Elden Ring

Amatsubu said:
Do the recusant stuff before Rykard, you get one of the best looking armor sets in the game from one and you'll get locked out if you kill Rykard.

Niall is a right ********:D
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Not sure if armour would suit my build but I know there is a good flame spell from one of the chumps in there. I'm playing as mage, currently with Preceptor's set with Carian Regal Scepter and Moonveil, both at +9.
 
Well my journey with the game is over, I’m at Maliketh the blade and I can’t beat him, tried with the assistance of other players and my level 10 mimic tear and black knife tiche, but I just cannot do any damage to him in his second phase.

Spent 45 mins tonight trying to summon another player to help tonight and every time it was just “summon not available” so I went about doing it alone and was again just instantly battered by him whenever I get close, so the tips I’d read of getting close to him and dodging attacks were useless for me.

Watched the ending on YouTube and I can honestly say it was not worth the heartache of progressing through the boss so I’m glad I’ve called it quits.

Was just over 80 hours in the end and level 140, I’d pretty much explored everywhere else and done everything I wanted so had nothing left to do but push the story forward, and yeah major disappointment
 
antijoke said:
Well my journey with the game is over, I’m at Maliketh the blade and I can’t beat him, tried with the assistance of other players and my level 10 mimic tear and black knife tiche, but I just cannot do any damage to him in his second phase.

Spent 45 mins tonight trying to summon another player to help tonight and every time it was just “summon not available” so I went about doing it alone and was again just instantly battered by him whenever I get close, so the tips I’d read of getting close to him and dodging attacks were useless for me.

Watched the ending on YouTube and I can honestly say it was not worth the heartache of progressing through the boss so I’m glad I’ve called it quits.

Was just over 80 hours in the end and level 140, I’d pretty much explored everywhere else and done everything I wanted so had nothing left to do but push the story forward, and yeah major disappointment
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Not sure on your build but I did this boss on my own using Mimic Tear +10 and Moonveil Katana. Was a tough fight mind, and I died a fair few times before I refined my tactic and got him. My tactic was to immediately run diagonally right and get behind the first pillar, then summon the mimic tear.

I spent the whole fight dancing around the pillars and using hit and run tactics, even during his second phase. Whilst the mimic tear was taking his attention I ran around the other side of a pillar and landed a couple of Moonveil vertical slashes. Rinse and repeat. Bit cheesy, but it worked.

At no point did I try tackling him in the open because, well, I’m not a god tier souls player! lol :p
 
Maliketh is indeed a tough fight in the second phase, like BuffetSlayer my tactic was to hide behind a pillar summon Tiche and then concentrate on dodging or hiding from his attacks landing the odd blow here or there, he does give you a few openings to get at him you just need to work on the timing. The aim is to chip away at his health rather than go guns blazing and do massive damage with heavy hits and combos.
 
Yikes, the above does not bode well when and if I ever get there. I spent ages on the Fire Giant and ultimately just cheesed him via the cliff animation bug with a summoned archer. I just got too frustrated always getting caned in the second phase as a mage (Comet Azur never wanted to lock on or simply missed him when attempted). I'm currently stuck on the Godskin Duo but still trying various things. Sleep darts / pots next.
 
darkgen said:
Yikes, the above does not bode well when and if I ever get there. I spent ages on the Fire Giant and ultimately just cheesed him via the cliff animation bug with a summoned archer. I just got too frustrated always getting caned in the second phase as a mage (Comet Azur never wanted to lock on or simply missed him when attempted). I'm currently stuck on the Godskin Duo but still trying various things. Sleep darts / pots next.
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If you go around to the other side of the arena there is another entrance where you can summon help, so along with your own summons, it evens things out a bit, oh and sleep arrows are your friend :)
 
Baz said:
If you go around to the other side of the arena there is another entrance where you can summon help, so along with your own summons, it evens things out a bit, oh and sleep arrows are your friend :)
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So, This is odd. I did walk around the entire arena and could never find the summons. I did a quick check and the online questline for the knight required Rykard being killed, which I had not done BUT I just so happen to restart the game and lo and behold the yellow summons was there. Caned the duo boys easily first attempt with him and my own summons. The next challenge being annoyed by birds and purple lightning (:
 
Not that far into the game just taking my time exploring, found a twin blade underneath some ruins near the dragon where you first start and enjoying using that over the katana you start with as the samurai build, I’ve killed the first bloody finger and believe the next one drops a twin blade weapon is it worth trying to get that? Or does anyone know of one to get before grabbing that one?
 
Got to say firstly I am enjoying this game but finding it hard for any definitive sense of direction, found a few npc’s for quests but they are very cryptic in understanding where to go with the clues they give you! seem to find myself looking at google which ruins it.
 
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After my rage quit the other day I picked up the battle again and was finally able to beat Maliketh and I’ve just rolled the credits after that final battle and what a feeling, wow.

Ending spoiler

Rather annoyingly though I got the best ending (lol) which meant I did not get to sit on the Elden throne, which makes me sad.
 
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Not sure how far I’m into it but I’ve not opened up the mountain tops yet, I’m doing rannis quest and currently fighting astel in the lake of rot !! Must say the hardest boss I’ve encountered so far was mohg lord of blood in mohgwyn palace
 
neeb said:
Not sure how far I’m into it but I’ve not opened up the mountain tops yet, I’m doing rannis quest and currently fighting astel in the lake of rot !! Must say the hardest boss I’ve encountered so far was mohg lord of blood in mohgwyn palace
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That Astel beast was a nightmare for me! Was so hard, I lucked out though in the end me and my mimic tear where battling it and I managed to get it down to real low health but it did it’s high damage attack and wiped me out, however my mimic was still going strong and was able to kill it before the death animation had completed this killing it, lol
 
Currently lvl 41, pumped a fair few lvls into arcane and dex as I managed to get the twin blade off of one of the bloody fingers.

while I’m enjoying using it I can’t decide what to do regarding my build as It doesn’t seem that good against bosses atm I, was enjoying using bandit curved sword that I picked up which helped me kill the bloody finger but all the build videos I have seen for using them mainly use jump attacks which I think would get abit to repetitive and boring for me.

Anyone care to share there builds? I know I don’t want to be using staffs and magic would rather close combat.
 
ValiantUK91 said:
Currently lvl 41, pumped a fair few lvls into arcane and dex as I managed to get the twin blade off of one of the bloody fingers.

while I’m enjoying using it I can’t decide what to do regarding my build as It doesn’t seem that good against bosses atm I, was enjoying using bandit curved sword that I picked up which helped me kill the bloody finger but all the build videos I have seen for using them mainly use jump attacks which I think would get abit to repetitive and boring for me.

Anyone care to share there builds? I know I don’t want to be using staffs and magic would rather close combat.
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If in doubt, put points into body/health bar.

Then you either decide whether you are building a magic, light weapons, heavy weapons, arcane spells.

Also some stats into the one where allow you to carry more heavier gear. Forgot the name.
 
Almost 100s hours in and I may fall at the last hurdle. I just cannot compete the second phase in the final battle so have been mopping up stuff elsewhere. This has easily been one of my all time favourite games that has kept be going for a few hours a day for the last few months. I don't care that I can't finish it (:
 
darkgen said:
Almost 100s hours in and I may fall at the last hurdle. I just cannot compete the second phase in the final battle so have been mopping up stuff elsewhere. This has easily been one of my all time favourite games that has kept be going for a few hours a day for the last few months. I don't care that I can't finish it :)
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I was the same, but it keeps eating at you like a splinter in your mind and you can’t help but think “I want to take you down” :D :D
 
Just defeated the radegon and Elden beast Christ alive that was a difficult set of bosses plus the boss straight before that
 
I’m now up to level 206, and just under 100 hours played since killing the Elden Beast, been going around doing stuff I hadn’t done (still so many little dungeons I’d not found).

Also took on Malenia and although it was a hard battle managed to beat her

I’m seriously thinking about starting a NG+ too because since the red mist lifted it’s simply a brilliant game world.
 
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