Elden Ring

[Coldgrip]

Wait, you mean the damage type that does it by percentage of max hp makes bloated health pools engaging? I personally used the Black Blade, DOT and reducing max health in one package for only 46 int. What a steal

Yes. Took the Poisoned Hand back to base game to see how it does, it has no right being that damn strong, but I'm not complaining.

Only thing I've found to be more fun are the Dryleaf fists. I wanted a kung-fu move set, I got a kung-fu move set.

Now I wonder what other fist weapons there are. I hope there's a sleep fist, sleep is underrated and punching some soldier in the skull until he goes to sleep seems funny to me.

 

[Sniperwoof]

Give the mimic tear one of the fist weapons and watch it solo bosses.

Seems like npcs get confused and can't handle the animations/movesets.

 

[Asian tech support]

Anyone run the DLC with a max level character? I'm asking because I'm curious how difficult it'd be with something like that.

Not max lvl but I'm running it with a lvl 450 character on NG+4 and so far, nothing has been that much of a challenge, save for figuring out the furnace golem.

 

[Zero0]

Feel like I'm playing a different game than everyone else. Most bosses on one try, two max.

All the people sperging about Dancing Divine Beast taking 20 attempts have me a bit confused.

It took you two tries to kill relana solo?

I can't imagine anyone doing that even if they're quite overpowered, I don't even think the boss is that hard but you still have to learn the moveset and all that.

 

[Sniperwoof]

It took you two tries to kill relana solo?

Spammed her to death with the beast claw AOW.

Was it elegant? No, did it work? Fuck yes.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

So let me get it straight. The entire epic war for the Elden rune has been retconned to which of the demi gods gets to fuck their "actually 700 year" old underage brother?

Did GRRM ask for reference about anime and someone suggested Boku no Pico as a joke and he thought it was serious?

I'm sorry Souls-bros, Elden Ring has officially become the gayest Souls game ever made.

Stellar Blade chads keep on winning.

 

[YHWH's Strongest Soldier]

So let me get it straight. The entire epic war for the Elden rune has been retconned to which of the demi gods gets to fuck their "actually 700 year" old underage brother?

Did GRRM ask for reference about anime and someone suggested Boku no Pico as a joke and he thought it was serious?

I'm sorry Souls-bros, Elden Ring has officially become the gayest Souls game ever made.

Stellar Blade chads keep on winning.

Yes, the plotline is fundamentally a love quest that mirrors the modern Japanese man's spiritual struggle. To get the good ending, you have to kill the transgender final boss and marry a blowup doll so you're not maidenless anymore. In the DLC, you get to kill a gay couple because that's heresy. A game truly made for /v/.

 

[Hiphopopotamus]

They put NPC signs inside the boss arena now.

Only some, there's two NPCs for the final boss and those are both outside.

 

[LOWERCASE LETTERS]

How much fire damage does the Mesmer fire grease add?

 

[SpellforceFan]

In the DLC, you get to kill a gay couple because that's heresy. A game truly made for /v/.

Sodomy, incest, pedophilia - most of lgbt flavors, just in time for pride month.

 

[Fear&LoathinginMcDonalds]

My experience with the DLC thus far has just been helping people beat that mausoleum miniboss for like 4 hours and meandering around looking at stuff.
You only get to play it for the first time once so I'm not sperg rushing my way through and taking plenty of time for jolly cooperation while the player counts are this high.

 

[ProfDongs]

I think I'm enjoying it but I'm not a fan of them sticking with the whirling dervish design philosophy for bosses.

 

[ratnoid]

Sodomy, incest, pedophilia - most of lgbt flavors, just in time for pride month.

There are also an implication that Miquella magically charmed both Mohg and Radahn. So you can add grooming as well I suppose.

Anyone run the DLC with a max level character? I'm asking because I'm curious how difficult it'd be with something like that.

Ran as SL200 (No NG+). Was a breeze. I'd go on a lower level character, but I just don't trust From anymore.

 

[Tablet County]

There are also an implication that Miquella magically charmed both Mohg and Radahn. So you can add grooming as well I suppose.

The first time I've heard of reverse grooming.

 

[Idiot Doom Spiral]

To get the good ending, you have to kill the transgender final boss and marry a blowup doll so you're not maidenless anymore.

Thanks for the heads up, gringo.

This damning summary relegates Elden Ring behind Witcher 3, Borderlands 2, Pathfinder WotR and Dave the Diver in my Steam backlog.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

So let me get it straight. The entire epic war for the Elden rune has been retconned to which of the demi gods gets to fuck their "actually 700 year" old underage brother?

Did GRRM ask for reference about anime and someone suggested Boku no Pico as a joke and he thought it was serious?

I'm sorry Souls-bros, Elden Ring has officially become the gayest Souls game ever made.

Stellar Blade chads keep on winning.

My issue is that it just seems worse than Dark Souls 2. The games kinda lost the dungeon crawling aspect in favor of the larger boss rush style, but the boss fights are awful now. Bloodborne and Sekiro at least had your movement speed be able to match most bosses and even then varied the boss fights with some being 1v1, spectacle, or whatever.

The Final Boss just is slop. I think the Lion was probably designed first and it’s fine, but there’s a reason why it’s animated well. I think it’s another Dark Souls 2 where it’s troubled development. Basically there are no intro animations for anything beyond Mesmer, Radahn (which looks awful), and the Lion.

I think the Badlands DLC wasn’t fake and it was one of those things where the devs were planning to make it, it got canceled, people moved onto other projects, and they couldn’t call them back for this.

 

[Bawbag]

Thanks for the heads up, gringo.

This damning summary relegates Elden Ring behind Witcher 3, Borderlands 2, Pathfinder WotR and Dave the Diver in my Steam backlog.

Borderlands 2 is fun. You should play that first.

 

[crowabunga]

FUCK, I just spent the entire game up to Malenia (still need to gitgud on that one) SMASHING and SLAMMING everything with the Greatsword, got decked out with the Solitude armor set, and now I learn that all the bosses are de facto %-damage only? I've heard the poison fist weapon is good, so this is as good a reason as any to try out one of the DLC weapons.

every boss feels like Malenia.

Ah, this is an adequate summary of why so many bosses and "big" enemies I've met in the DLC so far feel like shit to fight.

So let me get it straight. The entire epic war for the Elden rune has been retconned to which of the demi gods gets to fuck their "actually 700 year" old underage brother?

Did GRRM ask for reference about anime and someone suggested Boku no Pico as a joke and he thought it was serious?

I'm sorry Souls-bros, Elden Ring has officially become the gayest Souls game ever made.

Stellar Blade chads keep on winning.

So the DLC contextualizes the PC's Elden-Lordhood as a victory-by-default because the other contenders were trying too hard to get boypussy? God damn, I wish it worked that way for world leaders.

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The map verticality really is nice. In the Lands Between, the map is essentially a heightmap with a few arches and caves, with the exception of the nightmare that is Mount Gelmir. The DLC region has a superficially simple map, except you can actually get to all the depths that'd you'd first assume to just be empty instakill dead drops.

I've also switched from the Greatsword to the Greatsword of Solitude (which is an actual greatsword and not a colossal sword). Nearly the same damage as the Greatsword, but with all the attack speed and hitbox advantages of the greatsword weapon type. Neat shit, but the DLC weapons do seem overtuned compared to vanilla. That's fine if doing the DLC after the main game, but stuff from it will trivialize the first couple NG+ playthroughs.

 

[Asian tech support]

FUCK, I just spent the entire game up to Malenia (still need to gitgud on that one) SMASHING and SLAMMING everything with the Greatsword, got decked out with the Solitude armor set, and now I learn that all the bosses are de facto %-damage only?

Greatsword is fine. That's what I've been using mostly.

 

[Cherry Dude]

FUCK, I just spent the entire game up to Malenia (still need to gitgud on that one) SMASHING and SLAMMING everything with the Greatsword, got decked out with the Solitude armor set, and now I learn that all the bosses are de facto %-damage only? I've heard the poison fist weapon is good, so this is as good a reason as any to try out one of the DLC weapons.

Lol this is straight up some Shazamtroon tier bullshit.

It took me about 15 tries to beat Messmer with a faith build without using bleed/rot/poison/blackflame whatever. I had Scadu blessing at maybe +4?