Topic: Elden Ring Hype Thread

@Jimmer-jammer Thanks man! The more research I do online, it seems a lot of people bounced off from beating Returnal and then moved to Nioh II... which is good news!

I actually have Ashen on my Switch, but I find it unplayable for one reason... the inability to invert the X-axis (!) Seems a great game, but literally everything else I play is inverted (both Y and X) - and my muscle-memory is too far gone ha.

Nioh 2 downloading now, thanks!

@CJD87 I've never really found a game that matches fromsoft combat system (though I've never tried nioh). Have you played hollow knight? It's got a great sense of exploration, the lore is pretty good too and while the combat is far more straightforward than fromsoft, it's still pretty satisfying.

@R1spam I have HK on Switch, but am saving this for when I'm done with Dead Cells (currently my Switch 'side-game'). If you enjoyed Returnal and Hades, I'd definitely recommend Dead Cells for a great rogue fix... nice challenge, without being too punishing. Plus you do always attain a sense of 'progression' from each run, very similar to Hades I suppose! Thanks for the recommend though, and I hope to squeeze in HK on Switch before MHR Sunbreak drops

@Jimmer-jammer I think Rivers of Blood is accepted to be one of the best weapons in the game. But I haven’t got fair enough in the main story to get it yet.

I got through Ainsel River and Nokstella to further Ranni’s quest line and defeated the invader.

I finished off the Lake of Rot and both mini bosses last night, although I reckon I spent half my time there stood around waiting for my rot levels to return to normal as I only had a handful of boluses to cure it. And now there’s even more to explore down here!

@CJD87 I never played the sequel but really enjoyed Nioh. The combat is quite unique with the stance mechanic which gives every weapon a high stance for slow heavy hitting, a low stance for less powerful quick attacks, and a standard one for between.

It was more level based than the open world of From games but I thought it worked well like that. The boss fights are certainly on par with the From games too.

@CJD87 nice, I'll give dead cells a try. It's on gamepass and will probably try it there but it feels like a perfect switch game! I really liked hollow knight, hope you enjoy when you get round to it 👍

@Jimmer-jammer For the boss actually in the Lake of Rot, it was a case of using the Mimic Tear and then just going for it and healing rather than trying to avoid/nullify the rot. Going through that route got me the Mimic Tear and enough of the plants to be able to fully upgrade him. If you did that and then both had Rivers of Blood, you'll be pretty unstoppable!

I managed to finish the Renni quest line as well last night. The main boss took a few goes, and then the one leading to the chapel also took a couple of goes, but all done with that now.

And following that, I went back to her tower and defeated Blaidd so now I'm rocking some of their armour set.

Mimic Tear all the way baby! Got me through all the major bosses in the end

I've been digging Lhutel the Headless, doesn't do much damage but they can tank so much and they phase in and out, so you often find they can aggro a boss but then miss the worst damage. Absolutely smashed godrfrey first lord and Astel using that summon. It also lasted the whole glinstone dragon fight. I've been smashing bosses the last couple of days. Being level 106 might help too

I've not had that much joy with Mimic Tear myself, but do like to mix it up with the spirit ashes. I think jelly fish bro is my most used though.

This week I dressed up as a mushroom and went through the Lake of Rot collecting everything. I'm now at the Grand Cloister battling with the prawn enemies.

@Jimmer-jammer Maybe I've not had much joy with the mimic tear as my build is so **** then! 😂

@R1spam I used Lhutel for a while too as it was one that stuck around long enough to be useful.

@JohnnyShoulder It sounds like you’re not far behind where I’ve been! Good luck in finishing off that run of locations as you’re almost there.

You should have loads of items to upgrade your spirit summons to now so it might be worth using them. Using Mimic Tear with both of us having bleed weapons just means you keep taking chunks out of bosses health each time you cause blood loss which really helps.

As for me, I just had a quick visit to Leyndell and blimey, there’s some heavy hitting enemies just wandering around there!

@Thrillho Yeah I've been upgrading my spirit Ashes as I've been going along. Think I got mimic tear to +9 and a few others not far behind.

I'm on the boss in the area which is probably the most freaky looking one so far I've seen. Almost defeated it last night but got too greedy. I've changed out of my mushroom gear to something than can take a few more hits.

I had a quick zoom through Leyndell to get the map fragment and the golden tears. There is also a 'hidden' cave with a bearing from the boss I believe.

@JohnnyShoulder I pretty much managed to level up Mimic Tear straight to +10 after running through most of the area you’ve covered.

That boss isn’t too bad once you know to avoid the big AoE attacks and the deadly pincer grab. There’s one more boss to complete that quest line but it’s pretty straight forward. And then make sure to go back to Ranni’s tower after!

I already had the map for Leyndell before going in. And there are so many hidden caves it’s hard to know which you mean 😁

@Thrillho I've beaten them both in a uncharacteristically productive morning. I think that was about 250k worth of runes as I remembered to use those gold foot things.

The mimic tear did come useful with the latter fight as I put some blood grease on my katana before I summoned it, so we cut through that beast like a hot knife through butter.

The cave is quite tricky to find the general location, but you know when are close by when you find the Minor Erdtree Church, which is technically in Altus Plateau.

Jeez those T-Rex dogs in Dragonbarrow sure do hit hard! Can only imagine what the dragons are like. May have to come back to that a bit later or, or start from the Bestial Sanctum as I can one hit kill those little guys when back stabbing them. I love the animation for that.

@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, those dog things and the raven things in that region are brutal so I just tended to leave them well alone.

The dragon enemies/bosses weren’t too bad at all though. There is one large boss that is surrounded by smaller dragons but if you defeat the small ones (not difficult), each one you kill whittles down the boss’ health so it’s a good point to use a golden foot thing!

And does that mean you defeated the enemy outside the Bestium Sanctuary? I left that one well alone.

As for me, I was working through Leyndell and stumbled on Godfrey and thankfully beat him first time. I made it to the bedchamber grace but have been back exploring the sewers with the key from Dung Eater.

The omen creatures down there don’t mess around! I did find Dung Eater down there and decided to just kill him as he seems one of the most detestable From characters ever.

@Thrillho I just got the dragon on the bridge leading to Bestium Sanctuary and the boss guarding it to beat. I did have a few goes at the latter a while back but got smashed. Hopefully will have better time now.
Also need to go to the divine tower, which is a bit tricky. Had to watch a walkthrough as I fell to my doom a couple of times.

Yeah the the younger dragons were not too bad in the end, I got rid of those and the massive grey dragon. Really need to start to remember and use the gold foot things more to boost the runes I get.