Elden Ring

[Ruin]

He's pretty dangerous if you get hit by his comet spell. That shit one-shot my first build, and that was with pretty high magic resistance. If you unload on him right at the start though he completely fucking falls apart.

I backstab crit him and almost one shot him during his monologue. Part of me thinks the fact you can do that is meta commentary about the fact that Sir Gideon is extremely arrogant and prideful but lacks actual ability.

 

[GLUE SNIFFER 9000]

I finally met (and beat) the Godskin Duo and oh my god, fuck that fight! That fight was the first time I felt the need to grind enemies for the sole purpose of leveling as well as look up a guide to help me deal with two bosses at once within a tiny room. Sleep pots. Lure one of the duo away from your npc ally and sleep pot it. Then gang up on the bosses two on one and beat them down. One of the duo returns? Sleep pot.

This is the first fight that I did not enjoy. I'm fine with fights being hard but this fight just felt flat out cheap.

That's such a frustrating fight, I really struggled with it and had to pester a buddy to help me out, and even then it was a bit of a challenge.
Personally, the Godskin Noble is the more challenging of the two, especially when it starts rolling around the arena like a pinball. I'm fine with having a fight featuring two of them, but it would have been much better if it was just the TWO. My gripe with that fight is that they just respan when one of them is dead, which doesn't happen with any of the other team fights like the Tree Sentinels or Gargoyles.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

I backstab crit him and almost one shot him during his monologue. Part of me thinks the fact you can do that is meta commentary about the fact that Sir Gideon is extremely arrogant and prideful but lacks actual ability.

Gideon is a reference to Dark Souls fags that get pissy when you buff/backstab their invading ass while they're busy bow emoting.

 

[GLUE SNIFFER 9000]

I completely dumpstered Malenia today, which was really funny since some of the other bosses were an absolute struggle. I stacked a handfull of buffing incantations, the fire scorpion talisman, the fire boosting crystal tear, and just spammed the Blasphemous Blade's weapon art. Once she got knocked down, I just kept spamming that move and darn near stun locked her. Reckon it's time to hop online and help some other players.

 

[A Very Big Fish]

That's such a frustrating fight, I really struggled with it and had to pester a buddy to help me out, and even then it was a bit of a challenge.
Personally, the Godskin Noble is the more challenging of the two, especially when it starts rolling around the arena like a pinball. I'm fine with having a fight featuring two of them, but it would have been much better if it was just the TWO. My gripe with that fight is that they just respan when one of them is dead, which doesn't happen with any of the other team fights like the Tree Sentinels or Gargoyles.

That's why originally when I beat it, I just used sleep bolts, to knock him out and then avoided the Noble so I wouldn't get sideswiped by him pinballing around. Then they added a summon (or I just finally noticed it) and I just started using him and just out dpsing his respawn.

 

[Spirelord]

So I was watching a video trying to talk about Mohg and Miquella and I wanted to write my thoughts down.

Spoiler: Due to length

What if the Mohg we fight isn't Mohg because Miquella snatched his fucking body? No really, I was always kind of operating like Mogh was, in some capacity, brainwashed by Miquella- the softness of the voice, the obsession, the fact that Miquella is associated with brainwashing items so potent that, under the right circumstance, they can even cure Frenzied Flame lordship. But then a thought occured while seeing Mogh's intro again: do we know what Miquella is actually capable of? We've never seen him in action, the most we can gather from the world is the Haligtree and the possibility of becoming an Empyrian, but nothing of Miquella having any kind of limitation in that ability beyond what a mere crafted replica of his power can do.

"So what? Mind control doesn't mean he can swap bodies with people because if that were true he'd swap to an adult's body." This is half true in that if it were necessary, he COULD swap bodies if he had the ability. If he did so, however, he'd leave his Empyrian-ness behind and have no claim to the throne. After all, who'd believe some Haligtree soldier is the child of Marika and Radagon? Not only that but shard bearers and attempted usurpers of his claim would be powerful people such as Ranni and the shard bearers he doesn't know your character has killed, so he needs a powerful body to take with enough influence to make the claim seem legitimate, even if it's through a declaration of being a consort and a tenuous connection to other Elden Lord candidates.

Enter Mogh. Assuming Miquella is indeed Saint Trina and his influence can go far as to affect the dreams of distant peoples, he could've easily had Mogh think it was his idea to steal Miquella in the first place by planting the thought in his dreams. While similar to Miquella simply using his influence on Mogh, not only does Saint Trina have much more reach when it comes to direct influence, needing only slumber to captivate people, using Mogh's dreams to influence him makes it so the plan isn't known by Malenia, who wants to protect her brother. She believes the Haligtree can fix them while Miquella has been reported to be the doubter of fundamentalism, so it stands to reason that if one of them would doubt the Haligtree it'd be the one who had doubts of the Golden Order, spurred on by the lack of help it gave his sister.

So he gets Mogh to 'kidnap' him in order to leave the Haligtree and get a suitably powerful consort. If Miquella were able to take over minds it'd happen now; the body in the egg/cocoon while still an Empyrian is more or less deformed judging by the arm. What makes me think Miquella has taken over Mogh's body though- he doesn't say so nor does Mogh use mind bending powers.

The reason why I thought of it was, again, the intro to Mogh's boss fight. He pours out of Miquella's blood, speaks softly of having to fight, then growls at the Tarnished about the Mohgwyn dynasty. The voice in particular struck a chord the first time I've heard it- the soft voice sounds much more natural, as if Mogh were accustomed to being quiet. Meanwhile the voice he addresses the Tarnished with is oddly childish: rather than a booming voice being yelled from the chest, he growls from the neck as if he's a child pretending to be a monster. The growling is almost a caricature of evil voice acting done by someone who really never felt real malice, like maybe someone sheltered and protected by a stronger person due to circumstance...

It's not just that though, another bit of evidence is that Mohg NEVER, at any point in is fight, uses his omen powers like Morgott. Morgott uses everything he can, from Omen fire enwreathing his sword, to Omen body fluids reacting to his holy magic, to even the accursed bloodflame his twin brother has. And yet nowhere in Mohg's bossfight does he use Omen's fire despite it likely being easier to cast due to him being biologically predisposed to using it, instead using the bloodflames- almost as if he didn't know about the powers Omenkind possesses. Mohg was also in Miquella's bloodstream. Yes it was so he could influence Miquella's blood and body to become accursed for the Formless Mother, but if a demigod can influence a god's body from within surely the opposite is true. He is leeching off of Miquella after all, and maybe his mind was slowly taken from him due to the exposure to Miquella's magic.

TL;DR It's possible Miquella used his half brother and his Outer God to become Elden Lord without having to be in a child's body and possibly looked to help his sister by looking towards the Formless Mother. Mogh's voice is very off-putting for what Mohg is, he never uses all of the powers he could use in his boss fight, and being in a hypnotizing god's blood may have more consequences for you than for them. It was also set up to make Mogh's attempt at Elden Lordship very public and having a show of power- that he can defy the rot goddess that ended The Shattering in a stalemate- without putting any suspision on Miquella via influencing his dreams and convincing Mogh it was all his idea.

None of this is set in stone and I fully expect it to just be bullshit but the fact that there's a chance this is real makes me hope we get a definitive answer as to just what the fuck was going on with the Mohgwyn Dynasty beyond not fully reliable item descriptions.

 

[Raging Capybara]

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Does altering armor do anything? I see stat changes in the altered armor when at Boc, is that what it does and is it reversible?

 

[funny v2]

Does altering armor do anything? I see stat changes in the altered armor when at Boc, is that what it does and is it reversible?

All it really does for the most part is either remove capes from chest pieces or remove hoods from helmets, in which doing so will lower the weight but also lower defensive stats. (Some armors that have a secondary effect i.e silent footsteps will be removed if that cape is removed. It's weird.)
It's mainly for "fashion" but in a very loose sense because it's clear armor altering was not fully fleshed out. Makes me long to imagine what it would be like if we had a fully a detailed armor changer/transmog type thing.

Edit: It's also reversible. Boc does it for free whereas doing it at a bonfire grace will cost some souls runes.

 

[Pipi420]

Does altering armor do anything? I see stat changes in the altered armor when at Boc, is that what it does and is it reversible?

removes faggy capes and makes them slightly lighter
On the black knife assasins chest piece it also removes its stealth-enhancing effect since it removes the hood thing. not sure if theres other pieces of armor that have their effect removed if you alter them. maybe the jumpy cape, if you can even alter it?

 

[Spirelord]

Does altering armor do anything? I see stat changes in the altered armor when at Boc, is that what it does and is it reversible?

Others have summarized it but there's two other armors you should be aware of that change effects when altered. One is the Alberich's Pointed Hat/Cloak which gets rid of the blood sorcery damage boost (not that anyone uses it...) and the other being Rotten Duelist Helm which gives you an effect that increases enemy aggro. Altering armor also gives you alternate description sometimes if you like reading that stuff, but you can view it in the menu so you don't have to spend runes.

 

[draggs]

Well heretic frens I've finally given in, gonna go pick up a controller cus fuck playing these games with a mouse and keyboard and play me some Elden Jihad

Pray for me

In a blasphemous way pls

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Well heretic frens I've finally given in, gonna go pick up a controller cus fuck playing these games with a mouse and keyboard and play me some Elden Jihad

Pray for me

In a blasphemous way pls

You've been playing this on mouse and keyboard? Are you fucking insane? From has never made a good control scheme for their PC ports of souls games

 

[draggs]

You've been playing this on mouse and keyboard? Are you fucking insane? From has never made a good control scheme for their PC ports of souls games

No I haven't played this at all

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

No I haven't played this at all

Oh thank god, you had me worried for your mortal soul.

 

[Pipi420]

No I haven't played this at all

all you need to know is just level vigor. and dont stop until its level 50

 

[draggs]

all you need to know is just level vigor. and dont stop until its level 50

ive never played a dark souls game before and i suck so hard lol i hate the camera during combat im too used to the fixed from behind third person view in bethesda games. i figure after another 500 horrible noob deaths ill improve to just bad

 

[Raging Capybara]

ive never played a dark souls game before and i suck so hard lol i hate the camera during combat im too used to the fixed from behind third person view in bethesda games. i figure after another 500 horrible noob deaths ill improve to just bad

I had never played a fromsoft game before, too, But I found their reputation to be exceedingly exaggerated.

The game starts rough but towards the end it's a breeze. So easy to get overpowered.

 

[Pipi420]

I had never played a fromsoft game before, too, But I found their reputation to be exceedingly exaggerated.

The game starts rough but towards the end it's a breeze. So easy to get overpowered.

Yeah as Miyazaki has stated dozens of times in interviews, Souls was never about difficulty... Though thats stretched a little thin when you get to endgame superbosses like Malenia

 

[draggs]

I had never played a fromsoft game before, too, But I found their reputation to be exceedingly exaggerated.

The game starts rough but towards the end it's a breeze. So easy to get overpowered.

Well I switched the controls around a little bit (why are regular attacks and regular blocking default RB and LB, and power attacks/parry RT and LT lol, intuitively it should be the other way which is what I switched it to) and stopped being a button mashing noob who ignores timing and everything that makes a dark souls game a dark souls game so I'm noobdying much less now