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Apparently his involvement was a 2 page email about world building. They shoulda made him doodle on some napkins though yeah. Maybe design the consumables menu.
I want to know whose idea was "pickle"
 
Gimmick Account said:
I was just discussing how Godfrey/Hoarah Loux is probably Placidusax since his kids have dragon mutations and "Chieftan of the Badlands" makes sense if the entire rest of the world is a dark frozen waste after the sun died in DS3, since only dragons could live there. Because he's a dragon, lord of the dragons...
...and someone pointed out that RADAGON is a terrible anagram of A DRAGON.
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Where are you getting this Godfrey=Placidusax stuff?
 
I was doing extremely poorly at this game until my son told me how to two hand a sword. Now I feel powerful
 
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Dr. Pasquale said:
Where are you getting this Godfrey=Placidusax stuff?
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Remembrance of Dragonlord Placidusax, hewn into the Erdtree.

The power of its namesake can be unlocked by the Finger Reader.
Alternatively, it can be used to gain a great bounty of runes.

The Dragonlord whose seat lies at the heart of the storm beyond time is said to have been Elden Lord in the age before the Erdtree.
Once his god was fled, the lord continued to await its return.

That and the thing with his kids I mentioned, along with Godfrey being the first Elden Lord.
 
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I really hated Valiant Gargoyle at least the one in the Forgotten Lands area. I didn't realize until I read a message that you could use the horse in that area and funny thing is that I almost got him on my first try on the horse but then he does that red spinny thing that basically one shots you and that was that. Every subsequent attempt on the horse he would do that attack right away or I'd fuck up and get hit once and knocked off. Took about 12-ish attempts mostly because of the environment you fight him in. There's so much bullshit in the way that can block you, can block him, weird geometric nonsense where he clips through the environment or shit blocks your view.
 
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Gimmick Account said:
Remembrance of Dragonlord Placidusax, hewn into the Erdtree.

The power of its namesake can be unlocked by the Finger Reader.
Alternatively, it can be used to gain a great bounty of runes.

The Dragonlord whose seat lies at the heart of the storm beyond time is said to have been Elden Lord in the age before the Erdtree.
Once his god was fled, the lord continued to await its return.

That and the thing with his kids I mentioned, along with Godfrey being the first Elden Lord.
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"Age before the Erdtree"
The dragons and their god is older than the Erdtree and the Greater Will.
Placidusax is not Godfrey as the two were Elden Lord in two different eras to entirely different gods.
The reason for the dragon mutations likely stems from Queen Marika, who is also Radagon. Either Marika was always a fully, or partly a dragon, or she was somehow cursed by the dragons just like how Radagon was cursed by the giants to have their fiery red hair and give birth to children with giant features.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
I also have a question about parrying, it seems like it is not negating damage when done correctly. Tree Sentinel was the one I used to practice on but even if I parry and stagger him I take a lot of damage, but no knock back so for a while it was a mystery what killed me.
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Don't know about Parry mechanics exactly, but its possible that you taking damage could be explained because you either have a shield that doesn't have 100% physical negation (small shields, certain medium shields) or it may be because the halberd may have Holy damage mixed in which could be penetrating the parry; Vyke's War Spear applies madness even when you roll past it, so it might be some weird thing like that.
 
Marissa Moira said:
I'm just really disappointed that there are no fat lady bosses like other games have.
Like GOT had fat ladies be these grotesque monstrosities, GRRM clearly didn't have any say in character design or there would have been multiple fat fuck bosses.
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Like not even an asylum demon reskin.
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What do you mean?
We actually got Godskin Ethan Ralph Noble in the game
 
Etrian Autistry said:
Don't know about Parry mechanics exactly, but its possible that you taking damage could be explained because you either have a shield that doesn't have 100% physical negation (small shields, certain medium shields) or it may be because the halberd may have Holy damage mixed in which could be penetrating the parry; Vyke's War Spear applies madness even when you roll past it, so it might be some weird thing like that.
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That combined with me being not as good as I thought sounds possible. I read elsewhere on the internet that "mixed" would still go through and saw one mention that on uneven terrain the hitboxes might act funky. I do not enjoy being locked on to a huge enemy when they start to choo-choo all across the land, over the hills, jumps into the air, behind another hill - the lockon whips the screen around and I cannot see shit because the AI have slyly maneuvered my viewport into a bush.

Anyway, I tried to get into the castle and found a path on the side that led to a new area with a church, gravestones and a marsh. Killed a gravekeeper with a big clever.
 
So I found out something interesting about a certain boss fight.
If you're doing the same 1 shot Comet Azur build and are at Malenia (70 int, almost no HP/Armor), consider using the ash of war on the Carian Regal Scepter. I used mimic (because I'm bad at this game) with Comet Azur, Rain of Stars, Ranni's Moon and Lord Heal if it could get it off (it couldn't). HOWEVER, despite victory almost solely resting on her doing the rot nuke twice in a row, I made the first phase manageable by using spinning weapon. It dealt SO much more damage than I expected, kind of stagger-locking her and even broke her stance once per attempt.

Genuinely never thought I'd beat her with the glass cannon build, and it might be the easy way out, but I'm glad I made it work. Might also use that Ash of War more on future playthroughs.
So yeah, make sure to check Ashes of War before dismissing them outright. It might save some headache down the line.
 
Some thoughts:
  • From's style of character interaction was minimalistic (to a fault), romance and sex are unheard of, but in ER we've got full blown accounts and not just implications of marital ties and discussion of offspring - it blew me away when the pope turtle started talking about Queen Marika's second husband and their children while people still have trouble understanding Gwyn's family tree and who the Queen of Lothric is. The change is pretty interesting. There's also an item description that basically says in esoteric Souls Dark English that a woman banged so many depraved things that she spawned more cursed things and there's everything about that hug lady; the salacious undertones would be screaming text outside of a From game. I'm certain it comes from GRR Martin's touch and it irritates my inner pedant when people assume that since he's a writer he must've done the job of quest/dialogue writers.
  • The damage everything does is obscene, it's like any points in VIG that aren't the soft cap don't mean shit. I get it but it's not fun. I can't enjoy the environment and be in the mindset to explore when everything hits like a miniboss and one wrong move can murder characters at levels that should really feel stronger than toilet paper. inb4 git gud
  • I was looking forward to the music a lot, it was one of the reasons why I preordered, yet none of the tracks besides Limgrave's ambience stuck with me after 100+ hours. This includes bosses and that's definitely because I'm either too busy dying or surviving to listen to background music, see above. I wonder why the composers never pulled off another plin plin plon ever again? There was a rhythm in previous bosses is lost with every boss in ER delaying and roll catching, made worse by the copypasted ones in the generic dungeons that all share the track. The result is that they feel like two DS1 bosses lazily shoved into a room together or a giant seizing mass, if they were going to do weird long combos they should've taken more pages out of the Dancer's book.
  • Why does every large attack need a shockwave, it feels so cheap and there only to fuck up long time Souls players than a fresh challenge.
  • Look at how none of us are complaining about the poison swamps.
  • For a game that sheds the name, it feels like Dark Souls 4 without the Dark Souls yet they've given us a world of the same thing with the gall to bring back Patches and MLGS while everyone else I've grown to love is just gone and replaced by British person #8654 doing this as a side gig. I barely care about any of these new characters who sound like an extra off of local TV. And for a game that isn't Dark Souls 4 there's so much fucking fire in it.
 
Übertroon said:
"Age before the Erdtree"
The dragons and their god is older than the Erdtree and the Greater Will.
Placidusax is not Godfrey as the two were Elden Lord in two different eras to entirely different gods.
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I dunno man, it straight-up says Loux was the "first" Elden Lord.
I'm gonna interpret it that way because there's nothing to suggest Elden Lords don't count if they're a different flavour, and absolutely nothing implying there are any other flavours in the first place. Elden Lords is Elden Lords and Loux was the first one.

A Humble Carpet Merchant said:
I mean the Fingered Lady tells you after you beat Godfrey that he's a weak bitch with highly diluted Divine Blood, making him the weakest bitch of all the Great Rune holders.
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That's Godfrey the Grafted, different dude. Godfrey is also the name Hoarah Loux took on when he became Elden Lord. Thank the fat man, probably.
Edit: there's also a Godefroy the Grafted who might be a third guy.
 
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Gimmick Account said:
That's Godfrey the Grafted, different dude. Godfrey is also the name Hoarah Loux took on when he became Elden Lord. Thank the fat man, probably.
Edit: there's also a Godefroy the Grafted who might be a third guy.
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Godwyn was Hoarah Loux's new name, not Godfrey.
 
BroccoliBrain said:
the gall to bring back Patches and MLGS
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Both of those were in games before Dark Souls.

Gimmick Account said:
I dunno man, it straight-up says Loux was the "first" Elden Lord.
I'm gonna interpret it that way because there's nothing to suggest Elden Lords don't count if they're a different flavour, and absolutely nothing implying there are any other flavours in the first place. Elden Lords is Elden Lords and Loux was the first one.
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While I have my own doubts about this theory, Dragonlord Placidusax looks like he is just missing a head. Could have gotten lopped off and created Loux? Of course we will never know beyond gametheory BS videos.
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