New patch on June 20th to prepare for dlc and add 'balancing. New features like inventory improvement, details below.
Very annoying that twitter posts can't be linked anymore.
Edit: thanks Retro
So arsing around, looking though my inventory, I noticed my Rune Arcs which I never paid attention to so googled them. I have to use my Great Runes at a divinity tower, equip them at a grace for boosts and use run arc to greatly increase those boosts until death…… how the **** didn't I know this. I kind of remember doing a tower for Ranni I think. Just did 2 towers and it's like what else haven't I done in this game :D
I watched one the other day where a guy did it in 40 minutes i think while picking up some handy items. Not ideal though as you are going in at a low level.
So just opened back up my game. Of course I entered NG so I’ve lost all my Grace points. I’m sure there is a speed run way to get to the DLC area
You'll probably still find it hard and then some gowl on youtube at level 1 in his jocks will speed run the dlc taking no hits on day 1 😫
Malenia is definitely a pain. Hardest boss in the game for most (I include myself in that) and the DLC will likely have one or more bosses equal to or harder than Malenia.
Oddly though, I never had much of a problem with Malekith in any of my playthroughs. He's definitely considered one of the toughest, but maybe the build I typically use at that stage is just really well suited for him. The Wing of Astel weapon skill (Nebula) does great damage and poise damage, so long as my summon is distracting him enough that I can hit it close enough to him.
The DLC is going to be tough, no doubt about it. But especially if people have gone so long without playing. That's why I did my NG+ run, to properly try get back into the swing of things, beat bosses again rather than just run around killing small mobs, have all my weapons lined up and ready to go.
Lore scrub and proud.
I stopped playing when I got stuck at Makilath and also Malenia.
The thought of more game sounds epic but god the DLCs can be brutal
Haha... i gotta admit, i kind of wouldn't mind that 😂
Some yellow paint to guide Millicent's questline.
John Tarnished: "Hmm, a prosthetic arm. Maybe Millicent could use this. I last saw her at the Altus Plateau. Maybe she is still there."
Oh, you're struggling to keep up with the story? Pfft…. git gud, scrub!
Brain
Marika was married to Godfrey (Hoarah Loux) and had Morgott, Mohg and Godwyn. Godwyn's son is Godrick (and possibly also Godefroy who is found in one of the Evergaols, but he's only referred to as 'kin' to them, but that fight is pretty much the first phase of the Godrick fight again with more damage).
Radagon was married to Rennala and had Ranni, Radahn and Rykard.
Marika and Radagon then left their spouses and married each other, and had Malenia and Miquella (possibly also Melina and Messmer (from the DLC), but both of those are unconfirmed). Malenia also had Millicent and her four sisters. But also Marika and Radagon are the same person.
(Kinda Funny did an Elden Ring podcast recently and went through a lot of this).
But yeah, I was wondering about why Radahn would need to be beat for the DLC too. I guess it's more for story reasons, that you need to have reached that for parts of the story in the DLC to make sense even though you can get to Mohg without beating Radahn.
Oh and Margott has a twin and nope it's not Margit, it's Mohg.
I thought it was Renalla was married to Radagon and Radahn was one of their kids? Jesus. Anyway, speaking of Radahn, i wonder why people need to beat him to enter the dlc as From have stated previously. Both him and Mohg are 2 serious gatekeeping bosses.
Not to mention many of the characters have two names. Godfrey is also known as Hoarah Loux (but seemingly not related to Nepheli Loux, they're just part of the same tribe/clan, and Nepheli's adoptive father is Gideon). Ranni calls herself Renna at the start as if she's trying to hide the fact she's Ranni even though we don't even know who Ranni is by that point anyway, but also not to be confused with her mother, Rennala. Marika was married to Radagon and they had kids, even though you then learn that Marika is Radagon. Margit is just some sort of apparition or summon of Morgott.
Basically, Marika's family tree is squiggle.
Absolutely, names were way too similar in this and my mind just switches off from trying to remember at a certain point.
It doesn't help that in Elden ring all the character names are near identical. There's characters with names that begin with G and ones that begin with M and after that my mind isn't parsing that anymore.
I was only looking at Vaati vids yesterday for lore on Dragonlord Placid and it was so interesting but went off in a mad direction to other dragons, beasts, locations and he was name dropping left and right. It made me realise I had forgotten most characters in this game and even listening to him explain the story and lore in great detail, I was still lost. Even Miquella, who you are looking for in the DLC. Oh he's the brother of Melenia who I brutally killed and I have zero clue where he will be okay with that or not.
The lore is cool and it is interesting but the selling point has and always will be the combat. Now, if Miyazaki start simplifying to the point of quest markers and cutscenes over explaining things and your character mumbling to themself about what they have to do next, it would completely ruin the Souls charm.
I think making sense of the story is harder than the super bosses. There's hoops you have to jump through that would make sierra adventure games from the 80's feel easy.
Also:
I always feel like if you just went to VaatiVidya's youtube page, hit Play All, sat there for 20+ hours watching everything…. you still wouldn't understand the story of these games. Even with Elden Ring, I'm still not 100% sure if Ranni's ending is supposed to be the best/good ending because apparently there's some mistranslation between the English and Japanese versions.
It's why an Easy Mode to experience the story wouldn't work; the story is only there if you sink a hell of a lot of time, attention, and flowcharts with strings on walls into it. You're given the dots, but it's a hell of a lot of work connecting them.
That said, I do enjoy replaying the game having watched Vaati's videos to give a better general understanding of what's going on and seeing how some of those dots line up, but it's just not a story game. At least when references are made to other characters you haven't met yet, you have somewhat of an understanding between their connection.
Evergreen tweet:
I was really disappointed with the mohg fight. I went to fight him after I was at the end game and I was so over levelled that I killed him first time without seeing his second form.
I think the bleed damage to him only really hurts once Blood Loss hits. You should review your talismans to really boost the damage of it too, and more points in Arcane. He is surprisingly tough though, especially since his AoE does blood damage to you too.
Ah yes the story.
I still kind of think it's funny all the people wanting an easy mode in From games so they can experience the story. Couldn't tell you what the story of Elden ring is but can tell you about all the cool dungeons, enemies and bosses there are to fight. Very much doubt anyone cares about story their first time through.
If you were to ask me what the main villain of each From game is I'd say it was tracking overhead' with delay frames that catch you coming out of a roll.
Said I'd do my bit and throw down my summon outside Mohg's room. Summoned within 5 seconds, let's go! Take this Mohg! Wow, my Mohg's spear and bloodboone ritual are actually doing very little damage and he is walloping me when hits land…..I underestimated this fight, it's been a while. Summoner died quickly after that. I failed him.
Not sure if it was NG+ as I was doing more damage to Dragonlord Pacid. Google says he is resistant to flame but my Mohg's spear uses bloodflame which should be okay?
Gonna use this, looks handy.
https://gobluebro.github.io/Elden-Ring-Checklist/
I was the same, the main thing is bee line church Grace with the merchant near the start, then into the grace at the entrance to the castle where you get horsie and then fast travel back to church Grace to talk to Ranni who will give you bell for summoning ash. Then limgrave is your oyster. Definitely recommend guides for side quests though.
I'm using a guide to do side stuff in end game but the first 2 npc's i tried to check in on, i found them dead 😂 got their bell bearings but missed out on the whole quest.
Started a new playthrough with a Baldur's Gate twist. I was either gonna make Astarion for a sneaky playthrough or Karlach for a smash everything playthrough. Karlach sounds more fun. But when I opened the door to Limgrave I was like this…
I've completely forgotten where weapons/ashes of war/items/NPC questlines are and where to go and what to do. It'll probably come back to me.
I was thinking the same ha!
Get the new martial arts weapons skill and come back and kick Placidusax in the face a few times 😁
A new (kind of) story recap video released by Bamco
He's absolutely wrecking me! I will say, as strong as Mogh's spare is, it's soooo slow. I much prefer, hit roll block, nice and quick. Looking forward to trying some new weapons from the dlc and coming back to this fecker.
It's gas, I'm picking random graces to spawn at and just heading to points in the map that look a bit blank and coming across random mini bosses and mauling them. One funny one was the 2 erdtree sentinel on horses at the top of the stairs in atlas. I remember just legging it past them first time, now i man handled both at the same time, great feeling. Then i got killed by a pen of wolves, so typical.
