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I might have to switch to using walkthroughs soon though cause I have no idea how to approach the Fire Giant and am worried about locking in an ending that I don't think I want lol.
There is only one ending you can actually get locked into, just avoid getting naked in front of a sketchy looking door below Leyndell and you'll be fine.

There is also an item you can find to undo the effects and get one of the other endings.

As for the rest, Goldmasks is the most easily missed, if you want it, make sure to finish that quest line before resting at the grace after the fire giant.
 
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There is only one ending you can actually get locked into, just avoid getting naked in front of a sketchy looking door below Leyndell and you'll be fine.

Wait what? Is this pee pee poo poo man's ending?
 
Wait what? Is this pee pee poo poo man's ending?

No, it's Frenzy McFlameface's ending, but there is a way out using the needle of Miquella inside Farum Azula, making the fights against some otherwise optional bosses necessary. It's also the only way to save your Maiden's life and still get a good ending, even though it makes no difference regarding game mechanics, as Melina will be gone as soon as you reach Farum Azula one way or another.
 
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There is only one ending you can actually get locked into, just avoid getting naked in front of a sketchy looking door below Leyndell and you'll be fine.
Even that is undoable, you just need to kill some more shit. Although I'm not sure whether any of that is missable.
 
No, it's Frenzy McFlameface's ending, but there is a way out using the needle of Miquella inside Farum Azula, making the fights against some otherwise optional boss' necessary. It's also the only way to save your Maiden's life and still get a good ending, even though it makes no difference regarding game mechanics, as Melina will be gone as soon as you reach Farum Azula one way or another.
Let the silly cow sacrifice herself, then you can burn the world uncontested.
 
No, it's Frenzy McFlameface's ending, but there is a way out using the needle of Miquella inside Farum Azula, making the fights against some otherwise optional bosses necessary. It's also the only way to save your Maiden's life and still get a good ending, even though it makes no difference regarding game mechanics, as Melina will be gone as soon as you reach Farum Azula one way or another.
That and the underwhelming endings are really one of the worst bullshit of the game, at least I had Ranni's ending that felt relatively justified in being so short. Why have a way to subvert fate to have Malenia survive and just fucking ignore it?
 
Yeah even though she's not really talking to you much for 95% of the game anyway it would have been good for her to at least pop up once at a bonfire and foreshadow her post-credit scene a bit.
I don't think it was executed well but maybe the intention was to leave you in a state of confusion for the whole trip to Farum and her appearing would have grounded it? As backwards as it sounds not to want to do so. And there's not much opportunity afterwards that wouldn't be overly proximal to seeing her again after the ending right away.

I guess there could also be some lore reason why she can't visit Azula or can't appear again after the tree becomes warmer (she does say something about being limited to graces so it sorta scans even though that's a fucking lie and you first see her with Torrent in the death cave that doesn't have one) before the Elden Beast is defeated, but lol i dunno and while I appreciate hypothetical internal consistency even if it's obfuscated by cryptic storytelling that doesn't justify rough surface-level narrative structure.
 
I'm currently working on a DEX INT build using the Moonveil, and I want to powerstance Katanas; I plan on having the Nagakiba as my off-hand weapon, but I was wondering what my stat spread should be (40/40, I guess?).

I'm open to any tips, but if not, that's cool.
 
I'm currently working on a DEX INT build using the Moonveil, and I want to powerstance Katanas; I plan on having the Nagakiba as my off-hand weapon, but I was wondering what my stat spread should be (40/40, I guess?).

I'm open to any tips, but if not, that's cool.
You disgust me for using Moonveil, get some maidens on your dick by farming up some Clayman's Harpoons. They're INT-scaling spears that are particularly special because they're the only INT-scaling melee weapon you can cast Scholar's Armament on, which translates into fuckhuge magic damage every time you poke.
 
You disgust me for using Moonveil, get some maidens on your dick by farming up some Clayman's Harpoons. They're INT-scaling spears that are particularly special because they're the only INT-scaling melee weapon you can cast Scholar's Armament on, which translates into fuckhuge magic damage every time you poke.
Yo that actually sounds dope as fuck! Just flat int scaling?

Guess who's gonna respec!
 
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Absolutely maidenless.
 
That and the underwhelming endings are really one of the worst bullshit of the game, at least I had Ranni's ending that felt relatively justified in being so short. Why have a way to subvert fate to have Malenia survive and just fucking ignore it?
The Malenia/ Miquella ending was cut, but it seems like this time around FROM actually wants to restore content that was cut. I expect DLC, but they added an NPC in the patch notes. Lorewise Malenia is being more and more influenced by an Outer God, Miquella is doing some weird tree melding/ dream walking bullshit as a defense against Mogh's shotacon tendencies and can't actually help her. The only Good endings in the game is Ranni and Fracture everything else is either making the same shit happen again, but either with NWO, Poop, or Surströmming flavored. Flame of Frenzy is restore everything to tang.
Also I expect you to be all about Flame of Frenzy ending, it's the only one that's Kosher.
 
Why have a way to subvert fate to have Malenia survive and just fucking ignore it?
It reeks of cut content. Getting the frenzied flame is even hinted at as being one of the only ways to save your maiden and the way Shabriri points you towards it. I can kind of understand why she'd still be pissed, because you robbed her of your purpose and put the whole world at risk, but she should appear at the next sight of grace at least and still say some shit to you. Even, "Oh, you did me a kindness, but your woeful disregard for my fated purpose and the risk you thrust upon the world means you are not the lord I thought you were. Goodbye forever."

As it is, it feels like remnants of something that got axed late in the game. It's Miquella's needle you wind up getting to cure yourself, and dataminers have shown he used to have his own questline and getting his blood was the way you triggered the Malenia bossfight, so I'm thinking maybe it was tied into that and it wound up all getting sliced out. Maybe DLC will have something like that. I'm still not entirely convinced we won't see a Scholar's style re-release in the future.
 
I'm currently working on a DEX INT build using the Moonveil, and I want to powerstance Katanas; I plan on having the Nagakiba as my off-hand weapon, but I was wondering what my stat spread should be (40/40, I guess?).

I'm open to any tips, but if not, that's cool.
Late, but if you swapped to a STH/INT build there's still kind of a katana you can use if you want a gravity weapon. I say kind of because it's strength scaling but it's not spectacular damage like Moonveil/Clayman's Harpoon (660 at 70 int without magic scorpion ring is a hell of a trip) and more strength scaling than int. In eastern Caelid there's a weapon called the Meteoric Ore Blade and it's got the Gravitas Ash of War so you can pull things off of cliffs. Bleeds like any katana, has a unique R2 that (allegedly) shreds enemy posture, it certainly is a choice if you go back to dual int katanas.

There's also Sword of St Trina if you want a physical option/hate Godskin bosses/really want extra openings on some bosses, that one helped me against the dickhead with the Carian Retaliation AoW in Raya.
 
It reeks of cut content. Getting the frenzied flame is even hinted at as being one of the only ways to save your maiden and the way Shabriri points you towards it. I can kind of understand why she'd still be pissed, because you robbed her of your purpose and put the whole world at risk, but she should appear at the next sight of grace at least and still say some shit to you. Even, "Oh, you did me a kindness, but your woeful disregard for my fated purpose and the risk you thrust upon the world means you are not the lord I thought you were. Goodbye forever."

As it is, it feels like remnants of something that got axed late in the game. It's Miquella's needle you wind up getting to cure yourself, and dataminers have shown he used to have his own questline and getting his blood was the way you triggered the Malenia bossfight, so I'm thinking maybe it was tied into that and it wound up all getting sliced out. Maybe DLC will have something like that. I'm still not entirely convinced we won't see a Scholar's style re-release in the future.
There's a key item associated with St. Trina, who probably is the alter ego of Miquella, that dataminers found. It says something about lulling to sleep in the flavor text and was supposed to remove the flame of frenzy influence.
People have been theorizing that Millicent was supposed to be a way to avoid the boss fight. Her and her siblings are aspects of Melania, she gets reabsorbed and you get to go rescue the shota. By design she's was something you'd do in NG+ now that you know where everything is. I don't hate that type of game design, where NG+ is you actually playing for the story or sidequests because you can't logically deduce everything from the get go. My only issue is that every NPC quest feels like that expect for Alexander and Diallos (who got his patched).
 
There's a key item associated with St. Trina, who probably is the alter ego of Miquella, that dataminers found. It says something about lulling to sleep in the flavor text and was supposed to remove the flame of frenzy influence.
People have been theorizing that Millicent was supposed to be a way to avoid the boss fight. Her and her siblings are aspects of Melania, she gets reabsorbed and you get to go rescue the shota. By design she's was something you'd do in NG+ now that you know where everything is. I don't hate that type of game design, where NG+ is you actually playing for the story or sidequests because you can't logically deduce everything from the get go. My only issue is that every NPC quest feels like that expect for Alexander and Diallos (who got his patched).
Ok here's a random lore theory that popped into my head (Spoilers obviously)

Marika and Radagon are two different forms of the same god. Melenia and Miquella are both "children" (really more like partitions or creations) of that God. Therefore, if this God was able to create children for itself either from nothing or from itself (potentially explaining why Merika/Radagon is missing something like a third of its body), then presumably the "children" of this God would have the same power.



So Mohg isn't literally trying to have a child with his captive godling, he's trying to force the child-god to replicate itself and produce a new God that he and his minor blood deity can control and use for their own benefit. The bloodsoaked cocoon is either a way to fuel this god-creation process, or an attempt to cure Miquella's curse through some blood ritual. Presumably he is doing this because Miquella refuses to give in to his captors, or because his curse is so debilitating that Mohg thinks him unfit to carry out the house of blood's plan.

The only thing that doesn't make sense to me is his rune... why would Melenia have a rune, but not Miquella? Why would Mohg and Morgott both have runes, but only Melenia does? To me, Miquella's great rune is still MIA, unless somehow it was absorbed into Mohg's (which you would think the item description would say). My theory is that Miquella's cocoon is a catalyst to launch the story of a planned DLC, similar to the painting in Anor Londo was in Dark Souls. Saving a Great Rune for the DLC would make sense, since they have a gameplay purpose and not just a story purpose. Also, since you can enter the dream of Godwyn, I don't see why you couldn't enter the dream of Miquella.

Edit: apparently dataminers have found references to Miquella in cut content that support my theory
  • Cut content shows that Miquella is St. Trina, god of slumber. "Finally, I have found it..... St. Trina's, no, Lord Miquella's cadaver... Such that I may aid you, O Lord... So please, I hope you welcome your humble servant Rhico... Into your dream, the world of your heart...... Indeed, I beg you grant my wish, that when you transcend from empyrean to god, allow me a place by your side....." - Rhico, cut NPC
  • Cut content shows that Miquella's Great Rune is the Rune of Abundance. "Twinblade that contains the power of the Rune of Abundance. The holy power within the blade can call upon part of Miquella's own strength" - Abundance Twinblade
So Miquella is slumbering, and he has a dream. A world, in fact. I am calling it now, we're definitely going to have a DLC set in the world created by the dreams of this sleeping Empyrean. The seeds have been sown. Miquella being St. Trinas also explains why descriptions say there's confusion over whether Trinas was a girl or a boy. Presumably, Miquella could take either form, the same way his "mother" could appear as either Marika of Radigon.
 
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The only thing that doesn't make sense to me is his rune... why would Melenia have a rune, but not Miquella? Why would Mohg and Morgott both have runes, but only Melenia does? To me, Miquella's great rune is still MIA, unless somehow it was absorbed into Mohg's (which you would think the item description would say).
Yeah whether he turns up in DLC or not, I think it's implied that he's not actually completely dead since Mohg seems pretty convinced he's coming back (most people seem to think he's just being pathetic but I believe him) and Malenia hanging out under his tree (which seems to have a him trying to grow out of it) could be interpreted the same way. It's not like she talks about him past tense.
I interpreted it as him not being able to reincarnate because Mohg's keeping him on life support and coming back seems like something they're supposed to be able to do given the Lichdragon trying to fight even Destined Death.

And re: potential cut content (speaking more generally than just this) I think we just have to play it where it lies unless datamining turns up something unambiguous.
Like, even if something actually is the result of that, if there's an Elden Ring 2 or a DLC it'll be Miyazaki's job to hit a blunt and build off whatever was actually on the screen, so we might as well just roll with that as well in the meantime.
 
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