How well do great shields work for blocking in wombo combo land of Elden ring? In previous games your stamina wouldn't stick it out and they would poise break you and rape your butthole for it. I've always been a shield user and as soon as a boss appears it's time to stop blocking til they're dead.
You're got so assblasted by Liberal that you keep seeing him behind every corner?
Sounds like I live in your head canon rent-free.
In the sense that I don't particularly care and amuse myself with a head canon where every moron is just you talking to yourself, yes.
Like I said, it works for maybe 80% of bosses, assuming you've got a good shield and decent stamina bar. There are still attacks that crush through blocks or contiually wear them down, but a lot of otherwise chaotic fights like ulcerated tree spirits or rune bears become completely trivial, and it's easier to learn the timing to dodge roll one or two unblockable attacks (fucking grabs!) than it is to learn all of them. The real benefit is how aggressive it lets you be; I can stand in front of an enemy while it's whiffing some big attack combo over my shoulder and poke away. If it happens to hit me I maybe stop poking or try rolling away, but I probably don't even take damage. A lot of time even if you get stance broken you'll be fine because the follow-up was meant to roll catch so you have enough time to block again. The most troublesome enemies tend to be ones that like to keep their distance and move around a ton. Don't bother trying to block vs Maleketh or Malenia.
Your new avatar looks really bad.Sounds like I live in your head canon rent-free.
In the sense that I don't particularly care and amuse myself with a head canon where every moron is just you talking to yourself, yes.
The only person who thinks it's surprising news that I consider you to be legendarily retarded is you. QEDSounds like I live in your head canon rent-free.
In the sense that I don't particularly care and amuse myself with a head canon where every moron is just you talking to yourself, yes.
I don't consider you at all.The only person who thinks it's surprising news that I consider you to be legendarily retarded is you. QEDSounds like I live in your head canon rent-free.
In the sense that I don't particularly care and amuse myself with a head canon where every moron is just you talking to yourself, yes.
I've always been a medium shield user, usually the stamina one. There's a few bosses where you can absorb a hit if you mess up a roll but actual blocking is just a terrible idea. Gundyrs a good example of one you can block. It's a good way to deal with the roll catches if you're unsure in a fight. Try the roll and if it fucks up you have the shield button held down at least. Good for closing space safely on the free spirits too. Run in shielding up and then stay on them and they can't do shit to you even with a medium one.
I find there's two problems with medium shields; the first is that with the way the blocking stat works, Having 75 lets you block twice as strong a hit as 50. So every inch towards 100 you can get is worth more than the last. This is also why magic shield and it's ilk (Barricade in elden ring) is bananas. This gets even more extreme when you take stamina recovery into account; taking 300 stamina loss over 10 seconds vs 600 when you're recovering 500 per second is the difference between being invincible and getting pancaked.
I've beaten every souls game the same way my first time through. Medium shield, Medium roll and the Uchi as soon as I find it. Elden Ring being the only exception where I switched to Milenna's sword for the final 2 bosses. Great shield seem a lot less fun to me than a medium shield despite being much stronger. If you're doing a STR build it's a no brainer but dex fags have to invest a lot to carry it above their normal build.
No bro, you just use power within, red tear stone, 3 miracles and the great club. I beat Dark souls 1 on my first play through. Why didn't you? Of course I knew where to get all those items, I watched TWITCHMAN speed run the game for years.
Disgusting.
I'm a dex fag. I'd use the Falchion if it didn't have the twirly garbage instead of a kick. But it does so I'm stuck with my katana. Maybe one day I will sudoku with it and escape this hellish realm.
Of course! You have to two hand some times. Shields are for walking round corners or through doors.
In SL1 runs you do gain a lot from parrying bosses in earlier games. Pontiff has a consistent punish you can chunk a huge amount of health off right at the start of the fight. If you fuck it up you only lost the run back. And you get him almost to phase 2 if you get it right.
Agreed. I don't like when From try to pigeon hole players into specific strategies. Gimmick fights are welcome changes of pace but they shouldn't force specific windows. Unfortunately a lot of Elden Ring's solutions are L2 spam rather than out smarting the enemy. Demon's souls bosses aren't difficult (well 2 are) but they're interesting. Armoured spider is one of my favourite bosses even though it's easy and simple. It's more than rolling and hitting and learning it felt rewarding. It was part of the adventure not another duel. Elden ring lacks those kind of bosses unfortunately.
You sound like a very fine gentleman. Always apply pine resin to your club when you've got iron flesh active.
