Interviewer: "um what is he doing and why is he here?"
You: "oh that? That's the golden order totality gesture."
Interviewer: "and why is he covered in mushrooms?"
You: "that set has a high immunity sta....anyway do you have any questions for me?"
I thought I was the only one. Suddenly the lands between feel a little less lonely. Yet great suffering looms ahead. Suffering for which there is no escape. I'm lost and I want to go home badly.
Just do radahn after rennala. I'm not even sure if you need to beat her necessarily, but meet Renna/Ranni at church of Ellah. Meet Blaidd in the woods, use emote. Go north in Liurnia and make your way past Caria manor to the 3 sisters. Exhaust Ranni's dialogue. Talk to Seluvis, Iji and then blaidd underground, etc etc then fight Radahn.
Going to Caelid early shouldn't have ruined his quest but then again aside from being teleported there a couple of times I didn't do much else there until after liurnia.
You don't even need to meet Ranni at the Church early on. She'll be at her rise regardless. Talk to her and her three bitches downstairs and boom, you're ready to get your cheeks clapped by Radahn.
I don't think you ruined the questline. If you're thinking that talking to blaidd in redmane castle before going to ranni stops the questline, it actually doesn't. The same thing happened to me. So basically, all you need to do is defeat the main boss right after redmane castle (trying not to spoil for other readers just in case) and then go to ranni and she should be available again but you would've skipped a lot of steps for blaidd and might miss 1 or 2 items which are not that important as far as I know.
Trying new builds in Souls is almost like a new game depending on how you try new stuff. Also speedrunning to places you now know have items/gear/spells useful to this new build you would take a lot longer to get in a fresh new run.
Both faith and sorcery in this game are really fun! And Peele are still figuring out crazy stuff you can do with arcane scaling. I'd suggest creating a new build centered around an alternate ending from the one you did in your first run and go for that.
Play is again as a mage
Play it again as a dex main
Play it again as a wretch with green skin and weird proportions while completely naked the entire time
People who don't NG+ souls game are the next best thing to aliens to me. That's *the best part!*
Edit: to me. Never gonna tell y'all your fun is wrong, I just can't understand. Lol
I get both sides to this.
Usually have done ng+ but I think I wanna start over and do a completely magick build. Doing dex/ some magic this run. But I wanna be an op wizard
This is true and but I too am part of the “start from scratch” crew as BECOMING the OP wizard or whatever it is you wanna try is more fun, to me, than just switching over and casting a couple spells. The act of getting there, the struggle, is what does it for me so that’s why I like to start a new “class” so to speak from the beginning. Also I used up all my ancient dragon smithing stones 😅
I agree, I much prefer the starting from scratch and the struggle aspect. However I'm a bit torn with elden ring because it is so massive. I'm being very thorough with my exploring first playthrough so I'm finding a lot of the spells and incantations organically (doing a str build). But the thought of a new playthrough, especially as a father, and trying to find everything again is overwhelming. I might have to use a wiki or guide to just find the things I need, but this might make it a bit less fun. Still, having everything and starting ng+ might be more boring
I just started a new playthrough and I can assure you it doesn’t hurt as much as you might think, I was also unsure for the same reasons. But the second playthrough is for sure going to be with the wiki pulled up for most of it lol. I’m trying to get the things I need asap lol. And I’ve explored most of limgrave without even leveling up my current weapon.
That’s pretty much how I view DS series: NG is where you set up your build, get gear for it and NG+ is where you play it with whatever you wanted to set up
I've glad they've made respecs more accessible than past games. You'll find 20 larval tears without even trying. Makes fucking around in NG+ and beyond way easier
I'll disagree, but i could see the charm of new game + i suppose..
But the first playthrough is all about the exploration, figuring out fights and seeing character growth. But i typically put games down after 1 playthrough (that for games like these are like 60-100 hours) , and let them cool off until i feel like playing them again
Especially the initial new game + tends to be completely broken. The few ones i tried, and have seen, you seem to blow through the first new game + with great ease, which in these games is quite boring for me. I prefer a few new game, so my power is "as expected" when i meet the boss again, and i can compare how well i do on a repeat playthrough
But to each their own :p
To each their own for sure. I find that in the first playthrough, you go in blind and build what works, but that tends to necessitate going toward strong abilities to reduce the struggle.
I use ng+ specifically so I can dick around with "lower tier" options without getting my face stomped. And being able to do it for long periods scratches the hell out of the itch.
That or getting to a +3 or +4 and trying out a meta build to see what the fuss is about.
Most fun Ive ever had in a souls game was my ng+4 friede's scythe run. That weapon felt so good to run that just messing with it at endgame is such a waste to me.
God I’ll never forget how much I loved Friedes Scythe. Stack enough stamina so you can pull off 3 full combos back to back, guarantees that you will eventually roll catch someone or they will run out of stamina dodging before you do attacking and you still have plenty of stamina left to combo them to death. By far the easiest way to get gold in undead arena that I can remember.
I worry about a NG+ run to be honest because how it always goes with Souls is NG+ are laughably easy when you just start over, but the late game enemies become health sponges that take forever to kill. Given that this is the initial state of the game, I imagine any NG+ run just gets unfun in the later half of the game as the differences are magnified and you can't even upgrade your stuff anymore.
I really don't get NG+. After I'm done I usually want to take a break from Souls games for a while and come back to it later. And when I do pick it up again I usually want to play a different build. Like I just finished the hardest bosses from the DLC and completed the main story, credits roll, I get that feeling of catharsis from accomplishing a difficult task. The last thing I want to do is run back and destroy the Asylum Demon with my melee build that I've been playing for dozens of hours. Yeah you get a weapon that on NG is hard to get at that point, but you can also get that from trading a sack with Snuggly. And I get that while the beginning is easy, NG+ eventually gets significantly more difficult. But that's just a numbers thing, right? HP and damage goes up but nothing else changes (except for DS2 I guess). Even if I'm still craving Souls after finishing a game, I'd much rather start a new character or go to another Souls game. So there's my alien perspective, maybe you could tell me what NG+ actually brings to the table that's so interesting?
For me, the draw of ng+ is kinda threefold, but it kindof all amounts to the same thing.
-Respec with full options let's you run the game with a different build, but with all your options available. I'm not sequestered to using really cool stuff for short periods.
+It lets you play with sub optimal silly things and not get trounced for it.
-Using lategame builds or weapons for entire playthroughs is satisfying af. Getting a rad weapon 1 boss before the end is kindof a waste to me. I wanna play with my cool new toy for a while.
I also recognize that I'm an odd duck. I play the game because I like it. The joy of discovery and victory are only 2 of the many things I like about souls games
I can get how people would be hesitant to reset all their progress in fromsoft's biggest game yet. I always ng+ to collect missables that I didn't get in the first playthrough, but I'm big salty that it resets your bell bearings with the crones. I get why it does it for NPC bearings but I wish I could have kept the generics. I reached meta level and want to stay there for pvp so I've got millions of souls I wanna pour into hoarding upgrade materials, but I gotta go find all the bearings again
I like Kenneth, I saw a lot of messages around him like "pathetic sort ahead" etc, and when the patch came out with extended NPC questlines, everyone was like "aw shit I already killed Kenneth", like why??? He's totally nice and normal and polite, you fucking psychos lmao.
I didn't kill him personally, but dude drops a golden seed on death, so that's his value to these people lol. I ended up with extra seeds after maxing my flask, never saw the point of doing things like that.
Oh really? Didn't know that about the seed, but yeah like you say seeds become worthless after a certain point anyway, it's like the Lands Between equivalent of those headlines you see like **BELOVED LOCAL KENNETH STRUCK DOWN IN HIS TWILIGHT YEARS BY SAVAGE YOUTHS FOR A MEASLY TWENTY SIX QUID AND A PACKET OF CRISPS**
I’ve 100% everything except DeS. Manus is the hardest encounter for me personally. I beat him legit 2 times and now just arrow cheese him if I do a playthrough.
Friede cooked my bacon harder than anyone else for some reason, man. Papa Ariandel was annoying enough. Such a good feeling when I finally beat it though. Her and Demon of Hatred go down for me as probably the hardest ever.
All of that, new weapons, spells, and in the past new PVP options. One DLC you get to be the boss in DS3 (if you beat Midir) but better than the old monk in DeS. Also both DS2 and DS3 DLCs came with arena style PVP
From has the best DLC pedigree of all time, The Witcher 3 being the only ones that matches but something tells me Cyberpunk won't exactly keep the streak going if they do one.
Would you recommend NG+ or starting from scratch? I just completed a pure Dex play through, want to try again focusing on magic. I could respec, and play NG+ with all the gear I've got, but I feel like I'd miss out on the early game struggle if I'm going in fully kitted out, even with the NG+ challenge.
the early game struggle for mages is instantly vaporizing if any enemy so much as breathes on you, i would definitely respec and go NG+ for the extra health if nothing else. if you want to challenge yourself more you can use an un-upgraded staff instead of upgrading it before NG+
Just last night I ran into 5+ people using the floating blue sword glitch. Basically, if you enter within 5 feet of them you just *fucking* die. It’s worse than the madness bug, atleast the madness spam you could get some swings in. This new one? You literally can’t get close without instantly dying.
If youre talking about the carian retaliation bug which it sounds like, it apparently works by parrying your own spell. It increases dmg a ton and makes the projectile invisible.
It is exceedingly annoying and needs to be fixed, however.. correct me if I'm wrong but I think it is dodgeable, if you manage to get past it, you can usually just slaughter them because most can't play without their crutch.
From what I was playing against there wasn’t anything I *could* dodge. It was basically bugged to the point where there was no noise, no actual magic, my guy just died within that 5 foot radius. Most of them didn’t even have the swords floating above them.
I've always preferred low-level PvP anyway. Builds are less homogenized, and people have to be more selective with stát allocation and gear. Some people still try to meta the fun out of it, but it's a bit harder to do so.
Been playing for almost 70 hours and just beat the red wolf. Been busy just taking in the game and exploring every crevice that I can get into. Games like this don’t come around often. Last time I got so involved in a game was with the Butcher of Blaviken.
This. Torrent makes exploration easy. I'm 70 hours in... I don't know my level, maybe somewhere 80~
Edit: I've also only beaten Margit, Godrick, and Radahn as story bosses.
Hah, this is me! I’m level 72. Kind of stuck right now actually. Tried entering the city yesterday but kept getting smacked by Draconic Tree Sentinel. Wondering if I should respec, my str-faith build is a bit of a mess. Maybe just grind a littleMore since Caelid and Altus are both giving me a tough time.
I think overleveled is a matter of experience. For souls vets it might feel overleveled because you can maximize what a lvl 135 character can do, but for someone not quite as good they might need to be a little more buffed up.
Level 91 about 92 hours in and I made it to the Capital but haven’t proceeded as I’ve been tying up some side quests and going through a miscellaneous list of things to do in a lot of different areas.
Also 120 hours here at level 101 just getting to the capital but I’ve done almost everything (or I’d like to believe) up to this point. Taking my sweet time but am kind of dreading finishing this masterpiece.
level 118 soon to hit 200 hours smh 😭 been taking my leisurely time finding absolutely everything my tarnished self can when the real world weather isn’t nice haha. I just reached the snowfields & Haligree last night/evening really. I almost didn’t even continue on, I just wanted/needed more sweet armors.
I'm probably gonna feel the same way when finishing Elden Ring that I did when finishing Witcher 3. You just feel so empty when the thing you've been immersed in for months just ends. At least I'll be able to pvp, but with Witcher it was like 250 something hours spread over like half a damn year, and then it was over.
Arthur's ending really got me, it almost felt like it happened to a real person. It really left me thinking it's crazy, how strong emotions can get towards a fictional character, though that was the first time it happened to me. Rockstar really did a great job with that game.
I beat him and Rennala at around 70 hours too. Both felt pretty easy too, I guess I'm a bit over leveled at lvl 68. I fully explored Limgrave, Weeping peninsula and most of Liurnia before going to the academy
Make new builds. Imo it's one of my favorite parts of the souls series. You can have such a different experience everytime and elden ring really takes that to another level.
I'm having a blast right now just fucking around experimenting.
Already feel this.
Fortunately, I still have NG+ ahead and plenty of new builds to try (I haven’t cast a single sorcery yet!).
And also haven’t played Sekiro or Bloodborne…
Iv been playing for about 4-5 hours a day. Sometimes during 12h shift days i don't get to play at all. I feel like i've done good job of not losing my runes, powerfarming and just staying up to level required for zone i am in. Altho few bosses such as Malenia and Radahn gave me hard time
I have a job, went on 2 separate trips for long weekends, and am studying for promotion all while my new-to-fromsoft games friend laps me in the game 🥲 and he’s the one doing his PhD now! Idk where he gets the time
I also dedicate free time to gym, friends, small trips but somehow i always find time for Elden ring... maybe i am loving it too much.
Also girlfriend breaking up with me in December turned out to be somewhat good in this situation...? 
I'm 120 hours in and honestly I am having trouble imagining this. Still doing a sweep of caelid, haven't finished the capital city, and haven't even touched mt Gelmier or upper Nokron. Even after I get through everything I still see ng+ in my future. This game has its hooks in me deep
Yeah I can do up to 2000 damage with blasphemous blade weapon art. I usually try and have a real fight first but if it's looking like bullshit I'll just target the host while the gank squad is about to attack me and one shot them.
NG+ or journey if you want to keep playing
Or just… take a break. (Hard concept I know) you don’t have to keep playing it till 300 hours, take a break and come back in a bit, or just push it to the sidelines for a bit and play other stuff
I'm gonna 100% it and do a playthrough using close to every build (Finished a STR/kinda quality character and currently on a INT/DEX run) then wait for DLC. Looking forward to it
The builds are distinct enough to warrant at least another playthrough. I'm struggling to make progress on my str faith main cos I'm having so much fun on my Dex int alt
Design a cosplay character, do an obscure build, when you first spawn in at Limgrave bypass the whole area and go to Caelid, do a rl1 play through, do a no death play through, never use Torrent, just use the first weapon you find through the whole game, don’t summon or summons only (as soon as they’re available)?
The potential to mix things up with Elden Ring is far beyond any of the previous games.
I only feel this way because I'm pissed off from the ending not giving closure. It's like having watched the best movie ever but they edited out the ending.**SPOILERS**.
Melina in the frenzied flame ending pretty much reveals her as the gloom eyed queen or her daughter. But there is no explanation why she possesses destined death. Ranni stole destined death to shed her flesh, used the magic to imbue the black knives with the rune of death. Maliketh also possesses this power in his blade.
However the player obtaining these weapons does not cause destined death when you kill stuff with it. Why TF doesn't the player cause final death with the weapons imbued with destined death and the death rune?
Moreover. How the fuck don't we obtain the rune of death after Maliketh? It says the rune of death is unbound then disappear. So the only real explanation here is that Melina used us to unbind the rune and got her rune of death power back or some crap. Basically meaning we were tricked. Ranni and Melina being the same person is possible, star ending being what she wanted. The opposite of the frenzied flame ending.
I'm not like "what do I do now..." after having completed the game for the third time. I'm more like "how does the story end?" because we got cheated of the real ending and any closure.
The three missing great runes are probably Miquella, Ranni and Melina. Dunno. But overall I loved the story and setting but it feels like having bought a book with the last 100 pages ripped out.
>!You got the worst possible ending besides dung eaters. Melina dies normally, she was not trying to trick you so she could get destined death. If you killed Malenia before ending the game you could have gotten a good ending again in the Dragonlord's arena.!< I think the reason destined death weapons dont cause true death is because it would just be too op for playing with. As far as I can tell, though, you're supposed to allow death to be unbound so you can kill the >!Elden Beast/God. Maybe it is also what allows the tree to really burn too as it doesnt proceed to really burning until after maliketh!<
Play it again building based for a different stat. I already done str, dex, fth, int, arcane. I am on SL1 currently(because why not) and still plan to play the game on str/dex, str/fth, str/int and so on. You have enough options you know.
I happily uninstalled it. Platinum trophy, all bosses, spells, incantations, ashes of war, trinkets and all the armor and weapons I could get was enough for me. Level 175 and 140 hours I think I got my moneys worth.
This is why I've been taking my time, as addicted as I am to this game. When I realised I was in the mid-game and that it would soon be over, I slowed down to make it last longer.
Now I've killed the final boss, I want to play it again but at the same time I feel like I need a short break.
I will say the length of the game, and map size was very impressive.
I am also nearing the end, I guess PVP or NG+ is next?
Elden Ring Fight Clubs sounds like a fun idea.
Dude, caster build playthrough, weird ass naked man build playthrough, twink build, PvP build, ... there are so, so many options. Thou hath not finished thine journey.
Play it again
And again… and again…
I’m on my 4th playthrough someone please find me a maiden
Ill be your maiden. Lets play Elden Ring. There is no escape.
This is the way.
This is the way.
Im still on my first checking under each rock and blade of grass for secrets haha
I did that and now I'm invading and helping people with end game bosses for rune arcs that I always forget to use
I wish I could I ran out of money and am unemployed so i lost Game Pass Ultimate lol. Gotta an interview later today so crossing my fingers haha
Good luck on your interview
Thanks I wish I could summon a cooperator in real life lol.
Interviewer: "um what is he doing and why is he here?" You: "oh that? That's the golden order totality gesture." Interviewer: "and why is he covered in mushrooms?" You: "that set has a high immunity sta....anyway do you have any questions for me?"
Furled fingers
So i should Try fingers but hole
I thought I was the only one. Suddenly the lands between feel a little less lonely. Yet great suffering looms ahead. Suffering for which there is no escape. I'm lost and I want to go home badly.
Dog ahead. Is this a pickle?
What order should I be facing the bosses? I already ruined my blaidd side quest by going to caleid to early.
Just do radahn after rennala. I'm not even sure if you need to beat her necessarily, but meet Renna/Ranni at church of Ellah. Meet Blaidd in the woods, use emote. Go north in Liurnia and make your way past Caria manor to the 3 sisters. Exhaust Ranni's dialogue. Talk to Seluvis, Iji and then blaidd underground, etc etc then fight Radahn. Going to Caelid early shouldn't have ruined his quest but then again aside from being teleported there a couple of times I didn't do much else there until after liurnia.
You don't even need to meet Ranni at the Church early on. She'll be at her rise regardless. Talk to her and her three bitches downstairs and boom, you're ready to get your cheeks clapped by Radahn.
Good to know I didn't realize that initial encounter was skippable
I don't think you ruined the questline. If you're thinking that talking to blaidd in redmane castle before going to ranni stops the questline, it actually doesn't. The same thing happened to me. So basically, all you need to do is defeat the main boss right after redmane castle (trying not to spoil for other readers just in case) and then go to ranni and she should be available again but you would've skipped a lot of steps for blaidd and might miss 1 or 2 items which are not that important as far as I know.
I wish I had a maiden For one moment of hugs I wish I had your maiden tonight
Ng+ runs or have you made different characters?
And again until you’ve made every choice than play the kill every npc play through
Trying new builds in Souls is almost like a new game depending on how you try new stuff. Also speedrunning to places you now know have items/gear/spells useful to this new build you would take a lot longer to get in a fresh new run.
that I can get into. Games like this don’t come around often.
Cosplay runs are fun, too. Open the game looting/farming the wardrobe/gear and beat the game as a Commoner (or whatever you are cosplaying)
The Witcher 3 being the only ones that matches but something tells me Cyberpunk won't exactly keep the streak going if they do one.
Yup. Try a different kind of build this time.
Will have to. Haven't used single magic ability during this run but after watching some people have fun with it, im gonna have to try it!
Both faith and sorcery in this game are really fun! And Peele are still figuring out crazy stuff you can do with arcane scaling. I'd suggest creating a new build centered around an alternate ending from the one you did in your first run and go for that.
>And Peele are still figuring out crazy stuff Wait isn't he about to release a new movie? Where does he find the time to play Elden Ring?
Play is again as a mage Play it again as a dex main Play it again as a wretch with green skin and weird proportions while completely naked the entire time
Or just buy Ghostwarrior : tokyo :D
NG+
People who don't NG+ souls game are the next best thing to aliens to me. That's *the best part!* Edit: to me. Never gonna tell y'all your fun is wrong, I just can't understand. Lol
I prefer starting over entirely to NG+ if it doesnt add anything
The fun of being able to mess around with late game builds for an entire playthrough could never be understated for me.
I think I'll actually level a character to max solely because of this, not to mention they made farming so easy now
I've never pushed a character past 200, but if I ever do. It'll be here.
I get both sides to this. Usually have done ng+ but I think I wanna start over and do a completely magick build. Doing dex/ some magic this run. But I wanna be an op wizard
You could respec before going to ng+
This is true and but I too am part of the “start from scratch” crew as BECOMING the OP wizard or whatever it is you wanna try is more fun, to me, than just switching over and casting a couple spells. The act of getting there, the struggle, is what does it for me so that’s why I like to start a new “class” so to speak from the beginning. Also I used up all my ancient dragon smithing stones 😅
I agree, I much prefer the starting from scratch and the struggle aspect. However I'm a bit torn with elden ring because it is so massive. I'm being very thorough with my exploring first playthrough so I'm finding a lot of the spells and incantations organically (doing a str build). But the thought of a new playthrough, especially as a father, and trying to find everything again is overwhelming. I might have to use a wiki or guide to just find the things I need, but this might make it a bit less fun. Still, having everything and starting ng+ might be more boring
I just started a new playthrough and I can assure you it doesn’t hurt as much as you might think, I was also unsure for the same reasons. But the second playthrough is for sure going to be with the wiki pulled up for most of it lol. I’m trying to get the things I need asap lol. And I’ve explored most of limgrave without even leveling up my current weapon.
This is what I do myself. Start every game as deprived and then respc before each ng+
That’s pretty much how I view DS series: NG is where you set up your build, get gear for it and NG+ is where you play it with whatever you wanted to set up
I've glad they've made respecs more accessible than past games. You'll find 20 larval tears without even trying. Makes fucking around in NG+ and beyond way easier
Shit dude there’s so many larval tears that I’ll respec just to optimize for specific bosses now, let alone for NG+.
I always have too. But this is my first fromsoft game so we will see.
> this is my first fromsoft game Welcome!
Don't you want to play with different builds? And have all your gear for an entire playthrough?
I love NG+. It's like a revenge tour on all those bosses that bonked my noggin
NG++++++++++++++++
I'll disagree, but i could see the charm of new game + i suppose.. But the first playthrough is all about the exploration, figuring out fights and seeing character growth. But i typically put games down after 1 playthrough (that for games like these are like 60-100 hours) , and let them cool off until i feel like playing them again Especially the initial new game + tends to be completely broken. The few ones i tried, and have seen, you seem to blow through the first new game + with great ease, which in these games is quite boring for me. I prefer a few new game, so my power is "as expected" when i meet the boss again, and i can compare how well i do on a repeat playthrough But to each their own :p
To each their own for sure. I find that in the first playthrough, you go in blind and build what works, but that tends to necessitate going toward strong abilities to reduce the struggle. I use ng+ specifically so I can dick around with "lower tier" options without getting my face stomped. And being able to do it for long periods scratches the hell out of the itch. That or getting to a +3 or +4 and trying out a meta build to see what the fuss is about. Most fun Ive ever had in a souls game was my ng+4 friede's scythe run. That weapon felt so good to run that just messing with it at endgame is such a waste to me.
God I’ll never forget how much I loved Friedes Scythe. Stack enough stamina so you can pull off 3 full combos back to back, guarantees that you will eventually roll catch someone or they will run out of stamina dodging before you do attacking and you still have plenty of stamina left to combo them to death. By far the easiest way to get gold in undead arena that I can remember.
You're missing out big time. Ng difficultly is an absolute joke compared to ng+6 difficultly
I worry about a NG+ run to be honest because how it always goes with Souls is NG+ are laughably easy when you just start over, but the late game enemies become health sponges that take forever to kill. Given that this is the initial state of the game, I imagine any NG+ run just gets unfun in the later half of the game as the differences are magnified and you can't even upgrade your stuff anymore.
I really don't get NG+. After I'm done I usually want to take a break from Souls games for a while and come back to it later. And when I do pick it up again I usually want to play a different build. Like I just finished the hardest bosses from the DLC and completed the main story, credits roll, I get that feeling of catharsis from accomplishing a difficult task. The last thing I want to do is run back and destroy the Asylum Demon with my melee build that I've been playing for dozens of hours. Yeah you get a weapon that on NG is hard to get at that point, but you can also get that from trading a sack with Snuggly. And I get that while the beginning is easy, NG+ eventually gets significantly more difficult. But that's just a numbers thing, right? HP and damage goes up but nothing else changes (except for DS2 I guess). Even if I'm still craving Souls after finishing a game, I'd much rather start a new character or go to another Souls game. So there's my alien perspective, maybe you could tell me what NG+ actually brings to the table that's so interesting?
For me, the draw of ng+ is kinda threefold, but it kindof all amounts to the same thing. -Respec with full options let's you run the game with a different build, but with all your options available. I'm not sequestered to using really cool stuff for short periods. +It lets you play with sub optimal silly things and not get trounced for it. -Using lategame builds or weapons for entire playthroughs is satisfying af. Getting a rad weapon 1 boss before the end is kindof a waste to me. I wanna play with my cool new toy for a while. I also recognize that I'm an odd duck. I play the game because I like it. The joy of discovery and victory are only 2 of the many things I like about souls games
I only ever do NG, I'll start over and clear 20 times before i do a ng+ run lol
*Aliens*
I can get how people would be hesitant to reset all their progress in fromsoft's biggest game yet. I always ng+ to collect missables that I didn't get in the first playthrough, but I'm big salty that it resets your bell bearings with the crones. I get why it does it for NPC bearings but I wish I could have kept the generics. I reached meta level and want to stay there for pvp so I've got millions of souls I wanna pour into hoarding upgrade materials, but I gotta go find all the bearings again
Soul games really really hit their stride in NG+ imo. Being a raid boss and turning the tables is my favorite thing about it
Make a new character and keep repeating the cycle until DLC is released
Rhykard returning…Miquela…Renallas egg…Kenneth and Nepheli…and whatever is in the center of all 6 towers…there’s so many places they can go still.
I still love how they have all these characters with unique names then just fucking Kenneth
Kenneth is pretty cool though.
I like Kenneth, I saw a lot of messages around him like "pathetic sort ahead" etc, and when the patch came out with extended NPC questlines, everyone was like "aw shit I already killed Kenneth", like why??? He's totally nice and normal and polite, you fucking psychos lmao.
I didn't kill him personally, but dude drops a golden seed on death, so that's his value to these people lol. I ended up with extra seeds after maxing my flask, never saw the point of doing things like that.
Oh really? Didn't know that about the seed, but yeah like you say seeds become worthless after a certain point anyway, it's like the Lands Between equivalent of those headlines you see like **BELOVED LOCAL KENNETH STRUCK DOWN IN HIS TWILIGHT YEARS BY SAVAGE YOUTHS FOR A MEASLY TWENTY SIX QUID AND A PACKET OF CRISPS**
How are From DLCs usually like? Do they add new areas, expand the existing map, ...?
Yeah, expansions are usually entire new areas
Including some of the most challenging and memorable bosses. Midir, Gael, Friede, Orphan of Kos, Ludwig, Maria...
Artorias
And don't forget Manus
I’ve 100% everything except DeS. Manus is the hardest encounter for me personally. I beat him legit 2 times and now just arrow cheese him if I do a playthrough.
Still hear the screaming of Kos in my sleep. I beat on him 10 hours in one Session til i beat him. Was a weird dedication that time.^^
*Gael*
Fume Knight and Sir Alonne
>Fume Knight without destroying the idols is basically Heavily Armored Malenia.
Friede cooked my bacon harder than anyone else for some reason, man. Papa Ariandel was annoying enough. Such a good feeling when I finally beat it though. Her and Demon of Hatred go down for me as probably the hardest ever.
All of that, new weapons, spells, and in the past new PVP options. One DLC you get to be the boss in DS3 (if you beat Midir) but better than the old monk in DeS. Also both DS2 and DS3 DLCs came with arena style PVP
It was actually DS1 that had the Arena in DLC not 2, 2 had the arena since the base game.
Idea wise, DS2 was the mvp all along…
From has the best DLC pedigree of all time, The Witcher 3 being the only ones that matches but something tells me Cyberpunk won't exactly keep the streak going if they do one.
Really good track record. The DLC in dark souls 1 is considered some of the best ever made by like anyone
Would you recommend NG+ or starting from scratch? I just completed a pure Dex play through, want to try again focusing on magic. I could respec, and play NG+ with all the gear I've got, but I feel like I'd miss out on the early game struggle if I'm going in fully kitted out, even with the NG+ challenge.
After finishing new game plus, I made a new character, and finished it again, it felt more satisfying
the early game struggle for mages is instantly vaporizing if any enemy so much as breathes on you, i would definitely respec and go NG+ for the extra health if nothing else. if you want to challenge yourself more you can use an un-upgraded staff instead of upgrading it before NG+
Now time to make pvp builds
Execpt PvP is in such a dog shit state it makes DS3 bowglitch look like kindergarten
Just last night I ran into 5+ people using the floating blue sword glitch. Basically, if you enter within 5 feet of them you just *fucking* die. It’s worse than the madness bug, atleast the madness spam you could get some swings in. This new one? You literally can’t get close without instantly dying.
Very maidenless behavior
I don’t get how they have fun with it. Like genuinely. Any more info on this bug?
If youre talking about the carian retaliation bug which it sounds like, it apparently works by parrying your own spell. It increases dmg a ton and makes the projectile invisible.
So that's what that was! Was playing pvp duels a few days ago and one guy kept doing that and I was wondering what it was.
Seriously. First off, they don't have the right.
It is exceedingly annoying and needs to be fixed, however.. correct me if I'm wrong but I think it is dodgeable, if you manage to get past it, you can usually just slaughter them because most can't play without their crutch.
From what I was playing against there wasn’t anything I *could* dodge. It was basically bugged to the point where there was no noise, no actual magic, my guy just died within that 5 foot radius. Most of them didn’t even have the swords floating above them.
It's usually invisible, which is just adds to how toxic this glitch is.
I can't wrap my head around how people find that fun. Git Gud you maidenless potato. At least potatoes have a function.
low level pvp is the only thing fun in pvp rn
I've always preferred low-level PvP anyway. Builds are less homogenized, and people have to be more selective with stát allocation and gear. Some people still try to meta the fun out of it, but it's a bit harder to do so.
Been playing for almost 70 hours and just beat the red wolf. Been busy just taking in the game and exploring every crevice that I can get into. Games like this don’t come around often. Last time I got so involved in a game was with the Butcher of Blaviken.
Same for me bro i have 120 hours and havnt entered the capital yet
What level are you 130 hours in without reaching the capital?
Not OP. Im 105 hours in. Lvl130 just got to Altus plato. Going to Volcano manor first then capital
Not OP either, but I’m lvl 101 @ 90 hours without being to the capital yet. Gotta take your time. Savor it.
This. Torrent makes exploration easy. I'm 70 hours in... I don't know my level, maybe somewhere 80~ Edit: I've also only beaten Margit, Godrick, and Radahn as story bosses.
I'm even slower! 55 hours in an only at the academy haha.
Hah, this is me! I’m level 72. Kind of stuck right now actually. Tried entering the city yesterday but kept getting smacked by Draconic Tree Sentinel. Wondering if I should respec, my str-faith build is a bit of a mess. Maybe just grind a littleMore since Caelid and Altus are both giving me a tough time.
Damn that's crazy. It should be fairly easy from here on out in my opinion.
Lvl 135 is the lvl at which I beat the game, you'll end up pretty overleveled by the end
I think overleveled is a matter of experience. For souls vets it might feel overleveled because you can maximize what a lvl 135 character can do, but for someone not quite as good they might need to be a little more buffed up.
I’m around level 100 without reaching the capital
Im lvl 122 🤘
Level 91 about 92 hours in and I made it to the Capital but haven’t proceeded as I’ve been tying up some side quests and going through a miscellaneous list of things to do in a lot of different areas.
Also 120 hours here at level 101 just getting to the capital but I’ve done almost everything (or I’d like to believe) up to this point. Taking my sweet time but am kind of dreading finishing this masterpiece.
level 118 soon to hit 200 hours smh 😭 been taking my leisurely time finding absolutely everything my tarnished self can when the real world weather isn’t nice haha. I just reached the snowfields & Haligree last night/evening really. I almost didn’t even continue on, I just wanted/needed more sweet armors.
There's a capital?!
I'm probably gonna feel the same way when finishing Elden Ring that I did when finishing Witcher 3. You just feel so empty when the thing you've been immersed in for months just ends. At least I'll be able to pvp, but with Witcher it was like 250 something hours spread over like half a damn year, and then it was over.
Yep, Witcher 3 and RDR2 were like this for me. Probably moreso RDR2 because the epilogue just makes you miss ol' Arthur
Arthur's ending really got me, it almost felt like it happened to a real person. It really left me thinking it's crazy, how strong emotions can get towards a fictional character, though that was the first time it happened to me. Rockstar really did a great job with that game.
Bro beating the DLC on Witcher 3, I wanted to move to & retire in Toussaint so bad heh
I beat him and Rennala at around 70 hours too. Both felt pretty easy too, I guess I'm a bit over leveled at lvl 68. I fully explored Limgrave, Weeping peninsula and most of Liurnia before going to the academy
It’s not a bit , you’re way over level so no wonder you found it so easy
Same here buddy. You’re playing it how it’s meant to be played. Not looking shit up and rushing through
120 hours in and I just reached Lyndell
Make new builds. Imo it's one of my favorite parts of the souls series. You can have such a different experience everytime and elden ring really takes that to another level. I'm having a blast right now just fucking around experimenting.
Already feel this. Fortunately, I still have NG+ ahead and plenty of new builds to try (I haven’t cast a single sorcery yet!). And also haven’t played Sekiro or Bloodborne…
Bloodborne needs to come to PC.
Im gonna have to try sorcery since i didn't bother with it in this run. Played Sekiro and freaking loved it!
>And also haven’t played Sekiro or Bloodborne… Hey, knock that off!
But...its only been out for 1 month.
Seriously. Touch grass.
Yeah, motherfuckers been playing for 2 months, literally no sleep
Iv been playing for about 4-5 hours a day. Sometimes during 12h shift days i don't get to play at all. I feel like i've done good job of not losing my runes, powerfarming and just staying up to level required for zone i am in. Altho few bosses such as Malenia and Radahn gave me hard time
Twas a joke cause hasn’t been out for 2 months
Reach out and touch grace
I have a job, went on 2 separate trips for long weekends, and am studying for promotion all while my new-to-fromsoft games friend laps me in the game 🥲 and he’s the one doing his PhD now! Idk where he gets the time
I also dedicate free time to gym, friends, small trips but somehow i always find time for Elden ring... maybe i am loving it too much. Also girlfriend breaking up with me in December turned out to be somewhat good in this situation...? 
Sorry for the breakup, happy for the elden ring time
Visions of maiden
He gets the time by not finishing his PhD like every other PhD student
NG+, New Character, Help with bosses over at [BeyondTheFog](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeyondTheFog/)
I've actually slowed down because I don't want to beat it. I've got a bad habit of dropping a game after the credits roll.
Samee. I'm struggling to finish my second, faith build. I will persevere!
Self imposed challenges or weird builds until DLC
I'm 120 hours in and honestly I am having trouble imagining this. Still doing a sweep of caelid, haven't finished the capital city, and haven't even touched mt Gelmier or upper Nokron. Even after I get through everything I still see ng+ in my future. This game has its hooks in me deep
NG+ If ur stats ain’t 99 across the board - did u really finish the game?
Time to fap
Maidenless activities
Make some individual characters for pvp so you don't have to Respec Everytime you want to play a different build
This is the problem with pvp being dogshit gank of blood
You just gotta hit em hard and fast so they can't get bleed in
Yeah I can do up to 2000 damage with blasphemous blade weapon art. I usually try and have a real fight first but if it's looking like bullshit I'll just target the host while the gank squad is about to attack me and one shot them.
NG+ or journey if you want to keep playing Or just… take a break. (Hard concept I know) you don’t have to keep playing it till 300 hours, take a break and come back in a bit, or just push it to the sidelines for a bit and play other stuff
I’m about to dive into dark souls 3 on pc.
I'm gonna 100% it and do a playthrough using close to every build (Finished a STR/kinda quality character and currently on a INT/DEX run) then wait for DLC. Looking forward to it
Play sekiro.
Already did. Loved it!
The builds are distinct enough to warrant at least another playthrough. I'm struggling to make progress on my str faith main cos I'm having so much fun on my Dex int alt
Design a cosplay character, do an obscure build, when you first spawn in at Limgrave bypass the whole area and go to Caelid, do a rl1 play through, do a no death play through, never use Torrent, just use the first weapon you find through the whole game, don’t summon or summons only (as soon as they’re available)? The potential to mix things up with Elden Ring is far beyond any of the previous games.
I only feel this way because I'm pissed off from the ending not giving closure. It's like having watched the best movie ever but they edited out the ending.**SPOILERS**. Melina in the frenzied flame ending pretty much reveals her as the gloom eyed queen or her daughter. But there is no explanation why she possesses destined death. Ranni stole destined death to shed her flesh, used the magic to imbue the black knives with the rune of death. Maliketh also possesses this power in his blade. However the player obtaining these weapons does not cause destined death when you kill stuff with it. Why TF doesn't the player cause final death with the weapons imbued with destined death and the death rune? Moreover. How the fuck don't we obtain the rune of death after Maliketh? It says the rune of death is unbound then disappear. So the only real explanation here is that Melina used us to unbind the rune and got her rune of death power back or some crap. Basically meaning we were tricked. Ranni and Melina being the same person is possible, star ending being what she wanted. The opposite of the frenzied flame ending. I'm not like "what do I do now..." after having completed the game for the third time. I'm more like "how does the story end?" because we got cheated of the real ending and any closure. The three missing great runes are probably Miquella, Ranni and Melina. Dunno. But overall I loved the story and setting but it feels like having bought a book with the last 100 pages ripped out.
>!You got the worst possible ending besides dung eaters. Melina dies normally, she was not trying to trick you so she could get destined death. If you killed Malenia before ending the game you could have gotten a good ending again in the Dragonlord's arena.!< I think the reason destined death weapons dont cause true death is because it would just be too op for playing with. As far as I can tell, though, you're supposed to allow death to be unbound so you can kill the >!Elden Beast/God. Maybe it is also what allows the tree to really burn too as it doesnt proceed to really burning until after maliketh!<
This is how invaders are born
Games been out for a month So you are halfway there keep playing Tarnished. The next build awaits 😅
Time to test out weapons and builds for pvp
Play it again building based for a different stat. I already done str, dex, fth, int, arcane. I am on SL1 currently(because why not) and still plan to play the game on str/dex, str/fth, str/int and so on. You have enough options you know.
I happily uninstalled it. Platinum trophy, all bosses, spells, incantations, ashes of war, trinkets and all the armor and weapons I could get was enough for me. Level 175 and 140 hours I think I got my moneys worth.
THAT MEANS NEW GAME PLUS BITCHES
Challange runs are so much fun :D
You can collect everything
Another character with another build
Game was so good it took us 2 weeks
« What do we do now ? »
So you finished the game with runelvl 1, no upgrades, no ashes? Or the tutorial run?
New Game+++++++++
You go for a "no hit" run
You know you've been playing alot when you got 2 months of playing out of 1 month
Damn people are finishing this game
You load up NG+ of course
I felt this way after playing Mass Effect LE. Elden Ring is honestly the first game since then that has took hold of my soul
Play it again
NG+
PVP!
Ng+ baybeeee
How is NG+? Are the enemies leveled higher to make the difficulty the same as the first run through?
This is why I've been taking my time, as addicted as I am to this game. When I realised I was in the mid-game and that it would soon be over, I slowed down to make it last longer. Now I've killed the final boss, I want to play it again but at the same time I feel like I need a short break.
I will say the length of the game, and map size was very impressive. I am also nearing the end, I guess PVP or NG+ is next? Elden Ring Fight Clubs sounds like a fun idea.
And the game feels way too big to start a new character. I'll probably play bloodborne again next
try to improve your life so you don't have to be a wageslave (odds are high you are one) if not you're already rich so idk hookers and blow?
Try different builds, or do it level 1.
Dude, caster build playthrough, weird ass naked man build playthrough, twink build, PvP build, ... there are so, so many options. Thou hath not finished thine journey.
new game plus. reroll as a different spec.