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Godrick is absolutely the most annoying boss I fought so far, its not a bad designed fight, but he hits like a motherfucker im at 21 vigor and he takes a massive chunk out of your health pressuring you to use up your flasks too quickly
 
SlaanyChaser said:
I had the same experience. I think what helped me was Messmer hard focusing Jolan in my fight.
Meanwhile Mimic did fuck all during Scadutree avatar and just stood in the corner the entire time.
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Yeah I basically needed my summons in order to draw aggro, Messmer barely gives you time to breathe otherwise.

My Mimic Tear mostly does what it’s supposed to against the Scadutree Avatar and can make it into its second phase but dies not long afterward. I know its head takes a lot more damage than the rest of it, but it’s not very easy to hit with a melee build. Took a break from it for now.
 
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Is it just me or ever since SoTE dropped ashes are less aggressive/proactive.
This playthrough I'm doing a spear build so I ended up having to stay back and throw the lightning spear skill into it's face. Over and over. I can't imagine doing it with a colossal weapon.
Caddo Cobgang said:
Godrick is absolutely the most annoying boss I fought so far, its not a bad designed fight, but he hits like a motherfucker im at 21 vigor and he takes a massive chunk out of your health pressuring you to use up your flasks too quickly
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You're summoning Nephali to give a distraction right? My first run I didn't see her sign outside his fogwall. If it's your first run buckle up, they only get more annoying lol.
 
"Bloodstain? All the more likely pathetic sort."
"Bloodstain?" In short, try skill"
"Didn't expect bloodstain... seek skill."

These assholes really know how to rub it in.
 
Caddo Cobgang said:
Godrick is absolutely the most annoying boss I fought so far, its not a bad designed fight, but he hits like a motherfucker im at 21 vigor and he takes a massive chunk out of your health pressuring you to use up your flasks too quickly
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Gondolindrim said:
I'm finding myself debating a lot about how justified Marika was for wiping out the Hornsent. There are a lot of people out there who think that shoving people into Jars was merely a matter of cultural differences and they should've talked it out.
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The problem is that we have no idea what sainthood is and what was their end goal with it. Plus Great jars are present in the Lands Between which implies it is also practiced there. If anything I think Marika simple hate the Hornsent because it conquered and did it to her people but she wasn't very much concerned with the moral implications of the making of a Living Jar
 
Gondolindrim said:
I'm finding myself debating a lot about how justified Marika was for wiping out the Hornsent. There are a lot of people out there who think that shoving people into Jars was merely a matter of cultural differences and they should've talked it out.
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It's vividly clear it's supposed to be an atrocity, it is one of the grossest Bloodborne and Dark Souls body horror-esq things we got in Elden Ring lore.
 
Dman said:
It's vividly clear it's supposed to be an atrocity, it is one of the grossest Bloodborne and Dark Souls body horror-esq things we got in Elden Ring lore.
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The trailer shows marks from the tooth whip on Marika's arms. Even if the Hornsent didn't graft the flesh of criminals onto her and shove her into a jar, they either tortured or punished her.

The Shamans they targeted being young women reminds me a bit of the movie Martyrs, so it's just their belief system and no atrocity, my ass.
 
Xerxes IX said:
The trailer shows marks from the tooth whip on Marika's arms. Even if the Hornsent didn't graft the flesh of criminals onto her and shove her into a jar, they either tortured or punished her.

The Shamans they targeted being young women reminds me a bit of the movie Martyrs, so it's just their belief system and no atrocity, my ass.
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Belief systems can create atrocities.
Atrocity: An extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury.
IDK about you but those Living Jar Innards are pretty fucked up and probably shouldn't exist just like a lot of dark souls creatures. Arguably, it's worse because they were created.
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Dman said:
Belief systems can create atrocities.
Atrocity: An extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury.
IDK about you but those Living Jar Innards are pretty fucked up and probably shouldn't exist just like a lot of dark souls creatures. Arguably, it's worse because they were created.
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Oh I was snidely replying about the people mentioned earlier who just see creating Jar Saints as a cultural difference. The movie I'm reminded of is about a cult abducting and torturing young women because they believe it'll give them spiritual insight about the afterlife. Pretty horrific for similar reasons.
 
Xerxes IX said:
Oh I was snidely replying about the people mentioned earlier who just see creating Jar Saints as a cultural difference. The movie I'm reminded of is about a cult abducting and torturing young women because they believe it'll give them spiritual insight about the afterlife. Pretty horrific for similar reasons.
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Yeah I was just explaining for people who actually believe its a cultural difference. That movie its pretty cool.
 
I saw this thread on the front page for the Games board so I wanted to come here and see what some other people were saying about the DLC.
I liked it, thought parts of it were bullshit, the bosses being a bit too retarded, some of the areas not having anything really interesting to them besides looking cool, I would have liked a miquella ending. Overall it was enjoyable because souls games are fun to me. Except DS2
What I was not expecting was pages of retards arguing about niggers from Zanzibar apparently spilling into not only other KF threads but onto 4chan. Japanese games about a directors foot fetish is not that serious.
Going for a replay I might put the kiwi password on if any of you are still playing.
 
LoTex said:
The problem is that we have no idea what sainthood is and what was their end goal with it. Plus Great jars are present in the Lands Between which implies it is also practiced there. If anything I think Marika simple hate the Hornsent because it conquered and did it to her people but she wasn't very much concerned with the moral implications of the making of a Living Jar
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Putting living fused together people into Jars is clearly different than the Jars in the Land Betweens which retrieve the dead and deposit them at the foot of minor Erdtrees or in catacombs. Alexander and Jarbrian are pretty clear about how they only take dead warriors, even the Great Jar of the Colosseum only takes the dead.
For it's end goal, I think it's fairly self explanatory, basically everything the Hornsent did was for the sake of mastering the crucible, which they were doing in order to reach the gods as explained on the description of the Spira spell. The Hornsent believed fusing together's peoples flesh could help them master the crucible so they were using Jars to that end.
It's a Tower of Babel reference, the Hornsent are even called Towerfolk and I think Marika or whoever led the Hornsent is supposed to be a Nimrod parallel.
The Gate of Divinity which stands atop Enir Ellim is even made of the same fused together corpses that inhabit the Eternal Cities, so it's likely they're numen/shaman/nox corpses, and that the destruction of the Eternal Cities probably coincides with them attempting to create their Lord of Night(Night's King in Japanese) using their own Gate of Divinity, but failing.
 
The failed living jars are the coolest enemies in SOTET.

Fromesoft is always at their finest when they lean into the more horror inspired side of enemy design.

Makes it all the more tragic that Bloodborne appears to be a dead IP.
 
I never get why people think Marika shattered the ring out of grief. I think she sanctioned Godwyn’s death due to realizing the Fingers are both cut off from the Greater Will (which may just be the Demiurge, not actual God) and deranged.

Gideon’s dialogue and sending the Tarnished out as tie breakers are what make me think that. Marika basically had no loyalty to the order, her other half did. Her Shattering the Ring meant that the Order no longer had kill switches on hero’s (literally read the Rune descriptions) and that something to potentially kill the Greater Will could arise. Basically none of the Demi-Gods have a living Fingers beyond Ranni’s giant one.

@Mega Black
I’m like 70% convinced the Scadu Tree avatar was supposed to be Godwyn’s mermaid form or a base for it. The attacking the sun flower would have just been hitting the clam shell til it breaks. The revivals being that Godwyn cannot truly die as he has an immortal body. His projectiles all look like Death Blight and his area looks other death blight ridden areas.

I could 100% believe that the Sunflowers were supposed to be the new Tree Spirits in concept.

The DLC would have been much better if DLC was Miquella abandoning everything to stop Deathblight and his first attempt at killing Godwyn’s undead body caused an outer God to possess it. First Boss fight is a gimmick boss that rather than going to phase 2 ends with the Tarnished Godwyn fleeing after being freed from the Merman shit.
 
Sarn’t said:
I liked it, thought parts of it were bullshit, the bosses being a bit too retarded, some of the areas not having anything really interesting to them besides looking cool, I would have liked a miquella ending. Overall it was enjoyable because souls games are fun to me.
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I think some people are just getting general spectacle boss fatigue instead of "souls fatigue". I think it would help if they simply had a better camera and incorporated stances like Nioh besides just two handing since they're more action focused than ever.
And people who were hoping it'd be like their other dlcs and the overhyping + theorizing before release probably also contributed to the little controversy you see online. The main story segments of the DLC do not give a sense of finality like their other DLCs have, and a lot more things are left unanswered this time around since its a larger game. Combine that with this taking them two years to make and it being 40 bucks, and I guess I can see how people could be upset especially with how short the main path is. I beat Radahn and got that weird cutscene, and thought to myself "This is it? This is the last content Elden Ring has to offer? Not even a new great rune for Ranni or Miquella?".
 
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