Topic: Elden Ring Hype Thread

All that exploring seems to have done the trick as I just beat Godrick first go 😅

Oh wow
It’s easy enough to find the fog to fight Godrick but there s a chance you can miss a lot of content. So after finding the summon hero I was exploring everywhere and came to an area you can see from afar when your near the place of grace.
A few jumps down and killing a few rats and bats I dropped again even lower in a swamp and there was the same giant lizard like boss I found at the starting area of the game using the stone sword. Killing it after a good fight gave me another stone sword key and a golden seed. Kept going and that brought me back to the stone sword fog near the lift where the spider was.
I just didn’t expect such large area you can easily miss in the castle.

Gotta say, I think ER has the best horseback combat of any game I've played to date. I'm pretty much only on foot now when I want to sneak around or the game forces me to get off the horse.

@JohnnyShoulder Took me three resets before I was able to get one of the pots to land on the weird instadeath vehicle, lol. And I ended up getting some weird bow that I'll never use! Oh well, it's the journey that matters, not the destination, I suppose.

I’m starting to give into the hype. Promised myself not to buy anymore AAA games (including 1st party) until I get a PS5.

I’m thinking of picking it up, but I’ll be playing it on PS4Pro. How’s the performance guys?

Edit: Just seen the PS article. 30fps & lower resolution. Resolution doesn’t matter, but does the frame rate affect the experience too much?

@Fight_Teza_Fight
Loading time is cool on PS5 I think that could get very annoying in last gen.

@Fight_Teza_Fight In my experience, 30 fps would be fine if I hadn't been playing 60fps. But going to the former after playing in the latter felt horrible for me, so sluggish.

@Ralizah That is one of the reasons is to get the bow. I've got the starting longbow to +3, but don't wanna upgrade any further if there is a better one I can get.

In regards to Sekiro, each enemy has their own visible posture bar. Get this down by attacking them and deflecting their attacks. If this fills up, their defensive guard is broken and they get stunned, unable to block. This applies to the player aswell. Enemies become susceptible to a Deathblow, too.

@JohnnyShoulder there is a bow in Soifra river area with magic dmg.

Also, what stats are people going for? I keep finding that raising stats has very little effect. I’m at 18str/dex and raising either puts my damage up from 194 to 195 - hardly seems worth it. Similar if I raise int it adds 1or 2 damage to glintstone pebble. I’ve been aiming for 20 in vigor/end/str/dex/mind/int - but wondering if I should eventually respec into something that’s more committed in one direction.

Also using a lordsworn straight sword which has served me well, want a new fancy weapon but this one is good

Think I might have screwed myself out of some runes and possibly special items this afternoon. I was wandering around some of the unpoked corners of Limgrave, and ended up getting teleported way up north (to the Royal City of something? - Divine Bridge site of grace) I gave the nearby giant a couple of tries, and don't think I was doing too badly.

On the third try, I fell off the platform. And then just as the "you died" screen was finishing, the giant fell off too. I respawned and picked up my lost runes - giant nowhere to be seen, no extra runes for having "defeated" it, and no special items (I mean maybe there isn't one in this case, but there often is - there's one in the nearby chest, though)

@LiamCroft Dunno if this is useful for your guides but I’ve worked out exactly how far you can go without killing a single boss except for the tutorial one of course.

@Mega-Gazz Cool cheers, I think that is where I'm was going next anyway.

I'm going for mainly Dex and Vigor for my stats, but I saw somewhere yesterday that you will see better gains from upgrading your weapons.

@Mega-Gazz Vigor and Dex, with a secondary emphasis on Strength, Intelligence (gotta have mana for Unsheathe), and Stamina.

I'm falling into old habits - vitality, endurance and strength. I don't really know another way to play these games. Maybe I should try one of these fancy dex builds.

@kyleforrester87 If I ever replay this, I'm going full barbarian and pumping all of my points into Strength, Vigor, and Stamina. I want to be able to use these huge swords I keep getting.

@Mega-Gazz Half Strength, Half Dexterity, a few points into health and stamina when I can.

Anyone else using Radagon's Scarseal as a talisman? It's pretty awesome - gives you 3 extra points to Strength, Endurance, Dexterity and Vigor (everything that counts for anything unless you're leaning into magic) - at the expense that it "increases damage taken" (not sure how much)

That's like, 12 levels worth of points, just for taking a bit more damage . Been using it for a couple of hours now, doesn't seem to increase the damage taken to the point where you get one shotted

Sounds right. I keep telling myself I’ll try something different, hence putting points into sorcery as a secondary ability, but sword and board just works too well and is low-fuss. That said, the sorcery is really useful on occasion, and being able to buff my weapon with magic always is nice.

I hate even posting this but I'm super curious. I don't want this to come off as a hey we got a badass over here post or whatever, but does anyone else think that Elden Ring is a bit easy?

I've hit a few walls - first big boss at the first castle obliterated me repeatedly - but once I explored and levelled up and got a new weapon etc. I've basically marched through the game without much resistance.

That said, my map is quite small so I'm assuming I'm not very far - played 25 hours or so. I'm wondering if anyone else was like this only to have the rug pulled from under them at a certain point? Perhaps I've spent so much time exploring I'm overlevelled?

Still loving it I just don't think it's causing me as much trouble as previous Souls games.

@johncalmc depends where you’re at, you maybe a bit over levelled. I have found it on the easier side overall but I know I am a bit on the high side. I have only just reached the castle. An article the other day said it gets hard nearer the end so I am waiting to hit a wall later on. I’m not summoning at all for bosses so far to help keep the challenge.

Plus maybe you just got gud. It happens.

@johncalmc It’s less that it’s easy and more that it gives you more means to get a leg up. By all accounts, later bosses are incredibly difficult, and from what I’ve seen in the later areas I’ve explored, that holds true.