*** Elden Ring ***

Grandmaster Fap! said:
Dont be afraid to use larval tears to respec, im at level 100 in my new play through and i have 10 of them, you should have a few by now. Plenty of strength weapons at your level but consider bleed or faith to add to them, bleed is very powerful and faith can grant you some powerful buffs. My first build was dex\faith and it was pretty powerful!
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some food for thought bud, cheers :)

think i just hit lvl 104 before coming out the game earlier, i believe i have quite a few of they tears, doing prety well with the build though apart from i realised a few nights ago i was so far ahead of what i should be area wise, i was in the secret snow place on giant place and beating up a lot of the inhabitants there, the invisible assasins proved to much, i was lvl 90 odd :)

i missed so many areas so using the odd guide to find a place such as volcano manor for example and the places that leads to and im finding whole dungeons/citys i missed :)

fire giant is a **** thats the boss im up to, got his health half down on the second attempt then figured i was a bit noobed and now im in volcano manor, main boss is done there but there is a nasty looking mini boss x2 :p
 
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Just beat Rennala, very atmospheric fight but a bit too easy, was probably quite overlevelled at 53?

Time to wrap up Raya Lucaria, probably plenty of stuff I missed.
 
Grim5 said:
Yeah you can't just stack on stat in this game, I mean sure you can that you're making the game needlessly even harder. Most people end with some combination of two damage dealing stats, whether it's dex/arc or Int/dex or dex/faith or Int/faith or str/dex or str/faith etc


Because it's so easy to upgrade weapons and switch builds in this game it's the first souls game where I have no urge to do a 2nd playthrough with a new character, so I just started NG+ and switch from Int/Dex caster build to Dex/Arc bleed/rot build


This bleed rot build is stupidly OP
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My second playthrough Im Dex/faith with a bit in arcane. Obvs a huge part of my build is bleed now but what are you using to bring rot into that?

Im switching between blasphemous blade +10 and dual bloodhound at the moment. Wonderous physic to give you free FP/damage dealt equals HP for you and hit them with the Blas blade special move which heals you as well. Makes you invincible pretty much.
 
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I have tried a few new weapons, but without changing my build I have to stick with int/dex so I am a bit limited. I have tried a couple of daggers but the moveset is so different to Moonlight Greatsword. I will at least stick with that until I get to renala I think.
 
Latest patch 1.04 dropped this morning, Here's the patch notes.

Major Changes Included in the Latest Update
Additional Elements Added

  • Added an option to turn camera auto rotate function ON/OFF
  • Added some event phases for the NPC “Patches”


Balance adjustments

  • Increased Colossal Swords/Colossal weapons attack speed and lowered their recovery time. Jump attack not included.
  • Increased the two-handed attack damage of Colossal Swords/Colossal Weapons. Jump attack not included.
  • Increased physical block rate and guard boost of the Colossal Sword, Colossal Weapons, Great Sword, Great Hammer, Great Axe, Great Spear, and Halberd weapon classes.
  • Increased the damage of Grafted Blade Greatsword.
  • Increased the damage of Devourer’s Scepter.
  • Decreased the scaling of status effect build-up from spells and incantations of Albinauric Staff and Dragon Communion Seal.
  • Decreased the effect of Greatshield Talisman for weapons with high block rate.
  • Shortened the length of the madness afflicted animation.
  • Lowered the speed of madness buildup recovery.
  • Slightly increased FP and Stamina growth rate at lower levels*


*Players will need to perform any of the following actions for the changes to be reflected. This is required only once. New characters created after this update will not require this action.

  • Level up
  • Activate Godrick’s Great Rune
  • Re-equipping any equipment (armor, talisman) which grants bonus stat to either Strength, Dexterity, Vigor, Endurance, Intelligence, Faith or Arcane
・Other enemy and weapon balance changes



Sorcery/Incantation
Upward adjustments

  • Crystal Barrage - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time
  • Gavel of Haima - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Allows caster to more easily withstand enemies’ attack while casting
  • Shatter Earth - Increased cast speed and decrease recovery time. Allows caster to more easily withstand enemies’ attack while casting
  • Rock Blaster - Decreased recovery time. Allows caster to more easily withstand enemies’ attack while casting
  • Thop’s Barrier - Increased area of effect and slightly increase effect duration
  • Rennala’s Full Moon - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • Ranni’s Dark Moon - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • Carian Greatsword - Increased cast speed at lower dexterity
  • Magma Shot - Decreased FP cost and increased cast speed
  • Roiling Magma - Increased cast speed and decreased time until magma explodes
  • Gelmir’s Fury - Slightly decreased the random nature of projectile’s range and increased the damage of lava pool. Increased the hitbox
  • Rykard’s Rancor - Decreased FP cost
  • Oracle Bubbles - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • Great Oracular Bubble - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • Briars of Sin - Decreased recovery time. Increased blood loss buildup on enemy
  • Briars of Punishment - Decreased recovery time. Increased blood loss buildup on enemy
  • Explosive Ghostflame - Decreased FP cost and recovery time
  • Tibia’s Summon - Increased damage and cast speed
  • Aspects of the Crucible: Tail - Decreased FP and Stamina cost
  • Aspects of the Crucible: Horns - Decreased FP and Stamina cost, Increase cast speed. Increased the distance traveled when not charged and made it easier to cause enemies to flinch when charged
  • Elden Stars - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time
  • Black Blade - Decreased Stamina consumption and decreased recovery time
  • Discus of Light - Decreased FP cost. Increased damage and cast speed
  • Triple Rings of Light - Increased damage
  • Radagon’s Rings of Light - Decreased FP cost. Increased damage and cast speed. Decreased recovery time.
  • Lightning Strike - Decreased Stamina cost. Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • Honed Bolt - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • Ancient Dragons’ Lightning Spear - Decreased FP and Stamina cost. Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Allows caster to more easily withstand enemy attacks while casting.
  • Ancient Dragons’ Lightning Strike - Decreased recovery time
  • Lansseax’s Glaive - Decreased FP and Stamina cost. Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Allows caster to more easily withstand enemy’ attacks while casting.
  • Fortissax's Lightning Spear - Decreased FP and Stamina cost. Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Allows caster to withstand enemy attack while casting more easily.
  • Frozen Lightning Spear - Decreased Stamina cost. Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Allows caster to more easily withstand enemy attack while casting.
  • Death Lightning - Decreased FP cost, Increased the duration of death-accumulating smoke
  • O, Flame! - Increased damage
  • Giantsflame Take Thee - Decreased Stamina Cost
  • Flame of the Fell God - Decreased FP cost and increased damage
  • Whirl, O Flame! - Increased damage, decreased recovery time
  • Burn, O Flame! - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • Black Flame - Increase damage and the spell can break enemy’s guard more easily.
  • Scouring Black Flame - Decreased FP cost and recovery time. Increased attack range and area of effect.
  • Black Flame Ritual - Reduced FP cost and increased damage.
  • Gurranq's Beast Claw - Increased damage and decreased recovery time.
  • Bloodflame Talons - Decreased FP cost and increased cast speed. Decreased recovery time.
  • Bloodboon - Increased damage. Increased cast speed and decreased effect start-up time, decreased recovery time.
  • Pest Threads - Decreased Stamina cost.
  • Scarlet Aeonia - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Allows caster to more easily withstand enemy attacks while casting.
  • Unendurable Frenzy - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Decreased the random nature of projectile’s range and increased Madness buildup on enemies.
  • Inescapable Frenzy - Increased cast speed.
  • Placidusax's Ruin - Decreased FP, Stamina cost and recovery time.
  • Dragonclaw - Decreased FP, Stamina cost and recovery time and made it easier to cause enemies to flinch when charged.
  • Dragonmaw - Decreased FP, stamina cost, recovery time and increased cast speed and made it easier to cause enemies to flinch when charged.
  • Greyoll's Roar - Decreased FP, Stamina cost and recovery time.


Upward and downward adjustments

  • Adula's Moonblade - Decreased the power of single cast and improved performance so that the blades and frost hit more consistently and continuously. Increased cast speed at lower dexterity.
  • Flame, Fall Upon Them - Decreased the damage of single cast and improved the performance so that it hits the enemy multiple times. Decreased FP cost.
  • Howl of Shabriri - Decreased the madness buildup on the enemy. Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.


Downward adjustments

  • Swarm of Flies - Decreased blood loss buildup on enemy.
  • The Flame of Frenzy - Decreased madness buildup on enemy.
  • Frenzied Burst - Decreased madness buildup on enemy.


Weapon Skill
Upward adjustments

  • Lion's Claw - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • Kick - Increased cast speed.
  • Hoarah Loux's Earthshaker - Increased cast speed. Increased cast speed on follow up input, decreased recovery time.
  • Troll’s Roar - Decreased Stamina Cost. Increased cast speed on follow up input, increased distance traveled.
  • Giant Hunt - Decreased recovery time.
  • Storm Assault - Decreased recovery time.
  • Carian Greatsword - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Increased the damage when charged and made it easier to cause enemies to flinch.
  • Carian Grandeur - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Increased the damage when charge and made it easier to cause enemies to flinch.
  • Gravitas - Increased cast speed.
  • Flaming Strike - Increased the travel distance of a stepping cleave in a strong attack.
  • Black Flame Tornado - Added hitbox to weapon when spinning, and added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
  • Lightning Slash - Increased cast speed. Added a hitbox to the stomp animation.
  • Sacred Blade - Increased cast speed.
  • Sacred Ring of Light - Increased cast speed.
  • Poisonous Mist - Increased cast speed.
  • Poison Moth Flight - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • Ice Spear - Added a hitbox to the weapon’s spinning animation.
  • Chilling Mist - Increased cast speed.
  • Assassin's Gambit - Increased cast speed.
  • Shield Bash - Increased cast speed.
  • Shield Crash - Decreased Stamina cost. Increased cast speed.
  • Blade of Gold - Decreased Stamina cost. Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • Blade of Death - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • Golden Tempering - Decreased FP cost and increased cast speed. Increased effect duration.
  • Last Rites - Increased cast speed.
  • Mists of Slumber - Increased cast speed.
  • Eochaid's Dancing Blade - Increased travel distance, added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
  • Unblockable Blade - Increased cast speed with the weapon Coded Sword.
  • Alabaster Lords' Pull - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
  • Establish Order - Decreased recovery time and increased cast speed on follow up input. Increased damage. Made it easier to cause enemies to flinch.
  • Moonlight Greatsword - Decreased FP cost. Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Increased the frost buildup effect during the skill duration.
  • Wave of Gold - Decreased FP cost. Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • Wolf’s Assault - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • The Queen’s Black Flame - Increased cast speed. Added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
  • Dynast's Finesse - Decreased Stamina cost.
  • Flowing Form - Decreased Stamina cost.
  • Death Flare - Increased cast speed.
  • Onyx Lord's Repulsion - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
  • Magma Guillotine - Decreased Stamina cost, Increased cast speed. Decreased recovery time on follow up input.
  • Cursed-Blood Slice - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • Ice Lightning Sword - Increased cast speed. Added a hitbox to the stomp animation.
  • Rosus’ Summons - Decreased recovery time.
  • I Command Thee, Kneel! - Increased cast speed including follow up input. Added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
  • Gold Breaker - Decreased FP cost. Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.
  • Familial Rancor - Added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
  • Nebula - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time with the weapon *******'s Stars.
  • Regal Beastclaw - Increased cast speed.
  • Devourer of Worlds - Increased cast speed.
  • Regal Roar - Decreased recovery time.
  • Spearcall Ritual - Decreased recovery time.
  • Ancient Lightning Spear - Decreased FP cost and increased cast speed. Allows player to more easily withstand enemies’ attacks while casting.
  • Great-Serpent Hunt - Decreased recovery time and increased damage. Allows player to more easily withstand attacks from enemies.
  • Frenzyflame Thrust - Decreased FP cost, decreased recovery time. Decreased madness buildup on self.
  • Bloodboon Ritual - Increased cast speed.
  • Miquella's Ring of Light - Increased cast speed.
  • Sea of Magma - Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time. Added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
  • Flame Dance - Decreased Stamina cost, decreased recovery time. Added a window to roll during the attack to cancel the animation.
  • Storm Kick - Decreased Stamina cost.
  • Bear Witness! - Increased cast speed.


Upward and downward adjustments

・Thundercloud Form - Decreased damage when not charged. Decreased FP cost. Increased cast speed and decreased recovery time.



Bug Fixes
  • Fixed a bug where the damage of Inescapable Frenzy was affected by right hand weapon.
  • Fixed a bug where the damage of the weapon arts "Carian retaliation" was increased by weapon and status, and the effect was not displayed correctly during online multiplay.
  • Fixed a bug where the animation when inflicted with blood loss and frostbite was bigger than originally planned.
  • Fixed a bug during character appearance change menu in which some parameter changes were sometime not reflected.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented a dialog from appearing when executing "Leave" on some items.
  • Fixed a bug that allowed unauthorized items to be passed to other players.
  • Fixed a bug in multiplayer that prevented grace to be registered on the map if it was found just before the player is summoned.
  • Fixed a bug that sometime prevented the mechanic of Rennala Queen Of The Full Moon fight from working properly during cooperative multiplayer.
  • Fixed a bug that sometime prevented the player from entering the boss area after defeating Morgott, the Omen King.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented "Edgar the Revenger" and "Festering Fingerprint Vyke" from invading after defeating all the bosses in Liurnia of the Lake.
  • The item Tonic of Forgetfulness can now be obtained at the Volcano Manor if the player wasn’t able to obtain it due to quest progression.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the reduction of runes due to NPC "Gostoc" when player died in "Stormveil Castle" to occur at an unintended timing.
  • Added a protective barrier to Millicent after helping her at Miquella’s Haligtree so she cannot be unintentionally killed.
  • Fixed a bug that sometime prevented the player from obtaining the reward after defeating the Dung Eater.
  • Fixed a bug that sometime prevented the player from progress Diallos’ questline.
  • Fixed a bug that sometime prevented player from duplicating remembrance at the Walking Mausoleum.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented player from inputting consecutive attacks when dual wielding thrusting sword.
  • Fixed a bug that causes scythe to lose blood loss effect if poison affinity is applied to the weapon.
  • Fixed a bug where the damage of the Iron Greatsword was lower than expected when an affinity is applied.
  • Fixed a bug that caused FP consumption to increase when the player cast Night Comet with charge.
  • Fixed a bug that causes he default key setting on keyboard for weapon skill (Left Ctrl) to not be set (on PC only).
  • Fixed a bug in the Steam version where the history of players who played multiplayer was not displayed correctly under certain circumstances.
  • Increased online multiplayer stability.
  • Fixed a bug that caused incorrect sounds to be played under certain circumstances.
  • Fixed a bug that caused some places on the map to have incorrect visual and hitbox.
  • Fixed a bug that causes some enemies to have incorrect visual and behavior.
  • Fixed a bug that causes some armor to have incorrect stats.
  • Text fix.
  • Other performance improvements and bug fixes.
 
  • Added an option to turn camera auto rotate function ON/OFF
Thats excellent news, the camera trying to auto rotate back to the front has annoyed me since day 1
 
Huge amount of balance changes. Hopefully people will experiment more rather than using the same handful of weapons and spells, gets a bit boring with invasions / getting invaded and its always Moonveils and Rivers of Blood. They're both great weapons, but there's loads of other stuff that can compete in the right hands.
 
As I can't respec until renala, I have switched it up a bit. My first playthrough was sorcerer ending up with 70int using fully upgraded Azurs staff in left hand and Darkmoon Greatsword in the right hand. I've moved from the DM greatsword to the Wing of Astel with a shield. Though I do still have them equipped. Everyone was saying how good guard counters are but as a mage I never did one. Nice to play a soulslike with a shield again. Haven't done in years.

Wing of Astel is underrated. Weapon art is great.

NG+ is going as expected. Done it enough times in Souls games to know it lulls you in to thinking it is easy then you'll hit a wall and, find it impossible. In DS1 I could not get past the Sanctuary Guardian in ng+ but found everything up to it fairly easy.
 
seems like the latest patch broke something for me, if im playing on my tv with that set as main device and extended to my pc monitor. i could before bring up the menu or map screen and freely scroll my mouse over to the monitor and do stuff look up stuff etc

seems i cant do that any more, the mouse wont lose focus from the game like it used to when a menu is up.
 
I thought I had explored this game pretty well after 115 hours, including mopping up some things are completing it. Yet, last night I was watching one of my kids play for a while and he was in an area I'd never even seen, fighting a boss I never knew existed. It looked a tough one, and it was great seeing his reading of attacks and tactics change as he learned their moveset before finally getting him.

Even after finishing it, my fondness for this game keeps growing...
 
strumpusplunket said:
I thought I had explored this game pretty well after 115 hours, including mopping up some things are completing it. Yet, last night I was watching one of my kids play for a while and he was in an area I'd never even seen, fighting a boss I never knew existed. It looked a tough one, and it was great seeing his reading of attacks and tactics change as he learned their moveset before finally getting him.

Even after finishing it, my fondness for this game keeps growing...
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I finished the game and was not aware of the whole area under the capital. Adds a nice little something to look forward on my my NG+ run I'm doing but its crazy how there are huge parts of this game you can completely miss altogether.

Even Blaidd, If I had not read that you need to click your fingers when you see him perched atop of some ruins...there is no way in the world I would have thought to do that?!
 
oldestgregg said:
I finished the game and was not aware of the whole area under the capital. Adds a nice little something to look forward on my my NG+ run I'm doing but its crazy how there are huge parts of this game you can completely miss altogether.

Even Blaidd, If I had not read that you need to click your fingers when you see him perched atop of some ruins...there is no way in the world I would have thought to do that?!
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You can still encounter Blaidd later on in the game even if you miss that step in Limgrave, the quest line he is apart of progresses all the same.

Most quests in the game are structured like this, there's only a handful that you can lock yourself out of via progression.
 
oldestgregg said:
I finished the game and was not aware of the whole area under the capital. Adds a nice little something to look forward on my my NG+ run I'm doing but its crazy how there are huge parts of this game you can completely miss altogether.

Even Blaidd, If I had not read that you need to click your fingers when you see him perched atop of some ruins...there is no way in the world I would have thought to do that?!
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Yeah its odd that you hear him howling and then by chance if you talk to Kale he will remark about it and give you the finger snap emote to draw Blaidd out.....its random but hey thats From for you :)
 
Grandmaster Fap! said:
Yeah its odd that you hear him howling and then by chance if you talk to Kale he will remark about it and give you the finger snap emote to draw Blaidd out.....its random but hey thats From for you :)
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Ah! I cant remember being given the finger snap which makes sense now. I think its because i did so much between getting the finger snap emote and actually using it I had no idea why I had it at that point. You really do need a pen and pad to make progress notes on people you meet and talk to and its not ashamed of itself that that's just how it is.
 
I've finally beaten Maliketh so now that's just the last two main bosses to go. I think try Malenia first as apparently she is the hardest boss in the game.
The game is absolutely epic.
 
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