Elden Ring

[Ruin]

Yea they stealth fixed the Moghwyn Dynasty Jump Off farm, sort of, and think they fixed the Caelid Bloodhound Step Knight Cav poison cheese.

Godrick seems to have gotten a buff or his AI tweaked. I was watching my friend last night and he uses AOEs much more frequently and seems to prioritize the player rather than their summon or Neaphali.

Very different behavior than what I experienced.

Another friend said the rotten crystalians are far less aggressive and don't mob you now so I'd say there are boss changes they didn't include in the patch notes.

 

[Urbanmech]

Godrick seems to have gotten a buff or his AI tweaked. I was watching my friend last night and he uses AOEs much more frequently and seems to prioritize the player rather than their summon or Neaphali.

Very different behavior than what I experienced.

Another friend said the rotten crystalians are far less aggressive and don't mob you now so I'd say there are boss changes they didn't include in the patch notes.

Yea I noticed that yesterday they would just kind of sit there until one of them was almost dead but still seemed slow.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Fiddling with a mage character now. Do the gravity spells do physical? It’d probably help to crack the crystalians.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Decided to play this as my first Fromsoft game and it is absolutely kicking my arse. Kinda fun though and I totally see myself gradually grinding my way through areas before hitting a total brick wall and giving up for good.

Anyone know where I can grind for coins or whatever in the early game so I can level up vigor a bit and not get absolutely fucking massacred every 10 minutes?

 

[Ruin]

Decided to play this as my first Fromsoft game and it is absolutely kicking my arse. Kinda fun though and I totally see myself gradually grinding my way through areas before hitting a total brick wall and giving up for good.

Anyone know where I can grind for coins or whatever in the early game so I can level up vigor a bit and not get absolutely fucking massacred every 10 minutes?

Clear limgrave including mistwood and the weeping peninsula before attempting stormveil castle and assuming you don't just run away from everything you should have around 70-75k runes which should get you to level 35 or so.

 

[Spirelord]

Fiddling with a mage character now. Do the gravity spells do physical? It’d probably help to crack the crystalians.

I believe at least Rock Sling is physical, either way it's good for Crystalians, dragons, and other things you need staggered because of the posture damage it deals.

Unrelated but I have few questions for a purely hypothetical consumable only run for the thread: Which stat (besides dex I know about kukiri and spark perfume) should I level for most consumables? Should I prioritize getting recipe books, cracked pots, ritual pots, and perfume bottles, grinding crafting items like mushrooms along the way, or just sell crafting items for runes for throwing knives/kukiri?

 

[Internet War Criminal]

Am I the only one who is not using crafting at all?

At first I just crafted bone arrows but at this point I'm such a killing machine I don't even bother checking what I could possibly craft.

 

[ShitlordroltihS]

I beat the game
ez game

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

So appearantly strength build is now actually usable and large weapon attacks don't take a billion years to go off.
Rate me optimistic, but I expected FromSoft to be one of the few Devs to actually make a playable game at launch. Now I feel like I got a far worse experience for not waiting half a year after release to play the game.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

All of their games prior to that were broken, this is one of their smoothest releases by far.

Also, I don't think the patches are fixing things that are 'broken' for the most part, they are making adjustment based on feedback from users. 'This is too strong, this is too weak, this is taking too long, this is too OP' etc.

I've been playing the game without any of the patches so far, and I have yet to meet anything broken aside from Nephali's and Patches' quests.

 

[Burning Bridge]

They stealth changed the rot lake in the Haligtree, it no longer slows you down. Wonder how many people died there because they suck.

 

[BroccoliBrain]

seems like no one's documented this but you can get archer golems to injure or even open other golems to crits if you line them up right

Usually bullets can hit other enemies in this engine, or at least that how it feels.

Leyndell knights have become my least favorite enemy, fucking hate these guys.

When I realised they were just reskinned, superbuffed Lothric Knights I got disappointed. Somehow Leyndell Knights still kinda bullshit compared Lothric’s, must be something about ER’s poise that fucks me up.

Still don’t know how to feel about the actual difficulty curve of the whole game, people keep saying stuff about the Snowfield and Haligtree areas but for me the tree wasn’t any more painful than everything before it. Things like being bubbled off a branch looks so dumb but it is what it is, I just think, “how FromSoft of them”, maybe I have Stockholm syndrome or something.

 

[I'd abeeb bear]

Still don’t know how to feel about the actual difficulty curve of the whole game, people keep saying stuff about the Snowfield and Haligtree areas but for me the tree wasn’t any more painful than everything before it. Things like being bubbled off a branch looks so dumb but it is what it is, I just think, “how FromSoft of them”, maybe I have Stockholm syndrome or something.

I don't like how you become insanely powerful by the time you reach the endgame unless you try to gimp yourself, which is never fun for me in a game. By the time I got to Haligtree, I had no reason to kill anything. I didn't need souls and didn't have a single thing to dump them on with the build I was using. It left the last parts of the game feeling more like a chore, because I had no meaningful progression options without becoming even more of an absolute killing machine.

This was before everyone had started to meta the fuck out of builds, too. I went with what sounded fun thematically and it just worked. I wasn't trying to become super insanely OP, just use things that went with the build, and I wound up feeling like the game could only challenge me by being purposefully unfair.

 

[BlazikenLover]

So appearantly strength build is now actually usable and large weapon attacks don't take a billion years to go off.
Rate me optimistic, but I expected FromSoft to be one of the few Devs to actually make a playable game at launch. Now I feel like I got a far worse experience for not waiting half a year after release to play the game.

I'm a little salty that incantations got buffed far after I finished the game with my faith based character, but eh still had fun.

 

[Urbanmech]

Decided to play this as my first Fromsoft game and it is absolutely kicking my arse. Kinda fun though and I totally see myself gradually grinding my way through areas before hitting a total brick wall and giving up for good.

Anyone know where I can grind for coins or whatever in the early game so I can level up vigor a bit and not get absolutely fucking massacred every 10 minutes?

There is a portal NW of the 3rd Church of Marika. That takes you to the beast chapel. Go AROUND the Gargoyle and head south, should find a Golden Seed enroute to the Site of Grace near the bridge. Now you have two choices here. Fight or no Fight.

No Fight you need to go east from that site of grace and drop off the cliff and go south across the bridge to Lenne's Rise Site of Grace. From there you can follow the road west and then a Giant Ball will spawn, if you can get it to suicide itself off the cliff using Torrent you nab almost 2k. Go back to the site of grace and rinse and repeat as necessary.

The Fight method is from the Farum Greatbridge site of grace are a bunch of little dudes in black. They give 1055 runes a kill. If you get the Lordsworn Greatsword from the Gatefront ruins you can kill them in 7 hits 2 handed. Hit them 4 times then they stagger, Crit them, then two more times for the finish. You can get the Greatsword in the back of the Cart like 20 ft south of the Gatefront Site of Grace.

There is a 3rd one time method and that involves a few steps but its 91k runes.
1. Get a Golden Chicken Foot. You can get one if you go east from the Church of Elleh, its the church with the Tree Sent in the beginning, once you hit the beach follow it south like a big "C" when you get to the waterfall there is an item on the ground thats a Gold chicken foot.
2. Go south to the Weeping Peninsula, past the bridge you will eventually get to a crashed Caravan. If you look in the back of the cart you should find a Morning Star.
3. Go north from the Gatefront Ruins to the Stormhill Shack. Then follow the road east till you get to Caelid and jump over the fire wall to find the Rotview Balcony Site of Grace. From here go NE/Then East but stay south of the road, its full of Giant Rat Dogs, eventually you will see the Caelum Ruins Site of Grace. From here go NE off the road and you will see a spot to jump across a chasm to Dragonbarrow with a site of grace in sight. Follow the road north to get the map then go south and drop down from the cliff. Keep going south and hug the edge of the land but DO NOT DROP OFF. Go east and eventually you will see a fort, in front of it is the Fort Faroth Site of Grace.
4. Equip the Morning Star and make sure the Gold Chicken foot is on your items list. Your going to attack the tail of the Giant White Dragon and use the Bleed effect to kill it. Should take 6 bleed explosions (with low arcane) and it will be really close to death. Use the chicken foot and swing away till the final bleed explosion kills it for around 91k runes.

Edit: also those Youtube videos about AFK farming are scams just to sell stuff from their website. You won't get millions of runes because the only reason they are is they are maxed level. Just an FYI.

 

[BroccoliBrain]

I don't like how you become insanely powerful by the time you reach the endgame unless you try to gimp yourself, which is never fun for me in a game. By the time I got to Haligtree, I had no reason to kill anything. I didn't need souls and didn't have a single thing to dump them on with the build I was using. It left the last parts of the game feeling more like a chore, because I had no meaningful progression options without becoming even more of an absolute killing machine.

See, that wasn't my experience either. I had to try not to level up throughout the previous two thirds of the game because I was trying to stay around or under 120 but gradually had to level to 150 for Elphael (I keep saying Haligtree but it's part of that, okay) and I found the difficulty pretty... normal. I didn't feel like killing machine very much. It felt on par with my first run of the Dreg Heap area in DS3 and onwards in terms of how much it wore me out to play and that was an improvement over what came before, including Consecrated Shitfield (shit for the dumb fog making half the place seem like a boring flat field with enemies randomly peppered everywhere).

This was before everyone had started to meta the fuck out of builds, too. I went with what sounded fun thematically and it just worked. I wasn't trying to become super insanely OP, just use things that went with the build, and I wound up feeling like the game could only challenge me by being purposefully unfair.

Going meta makes people into meat calculators and that's boring as hell. I'd try to go the other way and roleplay it out but these games frankly always sucked for pretending to be a character that is part of the world. I would pick a vague theme like you did but that's basically just choosing a build.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Before I inevitably end up fucking myself over with stats is there a way of respeccing at any point in the game? I THINK I'm choosing right with Vigor:Strength at 3:1 but I have no idea what the other stats really do and get the feeling I'm gonna get 1 hit KO'd by something because I fucked up faith or something.

EDIT: Also the game is really fucking fun, it's hard as balls but I'm gradually getting better to where I can comfortably take out entire patrols without getting hit. It ALMOST makes me wish I'd played a FromSoft game before but hearing that they were rigid and relied on beating a boss before you continued means I'll probably have to master this before even touching that.

 

[Urbanmech]

Before I inevitably end up fucking myself over with stats is there a way of respeccing at any point in the game? I THINK I'm choosing right with Vigor:Strength at 3:1 but I have no idea what the other stats really do and get the feeling I'm gonna get 1 hit KO'd by something because I fucked up faith or something.

EDIT: Also the game is really fucking fun, it's hard as balls but I'm gradually getting better to where I can comfortably take out entire patrols without getting hit. It ALMOST makes me wish I'd played a FromSoft game before but hearing that they were rigid and relied on beating a boss before you continued means I'll probably have to master this before even touching that.

Yes you can respec after you beat one boss and have a larval tear on you. What weapon/ashes of war are you using?

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

What weapon/ashes of war are you using?

I'm just using the Samorai's default weapon leveled up and I have absolutely no idea how to equip ashes of war. I'm guessing those are summons, right?

Tbh I don't even know how to equip the horse after I got it either.

This is probably the point where I realise I'm a massive retard who has been handicapping myself for a while.

 

[Urbanmech]

I'm just using the Samorai's default weapon leveled up and I have absolutely no idea how to equip ashes of war. I'm guessing those are summons, right?

Tbh I don't even know how to equip the horse after I got it either.

This is probably the point where I realise I'm a massive retard who has been handicapping myself for a while.

Ashes of War requires a Whetstone. You can find several that will let you equip an ash of war and change the default Affinity. You can find the basic one downstairs in the Gatefront Ruins.

For the Horse what I do is when you open up the menu on the far right you will see 4 slots corresponding to the Direction Pad. One of them should have the Memory of Grace as default. What you can do is set the horses ring to one of those buttons. If you hold down the action button (what you pick up items with) and hit the button you assigned to the horse you can call him without fiddlin with the items.

For the Uchigatana you can go whatever you want. Since your putting points into Strength I would try to find an Ash of War with the Heavy affinity for now. If you go North of Gatefront then East at the Stormhill shack on the right you will see another shack with one guy in it. He can sell you Ashes, get the Warcry one and see if going Heavy Affinity increases damage more than Standard.