From Software Elden Ring - From Software's new game with writing by GRRM

[cvv]

Never used the greataxe in other From games, but love how it looks in ER.

Looks are WAY cooler, the reach still just as shitty

 

[Curratum]

My character atm:

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Never used the greataxe in other From games, but love how it looks in ER.

I need to know the name of that piece with the chain! I have radahn's things and the mask, just missing the other piece.

It's the starting armor of the hero class. I have it since start. Iirc I saw a nomad merchant that sells it but I couldn't say where.

Disregard the question. I am retarded. I had the exact same piece, bought it off a merchant, but somehow didn't recognize it paired with Radahn's greaves.

Here's my dude I posted a while back:

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[cvv]

Btw I see a lot of people are Fashion Soulsing again...not that I protest, it's just unlike DS3 armor actually seems to matter in this.

I don't even have a fixed look, constantly changing my gear to anti-phys, anti-rot, anti-magic, anti-death etc, depending on the circumstances. Just one example - fighting the Tree Spirit in the Rot Lake without a dedicated anti-rot gear is total waste of time. (Can't beat him even with it, sadgely.)

 

[Eyestabber]

Gr8 news!

https://old.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/comments/t3s53o/elden_ring_cracked_game_save_to_steam/

This works perfectly. I used the guy's automated EXE and everything went smoothly. My Claymore dude is now 100% legit.

pure caster build sucks balls.

My idea was to go spellblade with Prisoner and have both melee and ranged pew pew as options.

 

[Lutte]

Pure caster in terms of build is fine even if you play melee. I have only minimal weapon requirements in str and dex, and all in INT (defense stats: 35 in vigor, 25 in endurance, I get +5 from a talisman so the effective totals to 40 and 30), and all the INT scaled weapons do tons of damage. Even the Uchigatana with a magic ash of war is doing pretty decent.

 

[cvv]

My idea was to go spellblade with Prisoner and have both melee and ranged pew pew as options.

I've done only cursory tests but I concluded pew-pew is kindda useless unless you REALLY lean into it and make a total glass cannon. Mixed melee/caster builds don't really work, at least they didn't for me.

 

[Brickfrog]

Sorcery gets good as shit in the very late game with 70 int and the infinite Mana flask.

Not sure about mixed sorcery yet, but the beast incantations are ok on a high strength low faith build though.

The only cost to adding beast incantations to a str build is like 14 points in faith + the upgrade stones for the beast seal.

 

[Shrimp]

I've seen lots of people running INT builds complain about the basic starter spell being their best offensive spell for far too long since it deals good damage when its cast time and FP cost is taken into account

 

[Correct_Carlo]

All these people bitching about never wanting to play this game again need to consider the fact that they just beat a 70-100 hour game in less than 2 weeks. That's playing the game at a rate of >40 hours per week. Most Souls games take 70-100 hours to 100%, which usually means playing through NG+2. So this is the longest Souls by far and you basically just mainlined it straight into your veins all at once.

I'm playing this game a lot, but I've only done 40 hours so far. Still loving it. That could change, but for the moment my estimation of FromSoft is: DS1 > Elden Ring > DS2 > Sekiro > DS3 (never played Demon Souls or Bloodborne, so I can't rank them).

 

[Lutte]

I've seen lots of people running INT builds complain about the basic starter spell being their best offensive spell for far too long since it deals good damage when its cast time and FP cost is taken into account

Just use a magic ash of war, then a magic unique weapon with an even better weapon art. They're far more effective than spells unless you do the combo whammy people talk about of the mixed physick and channeled spell.

 

[Great Deceiver]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/ta16wm/do_you_think_the_game_has_input_reading_or/

It's not cheap, it's good design, bro!

This game has the most blatant input reading I've seen in a long time, perhaps ever. Mohg in particular was so bad in this respect that I couldn't help but laugh.

 

[Curratum]

All these people bitching about never wanting to play this game again need to consider the fact that they just beat a 70-100 hour game in less than 2 weeks. That's playing the game at a rate of >40 hours per week. Most Souls games take 70-100 hours to 100%, which usually means playing through NG+2. So this is the longest Souls by far and you basically just mainlined it straight into your veins all at once.

I'm playing this game a lot, but I've only done 40 hours so far. Still loving it. That could change, but for the moment my estimation of FromSoft is: DS1 > Elden Ring > DS2 > Sekiro > DS3 (never played Demon Souls or Bloodborne, so I can't rank them).

That's the catch. I was loving every second until maybe 60 hours in.

 

[perfectslumbers]

Actual legit speedrun is out fellas

 

[Nerevar]

Where can I get a second scavengers curved sword?

 

[cvv]

Where can I get a second scavengers curved sword?

Farm Scavengers?

 

[toro]

My character atm:

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Never used the greataxe in other From games, but love how it looks in ER.

Great Axe is actually a very viable pvp build. It made DaS3 bearable for me.

 

[Mortmal]

I've seen lots of people running INT builds complain about the basic starter spell being their best offensive spell for far too long since it deals good damage when its cast time and FP cost is taken into account

Pebble its most efficient damage/fp ratio spell, and most important it has very good range. Late game rennala 's full moon and loretta's greatbow have better range and damage, especially moon which is small AOE damage too , but the cost is very high so most of the time you will just use pebble on trash mobs.On bosses when you use the infinite flask you just use azur comet or spam the rock sling.

 

[kites]

does anyone know if armor-set bonuses are a thing in this? maybe obfuscated? though it's also hard to tell what all those status +/- are sometimes..

 

[Lutte]

but the cost is very high so most of the time you will just use pebble on trash mobs

Late game trash takes two hits, for the non tanky varieties, up to 5 or 6 for the more hit absorbing foes, of moonveil or dark moon greatsword it takes serious wizard fundamentalism/roleplaying to resort to casting a pebble instead of using a ranged weapon art. I think last I checked on the weakest variants it was like 5 pebbles to take down on the same character with 70 INT.
And the weapon art opens up the tankier foes for critical staggers if done in melee.

 

[toro]

Actual legit speedrun is out fellas

Actually the run is not legit because he is using a boss door exploit which ... is sad.

 

[Hobo Elf]

I'm honestly more curious to see how the game's success (measured in sales and general positive reception) will affect other games. Are we in for a decade of cheap ER knockoffs now?

I don't think so. Dark Souls was already a big deal but we didn't see everyone jumping on that. The problem is that western AAA devs for example literally cannot comprehend why these games are popular. The Souls games do everything opposite of what AAA devs been conditioned into thinking is good game design. It becomes even more apparent that this is the case when you look at the seething frustration of the Horizon devs as they post how they can't understand why anyone would play Elden Ring over their game.

 

[Lutte]

Actual legit speedrun is out fellas

Actually the run is not legit because he is using a boss door exploit which ... is sad.

The sad part is, even with all the glitches to teleport, half of the speedrun is just a bunch of horsing around. This really shows how there's really no reasonable way of replaying this game without suffering the timewaster that is traversing the huge and boran open world.

 

[toro]

Actual legit speedrun is out fellas

Actually the run is not legit because he is using a boss door exploit which ... is sad.

The sad part is, even with all the glitches to teleport, half of the speedrun is just a bunch of horsing around. This really shows how there's really no reasonable way of replaying this game without suffering the timewaster that is traversing the huge and boran open world.

32 minutes of running before 1st real boss fight

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Foreskin Duo is still cancer

 

[Brickfrog]

Every speedrun iv ever seen looks unfun tho. It's cool to see major glitches but I can't imagine myself ever enjoying playing a game like that.

 

[Lutte]

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Foreskin Duo is still cancer

Tbh that particular glitch based speedrun route sounds like pure CBT. 32 minutes of running around without doing anything, then the only bosses you get to fight being the shitskin duo, gideon, maliketh, radagon and the beast..

Scratch that, actual CBT might be more fun than this.