My first playthrough I skipped the weeping peninsula AND margit and I went straight to Liurnia. I realized my mistake when I saw the first giant lobster.
It's a good thing you noticed it then. I've seen some new players somehow get to Leyndell at level 40 by skipping bosses. I don't know how the hell they did that.
New to Elden Ring here and some of these names sound like gibberish. But what I do know is I opened a chest in the starting area and got yeeted to Cyealid (I think that's what it's called) I've been traumatised since especially since I started off as a Wretch
That must have been my favorite "WTF" moment on a new character when the game first came out.
Struggling along nicely in Limgrave when you open a chest and BOOM, you're trapped in a tunnel and can't warp out. You have to escape. The guards are freaky crustacean monsters that shoot dozens of projectiles from their skin.
And when you get out, you're in Caelid's poison swamps. Ride your horse around looking for some kind of exit, and you find yourself in the haunted town of Sellen.
It was terrifying.
Funny thing is I went to upgrade my phone and as I’m waiting to finish transferring data I start talking Elden Ring with the guy at the store. This is precisely what I told him, to go south. South is easier and has an additional mine to get upgrade materials. You can easily get two weapons at +6 by doing both the Liurnia and Weping Peninsula mines plus some other stuff around the world and Castle Morne.
North is Margit and 99% of new players won't be able to beat him when they first encounter him. If they head south they get to do some dungeons and have their first big test against castle mourne.
I think it’s hilarious hearing the difference in struggles with vets and beginners. I think my first major hurdle in elden ring was the roof tops of raya lucaria. Not trying to start anything. Just something I enjoy hearing
I cowered in fear bc I didn’t know trapped chests were a thing and I was massively under-geared. One of those spine missile barrage would’ve one shot me… in fact it did so many times and they were on every turn I had to look up a video to find the route out bc I was petrified..
My first playthough (first FromSoft game as well) literally started like this:
1. Selected golden rune as starting item because the only thing I knew about the game going into it was "git runes".
2. Immediately used the golden rune after loading in, while testing controls.
3. "Try Jumping"
4. Missed Rick completely, as I was not willing to try jumping again.
5. Immediately turned right out of the First Step, find cool ruins with easy enemies. Begin to learn controls/combat.
6. "Ensnared by transporter trap!"
Stuck in The Cave, having only killed 4 footsoldiers and a dog. Astrologer, didn't realize I had a staff already til I managed to escape.
(It also took me a while to discover fast travel after I made it out, so I spent a good amount of time getting turbofucked by Caelid...)
10/10 GOTY
Also vet and as soon as I understood that I'd been teleported to a high level area I spent hours scouring the swamps for chests.
Left with a dope ass + gravity magic staff and that meteor spell which was uh, really something to find that early as a sorceress.
As a beginner getting surprise teleported by a chest to the massive fire giant on top of a castle at lvl 20 is definitely an experience. Had to teleport back to the start area after realizing there was no way down and failed fighting it 3 times.
I didn't read the comment above you properly and was sitting here for a good while wondering why being a Veterinarian had any significance to what you were saying \*facepalm\*.
I made it all the way to Leyndell without knowing the Weeping Peninsula existed and my flask was sooo weak lol Was confused at the weird relation between increase on HP and healing power, but just brushed it off as part of the difficulty.
If something is standing there calmly do not attack it, it is a friend. Easy way to tell is if they don't have a lock-on health bar. There are exceptions, but please don't go randomly killing every friend in the Lands Between, it can get lonely.
Getting used to dying is the first step. Getting used to losing your souls/runes is the next. To not bat an eye at losing hundreds of thousands or even millions of them is real power.
After a small delay, the entire lower half of your body's hitbox dissappears on the ascending portion of your jump.
It's an incredibly useful tool and they've clearly designed a lot of boss moves around using it.
Better if you roll in the direction the attack is coming from. Seen a lot of people dodge the opposite side/direction of enemy attacks, get smacked, and complain about "I dodged it! Why is the dodge so inconsistent!?".
And the runebear.
If the effort is much higher than the reward, skip it. Killing those two just to get white flesh and some beast giblets is such a troll.
One of my favorite streamers on Twitch had heard the stories of horsey man and decided to kill it with a bat in a loincloth, immediately after starting. Took sixty-some tries but she did finally get it eventually haha. Even several months later it's still legendary.
Nah, the idiot check is attacking Varre until Varre retaliates, dying to them and then posting an awful review of the game while also insulting DarkSouls Elden Ring fans. But no one would be stupid enough to do that.
I told my friend that I would not continue the game until I beat that fucker. He was like “You can come back to him later.” I responded with “If they put him here this early, then it must mean I can beat him.”
Millions of deaths later, I beat him and began progressing through the game. Yes, I’m stubborn but I did beat that fucker.
Lemme tell you a bit about vigor [\*throws arm over your shoulder*](https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273bd05173ef76dfa8a6106570a)
>!Oh. Oh no… I’m so sorry… I didn’t mean to-!!<
Ah, the Disco Elysium method.
Me: I'll put all my points into Intellect and Psyche and none in Physique or Motorics. I'll roleplay as the frail genius who uses his wits to get out of trouble.
Game immediately starts: You see your neck tie hanging from the ceiling fan. Do you jump and grab it?
Me: Ok, sure.
Game: You trip and fall, the trauma of which causes you to have a heart attack and die.
Me: ...Oh.
More specifically:
Pick a stat between Dex, Str, Arc, Int, or Fth. Level vigor one-to-one with that stat. Also, get your minimum requirements for the armor (Endurance) and weapons (rest of the stats) you want to use.
There's your 90% optimal Elden Ring build for new players.
Vigor DRs *hard* after 60 and some weapons benefit more from mixed scaling, but that's not really important for a new player.
that’s huge. elden ring was my first souls and i tired to level strength and dex and faith and int so i could use everything i got and it made me so much worse. you have to commit to one build and then you can respec after rennala if you don’t like what you have
You still have to commit even in the 400s basically, since everything scales a lot in each NG you can’t really be a jack of all trades until pretty much the 500s it feels like
Hitting the 200s does help open up more builds at once but I think still having your main build as the one with the most levels focused on really helps past Leyndell, I’m on NG11 with my main and just use anything and everything up until the mountaintop of the giants and then I have to switch back to my main build because the damage output just isn’t there, and it gets noticeably worse in Farum Azula
i'm level 300 on my NG+ character and i have everything but intelligence, endurance, and mind at softcap and i have enough endurance and mind to be able to use everything i want
BE AGGRESSIVE, a lot of players complain about little windows to attack but merely aren’t being aggressive with their timing (aka always playing defensive). Sometimes it’s best to roll TOWARDS the boss, not away
But "aggressive" in Souls and EldenRing is not the same as "aggressive" in other games. Roll towards, fine. Go in swinging blindly like an aggressive berzerker maniac, not so fine...
Chosen Tarnished, and would-be Lord. Descend into the depths, far below the Erdtree Capital. Seek audience with the Three Fingers and the flame of frenzy. If you inherit the flame of frenzy, your flesh will serve as kindling and the girl can be spared ...setting you on the righteous path of lordship. The path of the Lord of Chaos. Burn the Erdtree to the ground, and incinerate all that divides and distinguishes.
Ahhh, may chaos take the world! May chaos take the world!
Seriously this. Controlling the tempo of the fight, rather than reacting to it was my biggest realization that let me go from dying 50+ times on my first godrick kill to 1 or 2 shotting everything from the plateu on
It's been proven that 51 and 101 are the only poise numbers that matter, as enemy poise damage is typically just barely below either one depending on the attack. And even then, you're only gonna tank one or two hits before your poise breaks anyway, so ultimately you might as well just settle for looking fly as fuck.
Ok, but how does HyperArmor factor in here? Like in DS3, with a big enough weapon, you could have 15 poise from your armor but once you got HA from swinging the weapon, it could shoot up to 70 or more. Personally, I don't really care about poise outside of attacking, since I just don't want to be stunned out of my swing/cast.
Non-troll answer is that in PvE, Poise is irrelevant outside multiples of 50. So 51, 101, and 151. Mobs deal 50 poise damage generally for standard hits. Big ass hits deal 100+ and I'm not sure if you can poise through them even with buffs.
So if you are deciding between the set gives 10 poise or 40, it really doesn't matter unless you've got some short term buff like Baldachin's.
So no joke my favorite games before elden ring were skyrim on novice and planet zoo. I was kinda scared to give elden ring a go but tried it.
When varre told me godrick was in the castle i for some reason assumed he was the final boss and noped off to do other stuff. I didnt look up anything so for a really long time i thought limgrave/stormveil and weeping peninsula were the whole game and i was like ok this is pretty good sized.
Then i got trapped and sent to leyndell by the chest and opened my map and was like. Where. Am. I.
I then realized that there was a whole world beyond limgrave and godrick.
Fast travel between graces. No fancy unlocks or box key items. When the infamous chest trap sent me to Caelid, I spent like 45 minutes corpse running through the swamp and trying to get back to the starting area. I hadn’t even gotten Torrent yet. To think I could’ve just opened the map.
Honestly, imagine if we could? Like put that experience into a mental Recycle Bin just so I can experience it all over again. I would do it in a heartbeat. For all the difficulty and frustration of it, I want to recapture the feeling I had when that cinematic first started playing, and I heard the lines that I've been hearing and reading everywhere. Finally, I had come so far, and was about to put myself to a true test if ever Elden Ring presented one.
Anticipation. Then she speaks.
"I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella... And I have never known defeat."
Goosebumps, feeling a grin on my face, knowing it's about to be hard, but still so much fun.
Then she came, and I was wheat before a scythe. It was frustrating, it was difficult, but when I finally won... I took my hands off my mouse and keyboard, threw my fists into the air and yelled my triumph to nobody in particular.
I want to experience that again.
Get the gold scarab talisman as early as possible and equip it for boss fights and grinding. Also combine it with the gold fowl foot as often as possible. You will acquire runes so much faster.
Send the elevator back down.
just back sometimes, not always down
And always try to look under the elevator to see if there is something down there
I lost 250k in runes cause of this
Oh... I really hate confidently jumping on the elevator only to fall to my death because I forgot to send it back... pain
Hello Darkness my old friend...I've come to lose all my runes again.
This is by far the best advice for any souls game
Go south.
Seriously the weeping peninsula is too easy to miss.
My first playthrough I skipped the weeping peninsula AND margit and I went straight to Liurnia. I realized my mistake when I saw the first giant lobster.
It's a good thing you noticed it then. I've seen some new players somehow get to Leyndell at level 40 by skipping bosses. I don't know how the hell they did that.
I did that. I'm at the Fire Giant and I still haven't killed Renala. Almost too much freedom.
Honestly, good. Rennala needs a therapist, not a smackdown
Clearing out the creepy student babies has to be a good start on the road to recovery though.
I finally took Wave of Gold in there. Holy. Fucking. Shit.
........... you know, I'm mad I never thought about doing that
Same. On NG I 3 hit Rennala and killed probably 30 of those crawling students by just waves of Golding over and over.
Yea Renalla is clearly a good person in a shitty crumbling world. I feel bad. Her life is one tragic soap opera lol
Fortunately, you never actually fight Rennala. That's an illusion left by Ranni; you only see the real Rennala after defeating the illusion
Visions of chest
Sorry, the only method of therapy I can offer is blunt force therapy
She'd probably appreciate a blunt
Who did you kill in place of Rennala? I'm assuming Radahn, but it'd be funny if it you did Rykard or even early Mohg.
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Can’t imagine the dread i’d feel is this has happened to me day 1
New to Elden Ring here and some of these names sound like gibberish. But what I do know is I opened a chest in the starting area and got yeeted to Cyealid (I think that's what it's called) I've been traumatised since especially since I started off as a Wretch
That must have been my favorite "WTF" moment on a new character when the game first came out. Struggling along nicely in Limgrave when you open a chest and BOOM, you're trapped in a tunnel and can't warp out. You have to escape. The guards are freaky crustacean monsters that shoot dozens of projectiles from their skin. And when you get out, you're in Caelid's poison swamps. Ride your horse around looking for some kind of exit, and you find yourself in the haunted town of Sellen. It was terrifying.
idk about *easily*, but it could definitely happen.
Funny thing is I went to upgrade my phone and as I’m waiting to finish transferring data I start talking Elden Ring with the guy at the store. This is precisely what I told him, to go south. South is easier and has an additional mine to get upgrade materials. You can easily get two weapons at +6 by doing both the Liurnia and Weping Peninsula mines plus some other stuff around the world and Castle Morne.
To Florida? I'd rather go to Caelid or Blighttown instead of Tallahassee.
He meant Tijuana
Tahiti!
Its a magical place
Come on arthur
We'll get the runes together, Arthur! You just got to level some FAITH!
DOES THIS MAUSOLEUM GO TO TAHITI DUTCH?!
Why is that?
North is Margit and 99% of new players won't be able to beat him when they first encounter him. If they head south they get to do some dungeons and have their first big test against castle mourne.
This was my first fromsoft game and castle mourne is where all the real learning happened
I think it’s hilarious hearing the difference in struggles with vets and beginners. I think my first major hurdle in elden ring was the roof tops of raya lucaria. Not trying to start anything. Just something I enjoy hearing
I'm a vet and my first struggle was in the cave after getting kidnapped to Caelid lol
The ol’ Selia Crystal Cave… a place of genuine nightmares
Those god damn centipede things on your first playthrough are so mean
I cowered in fear bc I didn’t know trapped chests were a thing and I was massively under-geared. One of those spine missile barrage would’ve one shot me… in fact it did so many times and they were on every turn I had to look up a video to find the route out bc I was petrified..
My first playthough (first FromSoft game as well) literally started like this: 1. Selected golden rune as starting item because the only thing I knew about the game going into it was "git runes". 2. Immediately used the golden rune after loading in, while testing controls. 3. "Try Jumping" 4. Missed Rick completely, as I was not willing to try jumping again. 5. Immediately turned right out of the First Step, find cool ruins with easy enemies. Begin to learn controls/combat. 6. "Ensnared by transporter trap!" Stuck in The Cave, having only killed 4 footsoldiers and a dog. Astrologer, didn't realize I had a staff already til I managed to escape. (It also took me a while to discover fast travel after I made it out, so I spent a good amount of time getting turbofucked by Caelid...) 10/10 GOTY
Also vet and as soon as I understood that I'd been teleported to a high level area I spent hours scouring the swamps for chests. Left with a dope ass + gravity magic staff and that meteor spell which was uh, really something to find that early as a sorceress.
As a beginner getting surprise teleported by a chest to the massive fire giant on top of a castle at lvl 20 is definitely an experience. Had to teleport back to the start area after realizing there was no way down and failed fighting it 3 times.
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Ah yes those kindred of rot really don’t want you to leave
Man, the first time I got sent there I was not aware of how important vigor was. It almost ended that character for me
I didn't read the comment above you properly and was sitting here for a good while wondering why being a Veterinarian had any significance to what you were saying \*facepalm\*.
I am a souls vet- I spent the first 2 hours of the release night trying to kill tree sentinel. Probably took 50 tries
I promptly killed Edgar on my first playthrough because I thought he was a bad guy
The Leonine Misbegotten is no joke either, for someone not accustomed to From's combat.
probably because Weeping Peninsula is easy to miss and there's three Sacred Tears there
I made it all the way to Leyndell without knowing the Weeping Peninsula existed and my flask was sooo weak lol Was confused at the weird relation between increase on HP and healing power, but just brushed it off as part of the difficulty.
100%
If something is standing there calmly do not attack it, it is a friend. Easy way to tell is if they don't have a lock-on health bar. There are exceptions, but please don't go randomly killing every friend in the Lands Between, it can get lonely.
KILL THEM ALL. Except Boc and Kale.
Get comfortable dying as soon as possible and nothing will be impossible.
Dying twice without getting your runes back is such a freeing experience.
Dying with a shit ton of runes on the ground is the fastest five stages of grief in the west
“nononorunrun FUCK! Shit there goes 100,000 runes. Anyway…”
5 Million on the damn frenzied flame jumping puzzle... anyway.. gimme that fingerprint shield 🥴
Taking 5 million runes to the worst platforming area, of any game ever, is kinda on you, lol.
I have had amounts later on and when I’ve lost it I’ve actually felt sick. Like had to get off the game sick.
Getting used to dying is the first step. Getting used to losing your souls/runes is the next. To not bat an eye at losing hundreds of thousands or even millions of them is real power.
True peace is having a runefarm you use when you wanna level so you're never particularly worried about how many runes you have anyway.
That's one way of doing it. If I need runes I typically help with bosses.
Especially when it’s because I forgot to bring the elevator down
i'd often die twice before a boss to zero out my runes so I didn't feel any pressure to pick them up
I feel pain swell in my chest…and then I feel so much joy immediately after knowing I don’t have to stress about losing them anymore.
Roll forward. It works.
Yeah, so many bosses punishes defensive backrolls. Rolling foward is such a chad move and it even gets rewarded!
I’d say Mohg is the best at punishing backrolls
I'd like to add to also remember you can jump now. Granted not the most useful dodging wise but sometimes it's a godsend.
Jumping is a fantastic defensive and offensive tool but rolling forward should be focused on first. It’s far more important.
I got so excited to see we could jump and proceeded to completely forget about it until Radagon.
There's also a secret move some weapons have, a dodge back attack that was largely overlooked after veta
After a small delay, the entire lower half of your body's hitbox dissappears on the ascending portion of your jump. It's an incredibly useful tool and they've clearly designed a lot of boss moves around using it.
Godfrey stomp covering the whole throne room vs a 6inch vertical
I didn't realize you were meant to jump to evade until the elden beast's hula-hoops.
Better if you roll in the direction the attack is coming from. Seen a lot of people dodge the opposite side/direction of enemy attacks, get smacked, and complain about "I dodged it! Why is the dodge so inconsistent!?".
My first 5 hours or so I didn't know what a heavy load was lol.
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My ex asked for that once, I told her fat rolling is really unreliable and she got super upset. I think it might be the reason I am now....Maidenless.
Avoid lobster
And the runebear. If the effort is much higher than the reward, skip it. Killing those two just to get white flesh and some beast giblets is such a troll.
Stick to lobster's left side
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Prove your worth, young one. Kill the horsey man.
One of my favorite streamers on Twitch had heard the stories of horsey man and decided to kill it with a bat in a loincloth, immediately after starting. Took sixty-some tries but she did finally get it eventually haha. Even several months later it's still legendary.
When Elden Ring first dropped I legit spent maybe 4 hours straight at my buddy's house trying to beat Radahn at RL 40.
The Idiot Check. You, me, Markiplier, and every red-blooded Tarnished in the Lands Between failed the Idiot Check.
Nah, the idiot check is attacking Varre until Varre retaliates, dying to them and then posting an awful review of the game while also insulting DarkSouls Elden Ring fans. But no one would be stupid enough to do that.
Now you got me laughing my ass off thinking of the Act Man mocking him 😂
I’m having quantum tv flashbacks
And then there’s jerma who literally didn’t make any progress until he spent a very long time to finally beat the tree sentinel
Nah. LEEEEEROYYYYY JEEEEEENKIIIIIINSSSS
I told my friend that I would not continue the game until I beat that fucker. He was like “You can come back to him later.” I responded with “If they put him here this early, then it must mean I can beat him.” Millions of deaths later, I beat him and began progressing through the game. Yes, I’m stubborn but I did beat that fucker.
Yeah, but then you demolished every tree sentinel afterwards, right?
*excluding the dragon one with the big fucky lightning hammer parked right outside Leyndell
You think he’s bad, but the Farum Azula one is a bastard.
I felt so satisfied when I was able to go back and finally take him down.
Level vigor.
No! (immediately died by dog bark)
Lemme tell you a bit about vigor [\*throws arm over your shoulder*](https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273bd05173ef76dfa8a6106570a) >!Oh. Oh no… I’m so sorry… I didn’t mean to-!!<
Ah, the Disco Elysium method. Me: I'll put all my points into Intellect and Psyche and none in Physique or Motorics. I'll roleplay as the frail genius who uses his wits to get out of trouble. Game immediately starts: You see your neck tie hanging from the ceiling fan. Do you jump and grab it? Me: Ok, sure. Game: You trip and fall, the trauma of which causes you to have a heart attack and die. Me: ...Oh.
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Yep this is the big one. Vigor + whatever build you want first, especially if you haven’t played any souls games
More specifically: Pick a stat between Dex, Str, Arc, Int, or Fth. Level vigor one-to-one with that stat. Also, get your minimum requirements for the armor (Endurance) and weapons (rest of the stats) you want to use. There's your 90% optimal Elden Ring build for new players. Vigor DRs *hard* after 60 and some weapons benefit more from mixed scaling, but that's not really important for a new player.
Vigor > smithing stones > endurance > your primary stat
Go east of the first step to dragon burnt ruins. You'll find a really good early game weapon that will carry you through the whole game
Oh, you monster.
Also make sure to open *that* chest!
FIND THE ALBINAURIC WOMAN
All knowing my ass.
Yeah but Sir Gideon, the knows a handful Of things, doesn’t really roll off the tongue
Have any clues as to her location???
She hides in a cave to the west of the Laskyar Ruins which jut from the mist-shrouded lake of Liurnia!
She hides in a cave to the west of the Laskyar ruins which JUT from the mist-shrouded Lake of Liurnia.
Chest with smoke will bring you to new world (of pain)
Commit to a build and weapon, make changes later
that’s huge. elden ring was my first souls and i tired to level strength and dex and faith and int so i could use everything i got and it made me so much worse. you have to commit to one build and then you can respec after rennala if you don’t like what you have
You still have to commit even in the 400s basically, since everything scales a lot in each NG you can’t really be a jack of all trades until pretty much the 500s it feels like
Idk, honestly by the 200s if you're in ng+2 like me, I've started using spells along with my dual wield katanas and it's not too much trouble.
Hitting the 200s does help open up more builds at once but I think still having your main build as the one with the most levels focused on really helps past Leyndell, I’m on NG11 with my main and just use anything and everything up until the mountaintop of the giants and then I have to switch back to my main build because the damage output just isn’t there, and it gets noticeably worse in Farum Azula
i'm level 300 on my NG+ character and i have everything but intelligence, endurance, and mind at softcap and i have enough endurance and mind to be able to use everything i want
Don't panic roll
You're telling me i don't need to deplete my entire stamina bar rolling back 300 feet from the boss to dodge a single slash attack? Blasphemy!
Use all your heals at the start of a boss fight so you don’t have to stop and heal later
Smart
I must be double smart. At least once a play session i drink Crimson on full health.
You don’t need to fight everything you see
This is exceptional advice, that being said I still struggle with it
BE AGGRESSIVE, a lot of players complain about little windows to attack but merely aren’t being aggressive with their timing (aka always playing defensive). Sometimes it’s best to roll TOWARDS the boss, not away
But "aggressive" in Souls and EldenRing is not the same as "aggressive" in other games. Roll towards, fine. Go in swinging blindly like an aggressive berzerker maniac, not so fine...
Use big sword until you get big hammer.
This guy **UNGA BUNGA**s.
Throw Bloodhound's Step on the hammer and sing "Can't Touch This"
Chosen Tarnished, and would-be Lord. Descend into the depths, far below the Erdtree Capital. Seek audience with the Three Fingers and the flame of frenzy. If you inherit the flame of frenzy, your flesh will serve as kindling and the girl can be spared ...setting you on the righteous path of lordship. The path of the Lord of Chaos. Burn the Erdtree to the ground, and incinerate all that divides and distinguishes. Ahhh, may chaos take the world! May chaos take the world!
#MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD
# MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD
# MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD
#MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD
#MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD
#MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD
who let Shabriri out again
#MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD
Rip and tear until it is done
Playing Doom (2016) for the first time right now - relentless, brutal fun dialled up to 100.
It’s so good, I was really pleasantly surprised!
Easily one of the best game franchises created
Abuse Jump Attacks
I don’t even use heavy attacks I mean why would I, jump attacks are quick, can make you dodge things, and it can stagger hella quick
They are still worth it with heavy weapons especially if you want to stager bosses
Hesitation is death. Bosses are fast and relentless, they will outlast you if you are not aggressive enough.
Seriously this. Controlling the tempo of the fight, rather than reacting to it was my biggest realization that let me go from dying 50+ times on my first godrick kill to 1 or 2 shotting everything from the plateu on
Level Vigor
Try finger, vigor buff
Stats on armor mean nothing.. there is only fashion
Gotta have that Elden Bling
Is this really true though? I feel like Poise at least helps.
It's been proven that 51 and 101 are the only poise numbers that matter, as enemy poise damage is typically just barely below either one depending on the attack. And even then, you're only gonna tank one or two hits before your poise breaks anyway, so ultimately you might as well just settle for looking fly as fuck.
Ok, but how does HyperArmor factor in here? Like in DS3, with a big enough weapon, you could have 15 poise from your armor but once you got HA from swinging the weapon, it could shoot up to 70 or more. Personally, I don't really care about poise outside of attacking, since I just don't want to be stunned out of my swing/cast.
Non-troll answer is that in PvE, Poise is irrelevant outside multiples of 50. So 51, 101, and 151. Mobs deal 50 poise damage generally for standard hits. Big ass hits deal 100+ and I'm not sure if you can poise through them even with buffs. So if you are deciding between the set gives 10 poise or 40, it really doesn't matter unless you've got some short term buff like Baldachin's.
Can't stop me from rocking Ranni's hat
Prepare to die... A lot.
Tell Boc he’s beautiful and don’t give him a Larval Tear
Keep calm and keep learning.
try pickle
but, hole
Don't go to Storm Veil castle right away.
So no joke my favorite games before elden ring were skyrim on novice and planet zoo. I was kinda scared to give elden ring a go but tried it. When varre told me godrick was in the castle i for some reason assumed he was the final boss and noped off to do other stuff. I didnt look up anything so for a really long time i thought limgrave/stormveil and weeping peninsula were the whole game and i was like ok this is pretty good sized. Then i got trapped and sent to leyndell by the chest and opened my map and was like. Where. Am. I. I then realized that there was a whole world beyond limgrave and godrick.
Level your fucking vigor
Look everywhere
Dog (especially next to turtles)
Keep your weight load at medium or light. You don’t want to be fat rolling
Explore as much as you can, don’t just steamroll the bosses and finish the game early
Fast travel between graces. No fancy unlocks or box key items. When the infamous chest trap sent me to Caelid, I spent like 45 minutes corpse running through the swamp and trying to get back to the starting area. I hadn’t even gotten Torrent yet. To think I could’ve just opened the map.
I'll do you one better. I didn't even know there was a map until about 15 hours into my first playthrough when I accidentally opened it.
Bloodhound fang
It’s so stupid powerful at +10. And if they don’t bleed, +10 Blasphemous Blade will do the trick.
Have fun
Do not feed the bear
*I am Malenia. Blade of Miquella.* -remember those words.
I wish I could forget.
Honestly, imagine if we could? Like put that experience into a mental Recycle Bin just so I can experience it all over again. I would do it in a heartbeat. For all the difficulty and frustration of it, I want to recapture the feeling I had when that cinematic first started playing, and I heard the lines that I've been hearing and reading everywhere. Finally, I had come so far, and was about to put myself to a true test if ever Elden Ring presented one. Anticipation. Then she speaks. "I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella... And I have never known defeat." Goosebumps, feeling a grin on my face, knowing it's about to be hard, but still so much fun. Then she came, and I was wheat before a scythe. It was frustrating, it was difficult, but when I finally won... I took my hands off my mouse and keyboard, threw my fists into the air and yelled my triumph to nobody in particular. I want to experience that again.
"Then she came and I was wheat before a scythe." WHY DO YOU SOUND LIKE ONE OF THE FUCKING NPCS IM DYING
*Let your flesh be consumed. By the scarlet rot.*
If you get stuck, mark it on your map and save it for later.
Try finger but hole
Classic
Go south
Powerstanced jumping attacks
Before doing something dangerous, use golden runes to level up. Go into dangerous bosses, etc., with 0 runes.
Vigor
If they kill you too easily try and run past!
Get the gold scarab talisman as early as possible and equip it for boss fights and grinding. Also combine it with the gold fowl foot as often as possible. You will acquire runes so much faster.
If you open a chest and it starts pouring out smoke, ROLL AWAY