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

[Skinwalker]

NPCs should be non-attackable at all times. Like, your weapon should just pass through them without interaction, and with no acknowledgment by the NPC. It didn't really happen. That way there would be no need for enforced tranquility areas.

If you want to attack a non-hostile NPC, you should have to use a special item that enables that function for a few minutes. Call it "thorns of derangement", give it unlimited uses and put it right next to the pointless item that kills you and deletes your souls/bloods/runes if you use it, which they have in every soulsgame for some reason.

 

[Odoryuk]

NPCs should be non-attackable at all times. Like, your weapon should just pass through them without interaction, and with no acknowledgment by the NPC. It didn't really happen.

Having magical safe areas is still better than NPCs breaking basic rules of interaction in the game, at least magical safe zones are explained and exist in the game's world.

 

[Skinwalker]

NPCs should be non-attackable at all times. Like, your weapon should just pass through them without interaction, and with no acknowledgment by the NPC. It didn't really happen.

Having magical safe areas is still better than NPCs breaking basic rules of interaction in the game, at least magical safe zones are explained and exist in the game's world.

NPCs should have their own rules. You can explain it as a world-wide magical tranquility aura that prevents sentient beings from harming each other unless they use a special magical item that suspends it temporarily.

 

[Child of Malkav]

NPCs should be killable. Don't press the attack button instead of the interact button if you want to speak to an NPC.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

NPCs should be killable. Don't press the attack button instead of the interact button if you want to speak to an NPC.

Counterpoint: to attack is to interact.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Counterpoint: to attack is to interact.

Attack is not the only type of interaction. I should have said any interaction besides combat.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Counterpoint: to attack is to interact.

Attack is not the only type of interaction. I should have said any interaction besides combat.

Instructions unclear, NPC beheaded. What do?

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Counterpoint: to attack is to interact.

Attack is not the only type of interaction. I should have said any interaction besides combat.

Instructions unclear, NPC beheaded. What do?

Glue 'em back together before the cops notice.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Instructions unclear, NPC beheaded. What do?

You shouldn't play video games.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Instructions unclear, NPC beheaded. What do?

You shouldn't play video games.

Care bear storyfag detected.

 

[Spike]

The Malenia fight is so infuriating. The most obnoxious, worst boss fight in the entire From profile. Maybe the worst and most unfair fight I have ever played, period, in all of gaming. Certainly the past 30 years, easy. Weird, unnatural, random delays on attacks, absurdly high butthole damage, and she has life leech? I guess it is counterbalanced by being weak to bleed but then she has waterfowl, completing the garbage trifecta (or quadfecta). Absolute waste. Awful. Horrible. But I'm still going to 1v1 her and win. Got her to phase 2 twice after like an hour or so. Lots of swearing and literally punching my controller out of fury. I hate this stupid broad so, so much. The other Fromsoft difficult fights are FAIR. Everything in Sekiro is FAIR and excellent. Everything. It's a work of art. But not this. Lo, I learn that Tanimura apparently had a big influence on this game. It really shows with the enemy spam, copy/paste, etc. And the Malenia fight. Bro it's so epic bro you're supposed to pop a blood vessel while playing! It's that epic challenge bro, challenge where an AI reads your inputs and swishes a sword around and takes half your health and refills her own it's classic nintendo hard, bro!

 

[Cryomancer]

Malenia I had to use coop help to beat her. His first form was easy but the second form was a nightmare...

 

[mediocrepoet]

Malenia I had to use coop help to beat her. His first form was easy but the second form was a nightmare...

Wizards need to learn how to fight. Go figure.

 

[Cryomancer]

learn how to fight

I tried to use spells against her. Din't worked, so I switched to moonlight dark moon greatsword and worked much better in the first phase. In her second phase, I tried like 5 time, only managed to down her to 20% hp and decided to summon other players to beat her.

 

[Anonona]

I tried to use spells against her. Din't worked

Did you try using the night spells, in particular Night Comet combined with the Staff of Loss? Late game bosses will dodge all spells but not these ones and they are decently powerful. You then can pretty much skip phase 2 if once she does her big rot flower attack you use Comet Azure + the magic crystal tear and cerulean tear combo while she is still on the attack animation.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Who was that one crazy person that dodge-rolled into every wall in that place to see if they're illusory or not?

What the hell, you don't?

Unironically, I found most of the illusory walls after spoiling the existence of the first one in the boss room. The whole area just screamed 'illusion fuckery' ever since you left the sewers.

 

[Skinwalker]

There's no illusory wall in fake Mohg's boss room.

 

[Skinwalker]

Also, the bullshit part about Malenia is that she always gains health back when she attacks you, even if you block 100% of her damage with a shield. You lose no health, but she still leeches it... BULLSHIT. There's no shame in using anything and everything you have at your disposal to beat this one boss. I summoned the black knife assassin for the first and only time to beat Malenia in the last playthrough. The Comet spell also sounds pretty interesting.

 

[Child of Malkav]

There's no illusory wall in fake Mohg's boss room.

And how do you access the frenzied flame? Where is the fingerprint shield located and how do you reach it?

Also, the bullshit part about Malenia is that she always gains health back when she attacks you, even if you block 100% of her damage with a shield. You lose no health, but she still leeches it... BULLSHIT. There's no shame in using anything and everything you have at your disposal to beat this one boss. I summoned the black knife assassin for the first and only time to beat Malenia in the last playthrough. The Comet spell also sounds pretty interesting.

The only bullshit regarding Malenia is that waterfowl attack she does. Everything else is fine.

 

[Skinwalker]

There's no illusory wall in fake Mohg's boss room.

And how do you access the frenzied flame? Where is the fingerprint shield located and how do you reach it?

A trick alcove that slides down when you hit it. Not an illusory wall.

The only bullshit regarding Malenia is that waterfowl attack she does. Everything else is fine.

You must not use a shield.

 

[Child of Malkav]

A trick alcove that slides down when you hit it. Not an illusory wall.

Bruh, don't play games with me. After you kill fake mohg you hit the wall behind the chest and it lowers, showing you the access to that entire tower like structure where you go down and pick up the shield along the way.

You must not use a shield.

You can out damage her heal. And I did use a shield when I tested a few things but I was more preoccupied with wfd instead.

 

[Skinwalker]

A trick alcove that slides down when you hit it. Not an illusory wall.

Bruh, don't play games with me. After you kill fake mohg you hit the wall behind the chest and it lowers, showing you the access to that entire tower like structure where you go down and pick up the shield along the way.

Yes, but an altar that recedes into the ground and stays there is not the same as an illusory wall, which just disappears into thin air. It's a trick wall, not an illusory one.

here's why it's important

You can out damage her heal. And I did use a shield when I tested a few things but I was more preoccupied with wfd instead.

I found that Malenia healing herself by hitting my 100% physical damage resistance shield far more bullshit and infuriating than the gravity-defying anime attack, which I eventually learned to mostly dodge and/or survive.

Not sure if I still feel that way when I get to her the 2nd time. Maybe I'll just respect into a sorcerer and blast her with

to save myself the time.

 

[Odoryuk]

Yes, but an altar that recedes into the ground and stays there is not the same as an illusory wall, which just disappears into thin air. It's a trick wall, not an illusory one.

Do Margit's/Mohg's Shackles activate them, like they activate ordinary illusory walls? I think I found that secret only thanks to messages near it, but when playing offline using the item that was designed for said boss would be a neat way to lead the player. Unless the wall activate only when the boss is defeated, which could be the reason why they made it this way, and not just an illusory wall.

 

[Cryomancer]

Did you try using the night spells, in particular Night Comet combined with the Staff of Loss? Late game bosses will dodge all spells but not these ones and they are decently powerful. You then can pretty much skip phase 2 if once she does her big rot flower attack you use Comet Azure + the magic crystal tear and cerulean tear combo while she is still on the attack animation.

Yep. I tried night spell but not with the staff of loss in my other hand. Comet Azur, I had very few openings to use it.

Many people say that ER is too hard but honestly I only had troubles with her in my second run. In my first run, one boss which gave me a lot of troubles was fire giant. But in my second run, I can defeat him hitless. Sorry for the lag in the video bellow. I recorded in Lnux and IDK why the recording is different than the gameplay.

 

[Skinwalker]

I used Mohg's shackles on fake Mohg, and they not only failed to activate the trap wall, but did nothing to fake Mohg either. Not that he was hard to beat, or anything (the real one kind of was on my 1st playthrough, until I remembered that there's a special wondrous physique tear that is for that one boss fight, because they couldn't balance it properly I guess).

"Un! Dos! Tres! Maria!" - Mohg, Lord of Blood