@Th3solution Surely, two-handing is a better option ,for doubling the damage you can do. Unless you want to carry another weapon in your character's other hand? Sounds like you're doing well, though, and are well-equipped to deal with almost any challenge the game can throw at you!
Elden Ring is treating me just fine. It's definitely a high fantasy arpg Souls-like rather than a Souls game, imo anyway, so I am just getting used to the new scenery/environment. As I say, the DS3-style combat is fantastic. Just have to pump 13 more points into Str and then I can hit the first softcap and go farm more powerful enemies elsewhere (that are a more lucrative source of souls/runes) and then hit the next two softcaps after that.
Putting an op strength build together, as I'm sure you may already have discerned. Apparently there are only a couple of missable trophies in the game so I'm defo aiming for the Platinum.
Edit: I am also tempted by the DLC, as I have a specific build in mind for that one, and this game, unlike the Souls games lets you respec your stats at a later stage in the game.
Says there that blocking works exactly the same as it did in Dark Souls, and I know for a fact you can block with your sword whilst two-handing in Dark Souls.
@JohnnyShoulder yeah it feels closer to a pure Souls game to me also for sure. Probably the classic fantasy setting (knights, dragons etc.)… and shields.
@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Yeah, my Souls playstyle has gravitated to having main melee weapon in the right, and my magic casting item in the left and a shield to switch out also on the left. The alternate position on the right hand is the binoculars for magic sniping. I’m so accustomed to this set up that I very rarely will two hand. I should try to mix in some two handing though. I like having the security blanket of the shield on the left hand for a quick block if needed up close or my magic staff for softening them up from range before poking them with the melee weapon to finish them off.
The DS2 DLC apparently have a lot of magic resistant enemies so that’s another reason I was considering having a strength weapon for that part.
Incidentally, I believe there is a way to respec points in DS2 with a rare Soul vessel item if presented to the witch at the very start of the game. I have two of those soul vessels right now, but haven’t tried to respec yet since I’m getting by fine, but I’m saving the option if I feel like I’m struggling late game or in the reportedly harder DLC. One YouTube video I saw showed the guy doing a respec to have all his stats equal and then infusing the broken Santier’s Spear with mundane and it does absolutely catastrophic damage. So I’ve got that as a backup if I need to switch things up.
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@Yousef- I moved over here to keep the other thread tidy… 😄
But yeah, it seems like FromSoft’s strategy is to save really good weapons and item drops for the end game areas to tempt you to do NG+!
I’ve been miserly with my Effigies and Twinkling Titanite and now I have quite a lot to play around with. As a Hexer on this run mainly, I also saw that the absolute best casting weapon in the game doesn’t come until the last boss.
I guess that’s just standard RPG design, but for Souls games it really makes you want to play around with the new stuff you get in the late game.
Anyway, I have done quite a bit of farming at the Shrine of Amana and probably should just move along. I’m so OP for this section that I need to just progress through to the end game. I’m not sure what’s best - to finish the last boss and then do the DLC or go over to the DLC first and then do the final boss. For now I’m just going keep on the main path and then decide later. Probably will do like I did for DS1 and do the DLC before finishing the main game. It does probably make the final boss trivial, but that’s ok.
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@Yagami Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and Dark Souls III are definitely my favourites but I am currently loving my time in The Lands Between, nevertheless.
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@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Oh yeah, buddy. Still slowly pecking away. I’m at the Undead Crypt now. Have estus +12, level is 160, have leveled up my str to 20 so I can either one hand or two hand my Santier Spear, but honestly still wrecking shop with my Hexes and Dark Orb as well as my Lightning infused rapier +10. Wasted a couple hours in the Shrine of Amana which was excellent farming because of the drops. I have Human Effigies out the wazoo now, and a nice stockpile of Twinkling Titanite.
But like @Yousef- said, I’m splitting time with Little Hope for my horror game this month with the Game Club and have played some Balatro and Vampire Survivors the side as well during football. I still consider DS2 my main game though.
@Th3solution Yeah, makes sense. It sounds like you are well and truly op now, to divert from the main theme of conversation slightly, but still on a related note - I wouldn't consider Elden Ring, thus far, to be canon, in the sense that while it can be considered a spiritual successor to the Dark Souls games, it is still definitely a Soulslike, and unnecessary to play if you aren't obsessed with beating every Miyazaki-helmed Souls/Soulslike game - like me, and have played DS3 already. It is a great game and fantastic experience in it's own right, though (so far, and from what I know about it from YouTube) so well worth playing in that sense, but it definitely depends on what your motivations are. I went in expecting Dark Souls 4, and with the high fantasy setting and lore, Sekiro-borrowed mechanics etc. - I would say it's definitely not that - an evolution of the Souls formula - yes, but a Dark Souls game? Definitely no.
There is also a sense of the farming in the game 'dragging' a bit if it is your fourth or fifth Souls/Soulslike to play, and I understand you are already on your fourth, so after DS3, if you get round to that, this will be your sixth, and you may find that you experience that 'drag' even more so than me! (for having gone through the experience an extra time).
Were people really expecting Dark Souls 4 from Elden Ring? I thought it was made quite clear that it wasn't connected to the previous games.
And unless I'm missing something as I don't usually farm a great deal in this games, surely that is down to how each individual plays the game? If that is becoming tiresome, that is probably a good sign to move onto another section.
Most games if you play same sections defeating the same enemies over and over again, you will eventually find it a drag.
@Yagami While I meant Demons Souls specifically. Dark Souls 1, 2 and 3 are, in my opinion, derivative projects that have lost the magic and vision which made the first original so special /s
@Yagami while the world design in Dark Souls is best in class, there’s just something about Demons Souls that will always make it my favourite. Maybe because it was the first one I played back in 2011, when it was all new to me.
@Yagami yeah I’ve never actively engaged in the pvp in any of the games. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy it when invaded… but I just treat that as part of my single player adventure, so the quality or lack-there-of of the mp doesn’t really effect my appraisal. I get that’s just me though and peoples mileage will differ on the matter.
@JohnnyShoulder Some people on other websites have said that Elden Ring is basically Dark Souls 4. Which I strongly disagree with.
Edit: Also players such as Sol and myself like to become op by farming souls for ages - I agree you should move on if it gets tiresome, but there are players, such as myself at least, who find this method to be the most efficient for their personal playstyle with regard to completing these games.
Edit II: This, my fifth Souls/Soulslike game is the first where I have noticed the 'drag', hence my comments to Sol. Take care!
@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN Guess I missed all that about people thinking it was Dark Souls 4. All though it does share elements from previous games, it defo didn't feel that way to me. Each to their own though.
I get that people like to farm in these games, and there is certianly no judgement from me about how people play the game. Different strokes and all that.
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