I am going to jump back into this (base game only for now) with some mods.
I grabbed the Seamless coop mod. Any others recommended?
For those of your who finished the DLC how many hours did you put in with it? I don't understand how anyone is done with it unless it's just a matter of not exploring thoroughly. I'm at around 40 hours and I'm still discovering new areas and haven't even touched Shadow Keep yet. I'm searching every corner of the map and moving at a pretty good pace with consistent progress.
For those of your who finished the DLC how many hours did you put in with it? I don't understand how anyone is done with it unless it's just a matter of not exploring thoroughly. I'm at around 40 hours and I'm still discovering new areas and haven't even touched Shadow Keep yet. I'm searching every corner of the map and moving at a pretty good pace with consistent progress.
I’m probably similar. I think I just have maybe 3 areas left, and have probably done around 40 hours. Though some of that was dropping back to the base game for some stuff.
I’ve been trying to do everything in the DLC. And haven’t gotten burnt out yet.
Explored fairly thoroughly, was only missing 2 blessing lvls at the last boss. Even then, I saw afterward that I had missed a whole legacy dungeon and at minimum 1 smaller dungeon. Not sure there is a way to see hours played though. Around 40 hours probably.
I put anywhere from 35 to 50 hours in the span of 5 days and did little else than play the game. I'm sure I missed a few things here and there, but such was my fixation with getting through the DLC that I made the conscious choice to let it go. I had a lot of work stuff that I knew would keep me from being able to enjoy it until much later and so went gung-ho.
Reviewed a checklist after the the fact and it seems I didn't miss all that much from what had been discovered up until June's end. I'm sure tons more discoveries have been made as it usually is the case for FROM titles, but most of those will likely be of the "awesome little details and interaction secrets" variety.
curious what was your shadow blessing count when you finished?
curious what was your shadow blessing count when you finished?
Don't quite recall, but I think my Reversed Spirit Ash level was 8 and my Scadutree Fragment level thingy was in the double digits, maybe at around 16 or 17. Uninstalled the game, so I'd have to DL it again to check and I'm rather lazy about that hehehe.
In neither stat did I reach max, certainly, but I definitely was dealing and withstanding considerably more damage by the time I hit the final area than in my first handful of hours in the lands of Shadow.
Had some brilliant co-op sessions with Spikeout and Shymlark yesterday. I adore the traditional soulsian experience of exploring the game solo but am equally delighted when running around with a friend making and sharing discoveries and trying to take out truculent bosses. Yesterday was ‘show each other the vast low lying area you worked out how to get to’ day.
Wasn't making much progress in the DLC using my Sword of Night and Flame (Int/Faith) build. I am not good at dodging attacks and can only take 3-4 hits before dying against most enemies. I rebirthed and changed to a strength build focused on poise. I now wield the Watch Dog's greatsword (+20) and wear the Bull-Goat armor set with talisman that focus on increasing poise and load. I am a tank at this point and it feels wonderful. I just took down a boss in the DLC that was destroying my previous build. I should have accepted by limitations earlier and made this build. I may make another character just to run a strength build in the base game.
Wasn't making much progress in the DLC using my Sword of Night and Flame (Int/Faith) build. I am not good at dodging attacks and can only take 3-4 hits before dying against most enemies. I rebirthed and changed to a strength build focused on poise. I now wield the Watch Dog's greatsword (+20) and wear the Bull-Goat armor set with talisman that focus on increasing poise and load. I am a tank at this point and it feels wonderful. I just took down a boss in the DLC that was destroying my previous build. I should have accepted by limitations earlier and made this build. I may make another character just to run a strength build in the base game.
I am sorta feeling like doing the same. I suck at dodging, and parrying is a skill I have never been able to master (or even come close to mastering).
Strength builds work very well for the most part. Thats the only build I used (with Bloodhound Fang) through the base game and only had difficulty with dragons and bosses that fly around. Elden Beast was a b¹tch.
I switched to an arcane build for the DLC with a focus on blood loss/fire and pretty much shred everything with Eleanor's Poleblade. The weapon skill is insanely good.
Join the tank build crew. I'm not great at dodging so it helps a lot. As makes exploring a lot easier since you become really hard to kill for regular enemies.
I walk into new areas and obliterate everything with Sacred Blade's Wave of Gold weapon skill. It breaks poise on just about every regular enemy and I can get about 5 off with one tear use. Anything that survives gets wrecked with the poleblade. Good times!
So after hitting up Google, I have a large annoyance with Elden Ring build guides.
Most of them start off with something along the lines of "here are my stats at the end of NG+6, with double weapons you can only get once per playthrough".
Where are the guides for idiots like me?
Searching "Elden Ring beginners build guide" brought up a bunch of results for me.
Here's a random one, with several others linked on that page.
DAMN YOU WITH YOUR COMPETENT GOOGLE FU!@!
So after hitting up Google, I have a large annoyance with Elden Ring build guides.
Most of them start off with something along the lines of "here are my stats at the end of NG+6, with double weapons you can only get once per playthrough".
Where are the guides for idiots like me?
Check out Fextralife on Youtube. He has a lot of interesting builds for level 100+ original playthroughs and he explains everything very well. His online wiki is also a good resource for NPC quests, item info, etc.
I finally beat the dancing lion boss a few days back, got one of the spirit ash summons in (was a guy with a big shield) which helped a decent bit. I have used the mimic tear a couple of times which is ridiculously powerful (beat death knight too easily) but it still not enough to takedown Rellana.
She is just so damn quick in closing the distance with her twin blades then those vertical & horizontal huge blue magic sword attacks that are tricky to dodge. I'll get her soon enough.
She stopped me dead in my tracks for ages. Probably the most attempts I made at anything in the DLC so far. Great Shield summon helped a ton. There are 5 of them, and they can stunlock her. I used the purple meatball spell to stagger her.
My main discovery was that my moonveil build just wasn't great for damage. I swapped over to Blaidd's sword (The Royal Blade I think?) and that's been so much better for my DPS. (Also it looks awesome.)
I had to rearrange my build, but the Royal Sword has an INT scale so taking my INT from 72 (where I had it to use Rellana's triple moon spell) to 52 points gave me plenty of points to make the other requirements (mainly Strength) and I could still use the best staff in the game, fire off the comet spells, and keep a robust sorcery toolkit.
Shymlark and I took turns in beating her in each other’s worlds. I have a lot of damage negation spells. Magic negation really helped. I’d put it on at the start and try to get it on mid fight.
Watched a video where they pit Rellana against the original bosses. The sheer attack speed difference is super noticeable. Only malenia keeps up and I'd say even she is slower.
Watched a video where they pit Rellana against the original bosses. The sheer attack speed difference is super noticeable. Only malenia keeps up and I'd say even she is slower.
Makes sense. I certainly felt the increase in speed and aggressive patterns for the DLC's bosses. Didn't consider it at the time, but it would seem reasonable to think that they looked at Malenia's template and decided that would be the way to go.
It's funny how everyone has different struggles. I beat Rellana first try with Black Knife Tiche spirit but I spent a ton of time against the bosses in the nameless musoleums, especially the first one near the initial grace.
It's funny how everyone has different struggles. I beat Rellana first try with Black Knife Tiche spirit but I spent a ton of time against the bosses in the nameless musoleums, especially the first one near the initial grace.
Had no where near the problem with the other ones, but that first one was a struggle for me till i finally figured out a pattern accidently that worked out
Just as an observation, sometimes I do much better on one random run against a boss than I did before or after. It can be worth saving the footage of a surprisingly good run (unless you very much know why it went well) because watching it back can reveal a way you were fighting that can be applied on future runs.
It's funny how everyone has different struggles. I beat Rellana first try with Black Knife Tiche spirit but I spent a ton of time against the bosses in the nameless musoleums, especially the first one near the initial grace.
This really is funny. I've been using a fully upgraded Sword of Night and Flame with the Demi-Human Queen's Staff in the other hand and getting by pretty well in the DLC so far. I haven't made it to Rellana yet I guess though so who knows what it'll be like. I typically use Black Knife Tiche in boss battles, hopefully I'll have the same kind of luck as 93_confirmed. The Divine Beast Dancing Lion took a few tries but it wasn't too bad for me. My biggest problem is that stupid life responsibilities don't give me very much time to play the game!
I beat the boss out the back of Shadow Keep.
It’s amazing how you can go from feeling like you’re not even going to be able to stay alive in the presence of a boss let alone hurt them, to fighting and dodging long enough to put a significant dent in their health bar and then, ultimately, understanding the fight well enough to beat them. Although, to be fair, not being able to stay alive was as much of a concern for me on my last attempt as it was on my first.
Anyone else playing on Series X? The frame rate was never amazing but the opening area of the DLC is brutal. It’s so bad I’m getting motion sickness.
Anyone else playing on Series X? The frame rate was never amazing but the opening area of the DLC is brutal. It’s so bad I’m getting motion sickness.
I am and have never seen anything close to that kind of stutter. Try going to the menu and changing the display preference (quality or performance) and see if that helps.
I'm pretty far in in the series X and haven't seen anything like that. So far it's been about the same as the main game. (I haven't messed with any settings and playing on 4k LG OLED C2)
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