Elden Ring

[Urbanmech]

It has taken me THIS long to work out how to actually use ashes of war. Here I was thinking it was just automatically added to the weapon, I didn't realise you had to leave your other hand empty.

Blood slash is incredibly fun, even though it makes boss fights even more tense with me chopping bits of my own HP off.

You don't have to leave your off hand totally empty. Almost all the staves have no skills so you can use those and there is a shield Ash of War that just blanks your shields Ash of War to let you use the weapon one.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

It has taken me THIS long to work out how to actually use ashes of war. Here I was thinking it was just automatically added to the weapon, I didn't realise you had to leave your other hand empty.

Blood slash is incredibly fun, even though it makes boss fights even more tense with me chopping bits of my own HP off.

There is a "no skill" you can buy from Warmasters Shack and apply to a shield or second hand weapon so the offhand doesn't affect the main hand skill. I learned that in this thread when raging about why I can't switch my offhand to "empty" to use my main weapon skill.

Affinities like "keen" and such still eludes me, how do you apply them? Do you have to duplicate ashes of war to have enough for each wetstone or something(only have two so far).

In addition to that, the giant rolling firebreathing weapons suck because they are so tedious. Tedious, not hard, I have never been killed by one even when accidentally warping to Academy gates and wandering down.

Longsword (As in moveset also) with longer reach and better scaling. Longsword can get B for Heavy and Keen scaling while the Noble gets A for both. But its really rare so could take a while to get.

I wandered around the Lucaria Academy and just got one, guess I'm lucky. Is it really worth upgrading? I'm doing dual knives for bleed and quickstep or shield + flail or bloodhounds fang at this point, one for smash, the other for stagger. And a bow, of course.

 

[M3xus]

There's also talismans that ups your equip load and the effect stacks, so you can go for a heavier armor/weapon set while keeping the weapons you're comfortable with a quick swap away. At the expense of your preferred talismans. Remember that weapons in the weapon slots adds to the equip load, that might not be apparent to everyone.

The double chug was something I don't think I knew about until this game. Towards the end of the flask animation, press drink again. Very useful.

On youtube a while ago a short video popped up on someone trying to speedrun getting the "The Noble's Slender Sword" drop. I have that, is there anything special to it?

The sword is nothing special, it just looks nice with low requirements to equip it. It's most notable feature is how stupidly rare it is.

 

[Urbanmech]

There is a "no skill" you can buy from Warmasters Shack and apply to a shield or second hand weapon so the offhand doesn't affect the main hand skill. I learned that in this thread when raging about why I can't switch my offhand to "empty" to use my main weapon skill.

Affinities like "keen" and such still eludes me, how do you apply them? Do you have to duplicate ashes of war to have enough for each wetstone or something(only have two so far).

In addition to that, the giant rolling firebreathing weapons suck because they are so tedious. Tedious, not hard, I have never been killed by one even when accidentally warping to Academy gates and wandering down.


I wandered around the Lucaria Academy and just got one, guess I'm lucky. Is it really worth upgrading? I'm doing dual knives for bleed and quickstep or shield + flail or bloodhounds fang at this point, one for smash, the other for stagger. And a bow, of course.

The different Whetblades and the type of Ash of War determine what you can use for the Affinity. Usually anything Elemental/Magic/Status Effect Ash of War only lets you Switch between the Effect Type and the 4 Physical Types. For Example a Fire Ash of War can use Standard, Heavy, Keen, Quality, Fire and Flame. Magic is Magic and Cold + the 4 Phys. Blood is Occult/Blood/Poison and the 4, ect ect. BUT a Physical only Ash of War can use any affinity type as long as you have the Corresponding Whetblade. Want a Blood Unsheathe just need the Black Whetblade, Holy...Sanctified Whetblade, Magic....Glintstone Whetblade, Flame...Red-Hot Glintstone, ect ect.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

The different Whetblades and the type of Ash of War determine what you can use for the Affinity. Usually anything Elemental/Magic/Status Effect Ash of War only lets you Switch between the Effect Type and the 4 Physical Types. For Example a Fire Ash of War can use Standard, Heavy, Keen, Quality, Fire and Flame. Magic is Magic and Cold + the 4 Phys. Blood is Occult/Blood/Poison and the 4, ect ect. BUT a Physical only Ash of War can use any affinity type as long as you have the Corresponding Whetblade. Want a Blood Unsheathe just need the Black Whetblade, Holy...Sanctified Whetblade, Magic....Glintstone Whetblade, Flame...Red-Hot Glintstone, ect ect.

Ok, but what's the purpose of duplicating ashes? In my tiny mind having more of a certain ash would enable that ash to have different affinities just by being more ashes with different affinities. It sounds moronic because it is, I know, but I don't get it. Do you only need whetstones? If the answer is yes the question is ??? still the blacksmith in round table?

 

[Urbanmech]

Ok, but what's the purpose of duplicating ashes? In my tiny mind having more of a certain ash would enable that ash to have different affinities just by being more ashes with different affinities. It sounds moronic because it is, I know, but I don't get it. Do you only need whetstones? If the answer is yes the question is ??? still the blacksmith in round table?

A weapon/shield can only have one Ash of War with one Affinity attached so most likely for Dual Wielding or your using two different weapons and want the same Ash of War on them without waiting for NG+. Like say your doing a Quality build and your using a Lordsworn Greatsword and a Mace/Shield and want Bloodhound Step Ash of War on both of them. You would need the Lost Ash of War and take it to the Blacksmith to Duplicate Bloodhound Step. Dual Wielding is more obvious, I want two Bloody Slash on two Uchigatana's early game, give a Lost Ash of War to the Blacksmith to dupe it.

The Whetblades give you more Affinity options, lets look at baseline Sacred Blade AOW. You only have two options Standard or Sacred (Holy) for Affinities. One you get the Iron Whetblade you get Standard, Keen, Heavy, Quality and Sacred as an option. When you get the Sanctified Whetblade you get all the previous and Lightning.

 

[Raging Capybara]

Finally got all the achievements and killed Elden Beast for the third time, again, without any issues. And this time I soloed him because all of my five great shield warriors died for Radagon.

I'm always surprised by the hard time people have with this boss. I think I used one flask or none at all this time.

Radagon can eat a pack of dicks though, I despise this fucker.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Finally got all the achievements and killed Elden Beast for the third time, again, without any issues. And this time I soloed him because all of my five great shield warriors died for Radagon.

I'm always surprised by the hard time people have with this boss. I think I used one flask or none at all this time.

Radagon can eat a pack of dicks though, I despise this fucker.

I can attribute 90% of my problems with Elden beast are because of his size and the camera. If I lock on, I can't see anything and he smacks me, if I don't, he fucks off somewhere and I have no idea where he went until he hits me.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Is there anything to Radahn other than riding around awakening NPC summons again and again? I've entered that battle a couple of times today and got him down to 15-20% in the second phase, but I have no clue what I'm doing. It's an epic fight in the Marvel sense in that I'm bored and don't know what's going on. Watching from a distance he's got huge, long twirling attacks and splash damage that nearly kills me at full health, it makes me hesitant to get in there and attempt yet another boss circumcision.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I really wonder if there's correlation of people having hard time with the final boss and people playing a bleed build.

 

[Pipi420]

Is there anything to Radahn other than riding around awakening NPC summons again and again? I've entered that battle a couple of times today and got him down to 15-20% in the second phase, but I have no clue what I'm doing. It's an epic fight in the Marvel sense in that I'm bored and don't know what's going on. Watching from a distance he's got huge, long twirling attacks and splash damage that nearly kills me at full health, it makes me hesitant to get in there and attempt yet another boss circumcision.

I just hate radahn man. Wasted potential boss fight for me.
Some bosses they just made like 5x bigger than they needed to be and Radahn and all gargoyles are the worst offenders
You cant see what hes doing half the time and he spazzes put running all over the place on his motor scooter

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I just hate radahn man. Wasted potential boss fight for me.
Some bosses they just made like 5x bigger than they needed to be and Radahn and all gargoyles are the worst offenders
You cant see what hes doing half the time and he spazzes put running all over the place on his motor scooter

The tiny horse is hilarious, it's like the designers are just fucking with you at that point. I think it even tries the shoulder charge, though it would be hard to see.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Watching the new Vaativadya video about the demi gods I finally manage to put into words what's my biggest problem with Elden Ring compared to previous games - The focus on the various children of Marika makes the human characters fade into the background, which in turn removes a lot of the emotion from following stories of regular humans in favour of a rewrite of the Nordic mythology.

 

[Focken Kiwi]

I've had a very hard time putting this game down. I've reached level 72 and have killed Godrick the Grafted, Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon, and just recently, Starscourge Radahn. I've swapped from the Greataxe I used much earlier in the game and have instead opted to use the Brick Hammer (now upgraded to +17.) I don't know what all is next, I'm still avoiding guides and I'm rushing headlong into the content, but, I'm having a blast. This game is fun as hell.

When I do get to see the credits at some point, I'm looking forward to looking up guides and seeing what all I've missed. I bet it's a lot so far.

 

[Meat Target]

I still don't really understand how Ashes of War work. Is it like the special weapon skills from DS3? I tend to not fool around with fancy trick techniques.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

I still don't really understand how Ashes of War work. Is it like the special weapon skills from DS3? I tend to not fool around with fancy trick techniques.

Basically, except they aren't permanently glued to the weapon (except for certain special ones). Find a skill that you like and slap it on. For a solid while, I had a skill on my ultra greatsword that was just a basic projectile so I could poke enemies out of my range.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I've had a very hard time putting this game down. I've reached level 72 and have killed Godrick the Grafted, Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon, and just recently, Starscourge Radahn. I've swapped from the Greataxe I used much earlier in the game and have instead opted to use the Brick Hammer (now upgraded to +17.) I don't know what all is next, I'm still avoiding guides and I'm rushing headlong into the content, but, I'm having a blast. This game is fun as hell.

When I do get to see the credits at some point, I'm looking forward to looking up guides and seeing what all I've missed. I bet it's a lot so far.

There's dozens of sub bosses many are re-used but, they're still there.

Have you been to Sofia's Well and killed both types of Ancestor Spirits? The Whole Underground area to the game is very elaborate like it's larger than Blackreach in Skyrim.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

I need faster weapons. Suggestions?

 

[Focken Kiwi]

There's dozens of sub bosses many are re-used but, they're still there.

Have you been to Sofia's Well and killed both types of Ancestor Spirits? The Whole Underground area to the game is very elaborate like it's larger than Blackreach in Skyrim.

No? Ancestor spirits? I've found my way to getting the Great Jar's Arsenal but I haven't dabbled in the underground too much beyond that. I didn't know the underground was that elaborate. It felt pretty linear from what I saw. I finished off Margit v2 and Rykard. I then hit the Fire Giant wall last night and I'm starting to feel very much underleveled now (I think I left off at 87.) I guess it's time to backtrack and explore the underground and all of the rest of Mount Glemir.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Is there anything to Radahn other than riding around awakening NPC summons again and again? I've entered that battle a couple of times today and got him down to 15-20% in the second phase, but I have no clue what I'm doing. It's an epic fight in the Marvel sense in that I'm bored and don't know what's going on. Watching from a distance he's got huge, long twirling attacks and splash damage that nearly kills me at full health, it makes me hesitant to get in there and attempt yet another boss circumcision.

Not really. It’s a gimmick fight for all practical purposes. I killed Morgott by the time I got to him, so he went down really easily.