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

[TheHeroOfTime]

Pro-tip for those using great-swords: Learn how to attack while crouching (Crouch-stabbing). Is faster than the regular r1 attack, stunlocks human enemies and allows you to roll faster afterwards.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Reinforcing the point about spells - they're almost all trash, compared to weapon skills. Spells and incants do less damage, take longer to get off and are more expensive than skills, why would you ever bother with them. There are a couple of sorceries that are solid...you're still better off spamming Moonveil's or MGS' skills.

With the caveat that I haven't tried to do anything major with a pure caster yet, I think there are two answers to this:

1) Range: weapon arts are generally pretty short range while many spells have significantly longer range.
2) Returns for going all in: There seem to be a variety of items to boost spell damage and related stats, so I expect if you went after it hard (like in DS3) you could make it work, but it would require dedication/specialization.

 

[Olinser]

The immense faggotry one has to undergo to not go for Ranni is unfathomable.

Few posts back I wanted Fia but you know the truth? Fia is a ho. You approach this bitch in her deathtrap dungeon and you're fighting all her simps, one after the other. So you beat them up including that one fat fuck "Lionel" and then Fia's like, "yeah it's cute you still want hugs but I'm gonna fuck this guy in the tree here so if you're cool with that mind finding me some ornate centipede gizmo?"

Nigga you got me all fucked up. Thinking I'm gonna be going on some sort of journey just to get cucked. So anyways I did this (stfu Codex) and let's just say I'm happy at the grand conclusion of that little plotline. She got the D all right, hehehehe. Just not mine!

But that's cool because Ranni is a more fulfilling, more goth, more pure girl. And she has four arms. Do you know the time you can make doing dishes with those numbers? Or how many babies you can hold once I breed that doll-pussy up? Huh? Do ya?

Yeah, Elden Ring made me get married. Cool game, huh?

flicks toothpick

I said "cool game."

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

I killed Morgott and can finally get out of Leyndell. Fuck that place.

 

[Olinser]

I don't even negative rate messages at this point - because negative ratings actually REWARD the idiot with the heal and make it more likely that the message will continue to appear, and people can't actually tell whether a message was rated positive/negative, it only displays total ratings.

I knew that the number next to the message is the total of positive/negative votes but I'm not sure about the negative ratings healing and boosting the message. Did you read it somewhere? If it's true then it makes zero sense.

As far as I know, it was confirmed several places, you get the heal for your message simply getting appraised, positive/negative is irrelevant, and the message that pops up with the heal simply says 'message was appraised', not 'message was positively appraised'.

 

[Lutte]

Few posts back I wanted Fia but you know the truth? Fia is a ho.

Well she is a prostitute who goes around fucking people to steal their lifeforce so she can lay down with a dead noble (and give birth??? Maybe???) Guess From Soft wanted a romance path for all the polyamorous folks!

From always had bizarro stuff but I feel it was where GRRM's contribution was the strongest. The necrophiliac whore, the dung eater, the ever autistic goldmask, the split-soul schizophrenic god having children with itself.. people say they can't see the GRRM in it because there isn't much writing/dialogue but it has his dirty smell all over the place. GRRM is the guy who wrote shit like this :

“Sunset found her squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up, she was shitting brown water. The more she drank the more she shat, but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew.”

Elden Ring has a very strong GRRM stench.

 

[MasPingon]

This is interesting, I'd been curious what the hell they're singing about.

I tried to get to Atlus Platau through there. I was half dead by when those two were the only obstacle to get there. I got 1/3 of health, no Estus Flasks and was already freaked out after previous fight with flying enemies(hate them). Having a lot of runes, with no Site of Grace in half a mile I gave up and decided to search for Dectus Medallion instead. You wan't to tell me they wasn't hostile?

 

[Lyric Suite]

It almost feels like the story would have been better without GRRM.

 

[Cromwell]

I tried to get to Atlus Platau through there. I was half dead by when those two were the only obstacle to get there. I got 1/3 of health, no Estus Flasks and was already freaked out after previous fight with flying enemies(hate them). Having a lot of runes, with no Site of Grace in half a mile I gave up and decided to search for Dectus Medallion instead. Don't tell me they wasn't hostile.

they are, and the grace site is just up the elevator. theres also a boss there that blocks the way to the plateau

 

[Great Deceiver]

Good writeup Eyestabber, agreed on most counts, but there's a merchant in Caelid that sells anti-rot boluses, he's near the path that takes you to the giant jar.

 

[SumDrunkGuy]

Scarlet rot either needs nerfed or removed entirely. It ruins the fucking game.

 

[Sunri]

Scarlet rot either needs nerfed or removed entirely. It ruins the fucking game.

There are a lot of ways to get rid of rot.

 

[Sunri]

So we already have flying horse huh

 

[Eyestabber]

there's a merchant in Caelid that sells anti-rot boluses, he's near the path that takes you to the giant jar.

W8, what!? That place only accessible trough the Siofra River!? Why do RPGs keep pulling this crap? You do an entire Fire Area and then at the end you find "Ring of Fire Resistance", you do the poison area, RING OF POISON WHATEVER, and now you're telling me the merchant who sells Rot cure happens to be at the very last place you can visit in the Rot Area!? Ffs... ¬¬'

Elden Ring has a very strong GRRM stench.

 

[Ravielsk]

Reinforcing the point about spells - they're almost all trash, compared to weapon skills. Spells and incants do less damage, take longer to get off and are more expensive than skills, why would you ever bother with them. There are a couple of sorceries that are solid...you're still better off spamming Moonveil's or MGS' skills.

I feel the need to add to this that on top of everything mentioned spell consume a lot more FP in a game with no inbuilt FP regeneration. So you either cripple your estus supply to keep casting for a little while longer or you use spells in a entirely supplementary manner. Also for some retarded reason you still cant manually aim them so yet again they are inferior to bows in almost every way but somehow its OK because back in DS1 magic made a couple of bosses real easy so now its OK for it to suck till the end of eternity.

 

[The Decline]

there's a merchant in Caelid that sells anti-rot boluses, he's near the path that takes you to the giant jar.

W8, what!? That place only accessible trough the Siofra River!? Why do RPGs keep pulling this crap? You do an entire Fire Area and then at the end you find "Ring of Fire Resistance", you do the poison area, RING OF POISON WHATEVER, and now you're telling me the merchant who sells Rot cure happens to be at the very last place you can visit in the Rot Area!? Ffs... ¬¬'

It's on the hill overlooking that. It's easy to bypass the enemies and make a run to the merchant first time entering Caelid.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Scarlet rot either needs nerfed or removed entirely. It ruins the fucking game.

Dude you rushed straight towards the hardest parts of the game. Git gud and stop complaining about the only status effect that is not a joke.

 

[perfectslumbers]

This is interesting, I'd been curious what the hell they're singing about.

This is really fucking cool. Are the weird bat women tarnished too then?

1) Range: weapon arts are generally pretty short range while many spells have significantly longer range.
2) Returns for going all in: There seem to be a variety of items to boost spell damage and related stats, so I expect if you went after it hard (like in DS3) you could make it work, but it would require dedication/specialization.

Unfortunately these don't apply too much. Spells do have range but many weapon arts have range too, although the best ones have less range than spells they still have enough range to hit bosses from far away and stay safe. As for the all in part, you can say the same of ashes of war, except the buffs you can stack for ashes of war are stronger than the ones for spells.

The incantation and sorcery boosting talismans boost damage by 4%

The talisman that boosts ash of war damage boosts damage by 15%

Everything else you can stack for ashes of war too. Such as stacking fire damage talismans+buffs to get very powerful fire ashes of war. There are spells themselves that buff you, but it's generally better to buff yourself then use an ash of war, than to buff yourself then use a spell, since most of the strong ashes of war scale off the same stats you need to unlock spells. From Soft has always struggled a bit with the mathematical side of their games tbh, hopefully this will improve with patches.

 

[Bigg Boss]

I met a Patches once. Nice fella.

 

[mediocrepoet]

This is interesting, I'd been curious what the hell they're singing about.

This is really fucking cool. Are the weird bat women tarnished too then?

I saw another translation that interpreted tarnished as "disfigured". (See here https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Chanting+Winged+Dame) I think the concepts are close enough anyway, that they were ruined by the Shattering and are lamenting.

 

[Zurbo]

Scarlet rot either needs nerfed or removed entirely. It ruins the fucking game.

It's a rather important element of the lore. Kinda interesting element, for me at least. They should not remove it.

Also a high density of bonfires caused, that I never really felt distressed by it in a similar way to toxic status in blighttown DS1.
The only place where the rot was a threat was that big lake of scarlet rot soup underground, where dragonkin boi was fought. And it was the only place, that made me bothered to craft some balls for rot cure. It was the only situation that made me want to prepare for a fight in such a way, so yeah, I don't hate it.

 

[Great Deceiver]

there's a merchant in Caelid that sells anti-rot boluses, he's near the path that takes you to the giant jar.

W8, what!? That place only accessible trough the Siofra River!? Why do RPGs keep pulling this crap? You do an entire Fire Area and then at the end you find "Ring of Fire Resistance", you do the poison area, RING OF POISON WHATEVER, and now you're telling me the merchant who sells Rot cure happens to be at the very last place you can visit in the Rot Area!? Ffs... ¬¬'

It's on the hill overlooking that. It's easy to bypass the enemies and make a run to the merchant first time entering Caelid.

Yep, what he said. Very easy to get to. I thought scarlet rot was a good mechanic, in fact I think there should be more stuff in the game that forces you to deal with it directly or die, instead of just tank and heal through it.

 

[BLOBERT]

BROS I AM TAKING IT SLOW I THINK FIFTY HOURS OR SO IN

GOING SORT OF HALF BLIND I LOOK UP QUEST SHIT SOMETIMES AND UPGRADE STONES

JUST FOUND MOONVEIL KATANA LOLLOLOL

SO KILLED RENNALA AND IM LIKE LEVEL 55 MAYBE UNDERLEVELED

 

[mediocrepoet]

there's a merchant in Caelid that sells anti-rot boluses, he's near the path that takes you to the giant jar.

W8, what!? That place only accessible trough the Siofra River!? Why do RPGs keep pulling this crap? You do an entire Fire Area and then at the end you find "Ring of Fire Resistance", you do the poison area, RING OF POISON WHATEVER, and now you're telling me the merchant who sells Rot cure happens to be at the very last place you can visit in the Rot Area!? Ffs... ¬¬'

It's on the hill overlooking that. It's easy to bypass the enemies and make a run to the merchant first time entering Caelid.

Yep, what he said. Very easy to get to. I thought scarlet rot was a good mechanic, in fact I think there should be more stuff in the game that forces you to deal with it directly or die, instead of just tank and heal through it.

Eh, you can heal through it if you need to, though it's generally a pain in the ass and I hate the friggin' flowers and pods or whatever they are.

Spoiler

Also, you can just ride Torrent through it with no problems for any surface effects like poison and scarlet rot.

 

[TheHeroOfTime]