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

[mediocrepoet]

There’s a double gargoyle fight in Elden Ring too? Is it a staple of the Souls games?

No. Dark Souls 2 broke this pattern.

Spoiler

By making you fight five at once.

 

[Caim]

The gargoyles in Elden Ring are also a whole lot tougher than they were in the previous games, where they were fought fairly early on. Now they're late game enemies and the most powerful variants, the Black Blade Kindred, have no trouble stomping you out if you give them an opening.

 

[PorkyThePaladin]

Spoiler

Post some videos of you fighting ER bosses, wunderbat. I mean I am posting mine, wrecking Crucible Duo without ashes, summons, cheese. Let's see what you can do, before you start whining about me. You can say the thing about Pinwheel a million times, but I will still be a far better vidya game player than you. Your tears are ambrosia to my gaming ego.

 

[DemonKing]

I tried to use scrubs to help out with Melina last night but they were worthless getting themselves killed and healing her up from my long-range sorcery hits when she connected with them

Ended up beating her myself using a Summons to distract in the second stage...

 

[dacencora]

So I guess I suck lol. Anastasia took far more tries than I care to count. After her, I went back and killed the Beastman in the cave. It was some good justice since he killed me very shortly after I started playing. Tbh, I think Anastasia was harder than the Beastman. Sure, she was in a more open environment, but the Beastman's moves are pretty predictable and he only has a few.

 

[NJClaw]

So I guess I suck lol. Anastasia took far more tries than I care to count. After her, I went back and killed the Beastman in the cave. It was some good justice since he killed me very shortly after I started playing. Tbh, I think Anastasia was harder than the Beastman. Sure, she was in a more open environment, but the Beastman's moves are pretty predictable and he only has a few.

To have an easier time with NPC invaders, you can keep your distance and use charged R2s or jumping attacks a lot. It works with 95% of them.

 

[volklore]

So I guess I suck lol. Anastasia took far more tries than I care to count. After her, I went back and killed the Beastman in the cave. It was some good justice since he killed me very shortly after I started playing. Tbh, I think Anastasia was harder than the Beastman. Sure, she was in a more open environment, but the Beastman's moves are pretty predictable and he only has a few.

To have an easier time with NPC invaders, you can keep your distance and use charged R2s or jumping attacks a lot. It works with 95% of them.

Any Ash of war that lunges forward (sword dance, impaling thrust etc...) will do very good too. NPC invader AI is weird, feels like they imput read R1s but cannot deal with any kind of gap closer.

 

[Lim-Dûl]

Spoiler

Post some videos of you fighting ER bosses, wunderbat. I mean I am posting mine, wrecking Crucible Duo without ashes, summons, cheese. Let's see what you can do, before you start whining about me. You can say the thing about Pinwheel a million times, but I will still be a far better vidya game player than you. Your tears are ambrosia to my gaming ego.

How did you manage to do this?

 

[Lyric Suite]

Pinwheel being a pushover is one thing, but the fact he is at the bottom of something as tough as the Catacombs makes it even more hilarious.

It would be one thing if he was in the early area but by the time you reach him most people are already quite competent at the game. You made it through the race car driver skellies there's no way you can die to him.

 

[Lyric Suite]

BTW, i noticed one thing in all the hours spent in co-op (i have 200+ rune arcs so you can see my autism here), and that's that 90% of magic users i've encountered are all mages who use that ball sorcery whatever its called.

I've seen people say often how cheesy rotten breath is for bosses, and i know this first hand since i use it often in co-op, but i'm the only one using it it seems. I rarely saw anybody whip out anything other than sorceries, and usually that ball one in particular, or the one with the blue laser pebbles.

 

[Lyric Suite]

NPC invaders are just pushovers in this game.

I trembled when i met every single on ein DS2 here i just laught and proceed to butcher them without a second though.

The only exception are the ones summed near the big jar God thing.

 

[Mauman]

NPC invaders are just pushovers in this game.

I trembled when i met every single on ein DS2 here i just laught and proceed to butcher them without a second though.

The only exception are the ones summed near the big jar God thing.

That's because the invaders near the big jar are copied from various players.

So you can get invaders with rotten breath or ROB.

Oh, and the game scales them with you, so gaining levels doesn't actually help (and could actually backfire considering higher player characters equal better equipment).

Fun times.

Of course, this assumes you don't cheese the fights by hanging out on the nearby ledge and waiting for the brain dead A.I. to role off the cliff. And THAT assumes said invader doesn't have a breath weapon, because then they'll knock YOU off the cliff.

While I'm at it, I want to say how much I've come to appreciate the humble whip. Low requirements, decent damage, great reach/attack spread, does well with annoying flying enemies, almost no weight (important to me right now), and strike damage. It's been my go-to backup for my character where weight has been a constant battle. Put Golden Vow on it and use a whetstone to add bleed (or occult or frost, depending on my needs) and it's just been a great all around support weapon that compliments my occult spiked shield and arcane incantations build quite nicely. It's also a pretty good horseback weapon once you figure out the angle (you have to ride away from an enemy at about 45 degrees as the attack is slightly behind you).

I'd like to use one of the better whips (like Haslow's or thorns), but the fact is I really don't want to invest into the attributes to use them.

I also wish that I could get a 2nd whip without resorting to trading early on so I could try a dual whipper from the get-go.

 

[Lutte]

 

[Lyric Suite]

Fuck, the Gargoyles are kicking my ass. Holy mother of all RNG fights.

 

[Andnjord]

Update on Manlius Maximus, Colossal Sword enjoyer.

Manlius announcing to the crowd his intention to solo general Radahn. Little did he know that the first version I fought had been the uber-nerfed Radahn a couple of updates ago.
Still, Radhan went down on the fourth try, this time I actually had to learn his move set (fought him with the summons the first time) to find the openings for the all powerful Lion's Claw. Finally a major boss actually put up a fight, Margitt and Godrick went down on the first try and Renalla was so thouroughly annihilated it was comical. I'm curious as to how much this was due to either the Greatsword being a really good weapon, leveling vitality to a good enough level or simply me having gotten gud (somewhat ) since the first playthrough. Probably a mix of all of these.

Fuck, the Gargoyles are kicking my ass. Holy mother of all RNG fights.

Just beat them last night, and although it was on the first try this was me at the end

Spoiler

No Estus flasks left, t'was a tough fight.

And this was despite me having fought them half a dozen times already in my first playthrough, so I don't even have the excuse that I don't know their moveset well at this point.


Done a bunch more coop, and I've seen people getting one shot by Radahn's magic arrow at the start, meaning they only have 500 HP and clearly never put a single point into vitality. Goddamn.

One boss that I've given up on cooping is the putrid avatar in Dragonbarrow. 90% of hosts get one shot by him and the other 10% die to invaders (against which I suck, I really haven't done any PVP). Problem is that even though I can keep its attention focused on me all the time the avatar has such wide ranging swings that they always get caught in them, or they never learned to dodge his butt-slam and subsequent Scarlet Rot splash. Gave up after 45 minutes of failed attempts. I should rename my character to Let Me Solo It when taking on these kind of bosses, or maybe Just Don't Die Plz. Or maybe even Mages Don't Apply, they spam their magic non stop and then don't know how to roll out when they inevitably draw aggro and die due to not leveling vitality ever apparently :D

 

[polo]

Spoiler

Post some videos of you fighting ER bosses, wunderbat. I mean I am posting mine, wrecking Crucible Duo without ashes, summons, cheese. Let's see what you can do, before you start whining about me. You can say the thing about Pinwheel a million times, but I will still be a far better vidya game player than you. Your tears are ambrosia to my gaming ego.

How did you manage to do this?

I killed the one you cannot parry with black flame and parried the shit out of the other.

 

[HoboForEternity]

Haglitree is hell

 

[Andnjord]

Haglitree is hell

Glad to know I'm not the only to have been broken by that area. Have you reached the lake of Rot there yet?

 

[NJClaw]

the one you cannot parry

the what

Haglitree is hell

Haligtree is hell AND one of the best areas in the game. I like it so much I don't even care there isn't a single new enemy in the entire area.

 

[HoboForEternity]

It's the one area that remind me the most of classic low level dark souls dungeon crawl (low level as in everything kicked your ass even though i am level 150 and have end game gear) i hate it so much, yet i love it so much.

 

[d1r]

Damn, the new Kaiji anime looks great.

 

[Lutte]

What happens when player builds meet infinite FP.

 

[Vibalist]

It's the one area that remind me the most of classic low level dark souls dungeon crawl (low level as in everything kicked your ass even though i am level 150 and have end game gear) i hate it so much, yet i love it so much.

I was pleasantly surprised by some of the late game areas. When I arrived at mountaintop of the giants with its multitude of re-used enemies and empty stretches I thought "this is where they ran out of time and resources". But then the game hits me with Haligtree AND Crumbling Farum Azula.

 

[NJClaw]

When I arrived at mountaintop of the giants with its multitude of re-used enemies and empty stretches I thought "this is where they ran out of time and resources".

The ultra-giant hand in Mountaintops of the Giants left me speechless the first time I saw it. It's one thing to use the same model in two different sizes (like they did with the hands, pots, and dragons), but also squeezing out of it a third, giant version of that same enemy is on a whole different level. It really stands out as something that makes no sense at all.

 

[Morality Games]

It's the one area that remind me the most of classic low level dark souls dungeon crawl (low level as in everything kicked your ass even though i am level 150 and have end game gear) i hate it so much, yet i love it so much.

I was pleasantly surprised by some of the late game areas. When I arrived at mountaintop of the giants with its multitude of re-used enemies and empty stretches I thought "this is where they ran out of time and resources". But then the game hits me with Haligtree AND Crumbling Farum Azula.

Good management of resources.

If you run out of time and money, at least make sure the most desolate area of the game is the one that is supposed to be desolate.