I remember there being a section shortly after the part you mention where I was at street level and just couldn't find a bonfire. Tip: get on the horse and head down the large street towards the center of the city, avoid the (godskin?), then take a right, there's a grace there.
I'm pretty sure the game won't let you use your horse in most of Leyndell. It wouldn't let me iirc, at least.
When I first explored Leyndell, before beating Rykard and finishing Volcano Manor. I fought a few different mid boss type guys in and around the city. One of they may have been a godskin but I can't remember.
Either way, thanks for the tips!
While playing yesterday, I actually managed to unexpectedly bump into Golden shade Godfrey. I walked into this building, no prior grace nearby, no mist door, or any other warning that a boss was coming up. I was down to 3 health flasks because I had been fighting my way through the city and when I ran right into the boss I got a little nervous.
Thankfully, he went down somewhat easily on the first try.
Not far from Godfrey I ran into Morgott, this time with a forewarning, a wall of mist. He was tougher than Godfrey but still not too bad. I used the mimic summon for the fight, which works wonders. I hadn't been using it either. I had been using the knight with the halberd or the archer chick with the pet wolf summons.
I didn't realize how awesome the mimic summon is and I've been having it for Idk how long now.
I did a tiny bit of exploring on the mountaintop of giants and the enemies there are strong as hell! I'm gonna have to take it slow and see what kinda items I can find there, maybe level up a little bit, before going too deep.
I'd let Elden Ring sit as a slow burn and wait till the online gets fixed in DkS:R. Even if you don't want to play with invaders, you can just stay undead and avoid it entirely. It's really not the same imo without the bloodstains and messages.
Yeah that's how I've been playing Elden Ring. I have the bloodstains/messages turned off and I play in offline mode.
The messages, while useful for finding hidden items, were kinda getting on my nerves. There were way too many of then and all but a few had pretty useless information in them. I had a hard time just passing them up without reading them, too compulsive I guess, so I just turned them off. Pretty early into the game too. I don't think I had made it out of Limgrave yet when I turned the messages and bloodstains off.
I could have used the multiplayer help for a few of the bosses, and PVP sounds like it would be pretty damn fun, but I wasn't too thrilled to have to deal with all that for this first playthrough. This is basically my first souls type game, I didn't think I'd be skilled enough to take on pvp just yet.
I'm familiar enough with the controls and the way things work now. I'll probably make a new character eventually and give the pvp/multi-player a chance. I think I've played enough to not stink too much.
