Elden Ring

[Gondolindrim]

Midir was annoying because half of his Shin Godzilla-ass attacks could cross the map in a second and the hit boxes for his body were ill-defined. After the patch he was easier because they animated the shockwaves, but his fight was literally a slog. The DLC was full of enemies that were stupidly high level enemies designed so that even the most over leveled player would have a hard time.

Melania’s health steal being a flat rate per hit was the bullshit like people have said she could go from 25% health to full from hitting a shield and taking off none of your health. Her autism dance is just annoying.

Edit: Midir suffers the same problem as Elden Beast. Half the fight is running to where you can hit him and his weak spot is always out of range.

Midir is the one souls boss I could never beat because he just has entirely too much health. It's a battle of attrition and I don't really have the patience.

 

[K!w!Fartz]

Will you guys continue an existing save or start from scratch, once the DLC drops?

I plan to start a new character, only to autistically verify if they added or changed stuff in the base game. Then I more or less plan to rush the Meteor Staff and Golden Scarab, but I'll be honest, the AIDS cave is not very fun without resistance or Flame, Cleanse Me.
After that, it's normal progress, but easier and faster due to those two items.

I have to start a new character because I deleted my only save. I'll probably try and gather the items again legitimately but I'm a bit strained for time at the moment (at college). If it's taking me too long to get items for the DLC, I'll just use cheat engine to give me stuff.
I've always been a STR / FTH build and have no intention of changing.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

Will you guys continue an existing save or start from scratch, once the DLC drops?

I plan to start a new character, only to autistically verify if they added or changed stuff in the base game. Then I more or less plan to rush the Meteor Staff and Golden Scarab, but I'll be honest, the AIDS cave is not very fun without resistance or Flame, Cleanse Me.
After that, it's normal progress, but easier and faster due to those two items.

I’ll probably start a DG+ run and see what’s new. I started a new run in January out of boredom with current games and have been having fun. Doing a pyromancer/ halberd run.

Elden Ring’s difficulty is mostly just the bosses being scaled way higher than you are and early enemies dropping Jack and shit.

 

[Coldgrip]

Will you guys continue an existing save or start from scratch, once the DLC drops?

I plan to start a new character, only to autistically verify if they added or changed stuff in the base game. Then I more or less plan to rush the Meteor Staff and Golden Scarab, but I'll be honest, the AIDS cave is not very fun without resistance or Flame, Cleanse Me.
After that, it's normal progress, but easier and faster due to those two items.

Continuing an existing save. I'm more or less right outside his boss arena so may as well go in with my NG+ character.

 

[The Fair Lady]

Will you guys continue an existing save or start from scratch, once the DLC drops?

Continuing my old save, I don't have the time to invest in a new one even if I wanted to.

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

Except Dragons were accepted into the Golden Order by Godwyn

Only because Godwyn, a known Peacemaker and someone who specifically goes out of his way to not act like his mother, went out of his way to bring peace, and only after the dragons were laid low in war and there were only a few survivors left.

I don't disagree about the giants, but I think that may of been more Marika's doing.

Everything Marika does is in accordance with the Greater Will, and she is the one who upholds the Golden Order. She didn't go rogue when she made war on the Giants.

 

[Tablet County]

Everything Marika does is in accordance with the Greater Will, and she is the one who upholds the Golden Order. She didn't go rogue when she made war on the Giants.

Plus the Giants' flame has the power to burn the Erdtree, which makes them a natural threat to the Golden Order.

 

[Asian tech support]

Will you guys continue an existing save or start from scratch, once the DLC drops?

Probably go at it with one of my pvp characters. I have an autistic tendency to leave no stone unturned when I do a playthrough which is an undertaking that I think I'll pass on for now.

 

[Soycast Guy]

Will you guys continue an existing save or start from scratch, once the DLC drops?

I plan to start a new character, only to autistically verify if they added or changed stuff in the base game. Then I more or less plan to rush the Meteor Staff and Golden Scarab, but I'll be honest, the AIDS cave is not very fun without resistance or Flame, Cleanse Me.
After that, it's normal progress, but easier and faster due to those two items.

Existing save. I love Elden ring but I don’t have the patience for starting over. Especially because I already started a 2nd playthrough of Elden ring on my ps5 because my first playthrough was on my One S, and I wasn’t gonna play the dlc with that shitty framerate.

 

[Spirelord: Downfall]

Will you guys continue an existing save or start from scratch, once the DLC drops?

Unless it's adding something crazy like spirit ash evolution or fusion, I'm just playing my 80/35 Int/fth character so I can test out the spells without respecing. I usually play my first character whenever I play through the DLCs for the first time, and I doubt this one will make me break that pattern.

 

[FunPosting101]

It's a (mostly) single player game, so I don't care how you play it. I've seen so many autistic soulsfags sperging about the most inane shit possible that I made a mental note to never ever be like that.
Feel free to use cheats, feel free to use nude mods, feel free to use internet step-by-step guides.
But, you cannot do all this, and complain that the experience is ruined or unsatisfying. It's like using god mode in strategy game and lamenting the game is easy af.
I hope all this comes across as me advocating for consistency in how one plays and behaves and not some attack on you as a person.

All I'm saying is that the fight in question, when played fairly, isn't very fun because Malenia is a blatantly unfair and bullshit boss. Literally one of the worst bossfights Fromsoft has put in one of these games.

 

[Thomas Talus]

Will you guys continue an existing save or start from scratch, once the DLC drops?

All my save slots have characters with different builds parked at the very end of NG so I can use any weapon or spell the DLC has to offer with at least one of them.

 

[draggs]

Will you guys continue an existing save or start from scratch, once the DLC drops?

I plan to start a new character, only to autistically verify if they added or changed stuff in the base game. Then I more or less plan to rush the Meteor Staff and Golden Scarab, but I'll be honest, the AIDS cave is not very fun without resistance or Flame, Cleanse Me.
After that, it's normal progress, but easier and faster due to those two items.

The most recent save I was playing on just started an NG+ so sometime in the next 4 months I'll go over and erase Mohg so I can start the DLC nice and convenient

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

People oppose the Greater Will because its an outright despotic entity that controls the fates of everyone within its grasp. Under the Golder Order, mankind were but docile cattle, slaving under the will of higher powers. And anybody outside the Greater Will's purview or who didn't bend the knee, or even were just a little weird (the Dragons, the Giants, demihumans, the traveling merchants) could just get fucked. This is why Ranni and Miquella both sought a path outside the Greater Will and the Golder Order, and why Godwyn was beloved (he was a peacemaker who simply didn't desire to trod everything that opposed the Golden Order under foot).

"Literally a massive dragon corpse is still inside the city" - Those dragons dindu nuffing. Speaking of which, it's a cool design but makes no sense unless the dragons attacked the city again after the ring was shattered and no one cared enough to remove the corpse because no one but the player has agency in that game.

The argument about the Greater Will being controlling only seems to apply to the gods rather than regular humans (which doesn't justify causing the apocalypse over). And the other factions seems just as hellbent on killing you on sight which kinda makes me think the Greater Will has a point in killing them.

Also about Ranni, you can be sure her ending is not as positive considering her brother literally sealed the stars until his death to prevent their influence.

 

[ShitLurker]

The serpent that ate Rykard wants to devour the world so it's not really what one might call 'good'.

But we can devour the gods TOGETHAAA!

On the other hand, if you beat her using some meta crap or followed an internet guide, that's homosexually cringe and I can understand not feeling fulfilled by that.
I don't think her fight needs a nerf because I found her very challenging, but not impossible, and she made me try and experiment a bunch of times. No other boss made me do that before.

*raises hand*, yeah, guilty of that one. At least with Malekith, though I was pulling the same shit, I managed to do the dodgy parry from the item so it felt more earned. But yeah, really need to get back to her with character two to give it a proper shake.

The reason why I say all of this is that the fight just isn't very fun for me. I looked up a guide to Malenia's attack pattern on youtube and when I got to the part that shows you how to either dodge or interrupt waterfowl dance, I didn't feel any joy from the discovery nor did I feel any particular desire to play through the fight using this newfound information. I just felt annoyed more than anything else. Mostly at Fromsoft for making such a difficult fight in the first place. At some point struggling on the same fight just stops being fun or worth it in my opinion, and Malenia reached that point for me.

I do agree that Melania is overtuned due to fucking healing on blocked hits. Yes, I understand that if you don't do something, a tower shield trivializes her, but that's what phase 2 is for and just have some very aggressive rot buildup on block on that phase as well as some aoe attacks to go over the shield to keep you on your toes.

Though on the other hand knowing the pot trick, it seems unnecessary. I guess I'm a faggot fence sitter on this one. Since I never experiment with items in these games I would never in my life found out an ice pot stops Melania cold (tehe), but once you know it, it seems like the fight would become very manageable.

Might as well do due diligence and include all the variants for posterity's sake.
I was having trouble finding good screenshots and was considering booting up the games to get good ones but some xitter chump did it for me. I might go through later and get better shots with consistent lighting.
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I kinda think it's cool that the ER version has frost on the crossguard and handle.

Incomplete list dude, where are the Armored Core and Kings Field versions?

I do think that the Moonlight sword being ice themed in Elden Ring removes some of it's luster though. Definitely another vote for bloodborne being the best one.

Jesus motherfucking christ, Midir telegraphies every attack for 4 seconds and the motherfucker has a script stagger towards the end that eats like 5k from his health bar.

Seriously, what in the goddamn fucking god is going on here?

Every single attack from Midir is easily avoidable, you don't need a youtube tutorial to figure out anything, he doesn't recover health and only punishes you if you try to hit his cock.

I bet my ass you killed Malenia with a +10 mimic and all the bullshit bleed weapon you can and has the nerve to say Midir is unfair. Faggots. Seriously, I think most of you never played those games.

Agreed, Midir was a good boy and pretty much the only time they managed to do the giant fuck you boss with a specific weakness target (Fire Giant was another fuck up with this). Midir is only a slog if you aren't going all in on his face constantly while dodging the laser light show. Might just be that I also play Monster Hunter, but he never felt that long to me.

Will you guys continue an existing save or start from scratch, once the DLC drops?

I plan to start a new character, only to autistically verify if they added or changed stuff in the base game. Then I more or less plan to rush the Meteor Staff and Golden Scarab, but I'll be honest, the AIDS cave is not very fun without resistance or Flame, Cleanse Me.
After that, it's normal progress, but easier and faster due to those two items.

Will use my main save fully decked out and with enough respecs to try random shit as I go. I do have a second character that is a Int Dex build that is having a hard time due to constantly being underlevelled since I only go where I want to go. Will try to give that one another go and see if I can at least beat Mogh to be able to ender the DLC instantly as well (though I've tried him a few times in mid level 50 and he's kicking my shit in).

Midir is the one souls boss I could never beat because he just has entirely too much health. It's a battle of attrition and I don't really have the patience.

Might I suggest the boss rush mod for Dark Souls 3? Lets you set the bosses you wish to fight, in what order and the multiplier of souls dropped and with a chunky multiplier you can be a max faith max strength monster flinging lightning like Gwyn intended with the Nameless king's spear. Two shooting Vort from just calling lightning twice was hilarious and as you can imagine even the meaner bosses go faster with all of that extra damage you are piling in.

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

The argument about the Greater Will being controlling only seems to apply to the gods rather than regular humans (which doesn't justify causing the apocalypse over).

The gods control the humans, the Greater Will controls the gods. And everybody has their fate governed by the Two Fingers.

Also about Ranni, you can be sure her ending is not as positive considering her brother literally sealed the stars until his death to prevent their influence.

We don't know why Radahn sealed the stars. The game never really explains this or gives a reason, and Radahn is fucking insane by the time you fight him, so whatever reasoning he had is long lost. Keep in mind, Radahn himself is no hero; he was one of the participants in the Shattering, and unlike others, had no right to claim throne or fight for control as he was never in line to inherit, nor declared an Empyrean by the Two Fingers.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The gods control the humans, the Greater Will controls the gods. And everybody has their fate governed by the Two Fingers.

There's control as in govern, and control as in slaves without will. The former is just a fact of life, while the latter is an actual thing to rebel against.

We don't know why Radahn sealed the stars. The game never really explains this or gives a reason, and Radahn is fucking insane by the time you fight him, so whatever reasoning he had is long lost. Keep in mind, Radahn himself is no hero; he was one of the participants in the Shattering, and unlike others, had no right to claim throne or fight for control as he was never in line to inherit, nor declared an Empyrean by the Two Fingers.

You don't need to put two and two together that it's because the stars are dangerous as fuck and rain demigod level enemies at random intervals. Also out of all the demigods he seems to be the most chill. Especially as he kept the chill even in his state of madness

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

There's control as in govern, and control as in slaves without will. The former is just a fact of life, while the latter is an actual thing to rebel against.

Considering that the Greater Will basically governs life and fate, its a distinction without a difference in this case.

You don't need to put two and two together that it's because the stars are dangerous as fuck and rain demigod level enemies at random intervals.

Doubt that's it. More than likely it had something to do with the Carian Royal family's ability to prophecy via the stars, which became impossible once he arrested control over them, which is why Ranni needed him to die.

Also out of all the demigods he seems to be the most chill. Especially as he kept the chill even in his state of madness

You mean, he was chill till he rode a conquering army across the land and engaged in the Shattering's most destructive battles?

 

[Lurkerish Kandor]

Will you guys continue an existing save or start from scratch, once the DLC drops?

Technically both I guess.
I have an Int/Dex Lightsaber mage sitting there either at endgame or in NG+, but I'll also make a STR/FTH character from scratch as well so I can try out everything the DLC adds with characters that do them justice.

Obviously respeccing is a very easy thing to do, but I almost never do it in ER because it's one of the only games I've ever managed to get into "role playing" my characters instead of making a generic-ass self-insert.

You don't need to put two and two together that it's because the stars are dangerous as fuck and rain demigod level enemies at random intervals.

Doubt that's it. More than likely it had something to do with the Carian Royal family's ability to prophecy via the stars, which became impossible once he arrested control over them, which is why Ranni needed him to die.

The Carian Royals' star prophecies could've been dangerous, sure, especially with Ranni wanting to escape the Two Fingers and their influence at any cost, but the eldritch Color Our Of Space monsters seem like the much more serious threat.

Ranni seems to only have wanted to leave the world behind and explore space, and after the Carians were cut off from the Academy they didn't really have a following anymore. In comparison, the Falling Star Beasts and the Astel-like creatures are actively coming down to the world and fucking things up. I consider Gravity-related shit to be somewhat of its own "faction": there's the Alabaster/Onyx Lords and their lesser variants, and there's always a bunch of cultists hanging around Gravity enemies and anomalies. Despite what turtlepope says, the Order doesn't seem to be interested in tolerating - let alone integrating - heresies and their followers.

 

[Asian tech support]

Agreed, Midir was a good boy and pretty much the only time they managed to do the giant fuck you boss with a specific weakness target (Fire Giant was another fuck up with this). Midir is only a slog if you aren't going all in on his face constantly while dodging the laser light show. Might just be that I also play Monster Hunter, but he never felt that long to me.

Midir was the only DS3 boss that made me hunker down and spend an afternoon fighting him naked to learn his moveset. It was a nice change of pace because despite DS3 bosses being a clear technical upgrade (not necessarily better but DS3 had good bosses for the most part imo) over those of previous titles, the game was a cakewalk if you were already acclimated.