Elden Ring

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BrunoMattei said:
There's 4 Deathbirds altogether I think. The one by the Mountain of Giants is the biggest pain in the ass because it insane amounts of health.
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First playthrough that happened to be the first Deathbird I ran into. Holy fuck what a pain in the ass, especially for someone who had been bleeding his way to victory the rest of the time (TBH, was also LARPing as a Hoslow, dual Blood Hoslow petal whips for the memes, switched to Bloody Helice when was time to get serious). Ridiculous amount of health and a grab attack that seemed to just oneshot things.
 
GarlicGrandad42 said:
Use the holy water pots that you can craft (recipe from kale, main ingredient is near minor erdtrees) and you can kill the deathbirds in like 5 throws.
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Good to know. The Deathbird wasn't a problem even sight unseen but the encounter became alarming after I started to run low on FP(Quickstep) and realized I would have to start dodge rolling. That's when I fucked off to Warmaster to rest and switch weapons.

Someone mentioned cracked tears in Weeping Peninsula so that's my new objective.
 
Question: is using Ashes to summon "honorable" or not? For me, in the other games, it was honorable to not summon other players but in this game... Considering just how many bosses just endlessly attack, giving you very few windows of opportunity, I do think it's fair in this instance to use Ashes.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Question: is using Ashes to summon "honorable" or not? For me, in the other games, it was honorable to not summon other players but in this game... Considering just how many bosses just endlessly attack, giving you very few windows of opportunity, I do think it's fair in this instance to use Ashes.
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I mean I just look at it as another tool to play how you want. You want to play with friends you summon each other. You want to solo but want a partner who has a vigor higher than 10 and not play like ass, you summon. You want to solo the whole game you don't summon. That's kind of the thing about most of the Souls series is they give you a lot of options and you can just pick and choose how you want to play.

Also I consider summoning honorable because Sun Bro's quest only advanced if you summoned him.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Question: is using Ashes to summon "honorable" or not? For me, in the other games, it was honorable to not summon other players but in this game... Considering just how many bosses just endlessly attack, giving you very few windows of opportunity, I do think it's fair in this instance to use Ashes.
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I personally love using Mimic Tear and going to town on the bosses.
 
BrunoMattei said:
Question: is using Ashes to summon "honorable" or not? For me, in the other games, it was honorable to not summon other players but in this game... Considering just how many bosses just endlessly attack, giving you very few windows of opportunity, I do think it's fair in this instance to use Ashes.
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I'd say it's justified if you aren't using bleed, just because how insane the boss's healthbar usually is when you can't shave parts of it every few swings. And especially the bullshit pair bosses.
Even then I used skeleton warriors the first half of the game, which are primarily good as distractions.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I'd say it's justified if you aren't using bleed, just because how insane the boss's healthbar usually is when you can't shave parts of it every few swings. And especially the bullshit pair bosses.
Even then I used skeleton warriors the first half of the game, which are primarily good as distractions.
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But I love the Ghiza Wheel...
 
BrunoMattei said:
Question: is using Ashes to summon "honorable" or not? For me, in the other games, it was honorable to not summon other players but in this game... Considering just how many bosses just endlessly attack, giving you very few windows of opportunity, I do think it's fair in this instance to use Ashes.
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I personally only used summons against gank bosses or hordes of normal enemies, I feel like it's a good compromise.
 
BrunoMattei said:
But I love the Ghiza Wheel...
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Shame it’s one of the only unique quality weapons. Other than that and maybe Godrey’s Axe, they seem to have been kinda shafted in this one.

Liking my UGS after the buffs.

Jeff Gerstmann said:
I'm amazed at how much the scarlet rot dragon incantation just melts shit.
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I’m honestly kind of surprised it hasn’t been touched yet, against other players at least. It’s not rivers or moonveil levels of obnoxious but it’s still a crazy spell that covers a lot of the screen. Even if you keep boluses on your bar it does a shit-tonne of damage.
 
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Serbian Peacekeepers said:
On the relanna fight and holy shit is that laser beam pure fucking bullshit, its the 2nd thing to actually make me rage in this game.
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If you're a good distance away just sprint to the side and she'll miss. if you're close by just roll quickly to the side twice as her attacks stop tracking halfway through the beam. If youre having trouble timing the roll switch in the quickstep ash of war OR just wear less armor for light equip load(better roll). from what i've seen armor is just as useful as it is in Ds3 which is not very.
Heres a demonstration:
 
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BrunoMattei said:
There's 4 Deathbirds altogether I think. The one by the Mountain of Giants is the biggest pain in the ass because it insane amounts of health.
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The deathbird in the land of frost and snow made me so furious I just gave up and ran away from it. The health pool is absurd and aside from being in a generally fairly open area is everything I hate about the bosses in this game: AoEs, bullshit grabs, swooping attacks that break the camera, giant spergy attacks that are a mess to see... just go down the line. I handled every other one no problem but that goddamn bird haunts me.

I may be forgetting stuff because it's been nearly a month since I fought it though.
 
Serbian Peacekeepers said:
On the relanna fight and holy shit is that laser beam pure fucking bullshit, its the 2nd thing to actually make me rage in this game.
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the hand ballista will interrupt and knock her away as if she was hit by a bus, if you or a summon keep one on standby she'll never get a spell out.
 
Can someone explain the weapon ashes to me? The "heavy" and all the other settings seem to make them do less damage, but the standard setting leaves the damage the same, and gives you the ability on your L2 attack.

What is the advantage of picking something besides standard, since it seems to lower the weapons damage, and you get the added abilities on the standard setting that doesn't lower your damage?

Tepes Thot said:
They’re good to farm from the stormhill shack in the field to the side of it. There’s also some resins right there to keep crafting blood grease.
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I was such a newb at that point that I hadn't even made it past the gate into Stormhill at that point.

I had tried going through there once, before I was even confident fighting the trolls and got pelted with arrows from the soldiers while the troll chased me and finally crushed me.

I went and did most of everything in Limgrave before coming back through the gate to Stormhill. Cleared out a bunch of caves, cleared Fort Haight and Castle Morne, and when I finally came back I was much better at the game.

I finally got comfortable with the controls, as many of my earlier deaths was me making dumb mistakes, pressing the wrong buttons, especially in the middle of a fight when the pressure was on.

When I went back to the gate, I went in on the horse and chopped the archers down before killing the troll.

That Stormhill spot you mentioned was great for leveling up at the time. I was killing the troll west of that first church where you get the summoning bells, but that spot you mentioned is much better since it has around 6 trolls pretty close together.

I got that tailsmen outside of the building where you bring the rotten meat or whatever to that giant beast in Caelid (I think it's called) the one where you gotta jump down carefully. It raises your defense, which was a huge help to me. Also got teleported from that tower in Lingrave somewhere way up North and found a tailsmen that raises your life every second.

I killed Margit using the shackle after two fights, and I cleared out the castle and killed Godrick after leveling up a few times, cuz the first few times we fought, I'd get him down where he had about an inch left on his lifebar but I'd get killed.

I also waited until the second phase of the fight to summon the wolves, because they'd die before the 2nd phase and that chick with the axe you summon would usually be enough to keep him busy for the first phase. I fucked him up when I did all that.

Now, I'm wandering around the next area, kinda lost, tho I did find all the maps afaik (in the place with the big lake in the middle. Went up the East side of that place and was getting my ass kicked, so I think I need more levels and to explore the middle and the West first.
 
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