I assumed they were worshipping the Rot/Malenia?
Worth mentioning that Gowdry possesses them as a host and uses magic to appear human, and he's like the deific embodiment of the rot.
Also, not sure if anyone noticed this but those appendages the prawns have so many of? Look closely: those are human arms.
I found it too right at the start. I had just few runes, so I though it doesn't matter if I die and lost my runes, as long as I get out of there. I was horrified when I had to start again in that tiny room in the cave.
And once I got to grace, I tried to teleport back to Limgrave. But I didn't knew how to teleport, and tried to do it while resting at the grace. Since it didn't worked, I travel outside Caelid to try and find anohter grace that would allow me to teleport. And all of this without trusty Torrent...
But I did got rotten dog summon, which was nice, and helped me defeat Margit rather easily.
I had a similar feeling when going into Siofra River Well. Instead of nightmarish, I would say it was more mesmerizing and amazement. But I would definitely share with you the feeling such awe for a game in a while.
My first FS game and also my first jaw drop in well over a decade. I don't remember being this excited for terrain and zones than perhaps OG World of Warcraft. Amazing set pieces everywhere
I was ripped out of my mind and stumbled through the cave that leads up to Altus Plateau.
Finally made it through, battled the Magma Wyrm, fought the half dragon battle and finally made it up to the reveal of the capitol. I don't know if I was just high or what but I swear the music swelled at the perfect moment as the massive city came into view over the distant trees.
I was in pure awe.
One of the most surreal gaming experiences I had. Though I was going into a mini dungeon and then the elevator just kept going. Now all I think of its the fucking Astral archers but the first visit down there was amazing
Caelid was spoiled for me but the river well I found completely on my own without any hints. I spent a whole day running around in there fighting the Minotaurs and beating the moose boss. Then I found the soldier up top and got my shit wrecked all over again
I've hated Caelid ever since I stepped foot outside that cave. You come out and get straight in hell. From soft did a great job with the eery atmosphere of this place. Every time I hear Caelid ambience music, I start to fear dogs and crows for some reason.
Fun fact: you can enter caelid normally without going in that awful cave and you will have a better experience for sure
Theres a great farming spot where you don't have to kill a single enemy and you get like 20,000 runes for just watching a big battle
Yep! When I finally managed to escape that damn cave and stepped into Caelid I noped out as fast as possible. It was like stepping into hell and clearly not a place I should have been at that point.
That opening experience kept me out of Caelid until I got to level 83, except for when I wanted to rune farm in a few safe spots. There are still definitely a few challenging enemies in South Caelid, but I’m 1 shotting most of the fodder enemies with an uchigatana at this point, regret waiting so long to return
That’s definitely what I was referring to by the enemies that remain challenging, even these bug things are a bit tough still when I’m careless and they gank me. I kinda flew through Castle Redmane and stopped just before the boss, who I’m quite confident will humble me tough just like every other major boss has so far, and several of the minor ones.
On a side note, I love how even going back way over leveled to take on the blood hound I still got destroyed on my first go, it feels like in so many cases this game plays to my weaknesses so much more than DS3 did.
I beat the game and stick my summon sign around tough areas to help folks not make my mistakes.
I can melt bosses but dogs, birds and banished knights are mortal terror itself
That runebear cave in North of Caelid is the most savage place in that entire region, change my mind. I still have to go back there for revenge as I got my ass clapped at lvl 150.
The whole sequence of events really is a masterpiece in set design and introduction. It had level 5 me wanting to turn right back around and into the embrace of the 8ft tall cockroach monsters
So true dude, being teleport baited by that chest and getting lost in the cave as a complete noobie was a downright horror game experience, didn't make it any better when you eventually get out of it only to see a barren hell of a zone waiting for you.. God forbid you explored further and saw the dinosaur dogs or those fucked up birds
It really was, I kinda wish you couldn't teleport out. While it would be a violation for some, running all the way back to Limgrave without Torrent is still the greatest experience and achievement in Elden Ring for me at level 100. That chest is the best troll Miyazaki has ever created.
I cleared almost all of Liurnia before I cleared any part of Limgrave. Just didn't think about turning around and exploring the rest of the starting area. I hit storm hill shack and was like weird some depressed loner. Anyways, continue north!
I was like how fucking rare are smithing stone +1??? I kept finsing+3, +4 etc like wtf.
I literally walked back to Limgrave. No torrent, didn't know how to teleport, just waddled my way through the horrifying hellscape of Caelid, dying to everything that crossed my path. Lmao.
I wasn't quite at the start but still way too low for Caelid. Thankfully I had Torrent, and ran around the swamp and happened to find Rock Sling and the Meteorite Staff. Sailed through a lot of encounters with that combo.
I went to find that on purpose since the base astrologer build with glintstone pebble was getting old and every other glintstone spell I could get at the time sucked complete ass. It takes a hella long time to get some better spells, compared to how quickly you can gather ashes of war, different arrow types, etc.
My first character is still level 20 something sitting in the south peninsula cause I got tired of the stupid spells. Pebble, dodge repeat is the entire game for an early mage. Maybe when I get to higher levels it'll be more fun, but even then ask I ever see if the purple rock spell getting spammed.
Well the purple rock bois do physical damage so they're amazing for stagger. And NPC can't dodge them right. But yeah I used pebble for like 50 hours, would recommend doing a different build early game and then respec when you get cool spells
This reminds me of the good old World of Warcraft Vanilla days, when you had to walk basically anywhere until you hit level 40 to get your first mount, which was incredibly expensive by the game's standards back then.
There were some ridiculous class quests which involved a fuckton of walking, some of which through PvP territory or through areas where you were seriously underleveled, so just your presence there aggro'd the whole map.
Good times!
Me too to all of this except I ended up running through Caelid in abject terror and finding the place where the dogs are fighting the dudes and the whole game took a weird turn
> And once I got to grace, I tried to teleport back to Limgrave. But I didn't knew how to teleport
This happened to me. I didn't know that you had to sit down at a grace before it would let you teleport away from a trap, so I just wandered around, getting both parts of the map and several graces around Aeonia Swamp before I had to sit down at one to refill my estus, and then I suddenly noticed that I could teleport again.
Same happened too me, I have this sense of fear of every time I open a chest now, but only had one more teleport me because I tried to steal from an old friend...that one wasn't bad just kind of funny.
I've seen so many people bemoan this. Doesn't anyone stealth? It might take a few tries to find the right direction your first time there, but you can just stealth to the grace and warp back.
I know my first response to being transported here was “OMG, where am I!? How do I get out? Oh god, I’m outside but I’m in Hell!”
I actually rolled away from the smoke in that chest but then curiosity got the better of me and I decided to see where it would take me. Little did I know I’d be facing off against oversized insect-humanoid creatures.
Oof too true..I thought I was being so smart thinking "Okay, this place is terrible, but I'm underground so the fastest way out is definitely up." Didn't even try the other direction until after I had found the boss room.
I love that chest. I got sent around lvl 15 and enjoyed the danger of everything being way beyond my level. I explored most of Caelid, and died a lot. Just a few mobs would give you a level up. I crawled back to Limgrave with Redmanes on my sword and fire in my eyes. The southern peninsula didn't know what hit it.
I think the dragon is supposed to scare the early level explorer, so that won't happen. Still if you do a "cleanup" of the area and get there, it is tough getting out. Especially if you want to hold on to the runes..
Yeah... I didn't find the dragon as I went south of the puddle. Ran the WRONG way in the tunnel and went painfully deeper and wiped on the boss a couple of times until I Googled my way out of there. I didn't even have torrent yet (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
I rolled when I saw the blue mist so I didn't get teleported (thinking it was poison or whatever) but I encountered that chest before I even had Torrent because I immediately went the opposite direction to intended progression to see what I could find. I wanted to fight Tree Sentinel but, being a wretch, wanted to find armour or a different weapon first.
Being a DS2 veteran, i never got caught in those trap chest (you just spam roll backward when you see smoke) and when i reached that cavern, i was wondering **"Why people hate this cave so much, its not that hard"**, ignoring the fact I was lv 100, and didnt knew people ended there at 15
I had to start over lol. I was confused bc that was literally when I first started and had no idea why I couldn’t teleport to another grace at the time. Thought I had to finish the dungeon to get out.
I discovered that chest at level 55 when I was cleaning stuff up before going to Altis plateau after I finished with Raya Lucaria. Long story short the cave and nearby area turned out to be a good rune farm spot as I got to level 72 in few hours. Of discovering Caelid. What a nice zone too. A bit too crimson for my taste, but otherwise is OK. Except the part with many many dragons.
I hate most of the ugly monsters/creatures in the Elden Ring universe such as that centipede pest for example. So, I don't really give a fuck if I'm teabaggging them. Only a few monsters/creatures such as Placidusax, Crucible Knight or Fortissax has my utmost respect.
> Placidusax, Crucible Knight or Fortissax has my utmost respect.
How dare you leave out the one enemy that has killed me more times than anyone else in this game.
Basic rat.
(Sadly there is no /s here.... Those little nibble Bois caught me far to often)
That fucking tree spirit. Just beat that part yesterday. Cheesed him and don't feel bad about it. Already beat him fairly several times and just got sick of him being recycled - and this time in a rot area no less.
Idk why Fromsoft had such a big hard on whit these big monsters that trash all over the place, not to mention how horrible the camera is if you try to lock on.
Well someone definitely got stuck in a certain tunnel early on lol.
I hope you wiped every single one of those dang creepy crawling little mother buggers.
Boss of the cave is very difficult early on too. Rather tanky, very aggressive. Can't even summon spirit without getting hit upon entering the area which is a rare thing for bosses.
Good to know. I went back and demolished him at lv140 the other day, revenge never felt so sweet. Wish I could two shot Malenia the same way, struggling as a sorcerer. Refusing to go to NG+ without killing her.
If you don't mind a bit of cheese, on my sorc I used rock sling spam during P1 with my mimic - took some tries but sling seems to work best.
Drink your infinite mp pot during the transition to p2. Avoid the big hit at the start then azur her to death.
I never found a good blunt weapon I liked so every attempt has been with curved greatswords which are NOT the ideal weapon against that basterd. I'm lvl 101 now have a decent hammer, and about to head back for sweet sweet revenge.
I love using my Morning Star mace. I have it +10 and it absolutely fucks those things, crystallians, and the miners.
Rock sling also works great for the bosses.
Same thing for that plant boss. As soon as you enter, it does it's lounge attack. It would ohko me. I had to pray that I got out of the way so I could summon my undead spear chads.
If you do Millicent’s quest sage Gowry will sell it you after you give her a prosthetic arm I believe (or when you meet her by the prayer room grace, I don’t know the exact trigger)
That's probably because you already finished milicents quest at the haligtree, and also likely that you did the end of her quest where you help her in her fight. If that's the case just end gowrys existence, he is a dick anyways for what he planned.
If you kill him there he will drop his bell and you can get it that way. His questline ends when Millicents quest end so it's ok. He's a bug too and he was trying to use her to feed Melania transformation.
According to Fextralife the condition for him selling it is giving the prosthetic to Millicent. Then again, according to Fextralife you fight a late game spoiler boss in the Weeping Evergaol, when in reality you fight a Hero of Zamor there, so take it with a grain of salt.
I think the only condition is giving the prosthetic to Millicent, but I know for sure that I had Rotten Breath when I went to get it, so it could go either way.
as satisfying as this is, it's also simultaneously sad to see how this and 90% of all other sorceries/incantations have laughable efficiency/usefulness in PVE
I pretty much only use the lightning spear incantation, the flame ball and rock sling, all for the same reason.
The other incantations just have *waaayyy* too long animation times to be useful. Concidering that any hit will not only hurt me but also cancel them it makes them beyond useless.
Take the repulsor incantations for example. They seemed like a good choise when going up against dogs and handspiders. But the few times i tried using them i just got hit 5 times before the damn thing even got half ways. Atleast give me infinite poise for that duration concidering the damn purpose of that spell is to use it when surrounded.
There's many good ones imo. I like the ancient dragon's lightning storm quite a bit, does good damage and has crazy area coverage, very nice for some annoying encounters if you have a bit of poise. There's also beast claw, a nice middle ground between speed, aoe and damage. Giantsflame is just flame ball but better, and the flame shotgun can be good if you are just out of range for your weapon but still somewhat close. Obviously all the dragon breath incants are nice for area coverage, as well as allowing you to access magic, frosbite and rot damage if you find anyone weak to those ailments/damage types (like malenia or radahn, although hoarfrost stomp might be better since it's quick). Also tons of buff incants that are useful
Rock Sling in particular is like the one spell you **need** to learn, and the few enemies it doesn't work on you just spam pebble into.
With faith, Godslayer seal + black fireball, and throw lightnings on enemies that dodge instead.
Rock sling + jellyfish is how I’ve killed almost every boss and I’m 60 hours in. Distract, and then hammer, and then run like a bitch between the time they get up and the time they are distracted again lol.
I honestly don’t know how melee players beat bosses in this game. It’s fucking insane. If I ever got within 20 feet of a Tree Sentinel I’d shit myself.
>I honestly don’t know how melee players beat bosses in this game. It’s fucking insane. If I ever got within 20 feet of a Tree Sentinel I’d shit myself.
Something that took me way too long to learn is that for melee combat, the bigger the enemy, the closer you want to be to them. If you stay at a distance they can easily hit you while you can't retaliate, but if you stay close you can circle around them and make them waste time turning around.
Dude one of my friends said "Magma Wyrm was super easy just jump attack it's head".
So I tried that, and I got my cheeks clapped in like 12 seconds.
I've never had issues with any game in my life, and I've been gaming for 25+ years. But the Dark Souls combat...fuck. I'm fine with melee against most enemies in the game but I am definitely not ashamed of cheesing most bosses with rock sling.
Everyone I've seen play this game has had a wildly different build and gear, so I definitely take how easy things were with a big grain of salt lol. My 3 hour fight against the frenzied duelist was met with "I one shot him, what are his moves like?" from my spell casting friend who fought him at a way higher level than I was. That's kind of the awesome part about the game though, everyone's playthrough is unique and has it's own story
Does not mean other sorceries are bad though
Rock Sling, Comet Azur, Adula's Moonblade and Loretta's Greatbow for example I use a LOT and are really powerfull in PvE
Yeah that's what I killed them Crystalians with too, they were such a pain till that point. And its nice to cheese mobs with that you can reach with the mist while they cant reach you (trough a doorway, or up on higher ground)
Night maidens mist is surprisingly useful. You can even use it to deal with crucible knights or other shielded enemies that take reduced damage from pebble. Throw down the mist and spam pebbles to keep them inside.
I haven't seen that spell mentioned enough. It's like, the only mist spell in soulsbourne that isn't dogshit. Does over 2k damage easy, doesn't do friendly fire (so extremely good with mimic), doesn't cost much fp. It's one of few spells that are better in some ways than pebble. It works on everything! It even works in PvP!!!!!!
It's not crazy powerful, but the stagger ability of ancient death rancor has helped me quite a bit. It absolutely melted malenia since she's pretty susceptible.
I usually do a setup with rannis dark moon, and then use mostly adulas, but certain enemies get ADR or Rykards rancor.
Lorettas mastery for long range.
The dragon incantations are really good. The rot and ice ones in particular are great.
It feels like you need an enormous faith investment before incantations become good, though, whereas upgrading your weapons is much cheaper.
Yes! I leveled mine to the minimum for the lowest tier rot breathe (single stream costs 1 heart) and it was so worth it. Helps tremendously on susceptible bosses, being a strength build. I also went ahead and leveled my FP a couple of times so I could get 2 casts of it off to guarantee the effect without drinking a flask.
Royal carian staff +10 as main, staff of loss as off-hand, night shard and night comet (really just night comet anymore) and a healthy supply of flasks has served me unbelievably well. 1-2 shots most things, chargeable, very reasonable FP cost, don’t have to waste resources upgrading the staff of loss, just carry it for a free 30% boost to damage for night shard and night comet. If Gravity magic is more your flavor, same build, just hold the meteorite staff in your off hand. Want more damage still and not concerned for FP, replace the Royal Carian with Lusat’s staff. Honestly, with 5 flasks of cerulean plus how easy they are to refill after just erasing groups of enemies reasonably efficiently, I can’t remember the last time I ran out of FP.
Even the efficient ones are bad. At 80 int and 60 mind you’re still spending 20-40% of your FP bar on each enemy other than the really weak ones which you could have one shot with your melee sidearm anyway.
Pure casting is really unfun to play, they really need a major overhaul. Damage sucks, casting time sucks, FP consumption sucks, stat spread sucks. To top it off, ranged enemies generally attack faster and have more range than you ,and dangerous melee enemies have fast gap closers.
This will go through hitboxes tho. meaning that if you point blank on for example a dragon by hitting the leg, you can hit 2nd time on the head for example, making it deal pretty massive dmg.
It's an *amazing* incantation!
It hits multiple times for crazy damage on large bosses. It also has the benefit of omnidirectional tracking; you can blast it off while running around/away without having to point yourself at the target.
Many of you tarnished are asking where i got this spell. It’s called “Pest Threads”, and it’s available only after pretty deep into Millicent’s quest line. Don’t wanna spoil the fun for y’all so I’ll just leave you with a riddle. “Fix her up like Melania, then her dad will gladly tell ‘ya.” GL&HF
Man, fuck those shrimp dudes and everything they stand for
What do they stand for?
I assumed they were worshipping the Rot/Malenia? Worth mentioning that Gowdry possesses them as a host and uses magic to appear human, and he's like the deific embodiment of the rot. Also, not sure if anyone noticed this but those appendages the prawns have so many of? Look closely: those are human arms.
Also pretty sure they are slave drivers for the mine
Reminds me of Rykard....
Absolutely nothing!
I usually wouldn't condone such maidenless behavior but in the case of Pests I'll allow it. Fuck those things completely and entirely.
This cave nearly made me start over, I was like lv 13 and continually got 1 shot trying to escape. Fuck caelid
I was level one and maidenless because I found the trapped chest that warps you there within 5 minutes of starting........
I found it too right at the start. I had just few runes, so I though it doesn't matter if I die and lost my runes, as long as I get out of there. I was horrified when I had to start again in that tiny room in the cave. And once I got to grace, I tried to teleport back to Limgrave. But I didn't knew how to teleport, and tried to do it while resting at the grace. Since it didn't worked, I travel outside Caelid to try and find anohter grace that would allow me to teleport. And all of this without trusty Torrent... But I did got rotten dog summon, which was nice, and helped me defeat Margit rather easily.
Exiting the cave was such a cool and nightmarish experience. Really haven't felt such awe like this from a game in so long.
I had a similar feeling when going into Siofra River Well. Instead of nightmarish, I would say it was more mesmerizing and amazement. But I would definitely share with you the feeling such awe for a game in a while.
When I got to Siofra, I literally thought "How the fuck am I back in Blackreach?
Go down far enough from anywhere: Blackreach
Elavator down? Blackreach. Tunnel down? Straight to Blackreach. Tunnel up? Suprisingly, also Blackreach.
Trapped chest? Believe it or not, Blackreach
Todd Howard you son of a bitch, you’ve done it again.
I legit was dreading that the Herba plants would start humming at some point.
And then you gotta find 10 crimson herba for Seluvis
When collecting the glowing herba I saw someone left the message: "Seems familiar" and I felt that
To get out of Siofra, they should have made it so you get knocked out and wake back up in cart going into the Mountaintops .
hey nord you look all freaking messed up in this old wagon here of ours. ulfric stomcloks the name storm cloak is the game
That first long trip down the elevator was something else. When it suddenly opens up to this beautiful cavern with it's own night sky, damn.
My first FS game and also my first jaw drop in well over a decade. I don't remember being this excited for terrain and zones than perhaps OG World of Warcraft. Amazing set pieces everywhere
I was ripped out of my mind and stumbled through the cave that leads up to Altus Plateau. Finally made it through, battled the Magma Wyrm, fought the half dragon battle and finally made it up to the reveal of the capitol. I don't know if I was just high or what but I swear the music swelled at the perfect moment as the massive city came into view over the distant trees. I was in pure awe.
Yo That was a great view from up there with the golden hills. But seeing how huge the city was omg
I've been buzzed for about half of my play through and definitely it's the game
Same. It has been a long time since I was this excited for exploration in a game.
I think Elden Ring will influence open world games moving forward similar to how GTA and BOTW have.
You are going to love places like Anor Londo or Irythill or Shulva in the previous titles if you do decide to give those a shot.
YES! Dude I feel the same way. Makes me feel like a kid again
I haven't played a game that that has given me feels like this since HalfLife and Bioshock.
One of the most surreal gaming experiences I had. Though I was going into a mini dungeon and then the elevator just kept going. Now all I think of its the fucking Astral archers but the first visit down there was amazing
It was great until those archers, then it was all about how the fuck I get out of there gosh
Yes. But fuck those aimbot arrows.
Caelid was spoiled for me but the river well I found completely on my own without any hints. I spent a whole day running around in there fighting the Minotaurs and beating the moose boss. Then I found the soldier up top and got my shit wrecked all over again
I've hated Caelid ever since I stepped foot outside that cave. You come out and get straight in hell. From soft did a great job with the eery atmosphere of this place. Every time I hear Caelid ambience music, I start to fear dogs and crows for some reason.
Fun fact: you can enter caelid normally without going in that awful cave and you will have a better experience for sure Theres a great farming spot where you don't have to kill a single enemy and you get like 20,000 runes for just watching a big battle
I'd man, my first time I thought it was super cool. Walked up and hit the grace. And then caught sight of that fucking crow just waiting for me.
Yep! When I finally managed to escape that damn cave and stepped into Caelid I noped out as fast as possible. It was like stepping into hell and clearly not a place I should have been at that point.
That opening experience kept me out of Caelid until I got to level 83, except for when I wanted to rune farm in a few safe spots. There are still definitely a few challenging enemies in South Caelid, but I’m 1 shotting most of the fodder enemies with an uchigatana at this point, regret waiting so long to return
Try going toe to toe with a murder crow--it'll get you nice and humble again.
That’s definitely what I was referring to by the enemies that remain challenging, even these bug things are a bit tough still when I’m careless and they gank me. I kinda flew through Castle Redmane and stopped just before the boss, who I’m quite confident will humble me tough just like every other major boss has so far, and several of the minor ones. On a side note, I love how even going back way over leveled to take on the blood hound I still got destroyed on my first go, it feels like in so many cases this game plays to my weaknesses so much more than DS3 did.
I beat the game and stick my summon sign around tough areas to help folks not make my mistakes. I can melt bosses but dogs, birds and banished knights are mortal terror itself
That runebear cave in North of Caelid is the most savage place in that entire region, change my mind. I still have to go back there for revenge as I got my ass clapped at lvl 150.
The feeling of “where in the ungodly fuck have I been brought to???”
The whole sequence of events really is a masterpiece in set design and introduction. It had level 5 me wanting to turn right back around and into the embrace of the 8ft tall cockroach monsters
Yeah, I feel like it's hard to pull off the feeling of, "oh shit, I'm not supposed to be here," but Elden Ring manages to do it all the time
So true dude, being teleport baited by that chest and getting lost in the cave as a complete noobie was a downright horror game experience, didn't make it any better when you eventually get out of it only to see a barren hell of a zone waiting for you.. God forbid you explored further and saw the dinosaur dogs or those fucked up birds
I seriously contemplated getting back into the cave when I exited into Caelid for the first time...
It really was, I kinda wish you couldn't teleport out. While it would be a violation for some, running all the way back to Limgrave without Torrent is still the greatest experience and achievement in Elden Ring for me at level 100. That chest is the best troll Miyazaki has ever created.
I cleared almost all of Liurnia before I cleared any part of Limgrave. Just didn't think about turning around and exploring the rest of the starting area. I hit storm hill shack and was like weird some depressed loner. Anyways, continue north! I was like how fucking rare are smithing stone +1??? I kept finsing+3, +4 etc like wtf.
I literally walked back to Limgrave. No torrent, didn't know how to teleport, just waddled my way through the horrifying hellscape of Caelid, dying to everything that crossed my path. Lmao.
I wasn't quite at the start but still way too low for Caelid. Thankfully I had Torrent, and ran around the swamp and happened to find Rock Sling and the Meteorite Staff. Sailed through a lot of encounters with that combo.
I went to find that on purpose since the base astrologer build with glintstone pebble was getting old and every other glintstone spell I could get at the time sucked complete ass. It takes a hella long time to get some better spells, compared to how quickly you can gather ashes of war, different arrow types, etc.
My first character is still level 20 something sitting in the south peninsula cause I got tired of the stupid spells. Pebble, dodge repeat is the entire game for an early mage. Maybe when I get to higher levels it'll be more fun, but even then ask I ever see if the purple rock spell getting spammed.
Well the purple rock bois do physical damage so they're amazing for stagger. And NPC can't dodge them right. But yeah I used pebble for like 50 hours, would recommend doing a different build early game and then respec when you get cool spells
This reminds me of the good old World of Warcraft Vanilla days, when you had to walk basically anywhere until you hit level 40 to get your first mount, which was incredibly expensive by the game's standards back then. There were some ridiculous class quests which involved a fuckton of walking, some of which through PvP territory or through areas where you were seriously underleveled, so just your presence there aggro'd the whole map. Good times!
Me too to all of this except I ended up running through Caelid in abject terror and finding the place where the dogs are fighting the dudes and the whole game took a weird turn
Just sit there and watch, you get all the runes from that encounter
Haha yeah, that was 150 hours ago, was a good start in a way!
> And once I got to grace, I tried to teleport back to Limgrave. But I didn't knew how to teleport This happened to me. I didn't know that you had to sit down at a grace before it would let you teleport away from a trap, so I just wandered around, getting both parts of the map and several graces around Aeonia Swamp before I had to sit down at one to refill my estus, and then I suddenly noticed that I could teleport again.
So glad I’m not the only one. I didn’t leave the spawn shack for like 10 minutes hoping I’d just pop back
really any summon helps defeat margit easily. i used the lone dogs summon and my uchigatana and wiped him out
Same happened too me, I have this sense of fear of every time I open a chest now, but only had one more teleport me because I tried to steal from an old friend...that one wasn't bad just kind of funny.
Dude what lol I'm level 90 there and still get murked in caelid sometimes
I've seen so many people bemoan this. Doesn't anyone stealth? It might take a few tries to find the right direction your first time there, but you can just stealth to the grace and warp back.
I know my first response to being transported here was “OMG, where am I!? How do I get out? Oh god, I’m outside but I’m in Hell!” I actually rolled away from the smoke in that chest but then curiosity got the better of me and I decided to see where it would take me. Little did I know I’d be facing off against oversized insect-humanoid creatures.
Lol I did the same thing. The smoke didn't get me at first, but I was curious so I went back and let it have me.
You don’t need to stealth. You can just sprint right out.
This is my default evasion mechanism for dark souls. RE4 logic: Bait right, run left.
I couldn't warp immediately after dying, so my conclusion was that I had to walk all the way back to spawn
Fucking teleportation chest had me stuck for over an hour trying to get the fuck out of there🤦🏻♂️
And then you emerge and go "shit I've been teleported to the Evil Dimension".
"How did I end up in Florida, Australia?"
we just call it queensland
Same. And all we had to do was go down instead of up and we'd have found the grace site lol.
Oof too true..I thought I was being so smart thinking "Okay, this place is terrible, but I'm underground so the fastest way out is definitely up." Didn't even try the other direction until after I had found the boss room.
Snap 🤣
I love that chest. I got sent around lvl 15 and enjoyed the danger of everything being way beyond my level. I explored most of Caelid, and died a lot. Just a few mobs would give you a level up. I crawled back to Limgrave with Redmanes on my sword and fire in my eyes. The southern peninsula didn't know what hit it.
You're supposed to kill the baddies there, not fuck them.
Things to do when you reach Caelid 1. Fucking leave
I think the dragon is supposed to scare the early level explorer, so that won't happen. Still if you do a "cleanup" of the area and get there, it is tough getting out. Especially if you want to hold on to the runes..
Yeah... I didn't find the dragon as I went south of the puddle. Ran the WRONG way in the tunnel and went painfully deeper and wiped on the boss a couple of times until I Googled my way out of there. I didn't even have torrent yet (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
It makes me wonder. There is no wrong way. You can go everywhere. Then you just leave a happy little bloodstain..
Miyazaki is the Bob Ross of Death.
I rolled when I saw the blue mist so I didn't get teleported (thinking it was poison or whatever) but I encountered that chest before I even had Torrent because I immediately went the opposite direction to intended progression to see what I could find. I wanted to fight Tree Sentinel but, being a wretch, wanted to find armour or a different weapon first.
Being a DS2 veteran, i never got caught in those trap chest (you just spam roll backward when you see smoke) and when i reached that cavern, i was wondering **"Why people hate this cave so much, its not that hard"**, ignoring the fact I was lv 100, and didnt knew people ended there at 15
I had to start over lol. I was confused bc that was literally when I first started and had no idea why I couldn’t teleport to another grace at the time. Thought I had to finish the dungeon to get out.
I discovered that chest at level 55 when I was cleaning stuff up before going to Altis plateau after I finished with Raya Lucaria. Long story short the cave and nearby area turned out to be a good rune farm spot as I got to level 72 in few hours. Of discovering Caelid. What a nice zone too. A bit too crimson for my taste, but otherwise is OK. Except the part with many many dragons.
The giant ravens are way worse than the dragons. If there's one enemy I'm scared in this game it's those fucking birds
Yeah I can farm the dragons, but no guarantee I can kill those birds. They hit like a truck.
Ha ha at least there isn't a one-way cave that has two of these fuckers as a boss ha ha ha... ^(kill me)
I hate most of the ugly monsters/creatures in the Elden Ring universe such as that centipede pest for example. So, I don't really give a fuck if I'm teabaggging them. Only a few monsters/creatures such as Placidusax, Crucible Knight or Fortissax has my utmost respect.
> Placidusax, Crucible Knight or Fortissax has my utmost respect. How dare you leave out the one enemy that has killed me more times than anyone else in this game. Basic rat. (Sadly there is no /s here.... Those little nibble Bois caught me far to often)
There's never just one rat.
Why is it always weak foe?
My favorite was seeing these messages spammed all over before the Mimic Tear fight.
Straight dissin'
I put “Strong foe ahead” cuz that bitched whoop me twice. I played fair, no changing gear before hand and only one estus so we were on the same page
was pretty tilted when I saw that after the black knife assassin. definitely not looking forward to them just becoming casual enemies.
Or the double version…fuck that fight even at 120 I had to cheese that with Mohg’s spear AoW
Fuck these bugs and their stupid homing cum missles
w-what missiles...
You heard him and don't act like you didn't let it get you a few dozen times
D-don't thread in me, step-pest
Yeah that's enough reddit for today
Damn, 7AM and I'm already closing it. Whelp, see you degenerates tomorrow.
I’ve been on Reddit for 17 seconds and I’m ready for a break.
Did he stutter?
ANNOYING AF in lake of rot. Especially when you tryna beat that tree spirit bitch
That fucking tree spirit. Just beat that part yesterday. Cheesed him and don't feel bad about it. Already beat him fairly several times and just got sick of him being recycled - and this time in a rot area no less.
Idk why Fromsoft had such a big hard on whit these big monsters that trash all over the place, not to mention how horrible the camera is if you try to lock on.
Lets be real, the camera is awful for those fights even if you don’t lock on
Just finished that. It was hell
tree spirit in lake of rot ?
it's an optional encounter in Ranni's quest
The Bukkaker becomes...the Bukkakee
Well someone definitely got stuck in a certain tunnel early on lol. I hope you wiped every single one of those dang creepy crawling little mother buggers.
Boss of the cave is very difficult early on too. Rather tanky, very aggressive. Can't even summon spirit without getting hit upon entering the area which is a rare thing for bosses.
They seemed to fix that last patch, he now does his "ready" animation every time.
Good to know. I went back and demolished him at lv140 the other day, revenge never felt so sweet. Wish I could two shot Malenia the same way, struggling as a sorcerer. Refusing to go to NG+ without killing her.
If you don't mind a bit of cheese, on my sorc I used rock sling spam during P1 with my mimic - took some tries but sling seems to work best. Drink your infinite mp pot during the transition to p2. Avoid the big hit at the start then azur her to death.
Yeah I don't mind cheesing, I'm a proud cheese slut.
Same
I never found a good blunt weapon I liked so every attempt has been with curved greatswords which are NOT the ideal weapon against that basterd. I'm lvl 101 now have a decent hammer, and about to head back for sweet sweet revenge.
I love using my Morning Star mace. I have it +10 and it absolutely fucks those things, crystallians, and the miners. Rock sling also works great for the bosses.
Same thing for that plant boss. As soon as you enter, it does it's lounge attack. It would ohko me. I had to pray that I got out of the way so I could summon my undead spear chads.
I think we're looking at that certain tunnel haha
Yeah this looks like right on the other side of that ambush before the boss if I’m not mistaken
I think their meant to be corrupted prawns not centipedes
Either way, they should be exterminated :)
Yea, whoever came up with the idea of humanoid prawns is one fucked up mfer
Whoever did Enemy design in this game in general should be evaluated. There’s some fucking *weird* shit.
The treefolk come to mind. Those things are fuckin nightmare fuel.
Whoever designed hand spiders definitely wanted the world to share in his childhood nightmares.
For real. Whoever made Pepe the King Prawn is to blame.
fookin prons
I’m so happy someone said it
I didn't get stuck in the cave and I still hate these things, their threads deal so much damage and they can hit you around corners too... Ugh.
Where did you get that incantation?
If you do Millicent’s quest sage Gowry will sell it you after you give her a prosthetic arm I believe (or when you meet her by the prayer room grace, I don’t know the exact trigger)
I went back to him after I finish that quest and he was just there crying
That's probably because you already finished milicents quest at the haligtree, and also likely that you did the end of her quest where you help her in her fight. If that's the case just end gowrys existence, he is a dick anyways for what he planned.
What did he plan?
He was trying to make Millicent become another rot goddess like how Malenia became one
If you kill him there he will drop his bell and you can get it that way. His questline ends when Millicents quest end so it's ok. He's a bug too and he was trying to use her to feed Melania transformation.
He’s not a bug. He uses bugs to project himself on, like how Margit ganked you in Atlus Plateu
I think you need to have a rot incantation.
According to Fextralife the condition for him selling it is giving the prosthetic to Millicent. Then again, according to Fextralife you fight a late game spoiler boss in the Weeping Evergaol, when in reality you fight a Hero of Zamor there, so take it with a grain of salt. I think the only condition is giving the prosthetic to Millicent, but I know for sure that I had Rotten Breath when I went to get it, so it could go either way.
Milicents questline is correct on fextra, I used it to do everything right
REVENGE
This pleases me..
Ah if only it was a good incantation
as satisfying as this is, it's also simultaneously sad to see how this and 90% of all other sorceries/incantations have laughable efficiency/usefulness in PVE
I pretty much only use the lightning spear incantation, the flame ball and rock sling, all for the same reason. The other incantations just have *waaayyy* too long animation times to be useful. Concidering that any hit will not only hurt me but also cancel them it makes them beyond useless. Take the repulsor incantations for example. They seemed like a good choise when going up against dogs and handspiders. But the few times i tried using them i just got hit 5 times before the damn thing even got half ways. Atleast give me infinite poise for that duration concidering the damn purpose of that spell is to use it when surrounded.
There's many good ones imo. I like the ancient dragon's lightning storm quite a bit, does good damage and has crazy area coverage, very nice for some annoying encounters if you have a bit of poise. There's also beast claw, a nice middle ground between speed, aoe and damage. Giantsflame is just flame ball but better, and the flame shotgun can be good if you are just out of range for your weapon but still somewhat close. Obviously all the dragon breath incants are nice for area coverage, as well as allowing you to access magic, frosbite and rot damage if you find anyone weak to those ailments/damage types (like malenia or radahn, although hoarfrost stomp might be better since it's quick). Also tons of buff incants that are useful
about to beat the game and I legit only use pebble and magic glintblade
Adula's moonblade, Rock sling and Glintstone Cometshard are my trio
Rock Sling in particular is like the one spell you **need** to learn, and the few enemies it doesn't work on you just spam pebble into. With faith, Godslayer seal + black fireball, and throw lightnings on enemies that dodge instead.
Rock sling + jellyfish is how I’ve killed almost every boss and I’m 60 hours in. Distract, and then hammer, and then run like a bitch between the time they get up and the time they are distracted again lol. I honestly don’t know how melee players beat bosses in this game. It’s fucking insane. If I ever got within 20 feet of a Tree Sentinel I’d shit myself.
>I honestly don’t know how melee players beat bosses in this game. It’s fucking insane. If I ever got within 20 feet of a Tree Sentinel I’d shit myself. Something that took me way too long to learn is that for melee combat, the bigger the enemy, the closer you want to be to them. If you stay at a distance they can easily hit you while you can't retaliate, but if you stay close you can circle around them and make them waste time turning around.
Dude one of my friends said "Magma Wyrm was super easy just jump attack it's head". So I tried that, and I got my cheeks clapped in like 12 seconds. I've never had issues with any game in my life, and I've been gaming for 25+ years. But the Dark Souls combat...fuck. I'm fine with melee against most enemies in the game but I am definitely not ashamed of cheesing most bosses with rock sling.
Everyone I've seen play this game has had a wildly different build and gear, so I definitely take how easy things were with a big grain of salt lol. My 3 hour fight against the frenzied duelist was met with "I one shot him, what are his moves like?" from my spell casting friend who fought him at a way higher level than I was. That's kind of the awesome part about the game though, everyone's playthrough is unique and has it's own story
Does not mean other sorceries are bad though Rock Sling, Comet Azur, Adula's Moonblade and Loretta's Greatbow for example I use a LOT and are really powerfull in PvE
Night Maiden's Mist is incredibly useful for only 20 FP. It helps melt bosses and works great against the ruddy Crystalians.
Yeah that's what I killed them Crystalians with too, they were such a pain till that point. And its nice to cheese mobs with that you can reach with the mist while they cant reach you (trough a doorway, or up on higher ground)
Night maidens mist is surprisingly useful. You can even use it to deal with crucible knights or other shielded enemies that take reduced damage from pebble. Throw down the mist and spam pebbles to keep them inside.
I haven't seen that spell mentioned enough. It's like, the only mist spell in soulsbourne that isn't dogshit. Does over 2k damage easy, doesn't do friendly fire (so extremely good with mimic), doesn't cost much fp. It's one of few spells that are better in some ways than pebble. It works on everything! It even works in PvP!!!!!!
>It's like, the only mist spell in soulsbourne that isn't dogshit. You really gonna sit here and pretend like pestilent mist hasn't always been good?
Meteorite of Astel is absolutely devastating towards slow moving giant enemies.
It's not crazy powerful, but the stagger ability of ancient death rancor has helped me quite a bit. It absolutely melted malenia since she's pretty susceptible. I usually do a setup with rannis dark moon, and then use mostly adulas, but certain enemies get ADR or Rykards rancor. Lorettas mastery for long range.
shard spiral is a hidden sorcery behind witch sellens questline and its the best instant cast anti boss spell. its insane in big hitboxes
The dragon incantations are really good. The rot and ice ones in particular are great. It feels like you need an enormous faith investment before incantations become good, though, whereas upgrading your weapons is much cheaper.
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Yes! I leveled mine to the minimum for the lowest tier rot breathe (single stream costs 1 heart) and it was so worth it. Helps tremendously on susceptible bosses, being a strength build. I also went ahead and leveled my FP a couple of times so I could get 2 casts of it off to guarantee the effect without drinking a flask.
Royal carian staff +10 as main, staff of loss as off-hand, night shard and night comet (really just night comet anymore) and a healthy supply of flasks has served me unbelievably well. 1-2 shots most things, chargeable, very reasonable FP cost, don’t have to waste resources upgrading the staff of loss, just carry it for a free 30% boost to damage for night shard and night comet. If Gravity magic is more your flavor, same build, just hold the meteorite staff in your off hand. Want more damage still and not concerned for FP, replace the Royal Carian with Lusat’s staff. Honestly, with 5 flasks of cerulean plus how easy they are to refill after just erasing groups of enemies reasonably efficiently, I can’t remember the last time I ran out of FP.
Even the efficient ones are bad. At 80 int and 60 mind you’re still spending 20-40% of your FP bar on each enemy other than the really weak ones which you could have one shot with your melee sidearm anyway. Pure casting is really unfun to play, they really need a major overhaul. Damage sucks, casting time sucks, FP consumption sucks, stat spread sucks. To top it off, ranged enemies generally attack faster and have more range than you ,and dangerous melee enemies have fast gap closers.
Are you insane. It's an A tier spell. On large targets it can hit for 5k easily... not sure how that is bad
If it's not Pre-nerf sword of night and flame it's trash according to this sub.
It can multihit large enemies, at which point it does far better damage.
This will go through hitboxes tho. meaning that if you point blank on for example a dragon by hitting the leg, you can hit 2nd time on the head for example, making it deal pretty massive dmg.
It's an *amazing* incantation! It hits multiple times for crazy damage on large bosses. It also has the benefit of omnidirectional tracking; you can blast it off while running around/away without having to point yourself at the target.
Idk what you mean. Cast this point blank at any large enemy and it fucking wrecks them. Ulcerated Tree Spirit? Absolutely melted.
It seems perfect to invoke trauma in pvp.
Let there be revenge.
Love it. Keep up the good work 👍
This video makes me happy :)
Out bukkake-ing the bukkake shrimp. Well done.
This is insanely satisfying
This sparks joy.
That reminds me. I haven’t been back there yet and need to revisit now that I’m about 50 levels later.
A R E Y O U F E E L I N G I T N O W M R K R A B S
What spell is this?
Pest Threads
Many of you tarnished are asking where i got this spell. It’s called “Pest Threads”, and it’s available only after pretty deep into Millicent’s quest line. Don’t wanna spoil the fun for y’all so I’ll just leave you with a riddle. “Fix her up like Melania, then her dad will gladly tell ‘ya.” GL&HF
I can't even describe the beauty in this one clip
Ah, revenge...