Topic: Elden Ring Hype Thread

I didn’t like Caelid much at first, but after thoroughly exploring it I found it had grown on me a lot. At the very least, it makes going to other areas more enjoyable.

@R1spam I dreaded that boss but beat it in a couple of goes without summoning! I was high level though, like 95, and had some really heavy armour, a levelled up great shield and 12 healing flasks. I’m hoping the tactic of just being really high level can get me to the credits lol.

Yea - grown on you like a rotting fungus

@Mega-Gazz bring me an unalloyed gold needle already

@kyleforrester87 have you ever tried to kill Gowry before ending Millicent’s quest? It turns out he’s a pest/bug/thing and when you reload the area he’s back - or some other one in the human disguise - and asks you to forget it ever happened…and continues the quest

@Mega-Gazz hmm, no but interesting!

Bye bye Malenia Rotty B**ch. For 3 hours I died repeatedly but had one good run and made it a walk in the park. Just using the same gear as before but respecced to increase FP and reduce HP and swapped a few talismans.

Feels good and hopefully I’m on the home stretch now (don’t tell me if I’m not as I’ll only cry 😂).

@render well done dude, took me around 3 hours too… at many points during which I questioned whether I’d ever actually make it through. Crazy boss design… but doable in the end I guess

@colonelkilgore Cheers man 🍻. Yeah really odd design as there’s several moves that can end you in one shot if you haven’t got the HP.

I’m rolling so don’t know if it’s any different with a shield but the never ending swording combo she does in that first phase was just brutally impossible to judge. Couple that with what seemed like two really harsh flying moves + rot in the second and it seemed like it was weighted very much against the player.

I honestly thought the same as you and had totally written off my chances. Glad I persevered now 😅

Having done just about everything else possible in Liurnia, I think it's time for me to actually go into Raya Lucaria now

I spent quite a long time down in Ainsel River and the Dragonkin Soldier boss gave me more grief than any boss so far. The successful run was the first one where I decided to try fighting without using lock on which sometimes seems to hinder you when trying to defeat these huge beasties.

I just found the Four Belfries and used the key to go back to the opening area and defeat that boss too.

@kyleforrester87 I was level 59 but I summoned a genuine army of npcs. Tbh,it was one of the most interesting things I've seen so far in that feeling of being part of a legitimate squad taking out a boss. At my level, even getting to him was like charge of the light brigade! One of his magic hits was over half health. @Velio84 after the Radahn fight, I'm going to explore it a bit more but glad to hear things pick up again after moving on

@Thrillho I did those sections on the weekend too! I might be a bit over levelled, but didn't find Dragonskin too bad after I figured out what Spirit Ash to use. I also changed to a weapon which had a longer reach, which also helped.

I quite like the area before him though, as the enemies felt a bit different. Initially my Uchigatana wasn't doing a great deal of damage against those slow moving rolling enemies. So I swapped out to my Nightrider Flail which was loads better.

@velio84 Cheers 👍. I'm sure you did a better quicker job but I feel good to have got it done. I've been trying my best to stay guide free but last night after beating Malenia and having already got to a point where I'd had a prompt from an NPC asking if I was ready to do something I just thought stuff it I'll see what I've got left trophies wise. I'd done quite well in terms of collecting items for the legendary ones so I tidied a few of those up last night, and that included that missable item in the capital but thanks for flagging it up 😉

I haven't read what's ahead though so still got that to look forward to. It sounds like there's still plenty of action.

@velio84 I don't know if there's more than one way to trigger it but it unlocked for me by starting with Ranni's and then from there following Blaidd's quest line.

@velio84 having just done it, I was the same as render. Alexander was also there and had freed him and opened a door in Gael tunnel to get him to Caelid.

@velio84 @Mega-Gazz @JohnnyShoulder

Thanks! I was thinking of doing a magic build but I seem to fair better with a shield and sword combo. So I think I'll level up Vigor, Endurance, Strength and Dexterity and just keep switching swords when I progress through and get better ones.

A question - I was stuck on a cave boss which I thought I'd never beat, dropped loads of runes on death, kept running through getting more runes from the minions outside and then collecting my dropped ones. If I accidentally go in to a cave boss that is absolutely way too tough to beat, is there a way to get my dropped runes and run!?

@Throb Through a fog wall and you will definitely have to win in order to keep your runes. I've only once got lucky where my runes got deposited outside of the fog wall on death but otherwise I've always had to go through and run to grab them before the fight starts for real.

What I've generally been doing is if I feel I've almost got enough runes for the next level and loosing them is causing me stress at the thought then I'll find a place just where I can go and kill an easy but high yielding enemy type. Sometimes that's been by just doing the same ones near a site of grace so I can just rest and then they respawn and I kill them again, then rest and so on. I do that just enough to get to the next level and then spend them and that way I'm always being as frugal as possible which early on in the game is a real plus. As you level up the rune cost will increase so loosing the same amount won't feel as bad, like I lost 66,000 the other day and it didn't feel as bad as if I'd have done that way earlier in the game.

The other plus point about going into a boss battle with little or no runes is that you don't panic as much and can experiment more to find out what's going to work without much cost.

@render LOL and here's me worrying about losing 2000 runes!!!

@JohnnyShoulder I think I ended up sprinting past those rolling enemies in the end. No regrets But yeah, there are some enemies where magic based weapons are key. I entered another tunnel (Liurna crystal tunnel?) where my decent ice axe barely dented enemies so I think that area might be the case too..

And I assume you mean jellyfish bro?

@Throb Don’t forget to use your golden runes too if you need a boost. I always forget to use the equivalent items in the Soul games but am remembering to use them this time when I need a boost to level up or something.

@Thrillho Oh yeah after my first attempt I just ran past them lol. But my first time in an area I always try to clear out the enemies.

I think it was either the jellyfish or Raya Lucaria Soldier spirit ashes. If you decide to go to Caria Manor next, I found the Avionette Soldier Ashes handy due to them throwing fire bombs.

@R1spam sounds like you got to experience the fight as it was intended! At nearly double your level it was a lot more straight forward, and a lot less memorable!