After what feels like 100 tries Rellana is down. With 1hp to spare 😳

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/15042254

I have been playing the Souls games since Dark Souls, back in the day on the XBox 360. The Invader mechanic was always a nice touch to the game, most of the people tried to have a fair fight or at least they tried to fight you.

But now, since the DLC, all invaders we get are people trying to lure you to dragons or in a boss room or into another group of enemies because they only understand their L2 button smashing build and can't figure out how to fight properly without abusing some mechanic. Yesterday three people tried to one-shot me with the (thankfully now fixed) Perfumer Bottle Ash of war. Today someone started to shoot at me from afar with a canon and just ran away until he had enough help to finally kill me and my friend. It is just so damn boring going against one trick ponys... Where are the fair fights? Where are the manners? Where are the skillfull invaders that show me how a weapon is used beyond its ash of war?

It is so frustrating, i loved getting invaded in base Elden Ring, always tried to have 1:1 fights with fairness for both sides. But this now is just dumb.

Thank you for reading my rant.

I somehow,barely managed to get to here, i probably lost to that stupid >!hippo!< like 30 times, if it was not for summons, i would have gave up.

I get wrecked by those black knights. Either with colossal mace or twinblade, and twinblade is worse. By the time i rolled out of his 10 attack combo, im out of stamina for carian slicer ( which does meager dmg at scadutree 10 ) and he starts again. WTF

I have like 45 vit 70 int, and im doing less dmg so that its really a chore to even try to break through shadow keep.

Is it a lore reference to a toilet? Hinting at some of the late game of elden ring being shit?

I'm not the best in soulslikes, and I'm wondering if I'm fubar because NG makes stuff harder. Should I just do a replay of the main game on a fresh character?

I literally hadn't even started the NG+ playthrough, I'm at the first Grace 😅

The website went down as I'm posting this. Sounds like a fun idea, I wanted to flex my lore knowledge.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10708092

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/33793909

Previews for the Elden Ring DLC have just been released! Lots of journalists and popular Souls players have been to an event where they played the DLC for a few hours, giving us way more info on what to expect and things such as new weapon types and upgrade materials. This isn't a comprehensive list, just the few that I found quickly.

Videos

• Iron Pineapple: https://youtu.be/ocfTNBUIyCg?si=ucbSYqCSRtTadHlT

• VaatiVidya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP9EOmSFbvk

Articles

• RockPaperShotgun: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree-hollows-out-everything-you-loved-about-elden-ring-and-its-brilliant

• VG247: https://www.vg247.com/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree-hands-on-preview

• Polygon: https://www.polygon.com/24170532/elden-ring-dlc-shadow-of-the-erdtree-preview-release-date

Source: https://x.com/ELDENRING/status/1793643208800436397

youtu.be/6uT8wGtB3yQ

Source: https://x.com/ELDENRING/status/1792888227138769243

LET'S GOOOOOOOOO.

Source: https://x.com/ELDENRING/status/1791468858106069215

I decided to finish main story today, and not wishing to spend weeks getting so much better, i decided to summon people at each summoning thingy every time, all the time.

player killing Hoarah Loux with serpent killer spear - i have no idea what happened there or which stats did he have, he obliterated the boss in less than 10 seconds, left me speechless

Malenia was most fun, keeping her attention just enough to let the other get a few hits from behind, then rinse and repeat at least untill second phase.

Albinauric mask, powerstancing fist weapons with ironcrag aow or using rapier and shield - absolute goat, had their help with like 5 or 6 bosses. Stay golden <3

I expected way more from Gideon :(

Now that the game is done, im returning the favor next weekend when i have the time to play.

Basically the title, im overhelmed by reading the wiki, i want to do rogier and sellen quests before i visit ranni but they both take me way after i should visit ranni ?

What are some steps i should be looking for till i reach lvl 50, 100? I have general idea which sets and weapons i should be using then, im more for along the way tips.

I finished my pure str ( plus vit / end ) Ugg!Smash! build, want to try something more for a change :)

Elden Ring was my first Fromsoft game, so I played it pretty straight; big slow sword, lots of health and a large damage output.

I'll most likely be starting a new run this evening, and I'm thinking of mixing it up and going down a Magic path for a change (if anyone could explain the difference between Magic and Faith that'd be grand).

Are you planning on doing a rebuild? And if so, how are you going to mix it up?

The sites of grace are humanities from Dark Souls 1. Pretty sure its just a smart reuse of assets, but its fun to theorize. I like thinking that Grace and Humanity are similar, if not the same. Losing both leads to similar outcomes.

I posted about this a few weeks ago and I think this video might help those in the same spot as I was.

This is all products of my deranged mind and should not be mistaken for anything else.

Before the Elden Ring, before the Crucible, before the Elden Beast crashed into the Lands Between and fucked everything up forever, there was the One Great.

And the One Great was a massive tree that in essence WAS all of the Lands Between.

And it rained down a continual gentle storm of likely blue Immortal Essence, without souls, without thought, without division.

But this bounty of fundamental energy draws predators, and deep in the vast unknown the Greater Will sensed this delicious feast and dispatched one of its larvae, the Elden Beast, to begin the process of plundering the Lands Between of every drop of Immortal essence.

So the Elden Beast crash landed in the middle of the One Great, the Great Tree, shattering it and in its smouldering crater, the Immortal Essence of the One Great Tree was polluted with the golden essence of the Greater Will.

And that Immortal Essence began to take form, and shape, and have will and desire, and love and conflict, life and death.

The beings that this tainted Immortal Essence created fell into conflict, struggling for power and prestige. And their willingness to fight, the bright burning of their lives, their desire to strive and dominate, these all became glorious golden energy to feed back to the Greater Will via a corrupted conduit spawned from the Crucible and the Elden Beast.

As long as those sharded essences of the One Great continue to fight and strive and struggle, the Greater WIll shall never be hungry, and what being in the Lands Between exists without struggle?

Marika or the God that fled, it matters not, Crucible or Erd Tree, it matters not, as long as the Greater Will is constantly fed the struggle of willful beings.

Which is why the Frienzied Flame is the only egalitarian ending.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!

Anyone else notice this? Also if you look out into the water where the DLC supposedly is to be you'll notice everything is "pulled in" and closer than it should be. Caelid tower is way too close.

This all fits because you need to invert the tower and there's so much reference to the DLC in the Carian Study Hall

I hadn't played a Souls/like/borne game before Elden Ring, but the moment I did I fell in love with the sub-genre.

That said, I've never played any of the DLC before, so I'm wondering how I need to approach it. For context: I finished Elden Ring but never started a NG+ run.

Can I jump back in with my guy, or am I going to have to work my way up to the part of the game that unlocks the DLC?

Thanks.

No word of Elden Ring 2, but another game like it is at least in the cards

Don't worry, everyone will feel weak again.