and it didn’t stagger. Then it charged at me and killed me with the devstating power of the side of its body brushing up against me after I dodged it.
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Here’s a thought I’ve been having. Artorias was my favorite boss in DS1, and I think that’s a common sentiment. He was an incredible capstone of a boss, testing you on everything you’ve learned so far and pushing it to its limits. Well, Elden Ring feels like it was designed based on the notion that if Artorias was the best boss in the game, then the game would have been better if every boss was like Artorias. EDIT: Well, except for the bosses that are also really huge and inside small rooms so the camera goes whipping 180 degrees constantly. I don’t have an explanation for that. Ariong fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Apr 8, 2023 |
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Got summoned into someone’s world to fight Radahn. Radahn froze in place for a while, then jumped up in the air for the comet attack. However, he won’t come back down. We’ve been waiting like five minutes. Any ideas?
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Phenotype posted:You're playing on mouse and keyboard? I guess I really don't know how widespread that is, but I woulda thought these games would be way easier to control with a proper dual stick controller. For the record you can’t actually get to that part of Caelid by going through Caelid. Trust me, I spent a lot of time trying. You get there via a path that starts at Sofria River Well, which is in Mistwood next to a minor Erdtree.
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Gologle posted:With the Elden Ring shattered (by someone (or some thing)) the natural order of game and power progression is also broken. Looks like someone hasn't been paying attention to the lore.  
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I absolutely agree that it would be bad if there was a quest log that told you what to do next, but like... even if you're willing to put in the work there's often no way of getting to the next part of a character's story other than looking up what you have to do or getting lucky. For example, in my first playthrough I like Nepheli Loux and watched her story with great interest. I saw her in the castle, then she gave me the talisman at the roundtable hold, I met her in the albinauric village... and then that's it. She never moved from there. Over the course of dozens of hours of gameplay I went back there repeatedly, interacted with every NPC as much as I could in the hopes that they would advance her story, but nothing else ever happened. I still have no idea because I don't want to look it up. Honestly this is the last game series where I would expect to see people defending a design decision that results in the player's ability to attain the outcome they want being completely disconnected from skill or amount of effort.
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GloomMouse posted:Making only major/centrally located bongraces as teleport location and keep the others as refill/spawn spots might help with that in ER. Torrent is very fast after all. Might just add tedium instead though. What's this about bong races?
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GlyphGryph posted:Strong disagree, games built with the explicit intent that you are unlikely see significant chunks of their content are, generally, much better games (so long as they have enough funding that you still see enough content of some sort to make playing the game worth it). I would again like to push forward the notion that there is a big gulf between "this game has secrets so you won't necessarily see all the content in one playthrough" and "this game has content that you might not see even if you know it exists and want to see it and try to find it."
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v1ld posted:If you're referring to your Nepheli example from the village - and without trying to be a dick or spoil things - she hasn't moved because of, to use your own words, a lack of effort on your part. Honest, you just have to explore the area some more. It's a very straightforward trigger and her motivation is in the words she says to you when you meet, which I've spoilered below. I'm not really sure what you're getting at here. I know this dialogue, I heard the latter segment many times over, and I explored the village pretty thoroughly I thought. What did I fail to put enough effort into?
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GlyphGryph posted:Did you talk to the other NPC in the village? You mean the Albinauric guy who gives you the half of the medallion that eventually opens the path to the snowy area? Yes I did. satanic splash-back posted:He did not, in fact, explore thoroughly enough to find the source of a voice without obvious source. If you disagree with me then that's fine but there really, honestly is no need whatsoever to be a smug dick about it. v1ld posted:She wants to mete justice to the omenkiller miniboss that caused the mayhem and will move once it's dead. If you killed it, then you hit a bug. I crossed the bridge leading to the rock formation that has crystals on it and a purple item (I think it was a stonesword key, but maybe it was some talisman?) and I definitely killed all the enemies there but I don't recall exactly what enemies were over there. It didn't leave much of an impression I guess. Ariong fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Apr 19, 2023 |
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I think it speaks to my point that the experience of the game bugging so progression on a questline is no longer possible is so very similar to the intended Elden Ring questline experience. Like, to the point that they are indistinguishable unless you look up a walkthrough, or post about your experience on a forum and have someone call you an idiot because you obviously failed to do [thing you totally did.]v1ld posted:There's another bridge to your left in the area at the top where you fight the perfumer in that really dark area, before you meet the person who gives you the medallion. There's a miniboss in that area to which you can summon Nepheli, though that's not required for her to move. You just have to kill the miniboss. It's easy to miss that bridge because you get pulled forward due to the right with the perfumer and it's not easily visible on the way back. I really think I did that but I don't currently have a way of confirming. Let's just assume I failed to do it because that would be funnier.
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exquisite tea posted:Watching streamers who have played Elden Ring for a million hours on challenge runs has been very enlightening to me as you learn just how many boss attacks do literally nothing to you if you’re simply standing at point blank range. Got any recommendations?
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