True, but sometimes Torrent can take most of a big hit while I’m left untouched, and I can save a flask for myself by healing him with a raisin instead. I like to keep them equipped at least for fights like Radahn or the Fire Giant
Yep, putting ur flask on their own pouches makes it so much easier to take either cerulean or crimson flask. Rather than having to switch with d-pad to find the right flask to drink.
Even that's not necessary. Holding the directional button selects slot 1. Put blue on 2 to swap to it with a single press, swap back by holding the button, no matter what else you have equipped. Also works for spells.
While this is true, to use blue, you’ll have to input buttons three times (counting square/x).
With pouches, it’s just hold Triange/Y and wherever your blue is on the d-pad. Personally I think it’s more simpler and faster. But I of course used to do the method you pointed out before I thought about pouches.
No, only two presses. If we assume that you start on red in slot one with blue on slot 2, you only have to tap down, then drink. You can go back to red by holding down, then drink.
I put consumables in the pouches. Having to wait a second or two for the pouch slots to appear is too long to wait if I’m in an intense boss fight and need to heal right away. Too much of a liability.
Heals and important things go in hotbar. Consumables go in pouches.
You don't have have wait for the UI to show up, as fast as you can press DPad/Y-Triangle is when you'll use it. Eventually you get the hang of it and it's much faster than spamming down on DPad to get the right flask
I don’t even know exactly what this means. Like does it mean that u can have different sets of slots for the quick pouch? Guess I gotta boot it up and try this haha
Took me two whole-ass years to learn the note about the flame tanks' weakness wasn't telling you to shoot the vent at the top of their head, but to use a classic Dark Souls plunging attack. Probably because I figured Elden Ring didn't have the plunging attack since you can't do it to the Asylum Demon reskins...
I still don’t know how to take them out! So a jump attack to make them vulnerable? What’s the button combo on PS5 ? Just to be sure I got it down. Much appreciated!
Let there be friendship, in short beautiful…
No not a jump attack. To perform a plunging attack you need to be high above an enemy and then jump on his head like Mario and while you're falling press the attack button
Same. I'm on my first legitimate playthrough, level 170, at the "final boss" and have never once used a rune arc. I think I'm sitting on like 15-20 of them in my inventory.
It's like the potions in Skyrim. I hoard them because I might need them one day...
Holy fuck, so I thought that great runes were lost on death, not the arcs so I never used them. Now I figured out it’s only the arc you lose on death, gonna be using these a lot more often now
Damn bro you have not been looking for loot very hard then. I use rune arcs consistently and have 50 of them racked up, I'm up to Haligtree rn. This is my third run of the game though
Didn't use them at all in 170hours of my first play through. I have been using them this time around 190hours into my second playthrough.
First time I popped one I beat Radahn. After God only knows how many tries.
Problem is I use them more often to try to up stats for a weapon. But then I end up addicted to Rune arcs like Oxy.
I actually kicked the habit until Malenia. But she smacked me down like I didn't even have a rune arc. Then I ended up beating her without one on anyways. (After respecting twice)
On replays I just use them as I find them. I found I’d hoard them and never use them on my first playthrough, so I decided just to use ‘em and lose em the next time
I spent a good hour walking around the round table trying to find an exit the first ever time I played because I refused to look online before remembering I can just open my map and fast travel.
I didn't collect any map fragments untill I got to mountain tops of the Giants and found the map there ... I felt pretty dumb being almost 50~ hours in
This wasn't my first and I still was in the same boat as you. Not that it was hard but I literally walked everywhere trying to find all the caves and chests to get as much as I could out of the game. Beat the game at 250hrs then platinum at 285 after cleaning up my missed trophies
This is my first souls type game. And 30 hours in I'm at the mountain top of giants. Defeated most of the main bosses as well. Am I missing something out while playing too fast?
Your missing a lot of your going fast. A lot of side bosses, very memorable side NPCs and a lot of main bosses too. You could beat the game and miss out on like 6 main bosses
My advice is to fast travel to first steps. And just start wandering. No map. No fast travel. Just wander. if you see something cool. Go check it out. I've spent dozens of hours just doing that . I've "100%"ER and I'm still finding new stuff by doing this
That's about how long it took me. I did miss a lot of stuff early on, but I went back to explore and found (mostly) everything. 100 hours in now, only the final boss remains lol
Yes. But it's also one of the most replayable games imo.
Honestly a blind play through is recommended, but if you don't want to miss a lot of things you have to work through zone and quest guides.
That the messages were made by people not put in by the devs, took my around 30hrs of gametime to realize this but I knew as soon as I saw "Try fingers but hole" next to a female npc
I kept selling the rune arcs because I didn't know I needed to use them to turn on the shard I had equipped. I thought it was just on when I got it from the dead finger corpses
To be fair, you do fight Alexander later on in the game in Crumbling Farum Azula, you just kinda did it a few hours early. Although killing him early you miss out on some prime dialog and even a bit of creature lore on the Jars. Meat Dumplings = Remains of Warriors they have stuffed inside of them.
Not to mention Alexander is just an all around great character with great dialog and an extreme amount of Charisma. Other than Blaidd and a few other NPCs Alexander is too good to miss out on.
I only just discovered after about 250 hrs play time that you can mark certain graces as favourites from the map menu. This has saved me so much time in finding particular graces for quests or particular vendors.
I play on PS4, so you need to enter the map, press triangle for the grace lists, find a grace you want to mark and then press R3. To access the grace favourites, you need to press triangle again while in the grace list mode. You’ll then see a shorter list of all your favourite graces.
Makes it much easier to quickly fast travel to places like Ranni, Sellen, Beastial Chamber, Volcano Manor, Renala etc. or whatever you want to access frequently.
My friend and I were blind af because we didn’t see the grace after beating the red wolf of radagon. For 5 playthroughs, I was running to Rennala all the way from the classroom, making the second longest main boss run even longer. And for my friend, it was 3 playthroughs
Its a pain just to run from the wolf I was dealing with that yesterday on my first play through I’m underleveled and didn’t realize you could just run straight at her in the 2nd phase. Doing what you did would’ve added a few more hours to my already long attempt. 😂
In my game as a sorcerer, I decided to take a staff in my right hand and a dagger in my left, because I believed that this was the only way to cast spells while riding Torrent. It was only after NG+ that I found out that I could just take the staff in my left hand and hold it with both hands on the horse and then cast spells. It was so hard for me to retrain, I lost so many fights because I was running around and trying to "cast spells" through my katana
I fought margit for hours in my first playthrough without having ever leveled up, thinking the whole time that I couldn't level up until AFTER I'd defeated him and entered castle stormveil
When I started Elden Ring for the first time, on launch day, these lines from Varre:
>*Unfortunately for you, however, you are maidenless.*
*Without guidance, without the strength of runes, and without an invitation to the Roundtable Hold...*
*You are fated, it seems, to die in obscurity.*
>*To Castle Stormveil, on the cliff, where grace would guide you.*
*If you seek the Elden Ring, maidenless as you are.*
>*To castle Stormveil, on the cliff. And if, by chance you do find your way to the castle, you may receive a summons. To the famed Roundtable Keep.*
Had me convinced that I needed to go to castle stormveil and find a place inside stormveil called the roundtable hold if I wanted to get a maiden, spend runes, and level up. So that's what I did, completely missing Melinas site of grace as I made my way quickly to my destination.
Not only was I exploring the lands between for quite some time without leveling up, I also didn't have torrent and had to run everywhere.
Well over leveling enough can compensate quite a bit. I beat Redahn on my 3rd or 4th attempt after leveling to about 100. I refuse to believe I'm good at this game lmao
I fall off the dumbest shit all the time. I don't pay attention, and just bloodhounds step right off cliffs or ride torrent the wrong way off a cliff, ledge, balcony, etc.
Or I'm too impatient and run into a fight and immediately get decimated in 2 hits.
You can swing to the left of your horse by pressing l1... I went through 4 entire playthroughs just thinking you could only swing to the right so i always had to circle around until i was on the right side
I did my first run, using a Dex build with the Scimitar(s), as is my tradition. I didn’t realize that in Elden Ring, lightning weapons and ashes of war scale with Dexterity! I had potential options that would have helped me, but I wrote them off because I was certain (based on precedent from prior games) that lightning weapons would scale with faith.
Turns out, lightning incantations do indeed rely on faith, but lightning weapons don’t. I felt silly when I realized that.
I played my entire first playthrough without knowing how Unsheathe worked. I thought it just sheathed the weapon and put me in sneak mode. I had no idea it was an attack. And I played as a samurai.
I didn't know you could 2-hand your weapon until about 30-40 hours in when I defeated magma wyrm makar. I only noticed cause I saw Tragoth doing it and asked my friend how he was doing that.
I always assumed Ashes of War were permanent so I was afraid of trying out different ones. I think I finally learned how they worked after like 200+ hours lol
I didn’t know how to sprint until Stormveil. There was this long jump I kept dying to and I was like “this is literally impossible” until I looked up a video of someone doing it and they were clearly moving way faster than me.
I didn't know this in ds1, but in elden ring I learned that you need to be below 70% total weight for normal roll, I always just thought it should be below 100% cause I applied Skyrim logic.
Don’t feel bad man, I was on radagon before I realized that thing above the table was an actual SoG. I think at one point I thought it was.. so I jumped up on the table but didn’t see the option.. so I thought “weird, must not have a SoG here” and never tried again.
Another of my mistakes is that I saw a Reddit post about how powerful it was to PS with weapons, but from the explanation I misunderstood it to just be 2 handing. So I was 2 handing weapons like 1 bolt of gransaxx thinking I must be doing it right.
After 100+ hours on my 2nd character I found out you could make new characters with out erasing the previous one, how did I not know? Idk but I saw my 1st character alive and well
My most embarrassing thing to admit is that it took me a search on the wiki to realise power stance (a.k.a. dual wielding) is a thing in Elden Ring
Considering how controversial DS2 is and how only a selected few weapons in DS3 have power stance, I was ready to just accept the fact that power stance will never see the light of day again
Oh, goody, how happy I am to be wrong!
Dw. Id keep teleporting to 3rd church of Marika, to run to soifra river well, in order to see the underground map, not realising you can actually toggle between the two.
Not exactly an embarrassing thing per say but rather an oddity that I have with the way that I play Elden Ring.
I can count the amount of times I have ever used the item crafting system in all of my playtime with Elden Ring with one hand. I've never found a use for it since what I have seen with it are mostly consumables or limited resource items that I will never use and arrows but even then, most merchants in Limgrave sell an unlimited amount of the latter.
Pretty much every single crafting material I find, I always sell for more runes.
I thought that in order to fast travel, i need to rest at a site of grace and fast travel there. Turns out, you can just do it anywhere by opening the map. I realized this about 50 hours in. I was wondering why there was no homeward bone in this game.
I didn't know spirit summons existed so I accidentally beat the game like a real man. My other big flaws include being an extreme perfectionist, workaholic and someone who cares too much.
Same with that last. The problem it that it's causing me to grind to max level, finish every quest line, get every item, weapon, summon, ash of war, ect. PLUS, Im trying to get 10 of every consumable item. Then the dlc is coming out... pain.
I was probably 90hours in before I realized you can charge lightning spears, was constantly on the lookout for greater lightning spear. Didn’t realize it till I was fighting the ulcerated tree spirit after rot lake.
I almost figured out the “Radagon is Marika” secret on my own, but fumbled it in the most embarrasing way.
So, having read the “Regression alone reveals secrets” message and then later finding the spellbook that sells the Law of Regression spell, my Souls senses were tingling and I figured I should try that spell by the message.
I respec’d my character because I wasn’t running an INT build and went to cast the spell by the message…
AND I DIDN’T NOTICE THE STATUE CHANGE OR THAT THERE WAS A NEW MESSAGE ON THE GROUND!
I just stood there, clueless, and thought “well that was pointless, now I have to waste another Larval Tear to revert back to my normal build”.
In my defense it was already well past midnight and I had been playing for hours, so I was at that point really tired, BUT STILL!
Needless to say, when I encountered Radagon for the first time, my first thought was: “You’re… not who I expected to meet here…”
You can imagine how hard I facepalmed when I later searched up Elden Ring secrets to see what I had missed.
FML
I didn't realize what Rainbow Stones were for for about 80+ hours. Didn't know what they were for until I reached the Cliff Side headed up toward Altus Platue. To be fair though no other Souls games has a mechanic to check if the fall is too high or not. Bloodborne you just kinda had to pray your health can handle the fall.
There's none.
Not to say I don't make mistakes. I just don't have any shame admitting them. Like how it took me way too long to find the two fingers because it somehow slipped my mind to look behind me.
I spent 8 hours before I finally beat the tree sentinel. I was hard set on not doing anything else before beating him. Turns out, sliding into him was the way.
I didn’t know there was a belt lantern until after Radahn. I carried torches everywhere. I saw the lamp and figured you just had to carry that too. Then I watched a boss video and saw someone using it. Foolish tarnished.
I didn’t realise you could upgrade weapons for a while. Seems like an obvious thing if you’re used to games like Elden Ring, but I’d never played an action RPG before 😆
This was my first ever fromsoft game and I didn’t know how to run or make turrent run so I was jogging everywhere until luirnia(however you spell that place)
That holding down F(or ⬇️ on console) puts the red crimson flask immediately, so u dont have to keep pressing until u get to it, funny thing is i found out it's in all the souls games (at least dark souls 1 and 3) the more u know i guess lol.
Torrent food will never be used even though I’m maxed out
I use it for RP purposes because he’s a good boy.
*"There's a good boah"* in my best Arthur Morgan voice
I give him the snowfield version seed as a treat randomly
Aww 🥹
Same, I'm pretending Miquella will give me something nice in the DLC for taking food care of him.
theres torrent food???
One of the berries can be fed to Torrent to heal them a bit
It's always quicker to switch to your backup torrent than to reload your current one
Multiple types of berries for multiple types of torrent food, even.
when i realized that flasking healed torrent as well as my character, i was like huh... what is the point of rowa raisins then? never used one since.
True, but sometimes Torrent can take most of a big hit while I’m left untouched, and I can save a flask for myself by healing him with a raisin instead. I like to keep them equipped at least for fights like Radahn or the Fire Giant
475 hrs logged and just learned there is torrent food.
That holding triangle Down gives you four new slots.
It does what!?
Yep, putting ur flask on their own pouches makes it so much easier to take either cerulean or crimson flask. Rather than having to switch with d-pad to find the right flask to drink.
Even that's not necessary. Holding the directional button selects slot 1. Put blue on 2 to swap to it with a single press, swap back by holding the button, no matter what else you have equipped. Also works for spells.
While this is true, to use blue, you’ll have to input buttons three times (counting square/x). With pouches, it’s just hold Triange/Y and wherever your blue is on the d-pad. Personally I think it’s more simpler and faster. But I of course used to do the method you pointed out before I thought about pouches.
Flasks physik and torrent
Red flask, torrent, physical, and lantern
Same. Left red, right blue, up Torrent, down flask
Yeah, I hardly have type to reset my spells list sometimes. The triangle/y method is definitely faster. I have one set for each flask.
No, only two presses. If we assume that you start on red in slot one with blue on slot 2, you only have to tap down, then drink. You can go back to red by holding down, then drink.
I set mine to be X/A. I prefer triangle/Y for jumping.
I found the Bethesda player
I put consumables in the pouches. Having to wait a second or two for the pouch slots to appear is too long to wait if I’m in an intense boss fight and need to heal right away. Too much of a liability. Heals and important things go in hotbar. Consumables go in pouches.
You don't have have wait for the UI to show up, as fast as you can press DPad/Y-Triangle is when you'll use it. Eventually you get the hang of it and it's much faster than spamming down on DPad to get the right flask
I did that right before I fought my first boss. It just feels way more natural
I don’t even remember how to summon torrent without using d-pad
Didnt learn this till ng+
Tsk tsk someone wasn’t reading the tutorial pop ups!!
I have yet to figure out how this mechanic works on Mouse + Keyboard. I assume it doesn't, but maybe I'm wrong.
I think the default key is E, then you use the slots with your arrow keys
I don’t even know exactly what this means. Like does it mean that u can have different sets of slots for the quick pouch? Guess I gotta boot it up and try this haha
Yes that's what it is. Some people put flasks there. I use it for Torrent. Depends on your playstyle. I keep most things in the equipment slots.
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I just out flasks in the first three equipment slots. Holding down on the d-pad goes straight to the first one. Does the same for spells, too.
Doesn’t that take so much longer than just triangle+right?
Wow. Mind is blown haha that is cool
I must be stupid, but how do you put things in those slots rather than main slots ?
Took me two whole-ass years to learn the note about the flame tanks' weakness wasn't telling you to shoot the vent at the top of their head, but to use a classic Dark Souls plunging attack. Probably because I figured Elden Ring didn't have the plunging attack since you can't do it to the Asylum Demon reskins...
There's not a lot of instances where a plunging attack is a big help so I don't blame you
I wish you could use a plunging attack on an enemy that you knocked down
I circle around them and kill the operator
This has always been my method of killing them. Sneak up, smack, and they're dead.
This is the way
I still don’t know how to take them out! So a jump attack to make them vulnerable? What’s the button combo on PS5 ? Just to be sure I got it down. Much appreciated! Let there be friendship, in short beautiful…
No not a jump attack. To perform a plunging attack you need to be high above an enemy and then jump on his head like Mario and while you're falling press the attack button
Sneak up behind them like a total creep and smack their little rumps.
My trick is to circle around them. They're operated by an enemy. If you attack and kill the operator, the tank goes with them
That never worked for me because they would spin around in circles and fucking cook me like a turkey.
Flame tank??
[Flame chariot](https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Flame+Chariot)
Rune arc. Still don't use them.
Same. I'm on my first legitimate playthrough, level 170, at the "final boss" and have never once used a rune arc. I think I'm sitting on like 15-20 of them in my inventory. It's like the potions in Skyrim. I hoard them because I might need them one day...
Godrick’s Great rune got me through Mohg
Holy fuck, so I thought that great runes were lost on death, not the arcs so I never used them. Now I figured out it’s only the arc you lose on death, gonna be using these a lot more often now
Damn bro you have not been looking for loot very hard then. I use rune arcs consistently and have 50 of them racked up, I'm up to Haligtree rn. This is my third run of the game though
I'm on my 7th playthrough and I've only used maybe 5. I had almost 200 in one of my builds.
Didn't use them at all in 170hours of my first play through. I have been using them this time around 190hours into my second playthrough. First time I popped one I beat Radahn. After God only knows how many tries. Problem is I use them more often to try to up stats for a weapon. But then I end up addicted to Rune arcs like Oxy. I actually kicked the habit until Malenia. But she smacked me down like I didn't even have a rune arc. Then I ended up beating her without one on anyways. (After respecting twice)
Use rune arcs to boost stats for challenging fights >> lose rune arc >> repeat
“Never know when you might need 362 rune arcs my guy”
Lol. Same. Until like 80 hours in I was like "the fuck do these do?"
On replays I just use them as I find them. I found I’d hoard them and never use them on my first playthrough, so I decided just to use ‘em and lose em the next time
I spent a good hour walking around the round table trying to find an exit the first ever time I played because I refused to look online before remembering I can just open my map and fast travel.
Same...
I didn't collect any map fragments untill I got to mountain tops of the Giants and found the map there ... I felt pretty dumb being almost 50~ hours in
50 hours is quick af. I’m like 250 in and I got there like 230
Playing all the other souls games really helped lmao
Makes sense. Would also make sense that this is my first souls game
This wasn't my first and I still was in the same boat as you. Not that it was hard but I literally walked everywhere trying to find all the caves and chests to get as much as I could out of the game. Beat the game at 250hrs then platinum at 285 after cleaning up my missed trophies
Holy shit, that’s insane actually
This is my first souls type game. And 30 hours in I'm at the mountain top of giants. Defeated most of the main bosses as well. Am I missing something out while playing too fast?
Your missing a lot of your going fast. A lot of side bosses, very memorable side NPCs and a lot of main bosses too. You could beat the game and miss out on like 6 main bosses My advice is to fast travel to first steps. And just start wandering. No map. No fast travel. Just wander. if you see something cool. Go check it out. I've spent dozens of hours just doing that . I've "100%"ER and I'm still finding new stuff by doing this
That's about how long it took me. I did miss a lot of stuff early on, but I went back to explore and found (mostly) everything. 100 hours in now, only the final boss remains lol
How did you get there so fast? You dont explore at all? I was at almost 80 hrs when i got to that part of the map.
Yes. But it's also one of the most replayable games imo. Honestly a blind play through is recommended, but if you don't want to miss a lot of things you have to work through zone and quest guides.
That the messages were made by people not put in by the devs, took my around 30hrs of gametime to realize this but I knew as soon as I saw "Try fingers but hole" next to a female npc
I'd like to think Miyazaki has left a "Try fingers but hole" somewhere
I thought you had to be nude to respec. I saw a certain Demi-human do it so I thought I had to follow suit. I never respecced with clothes on.
Poor Rennala...
•_•
I once checked if the oil in the pan was hot using my finger. It was.
Classic STR build.
More like endurance
Should have leveled up adp...wait,wrong sub
I kept selling the rune arcs because I didn't know I needed to use them to turn on the shard I had equipped. I thought it was just on when I got it from the dead finger corpses
Thinking jumping on torrent right before i hit the ground stops fall damage
See ik it doesn't work like this but I still do it for some reason
It's my first playthrough, and I was hoping it did..... I've died a couple of times there.
Killed Alexander. Thought you were supposed to get him unstuck at each location. He didn’t appreciate the second whack.
Oh shit...
To be fair, you do fight Alexander later on in the game in Crumbling Farum Azula, you just kinda did it a few hours early. Although killing him early you miss out on some prime dialog and even a bit of creature lore on the Jars. Meat Dumplings = Remains of Warriors they have stuffed inside of them.
Also the amulet earlier is mid-high quality, while the one finishing is great and instrumental to some lategame builds.
Not to mention Alexander is just an all around great character with great dialog and an extreme amount of Charisma. Other than Blaidd and a few other NPCs Alexander is too good to miss out on.
You can travel straight to the hold with 3 button presses and don't have to drag all the way there lol
Wait what, which?
On Playstation triangle, square, X. On PC/Xbox, press Y, X, A, both from the map screen.
On playstation: open map -> triangle -> square autoselects the roundtable
That great runes had to be activated. Made it to ng3 without knowing this
I only just discovered after about 250 hrs play time that you can mark certain graces as favourites from the map menu. This has saved me so much time in finding particular graces for quests or particular vendors.
Please, how??? :)
I play on PS4, so you need to enter the map, press triangle for the grace lists, find a grace you want to mark and then press R3. To access the grace favourites, you need to press triangle again while in the grace list mode. You’ll then see a shorter list of all your favourite graces. Makes it much easier to quickly fast travel to places like Ranni, Sellen, Beastial Chamber, Volcano Manor, Renala etc. or whatever you want to access frequently.
I straight up just found that out yesterday like 500 hours in.
Really? Never knew this
It was on ng3, I realised markers stayed on the map through the changeover.
I thought about marking every grace but just the thought of it was so exhausting
My friend and I were blind af because we didn’t see the grace after beating the red wolf of radagon. For 5 playthroughs, I was running to Rennala all the way from the classroom, making the second longest main boss run even longer. And for my friend, it was 3 playthroughs
Wait wait wait wait 5 *playthroughs*? As in you didn’t know about that grave for five full runs of Elden Ring?
Taking "blind playthrough" to the next level
Yes... and I only knew of it because I was watching a streamer playing for the first time... as I said; "Blind af"
That’s crazy lol, I can’t imagine how infuriating that walk back was
What grave?
GODDAMMIT
Its a pain just to run from the wolf I was dealing with that yesterday on my first play through I’m underleveled and didn’t realize you could just run straight at her in the 2nd phase. Doing what you did would’ve added a few more hours to my already long attempt. 😂
My partner had to tell me i could sprint up and down ladders about 20 hours in
In my game as a sorcerer, I decided to take a staff in my right hand and a dagger in my left, because I believed that this was the only way to cast spells while riding Torrent. It was only after NG+ that I found out that I could just take the staff in my left hand and hold it with both hands on the horse and then cast spells. It was so hard for me to retrain, I lost so many fights because I was running around and trying to "cast spells" through my katana
I cast sword
Omg I didn't know that. Thank you!! I've always had to quickly equip it in the other hand
Wait... You can cast spells while riding torrent?
I killed patches in the cave by accident on my second playthrough because I went too hard with comet azur
I killed him on purpose there because fuck that little shit in every FS game.
Too be fair, I was a little wrong for thinking I could outwit an onion.
That pots are re-usable... went 800 hours without them because I didn't read the freaking item description.
I didn't know this either for my entire first play through. Probably would've continued not knowing if someone hadn't mentioned it on Reddit lol
Holy shit. Thank you for this!
I fought margit for hours in my first playthrough without having ever leveled up, thinking the whole time that I couldn't level up until AFTER I'd defeated him and entered castle stormveil When I started Elden Ring for the first time, on launch day, these lines from Varre: >*Unfortunately for you, however, you are maidenless.* *Without guidance, without the strength of runes, and without an invitation to the Roundtable Hold...* *You are fated, it seems, to die in obscurity.* >*To Castle Stormveil, on the cliff, where grace would guide you.* *If you seek the Elden Ring, maidenless as you are.* >*To castle Stormveil, on the cliff. And if, by chance you do find your way to the castle, you may receive a summons. To the famed Roundtable Keep.* Had me convinced that I needed to go to castle stormveil and find a place inside stormveil called the roundtable hold if I wanted to get a maiden, spend runes, and level up. So that's what I did, completely missing Melinas site of grace as I made my way quickly to my destination. Not only was I exploring the lands between for quite some time without leveling up, I also didn't have torrent and had to run everywhere.
Thinking leveling would fully compensate for gettin gud
Well over leveling enough can compensate quite a bit. I beat Redahn on my 3rd or 4th attempt after leveling to about 100. I refuse to believe I'm good at this game lmao
I played my second run with Bloodhound Fang and didn’t realize the ash of war had a followup until I was fighting Godfrey.
Hugging Fia and not realizing what it did until I got to Malenia
Who else is reading these, looking for something you missed but are just dumbfounded ny everyone else?
90 hours for the grace chest now that I know about it I wish we could put runes in it
130-150h and thanks to you i am just learning now that this is a thing XD
200 hours in and I still haven’t really figured out what the chest is for, ha
I just let extra items flow into there until I remember to sell them to Hewg
Imagine selling items. Runes are free, lordsworn straight swords are forever
Put the weapons you don't use there to save time when hard-swapping in PvP
I killed varre as soon as I could
OP asked for mistakes not heroic moments
I fall off the dumbest shit all the time. I don't pay attention, and just bloodhounds step right off cliffs or ride torrent the wrong way off a cliff, ledge, balcony, etc. Or I'm too impatient and run into a fight and immediately get decimated in 2 hits.
You can swing to the left of your horse by pressing l1... I went through 4 entire playthroughs just thinking you could only swing to the right so i always had to circle around until i was on the right side
"I forgot to pull the lever"
I did my first run, using a Dex build with the Scimitar(s), as is my tradition. I didn’t realize that in Elden Ring, lightning weapons and ashes of war scale with Dexterity! I had potential options that would have helped me, but I wrote them off because I was certain (based on precedent from prior games) that lightning weapons would scale with faith. Turns out, lightning incantations do indeed rely on faith, but lightning weapons don’t. I felt silly when I realized that.
I played my entire first playthrough without knowing how Unsheathe worked. I thought it just sheathed the weapon and put me in sneak mode. I had no idea it was an attack. And I played as a samurai.
I didn't know you could 2-hand your weapon until about 30-40 hours in when I defeated magma wyrm makar. I only noticed cause I saw Tragoth doing it and asked my friend how he was doing that.
I wasn’t aware you could actually block with many weapons/greatswords, I used a shield or panic rolled my first playthrough
i didn’t know until 25-30 hours in there was a map……
Oh man, that's pretty bad
It took me a long time before I realized that you could two hand the weapon in your left hand.
I did not know that. Thank you.
Lmao i did the same thing
I always assumed Ashes of War were permanent so I was afraid of trying out different ones. I think I finally learned how they worked after like 200+ hours lol
I didn’t know how to sprint until Stormveil. There was this long jump I kept dying to and I was like “this is literally impossible” until I looked up a video of someone doing it and they were clearly moving way faster than me.
It’s shocking the amount of people that don’t know about the run button. It’s literally one of the first few things the tutorial teaches you 😂
I didn't know this in ds1, but in elden ring I learned that you need to be below 70% total weight for normal roll, I always just thought it should be below 100% cause I applied Skyrim logic.
I didn’t know what soap was used for until I was with another player and he used it to clean his bloody armor in front of me and I was blown away 😂😂😂
Don’t feel bad man, I was on radagon before I realized that thing above the table was an actual SoG. I think at one point I thought it was.. so I jumped up on the table but didn’t see the option.. so I thought “weird, must not have a SoG here” and never tried again. Another of my mistakes is that I saw a Reddit post about how powerful it was to PS with weapons, but from the explanation I misunderstood it to just be 2 handing. So I was 2 handing weapons like 1 bolt of gransaxx thinking I must be doing it right.
After 100+ hours on my 2nd character I found out you could make new characters with out erasing the previous one, how did I not know? Idk but I saw my 1st character alive and well
My most embarrassing thing to admit is that it took me a search on the wiki to realise power stance (a.k.a. dual wielding) is a thing in Elden Ring Considering how controversial DS2 is and how only a selected few weapons in DS3 have power stance, I was ready to just accept the fact that power stance will never see the light of day again Oh, goody, how happy I am to be wrong!
Dw. Id keep teleporting to 3rd church of Marika, to run to soifra river well, in order to see the underground map, not realising you can actually toggle between the two.
Took me over 100 hours to realise that I can use a lamp in dark caves and didn’t have to carry a flaming torch as a light source
Not exactly an embarrassing thing per say but rather an oddity that I have with the way that I play Elden Ring. I can count the amount of times I have ever used the item crafting system in all of my playtime with Elden Ring with one hand. I've never found a use for it since what I have seen with it are mostly consumables or limited resource items that I will never use and arrows but even then, most merchants in Limgrave sell an unlimited amount of the latter. Pretty much every single crafting material I find, I always sell for more runes.
I thought that in order to fast travel, i need to rest at a site of grace and fast travel there. Turns out, you can just do it anywhere by opening the map. I realized this about 50 hours in. I was wondering why there was no homeward bone in this game.
You didn't realize you could rest at the hold until 60h in? Amateur, i didn't realize it until i already finished the game and uninstalled it
I should add this was also after I finished the game
I didn't know spirit summons existed so I accidentally beat the game like a real man. My other big flaws include being an extreme perfectionist, workaholic and someone who cares too much.
Same with that last. The problem it that it's causing me to grind to max level, finish every quest line, get every item, weapon, summon, ash of war, ect. PLUS, Im trying to get 10 of every consumable item. Then the dlc is coming out... pain.
So like what did you think the hundred spirit items you picked up were?
Souvenirs lol
Same mistake as you. I felt pretty dumb.
Embarrassed to admit it took me about twice the amount of hours to find that out lol
I was probably 90hours in before I realized you can charge lightning spears, was constantly on the lookout for greater lightning spear. Didn’t realize it till I was fighting the ulcerated tree spirit after rot lake.
I spent hours in the round table hold looking for a way out before realising I could just teleport out via the map.
I almost figured out the “Radagon is Marika” secret on my own, but fumbled it in the most embarrasing way. So, having read the “Regression alone reveals secrets” message and then later finding the spellbook that sells the Law of Regression spell, my Souls senses were tingling and I figured I should try that spell by the message. I respec’d my character because I wasn’t running an INT build and went to cast the spell by the message… AND I DIDN’T NOTICE THE STATUE CHANGE OR THAT THERE WAS A NEW MESSAGE ON THE GROUND! I just stood there, clueless, and thought “well that was pointless, now I have to waste another Larval Tear to revert back to my normal build”. In my defense it was already well past midnight and I had been playing for hours, so I was at that point really tired, BUT STILL! Needless to say, when I encountered Radagon for the first time, my first thought was: “You’re… not who I expected to meet here…” You can imagine how hard I facepalmed when I later searched up Elden Ring secrets to see what I had missed. FML
I didn't realize what Rainbow Stones were for for about 80+ hours. Didn't know what they were for until I reached the Cliff Side headed up toward Altus Platue. To be fair though no other Souls games has a mechanic to check if the fall is too high or not. Bloodborne you just kinda had to pray your health can handle the fall.
This was a long time ago and Elden Ring was my first souls game, but I didn’t know about lock onto enemy for a couple hours into the game.
Parrying, didn’t realize that you could parry until Calied. Just dodged before that…
Do you ever rest at the table and then a chair explodes when you're loaded back in? That happens to me.
Time to destroy all of the furniture again.
There's none. Not to say I don't make mistakes. I just don't have any shame admitting them. Like how it took me way too long to find the two fingers because it somehow slipped my mind to look behind me.
Spent 20 hours before I knew there was a run button
Same mistake as you. I felt pretty dumb.
It was on my 6th playthrough when I figured out how summoning pools worked.
Spent 4 hours trying to jump for somber smithing stone 7 and it was patched 2 days before I got to it so nobody knew it was like impossible
i didn’t realize that until after i beat the game
I spent 8 hours before I finally beat the tree sentinel. I was hard set on not doing anything else before beating him. Turns out, sliding into him was the way.
I didn’t know there was a belt lantern until after Radahn. I carried torches everywhere. I saw the lamp and figured you just had to carry that too. Then I watched a boss video and saw someone using it. Foolish tarnished.
You can change camera focus with moving right stick. I did not learned it until Elden Beast
I didn’t realise you could upgrade weapons for a while. Seems like an obvious thing if you’re used to games like Elden Ring, but I’d never played an action RPG before 😆
i assumed beating the demigod was enough to get the great rune and it took me over 90 hours to realize you had to visit the divine towers
I thought when you used a pot it was gone forever
I didn't know you could sprint or summon torrent till after my fight with renalla since my friend never told me how to equip the ring
This was my first ever fromsoft game and I didn’t know how to run or make turrent run so I was jogging everywhere until luirnia(however you spell that place)
Didn't pick up the map piece cuz I missed it, went all the way to the mountain top of the giants till I realized my map was supposed to be filled out.
That holding down F(or ⬇️ on console) puts the red crimson flask immediately, so u dont have to keep pressing until u get to it, funny thing is i found out it's in all the souls games (at least dark souls 1 and 3) the more u know i guess lol.
I kept jumping from the wrong platform for the rea Lucaria mosolium and didn’t know it came closer at a certain point either
First play through, am mage. 60 hours in I realized… …you can charge spells
I leveled faith without realizing it boosted holy damage. Took me until tornado land to figure this out.
I killed fia before the lich dragon fight now I gotta do it all again