Topic: Elden Ring Hype Thread

The crystalians take lots of damage if you use strike weapons - I keep a spiked club around for that.

Oh, a patch is out - https://www.bandainamcoent.com/news/elden-ring-patch-notes-v1-03

Some interesting bits -like “ Fixed a bug that causes arcane to scale incorrectly for some weapons.”

“ Increased the drop rate of Smithing Stone for some enemies”

Mimic tear nerf??

Lots of FP/dmg changes for spells:

Reduced FP consumption and increased the damage of the following sorceries: Glintstone Cometshard/ Comet/ Night Comet
Increased the damage of the following sorceries: Gravity Well/ Collapsing Stars/ Crystal Barrage
Decreased FP consumption of the following sorceries: Star Shower/ Rock Blaster/ Gavel of Haima/ Founding Rain of Stars/ Stars of Ruin/Greatblade Phalanx/Magic Downpour/ Loretta’s Greatbow/ Loretta’s Mastery/ Carian Greatsword/ Carian Piercer/ Shard Spiral
Raised projectile speed and range of Great Glintstone Shard

I’ll resist pasting it all.

I've been making slow progress this week with stupid real life getting in the way. Did beat the dragon in Liurnia of the Lakes last night, so have made it pass the gate. I actually snuck by it and swiped the key, but I almost beat it when it woke up. So thought might as well give it a few more goes. Wasn't too bad in the end and only ended up using two health flasks in the end.

@lolwhatno Its alright, I'm just not sure if I should invest my upgrades in that, over stuff like heath and attack, does the load go up by much when you level? Because I have leveled a few times but im not really feeling it.

@Elodin I've been rocking the Moonveil and so far it's been good. I don't know if the latest patch has changed anything though but gave it a quick go this morning and it seems just as powerful as it was before.

@CJD87 I did switch to using a shield for the Red Wolf of Radagon fight and it took me a while to get my head fighting with a shield after using dual wield for so long. I tried to make the guard counters work as I'd seem people mention that being a good mechanic but my timing was always out and even when I hooked it up the wolf had moved back far enough that it negated my attacks. Got it done in the end though and then got wiped out by that NPC after the staircase with the boulders rolling down it. I thought I'd be smart the next time round to see if I could get him run over so tracked back down the stairs with him in tow and it did get him a few times but then he ran away and wouldn't come back so I ended up running past him while he was distracted. Hope I didn't have to kill him for any reason!.

So how does two handing a weapon work? and dual wielding? So far I have been Enjoying my shield, I don't parry but I like to make those comeback attacks when I get hit, and does dual wielding mean I have to be naked?

@Snatcher Dual wielding means you can equip a weapon in each hand so that you are using two swords rather than a sword and a shield. It gives you an extra attack on L1 which uses both blades and can be very effective. I've been using two Katanas which work really well together but I can't comment on how the mechanic works with other weapon types. Whether you have to play naked will all depend on the total weight of the equipment you have currently equipped or personal preference 😀

Edit: Sorry forgot to mention that two handing a weapon means you put your shield away so you have extra power with your attacks plus you can use your sword skill which you won't be able to do if you've got a skill equipped on your shield. You can do this if you press triangle and then R1 and do the same to switch back to one handed.

So 20 hours later & 20 levels later from facing Margit I went back to him.
That was incredibly satisfying. After dying like 20 times to him, the fight must have lasted about 15 seconds.

I have pretty much filled out the entire map & graces until this point. Left some of the sub-bosses till later. I got to the top of Divine tower of Caelid & got 1 shotted by regular enemies, so I figured I leave that area till later.

I’ve got the mimic veil now & I can tell I’m going to have a bit of fun with that.

@kyleforrester87 I’ve got a second talisman slot now, so there’s no need not to use it for now.

My favourite sub-boss so far is the Ancestor Spirit. The move set is pretty basic, but the atmosphere & the visuals are top notch. Hope there’s more of that.

@Fight_Teza_Fight I just fought ancestor spirit last night - I agree it was cool. Although I was probably way too strong, level 70 lol

@amenohi I like to fully explore areas before moving on. I’m 120 hours in, level 117 and just finished volcano manor and explored Atlus plateau. I’ve done all of caelid, including the north part (dragonbarrow) which was way above my level at the time. I know I stop and smell the roses, so I’m a little over-levelled and sites like HLTB always show much less time to finish a game. Still, if you’ve played 30 hours and gotten to far into the game you could be relatively underlevelled.

It was a badly needed nerf.

@LN78 time for jolly cooperation!

@CJD87 yes the big bosses I took out are godrick and Academy boss. Thanks for pointing me in a good direction where to go next. I went there way to early when just exploring. Now for some payback.

@JohnnyShoulder way to go on dragon hunting!

I'm not sure if I missed it last time as I was only there once, but the portal to the zone where you can kill some enemies for 1k runes each now has a huge enemy right when you port in. You have to be much more sneaky to get the runes.

@Elodin Ah no that sounds like my favourite farming spot. Is it the one next to the bridge with the dragon on it over to the east?

@render not exactly sure as i was only there once before. its called the beastial sanctum in Caleid. I guess it makes sense to protect it as the one time I was there level 20ish I think, I was able to sneak around and take the wanderers with unsheathe to stagger. I left with 18k runes in about 10 min.

@Elodin Pretty sure it has always been there. I've not taken it on yet, just sneaked past it every time.

@Elodin It's always been there - there is another site of grace out the building and down the hill by the bridge. Make a run for it and do your grinding from that spot instead.

@JohnnyShoulder @kyleforrester87 @Elodin Yes you're right the spot that you teleport into isn't the spot where the site of grace is by the bridge. I'd forgotten that when I'd first got there it was actually at the top by the big doors and I then made my way round that guy and opened up the bit south of that. I did take him on just to see how much damage I could do and how hard it hits and he pretty much one-shotted me so that was nice 😆