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

[MasPingon]

Good luck with the shield fighting Crucible Knights.

 

[Olinser]

I haven't even bothered with any of the dragons. I should probably go back and fight at least one, just to see if they drop anything good, but they're very unappealing fights. Smack its leg, hope its mouth isn't oneshotting you from out of sight. Meh.

I'm at a point in the game where I don't have any clear direction for where to go next. I've killed Godrick and Rennala, I've visited the capital briefly and I've been to see Radahn, but both of those feel too tough for my character at the moment. My last session was spent aimlessly riding around looking for interesting shit. I don't mind that part of the game nearly as much as some, but I can tell it's going to get old if I have to do much more of it. For now at least, interesting shit is interesting.

They don't. The Magma Wyrms are the only ones that actually give you items, those are worth killing.

The named dragons pretty universally just drop some runes and a Dragon Heart, and unlock a spell at the Dragon church where you can give them hearts for spells, most of which are crap.

 

[Curratum]

I haven't even bothered with any of the dragons. I should probably go back and fight at least one, just to see if they drop anything good, but they're very unappealing fights. Smack its leg, hope its mouth isn't oneshotting you from out of sight. Meh.

I'm at a point in the game where I don't have any clear direction for where to go next. I've killed Godrick and Rennala, I've visited the capital briefly and I've been to see Radahn, but both of those feel too tough for my character at the moment. My last session was spent aimlessly riding around looking for interesting shit. I don't mind that part of the game nearly as much as some, but I can tell it's going to get old if I have to do much more of it. For now at least, interesting shit is interesting.

They don't. The Magma Wyrms are the only ones that actually give you items, those are worth killing.

The named dragons pretty universally just drop some runes and a Dragon Heart, and unlock a spell at the Dragon church where you can give them hearts for spells, most of which are crap.

90% of the rewards you get in this game after some 40 hours of playtime are crap. The only thing you need is upgrade mats, nothing else is big enough to make that much of a difference, especially post-patch.

 

[Silva]

Good luck with the shield fighting Crucible Knights.

Can he be parried? If so, a little buckler is all I need.

 

[cvv]

90% of the rewards you get in this game after some 40 hours of playtime are crap.

Bro, now you're REALLY getting carried away. This game must've scarred you something bad.

 

[perfectslumbers]

Can he be parried? If so, a little buckler is all I need.

Yes parrying is an excellent anti-knight strat

 

[cvv]

Can he be parried? If so, a little buckler is all I need.

He can, in fact his 1-handed swings are very easy to parry. Problem is he's resistant to crits or some such, even my upgraded Misericorde seemed to do relatively little damage from ripostes. Dunno...

 

[Curratum]

90% of the rewards you get in this game after some 40 hours of playtime are crap.

Bro, now you're REALLY getting carried away. This game must've scarred you something bad.

Maybe my build and style of play, who knows. Didn't find a single medallion that made me go "niice!", all consumable items were useless and all those rare materials you find once every few hours as well. What even was the purpose of crafting?

It's so grandiosely pointless, given how you also need to find those recipe books first, it makes my head hurt.

 

[Olinser]

90% of the rewards you get in this game after some 40 hours of playtime are crap.

Bro, now you're REALLY getting carried away. This game must've scarred you something bad.

Maybe my build and style of play, who knows. Didn't find a single medallion that made me go "niice!", all consumable items were useless and all those rare materials you find once every few hours as well. What even was the purpose of crafting?

It's so grandiosely pointless, given how you also need to find those recipe books first, it makes my head hurt.

Clearly you aren't actually finding recipes if you think crafting has no purpose. You can craft a cure for pretty much every debuff, the fowl feet to boost item/rune drops, basically free throwing knives for pulling, and both offensive and defensive consumables which are a galaxy away from 'useless'.

And there's a medallion for pretty much every purpose, most of the defensive ones aren't particularly great, but the OP ones are the weight increasing ones and the regen one, although some of the damage ones can be quite a big boost.

 

[cvv]

all consumable items were useless and all those rare materials you find once every few hours as well. What even was the purpose of crafting?

Tbh I barely used consumables too but apparently they can be p. powerful, especially now after the buff. Just watched Lobos' SL1 stream, his solution for the various duo boss fights is to simply put them to sleep He just tosses two or three sleep pots and blam, the Dogskin Duo falls asleep like two little babies. Plus the dozing-off and waking animations are p. long, giving you huge windows to wail on them.

I've never used sleep but apparently it's bonkers. Also the freezing pots are great for inflicting frostbite, altho they're expensive since you need ritual pots and rare herbs to craft them.

 

[Silva]

He can, in fact his 1-handed swings are very easy to parry. Problem is he's resistant to crits or some such, even my upgraded Misericorde seemed to do relatively little damage from ripostes. Dunno...

Yeah, it seems for some enemies going for the crit is a trap and it's better to continue smacking them with regular attacks instead.

A jumping attack with crow medallion is better then?

 

[Villagkouras]

Jesus, power-stancing Greatswords is melting everything. After Malenia, Mohg went down (not so easily, it took me 4-5 tries and my win was very narrow) and then, the infamous Godskin Duo went down first try. I was expecting a second phase or something. It's like I'm out-DPSing everything. Jumping L1 FTW.

 

[Olinser]

Jesus, power-stancing Greatswords is melting everything. After Malenia, Mohg went down (not so easily, it took me 4-5 tries and my win was very narrow) and then, the infamous Godskin Duo went down first try. I was expecting a second phase or something. It's like I'm out-DPSing everything. Jumping L1 FTW.

Honestly a lot of how easy most of the bosses are depends on how leveled you are and where you put your points.

Everybody complained about Margit, I utterly slaughtered him at only about level 35 and only drank 1 pot, because I had an offensive focused build that just annihilated him.

 

[Zariusz]

Is there an Elden Ring version of this paired greatsword insanity?

 

[Lutte]

Is there an Elden Ring version of this paired greatsword insanity?

Nope. DS3 had a lot of twin weapons because it didn't have power stancing. Elden Ring still has a few twin weapons, but it's mostly the small arms variety (twin fists, claws, dagger fists and so on).
Power stancing is very useful, but it doesn't have unique weapon arts or flowery unique-weapon l1 associated to it like DS3 paired weapons, and using a weapon art in power stance mode will just activate a normal single weapon move from your right hand weapon.

 

[Olinser]

Is there an Elden Ring version of this paired greatsword insanity?

Nope. DS3 had a lot of twin weapons because it didn't have power stancing. Elden Ring still has a few twin weapons, but it's mostly the small arms variety (twin fists, claws, dagger fists and so on).
Power stancing is very useful, but it doesn't have unique weapon arts or flowery unique-weapon l1 associated to it like DS3 paired weapons, and using a weapon art in power stance mode will just activate a normal single weapon move from your right hand weapon.

Dual wielding bleeders is about the only reason to twin weapon in Elden Ring.

 

[perfectslumbers]

Dual wielding bleeders is about the only reason to twin weapon in Elden Ring.

Powerstancing collosal weapons is good cuz you'll be doing like 1700 damage a jump attack lategame

 

[Old Hans]

I'm ashamed to admit I used shields in Demon's Souls and early Dark Souls back in the day. I didn't know any better back then. Once I learned the way of dual weild/two-handed combat, I could never go back. A true battle hardened warrior fights with both hands.

if anything, Myzaaki or whatever his name is, should be ashamed. he put like 800 shields in the game and dishonored the japanese bushido code

 

[Echo Mirage]

So they moved the battle hammer? Dammit! that was my go to cave clearer!

 

[mediocrepoet]

Is there an Elden Ring version of this paired greatsword insanity?

Starscourge Greatsword is a colossal weapon that pairs instead of two hands. It's the most similar thing to the Ringed Knight paired UGS.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Good luck with the shield fighting Crucible Knights.

Do you even know what barricade shield is? I mean, seriously now.

 

[Multidirectional]

I have no idea where to go and get raped anywhere I turn. I'm having some proper gaming here.

 

[MasPingon]

Good luck with the shield fighting Crucible Knights.

Do you even know what barricade shield is? I mean, seriously now.

I use shield with no skill attached to it. Prefer weapon skill. But thinking of it, shield skill could be useful with Crucible Knights.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Good luck with the shield fighting Crucible Knights.

Do you even know what barricade shield is? I mean, seriously now.

I use shield with no skill attached to it. Prefer weapon skill. But thinking of it, shield skill could be useful with Crucible Knights.

I get that, but if you're committed to using a shield, barricade shield is crazy good for high stagger opponents. It almost feels like cheating which is why they nerfed it for cost and duration.

 

[MasPingon]

I have no idea where to go and get raped anywhere I turn.

Yeah, this game is like spending New Year's Eve on a town squere in Koeln at the beginning. Learn to use summons.