#Elden Ring (DLC hype room)

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vivid spire
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My hype at winning and then a third phase

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That was funny

golden pond
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Mimic Tear, O Mimic Tear
why do you have to make me look so fucking bad

umbral portal
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The Mimic is fearless

old brook
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This is why I don't Mimic Tear

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I Am Only Me

golden pond
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doing alex's questline for my silly dual swords
||and it casually got off Rellana's twin moons, all 3 hits, twice, while casually dodging magma wyrm. Not the hardest flex but god fucking damn it||

vivid spire
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Lemme guess yours doesn’t draw aggro right

golden pond
vivid spire
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WHAT

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mine is worthless

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It doesn’t solo at all

golden pond
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1 was a dlc boss, npc but still fucking stupid

vivid spire
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Also how did you get questlines already

golden pond
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and it proved fucking fearless in ||Rellana's fight||

vivid spire
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I got ||Ansbach||

golden pond
vivid spire
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Oh

golden pond
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i forget that like, talismans and shit exist

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so i've been running around with dogshit

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going to get alex's shard

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for one of the new weps

vivid spire
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I can’t find Alex

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My Erdtree is ash

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He’s supposed to be at farum

golden pond
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is he still at Radahn?

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Talk to him at Radahn if he's there
then go kill magma wyrm in west volcano manor if you haven't yet, he'll be there

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then he'll tp to farum

atomic jetty
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since scrble is in dlc i assume they did radahn

vivid spire
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Yes

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I.. don’t remember where Alex is

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Idk the jar shard might not matter too much

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Hmm

golden pond
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15% bonus skill damage

vivid spire
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Oh

golden pond
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Which is the same as ||Rellana's Cameo||

vivid spire
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That could get me the edge against the sunflower

golden pond
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but it doesn't require holding a stance for 1.5s

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it's peak for what i'm using

atomic marsh
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Hey btw question

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Where do I go after the ||Saint of the Bud|| fight

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I'm very loat

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Lost

umbral portal
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Did you get ||Messmer||

kind garden
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Shit, it’s fucking Steam maintenance time

old brook
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I feel like I've gone just about everywhere I can pre-Messmer >:|a but no damn way to tell

junior spade
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Is your map filled out

old brook
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Missing a chunk above the Jagged Peak

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And can't seem to get to the area above Rauh Base

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Also even without all the gods interfering I think this nation would've fallen due to infrastructure issues how does anything get anywhere fack

junior spade
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Those are explorable preMess

old brook
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Okie! Shall search more

junior spade
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I will say the right area is truly a Journey to get to

old brook
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What about that other like ||Finger Ruin|| thing, it looks attached to the Black Keep

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is there some fucked up cave

junior spade
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Thats a solid lead!

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Black Keep has like 30 gajillion paths

old brook
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i'm tryin to avoid it

junior spade
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Youve got a lot explored without hitting the Keep at least

vivid spire
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No clue what it is

old brook
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I've got to be running out of ||big damn bears|| to find

vivid spire
real shadow
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Wanna know how to get there?

vivid spire
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Sure does it have fragments

real shadow
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Yes. Just two tho.

vivid spire
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That’s fine

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Does it have weapons

real shadow
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Yup.

vivid spire
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Ooh

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Any incantations

real shadow
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You can get there from ||Shadow Keep. In the open courtyard area early on with all the flaming boats, there's a ladder leading down. Follow it, take the coffin, go through the dungeon (pain) and end up down in that area.||

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I don't...think there's any incantations? But there is predictably a boss and dungeon area, which I only just found last night.

vivid spire
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Oh

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I can’t find any other saudutree fragments

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I probably have some at Rauh

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I think I have two

junior spade
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The boss has incantation rewards, technically

frozen olive
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genuinely just getting demolished by the final boss still

golden pond
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So like

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||Rellana's cameo is pointless unless I want to stack more damage, no? Cause jar of Alex does the same increase but no wait time||

stone cove
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P. much

golden pond
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Cool

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32% stronger funnies IS cool tho when stacked

frozen olive
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(final boss)||managed to survive first phase with full crimson flasks, pretty good||

golden pond
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Max upgrade is +12/14 flasks right?

frozen olive
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yes

golden pond
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Coool

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5 seeds to go then, sad

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Idk which ones I'm missing 😭

frozen olive
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still getting absolutely annihilated by this boss but this is better

proven horizon
golden pond
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Fair

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For a weapon like say

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Sword of night and flame

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Cause they have better str/dex scale, would it better to go those or go str and int for flame scaling

Cause it feels like the fire attacks are weak as shit

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Or should I go int/faith mix
Cause idfk what makes the fire attacks and basic attacks not feel weak af

junior spade
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the fire scales with faith, the comet with int

golden pond
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Fair

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Need faith at 30 anyways

golden pond
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Both I assume?

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Or mostly str/dex

vivid spire
junior spade
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not sure about basic attacks

golden pond
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Fair

vivid spire
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Hmm

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So the checklist is

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  1. Get Fragments
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  1. Sunflower
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Hmm

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Yall do any bosses drop fragments

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I’ve found all of the ones on the Graven Plain

atomic jetty
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final boss spoilers
||prime radahn got hands, but i got shield, took me a few attempts but man, what a fight||

golden pond
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Looks amazing

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Goes hard

frozen olive
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impressive

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i'm stuck atm

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getting my ass beat

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i just don't have the technical skill to fight this boss

frozen olive
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it's a cool fight but it's so difficult i honestly kinda don't want to continue trying it

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at no point trying it solo have i gotten past ||half health on his healthbar||

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none of my weapons do enough damage to even feel like they are hitting when i fight either

glossy delta
atomic jetty
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it worked

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i was at 1 flask at the end

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mimic doing extra pokes got me a few extra procs while i was hiding behind the shield

glossy delta
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We barraged him with as many statuses and %HP DOTs as possible
Rot, deadly poison, bleed, black flame, destined death, so on

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After a point I realized ||its a good thing for me to get hit with the grab since he stops doing shit and just takes dot damage while Miquella does his ASMR, and I can just clear it with the broken rune||

atomic jetty
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looool

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hmmm
post final boss
||am i missing something or is just defeating radahn the end of the dlc?||

frozen olive
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LETS GOOOOO

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i summoned a person named Dogju and we won!

atomic jetty
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fuck yeah!

junior spade
glossy delta
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Nice!!!!!!!!!

atomic jetty
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huh

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||i guess i expected a new ending, but w/e||

frozen olive
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||that motherfucker is built fucking ford tough, we had to bleed and rot him multiple times to kill him||

atomic jetty
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yeeeeeep

vivid spire
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I wanna hug Leda and tell her how much I appreciate her ahhh

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Plz don’t be violent Leda

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She even notes that she wasn’t aware ||of how bloodthirsty she was||

umbral portal
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Naked random summons are either useless or godlike

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No inbetween

frozen olive
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no

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they were even better

umbral portal
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(Gimmick characters also count for this rule)

frozen olive
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the GOAT who helped me win

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absolutely unmatched physique and poise

umbral portal
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Peak physical form

vivid spire
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Well

atomic jetty
junior spade
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they did confirm the dlc added no endings in an interview

atomic jetty
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its only 24 hours cause i generated the character to go straight into dlc
started at 151
dlc was a blast, and for everyone who hasnt finished it yet, you got this, if it feels impossible try some different builds, i believe in you

junior spade
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its wild knowing i started the dlc at level 121 and ending it at level 169 lmaooo

vivid spire
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Wait WHAT

golden pond
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Yeah

umbral portal
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Yeah the DLC is self contained

vivid spire
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….oh

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Hmmm

golden pond
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I don't mind it tbh

vivid spire
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Also uh

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I’m not sure where to go

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I went down the coffin and got the grace sites

junior spade
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Its standard for fromsoft dlcs in a way, usually the DLCs just add a ton of context to the game rather than a new ending

vivid spire
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I thought that Bloodborne and Dark Souls added endings

atomic marsh
golden pond
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It would be so fucking funny to detour for mohg and dlc
Then come back for elden beast and one shot it with 3000 dmg heavjes

junior spade
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Nah, no added endings, just extra context

vivid spire
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I left my base game unfinished

frozen olive
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holy shit that was a fucking thing huh

vivid spire
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So I’ll come back and nuke the beast

frozen olive
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also

vivid spire
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Just for yall

atomic marsh
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The dlc doesn't exactly overpower you since most of your scaling is done exclusively in the shadow realm

junior spade
frozen olive
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(the literal biggest DLC spoilers do not click if you have not beaten the DLC)||MIQUELLA FUCKING SENT MALENIA TO ASSASSINATE RADAHN, WHAT THE FUCK||

junior spade
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using DLC weapons on in-game bosses has been hilarious so far

golden pond
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Yeah

vivid spire
frozen olive
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||I THOUGHT SHE FUCKED UP HIS PLANS BUT HE SENT HER TO KILL RADAHN SO HE COULD BECOME MIQUELLA'S CONSORT||

vivid spire
frozen olive
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||WHAT THE FUCK||

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||also St.Trina 😭 ||

junior spade
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basically just keep going Down

golden pond
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Went to get the magma wyrm in West volcano for Alex jar and it fucking melted her with SoMaF

vivid spire
junior spade
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oh are you at Bonney Village?

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thats Too High so to speak

frozen olive
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fucking hell

vivid spire
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I lost the masoleum and can’t find my way back at all

frozen olive
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(more enormous spoilers, do not click without having finished the DLC)||So Miquella is directly responsible for what happened in Caelid and the suffering Radahn undertook that led to the Radahn Festival||

vivid spire
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Also will they release the OST on YouTube

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I know they have the official ost on Spotify

junior spade
vivid spire
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For the main game

vivid spire
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Wait does this lead to the ||Abyss||

junior spade
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yes

vivid spire
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It feels like dark souls 2 vibes for some reason

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Maybe the name and the vibes

junior spade
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and from there just keep going Down

vivid spire
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But ||Unte|| sounds very New Londo

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Also are there any bosses that drop fragments

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I think I’ve found almost all of the easily reachable ones in the Plain

junior spade
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indirectly i think ||Commander Gaius gates off 5-6 of them ||

frozen olive
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fuck

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what a fucking DLC huh

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jeez

junior spade
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yeah

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I'm letting it sit and nerding out with a friend still learning their own lore tidbits but

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wow

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I'm so satisfied

frozen olive
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(finale spoiler)||read the item descriptions on Young Radahns armor and the miquella item and holy fuck that is some lore||

junior spade
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YEAH

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i gasped irl

umbral portal
frozen olive
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(more finale spoilers)||like holy fucking SHIT i already knew from gathered bits that something was unfathomably off with Miquella but this was some real ass fucking shit||

frozen olive
umbral portal
frozen olive
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||cause it REALLY seems like Mohg was just compelled by Miquella to be used as a vessel for Radahns spirit later on||

umbral portal
frozen olive
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||especially with Miquella also being an apparent brotherfucker and having the ability to fucking charm people into following him and stripping them of their free will completely||

umbral portal
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||and then mind control Radahn into being his Consort but that's a whole.other thing||

vivid spire
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Oh fuck

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Rakhasa has hyper poise

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I will defeat you

junior spade
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||Its very interesting, since Miquella is cursed with the eternal youth and not only wanted to break free of his empyrean nature but wanted to break free of all the outer gods stuff; you can see where so many good intentions went into repeating Marika's sins||

vivid spire
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What’s it weak to yall

junior spade
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kill that rakhasa

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i just stabbed her a bunch

umbral portal
frozen olive
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||the fucking grab Radahn does allowing miquella to put a charm on you that can completely subvert you if hit twice is fucked||

umbral portal
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||I do find it kinda funny how the Pureblood Knight of Mohg is a much more reasonable person than the Knight Follower of Miquella, even when the charm is removed||

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||Leda's first thoughts after being uncharmed were basically "who can I justify killing"||

junior spade
frozen olive
frozen olive
junior spade
vivid spire
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Oh my hof

frozen olive
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||incredible fucking writing honestly, and presumably why he broke the rune to try to deny anyone from gaining its power||

umbral portal
vivid spire
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This motherfucker

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A MIMIC RIPOFF

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I will defeat you

frozen olive
vivid spire
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Out of raw spite

umbral portal
glossy delta
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Okay, now that I am mostly done with the DLC:
||I think the Miquella Maniacs Civil War was still the highlight of the DLC for me, I'm uncertain what we were even fighting with Miquella and Radahn about||
||It almost feels like they were leaning on the hype of 'WOAH WE FIGHT RADAHN FROM WHEN HE WASN'T ALL ROTTED UP' but I admit that feels disingenuous||
||Its just||
||Very odd feeling||
||Where does Malenia or Godwin fit into all this? Wasn't Miquellla doing some weird shit to try and fix him involving the sun?||

vivid spire
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Uuugh

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Fuck this

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I’m gonna keep heading down the damn waterfall

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I can’t kill a single boss

umbral portal
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Also Rakasha us weak to stagger

vivid spire
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It has hyper armor

umbral portal
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Stunlock him

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He was in my expirience

vivid spire
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i cannot

kind garden
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Whoops Discord just tried to start a voice call

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Very cool

vivid spire
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I can’t stunlock at all.

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What does he even drop anyway

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Is it worthwhile

junior spade
umbral portal
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And his armor

grave plinth
junior spade
glossy delta
# junior spade ||Miquella saw in Radahn the ideal lord/knight; malenia is rotting and a fellow ...

||Yeah, I guess there's an unspoken assumption that he WILL fuck it up and WILL be Marika 2||
||I dunno||
||I was really expecting some kind of 'side with miquella or side against him' thing but it seems you default to side against||
||Which feels odd||
||We have associated with at least equally dubious individuals in the base game (fia, Ranni, YES RANNI IS DUBIOUS I KNOW SHE MARRIES YOU SHES STILL A SCHEMER)||

kind garden
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Is there fucking fucking ANYTHING that can be done about light speed attacks

kind garden
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Great

frozen olive
grave plinth
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||i do wonder if Miquella had Malenia charmed like he did Leda||

frozen olive
umbral portal
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||It's not impossible, she's pretty devoted to him||

junior spade
frozen olive
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||Malenia feels like the the kind of character who would be devoted anyway, trying to serve a greater cause before her rot consumes her||

vivid spire
grave plinth
frozen olive
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||i can 100% accept her being charmed but i also don't think it has to be the case||

vivid spire
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I can’t even beat a simple mimic clone…

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God that’s shameful

vivid spire
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Gonna eat dinner and rematch

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Rematch time.

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Also I’ll record a video of my fight

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I literally cannot stun him

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What are his weaknesses

frozen olive
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i found stunning to be fairly unreliable the entire dlc personally

junior spade
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i mean not every enemy has a Specific Achilles Heel

vivid spire
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For this guy specifically nothing worked

grave plinth
# frozen olive ||it would yeah||

||it also would explain why she’s missing that dignity now (embodied as Millicent), Miquella discarded the part of himself that was his restraint, he’d probably want his sister to do the same, whether or not she agreed||

junior spade
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sometimes you just have to execute your strategy

junior spade
frozen olive
grave plinth
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||yeah i’d love to talk to a post-Millicent reintegrated Malenia||

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||she’d offer a very interesting perspective||

kind garden
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God DAMN

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I cannot go faster than light

vivid spire
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GOT THE FUCKER

frozen olive
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gj

vivid spire
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KNIGHTS LIGHTNING SPEAR DID IT

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also I had help

frozen olive
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that spell is godly

mellow silo
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Time to Fog Rift Catacomb again ig

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That dongeon has caused so much pain for me I swear pain

vivid spire
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Is it just me or is boss hyper armor overturned

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Apologies for complaining so often

grave plinth
vivid spire
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It’s my first souls dlc

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And I’m not used to this at all

frozen olive
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i get you

golden pond
frozen olive
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my first one was with DS3 and Midir was soulcrushing

golden pond
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Dark souls 3 ones weren't such a huge step up from base game

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Except midir

frozen olive
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also this DLC is extremely highly tuned as well

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it's a big difficulty leap

golden pond
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Yeah

frozen olive
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from base game

golden pond
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Big exception

frozen olive
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like really huge

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DS3 did not have this except Midir(i fucking hate you Midir)

glossy delta
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(continuing my Big Picture Take of the DLC) ||I think I loved literally everything about it except the last like 5% of main plot after Leda and crew||
||At that point Radahn shows up, says zero words still, and you just fight each other On Sight like rabid dogs||

left willow
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yay, dragon pit boss down. Second try upon coming back today :)

frozen olive
glossy delta
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Oh, and the furnace golems, do not like those either

frozen olive
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||i do not want peace, i want problems, always||

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furnace golems suck

junior spade
frozen olive
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what an absolute shitter enemy

vivid spire
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Hmm

glossy delta
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Have not killed one, do not plan too

mellow silo
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I just treat them as area hazards tbh

vivid spire
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I tried going down and lost my way

mellow silo
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Avoid at all cost

vivid spire
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Restart

tropic stream
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Bro I

mellow silo
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They're slow as hell and don't have range so that strategy mostly works

tropic stream
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Oh cool I'm talking about the current topic

tropic stream
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Jesus fucking christ Moe, do I agree

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Oh wait

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wrong enemies

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Sh*t

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I thought we were talking the giant wicker men

frozen olive
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the giant wicker men also suck to kill

tropic stream
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I just found the one in ||Rauh||

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The one who, you know

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||Has a fire whirl cannon||

vivid spire
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Yall need to decide

junior spade
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that ones SO FUNNY

stone cove
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They're incredibly boring fights

tropic stream
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Are you meant to kill them or nah?

junior spade
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i love fromsoft pranks

frozen olive
vivid spire
glossy delta
vivid spire
stone cove
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Fire golems? Yeah, you're meant to kill them

tropic stream
junior spade
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well im still happy i sent that to you anyways

frozen olive
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it was cute

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but yeah the wicker men suck

junior spade
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i like you all and want you all to do well

frozen olive
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and killing them actually gives rewards

tropic stream
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I like the bois in the furnaces

glossy delta
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I like the forge dungeon golems yeah

tropic stream
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It may be that they and the forges themselves remind me of the first area in Darksiders II

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Anyone else played Darksiders II?

frozen olive
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you don't have to but they do give (spoilers obv)||physick tears||

tropic stream
vivid spire
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I always end up at the area with the militiamen @junior spade

glossy delta
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Yeah...........

tropic stream
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AS IN ||MULTIPLE PHYSICK USES???||

frozen olive
junior spade
tropic stream
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Ooooohhhh, right

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Okay

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Good

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Then I give literally zero fucks they're not worth it

frozen olive
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(more minor spoilers)||one of them gives you sekiro parries||

junior spade
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the first furnace golem should be killed its Very Worth

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like super worth

tropic stream
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I do not care and ||Sekiro is my least favorite fromsoft game due to its reliance on parries||

junior spade
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i dont mind them but im a freak who likes torrent fights

vivid spire
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I found it

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I FOUND IT

tropic stream
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I cannot stand torrent fights

vivid spire
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HOW DID I MISS THE DOOR

tropic stream
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Torrent fights can

frozen olive
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Torrent is useless

tropic stream
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do a thing I can't say here

left willow
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This guy wants me to consume the throbbing meat of an ancient dragon.
I'm quite down

frozen olive
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so i have Torrent fights

junior spade
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damn

frozen olive
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Torrent can fuck off tbh

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he's barely even useful for riding around

junior spade
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the dlc made me happy cuz i got more uses out of torrent lmaoooo

glossy delta
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Torrent can get me to places quicker and then leave

junior spade
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WHAT

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torrent is like, the chad at platforming

frozen olive
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Torrent is just barely a utility at all

frozen olive
junior spade
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that does not happen for me

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thats wild

frozen olive
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Torrent is so fucking unreliable it's crazy

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sometimes he'll just keep walking after i stop doing inputs

junior spade
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so mean to my boy

frozen olive
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literally just launch us to our deaths

tropic stream
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anyway the ||Rau furnace golem|| jumpscare kinda annoyed me lol

stone cove
# tropic stream Kill me in my face

Okay, so penguins hot tips.

There are two kinds: armoured and unarmoured. Most are unarmoured.

Wear your flame Drake, pearldrake and Dragoncrest talismans, drink a physic with opaline hardtear in.

Get close to them.

If they lift a leg, they're doing a stomp. You can jump the stomp's fire wave. Raptor of the mists makes this mindless if you want

If they do a jump, gtfo. If you're far enough away you can roll it, but it's timing is arse.

The only other close attacks are punch or grab, both are just roll them

If you're too far away, they spam fireballs. Use torrent to out run them.

Pest Threads will also do big damage.

Eventually after enough damage, they stagger and fall over, save you go to their face and visceral attack for big damage.

If they're the armoured version, then the only way to kill them is to get above them somehow, and throw furnace/fire pots (the hefty version) into their basket

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Also I know you said not worth, but dammit I wasn't going to delete everything I'd written lol

junior spade
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the armoured version was fun to puzzle out

frozen olive
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also torrent does not scale at all to the DLC so a stray hit will just kill him and then you're also dead

junior spade
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i just revive my boy with a health flask

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give my horse a lil sippy

stone cove
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He gets boosted by revered spirit ashes

frozen olive
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seriously?

stone cove
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It says in their description.

frozen olive
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that's crazy cause it did not fucking feel like it

tropic stream
stone cove
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And the tutorial you get

junior spade
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yeah torrent tanks hits well as long as, like the player, youre not hit mid-action

frozen olive
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anyway

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(final boss spoilers)||i grabbed all three items you can get from the final boss remembrance, gonna try em out, though i may need to respec to use the incantation||

junior spade
frozen olive
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||unless i want to farm the 10 levels between 240 and 250||

left willow
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dogs! (spoilered for being in the dlc, but I don't think it actually spoils anything other than the style of an enviroment)

junior spade
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dogs!

frozen olive
mellow silo
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So, Ive got an interesting theory

tropic stream
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Oh what level have people been going through this dlc btw?

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I am at a cool 170 xD

junior spade
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I started at level 121 and ended at level 169

frozen olive
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started at 150 ended at 240

junior spade
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Scadutree Blessing just matters more, so level doesnt add much

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besides stat reqs

frozen olive
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i leveled purely for stat reqs and some scaling boosts

junior spade
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i do think you need 60 vigor but i also was tanking stuff

languid mantle
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So have people just been ignoring this mechanic?

mellow silo
#

We know that the Land Of Shadow was joined with the Lands Between, but separated at some point. And at the bottom of some catacombs is a Godwyn corpse image, so the separation probably happened after Godwyns death, which is actually pretty recent

past shard
#

I've seen some stubborn players try to clear some bosses with low fragments, getting blown up a lot along the way

tropic stream
mellow silo
vivid spire
#

oh god

mellow silo
#

For the Jolly Cooperation

vivid spire
#

Darklight sucks

tropic stream
#

I wanna get Dane's set

#

I wanna make a D&D/D20 fantasy weapon monk

junior spade
languid mantle
#

Just kind of funny to me that between that BandaiNamcoUS tweet and now this Steam News thing it really seems like they're just shouting at the playebase "Use these! We put them in for a reason!"

glossy delta
junior spade
#

Some folk just have a really toxic elitism with skill-based gaming

mellow silo
#

And of course those are the people that most bitch about the difficulty

junior spade
#

I just enjoy the game my own way

mellow silo
#

I've been going through the whole game on the backs of player summons, don't intend to stop now

frozen olive
#

time for

#

jolly cooperation

#

i won the final boss with a bit of jolly cooperation

glossy delta
#

I dueled Messmer, thats enough for me

frozen olive
#

nice

#

i summoned for every fight basically

vivid spire
#

Oh shit

#

||Jori||

#

I can’t change my spells out either

#

Fuck

#

I’m gonna be here for a while

#

Screw the fat toad summon fucker too

#

Stunlock hell

atomic plinth
#

There anything I should know about the DLC going in?

#

I know it's supposed to be Extremely Fucking Hard

frozen olive
#

How it started vs. how it's going

junior spade
#

Defensive talismans are good

atomic plinth
#

I do run pearldrake and irondrake

junior spade
#

the game means it, very seriously, that you need Scadutree Blessings

frozen olive
#

yes

junior spade
#

explore a lot

frozen olive
#

also if you are struggling, utilize summons

atomic plinth
#

That's a given

frozen olive
#

they are there to help you

junior spade
#

Moreso than the base game, exploring when stuck is so crucial

frozen olive
#

it's very important

junior spade
#

dont stick to a boss too long if it sucks go another direction for a while

left willow
frozen olive
#

Scadutree is not optional, use summons, explore every nook and cranny you can find

atomic plinth
#

Guessing I can't hit em with the ol "Comet Azure Terra Magica No FP Consumption Flask"

frozen olive
#

you cannot

atomic plinth
#

Good

#

Makes it more fun

frozen olive
#

yes

atomic plinth
#

I heard the first DLC boss is supposed to be stupid hard

#

Something or another moon knight?

#

The one with the really fucking good looking armor that has like, a blue sash

frozen olive
#

played the dlc for around 59 and a half hours, so almost double what Miyazaki said it would take to complete it

#

truly peak shit

atomic plinth
#

I'm 100% gunning straight for her

#

I want that armor for my spellblade fit

#

And her swords

vivid spire
#

I did it!

frozen olive
atomic plinth
#

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

#

Good job

junior spade
frozen olive
#

that always sounds so funny to me

left willow
frozen olive
#

cause i beat her so easily, probably because i didn't jump at her immediately

frozen olive
#

especially if you don't want to run summons

#

as a challenge i guess

atomic plinth
left willow
atomic plinth
#

Is she like, Pontiff Sulyvahn type hard where she has comboes for DAYS?

left willow
#

He's a very silly summon

frozen olive
junior spade
atomic plinth
#

Oh boy

#

Hopefully Ol Reliable will get me through it

#

Good ol Loretta's War Sickle

#

God I love that polearm, it's so great

real shadow
#

||Midra|| down. I think if I was relying on parries this would be a fun fight but as it was, hhrgh.

atomic plinth
#

...ah fuck I think I started a NG+ before

frozen olive
atomic plinth
#

Oh well!

frozen olive
#

oh well

atomic plinth
#

I gotta beat up Mohg and Radahn right?

junior spade
#

correct

atomic plinth
#

Roight

frozen olive
#

the Mohg like enemy and King of Shit himself do need to die violently and terribly correct

past shard
#

Jumping avoids a suprising number of attacks because of long lower-mid body invuln

vivid spire
frozen olive
atomic plinth
umbral portal
#

Real

left willow
#

Real Mohg

frozen olive
atomic plinth
#

Ah, sorry

#

Mohg-like threw me off

frozen olive
#

you may kill the sewer dweller if you feel like it

left willow
#

If you need help with either, I got about 60 minutes tonight, but any time I'm on, feel free to ping to see if I'm available

vivid spire
atomic plinth
vivid spire
#

GOT BLESSING TO 14

#

IT IS A HISTORIC DAY

#

finally I feel..

#

Less stressed

#

Do the weird horn guys drop the Arc Spam Staff

#

I’d like to grab that

frozen olive
umbral portal
#

||Horse? Horse!||

jaunty solar
#

That's a pretty cool caster build you got going

#

I like how you didn't even have to use the black blade

frozen olive
#

i like using destined death, free health chunk

vivid spire
#

Also I beat Romina with blinkbolt axes

jaunty solar
#

I'm not going back into the DLC until Elden Ring Reforged gets updated

#

I think the boss fights are going to become obscenely fun with the deflect

frozen olive
#

i'm waiting for seamless

#

i really want to do a seamless playthrough

vivid spire
#

How do I deal with the fucking

#

Winter lantern copypastes

jaunty solar
#

I'm gonna use the altar of anticipation to get Ansbach's scythe early >:)

#

Elden Ring Reforged adds a shop to the altar of anticipation that lets you buy one item in the game for free

#

So you can make NG builds with stuff that might not be available until the late game

past shard
umbral portal
#

||Don't touch the corn||

junior spade
junior spade
glossy delta
#

Yeah it's a sneaking mission, Snake

junior spade
#

snake? SNAKE?! ||HOOOOOORSE??||

umbral portal
#

The corn alerts them btw

#

So don't touch it

jaunty solar
#

That's a drum corn

tropic stream
#

I have found the secret to fire knight ownage

#

multihits and lightning

#

Just

#

shove lightning elbow deep

vivid spire
#

I made it through

umbral portal
#

Good!

vivid spire
#

Now what

#

I’m at Divided Falls

glossy delta
junior spade
#

now you go into The House

umbral portal
frozen olive
#

oh sweet

vivid spire
frozen olive
#

i actually captured the final fight against the final boss

#

very nice

#

i can't show it here cause i was talking with a friend and we both say eachothers names but it was one of the victories of all time

#

my main contribution was scarlet rot procs

#

which did fucking stupid damage in total

junior spade
#

still proud of you, good job

glossy delta
#

Remove the audio 🤔
Replace it with breakcore 😌

frozen olive
#

one scarlet rot proc did like 25-30k damage or some dumb shit like that

junior spade
#

add Slayer - Raining Blood

frozen olive
#

or well, could also be combined with damage me and Dogju did but still

#

scarlet rot did stupid DOT

#

and Dogju had bleed so that helped a lot

#

honestly i think i could do that fight alone if i became more skilled and had a bleed weapon

#

but i am happy with how i won still

#

random act of Jolly Co-operation

frozen olive
#

🙏

#

i literally just summoned random people and fought the boss until i won and i feel good about that kind of victory

#

my friend won by pulling out his most vile bleed+rot build that he could make with his arcane build character and cheesing the ever loving shit out of the boss until he won

#

and i like to think i enjoyed my victory more

atomic plinth
junior spade
#

no

glossy delta
#

Cuz its percent based

frozen olive
#

oh i see i see

#

i mean

#

||i've been told that if you summon two people the health bar goes up to 100 fucking thousand so i'm not surprised the DOT has to go crazy||

#

but yeah thank you scarlet rot, didn't know you were chill like that

frail sky
#

Just got the dlc and I think I can see why people are complaining about the performance sweating
Got to the area right before the castle and my framerate definitely fell quite a bit. It may or may not have something to do with the massive amount of grass the dlc has compared to the base game

frail ferry
#

one of the few benefits of console

#

consistent optimization

frozen olive
#

the game loads into my character obnoxiously slowly

#

but otherwise it's mostly fine

#

the final boss did lag switch me though

atomic plinth
#

As long as it doesn't pull that "we aren't loading in the enemy models teehee" bullshit that I had to deal with when I first played

frozen olive
#

it hit me with an attack while attacking another player outside of melee range of my character

atomic plinth
#

That was fucking horrid

frail sky
#

I do have elden ring on my ps4, but it unfortunately doesn't connect to our internet because of how old it is so I can't use that >->

frozen olive
#

hit me with the ghost attacks

junior spade
#

yeah i had to buy elden ring on pc cuz my ps4 died, i feel yea

atomic plinth
#

Finally nearly done redownloading

#

Shouldn't take all fucking day to download 67 gigabytes but that's another can of worms

frail sky
#

I have no idea what these guys are but they're very friend shaped 😌
Spoiling it but I'm pretty sure these guys show up on loading screens even without the dlc

atomic plinth
#

||Toobers||

kind garden
#

Anyone summoning for the final boss

#

Been slamming my head against this dude for hours

frozen olive
#

i can try to help tomorrow if you want, sadly i have to go to bed now

#

try random summons otherwise, one helped me win

junior spade
#

I'm going to bed soon as well, but I can write up what my successful gameplan was if you'd like

kind garden
#

Also seriously this dude just randomly decides he’s not interested in my Mimic Tear

frozen olive
#

yes

#

this is why i tried Dung Eater

kind garden
#

||I can be halfway across the arena doing nothing and he’ll go “hmm I should light speed attack THIS guy”||

frozen olive
#

his soulless husk is a aggro god

kind garden
#

Locked out this save

frozen olive
#

much obliged

junior spade
#

||I went for a full tank build, heaviest shield, bleed swordspear (any poking stick should work), and used the two npc summons + mimic tear to help chunk him down; bleed and poison will do their job, its all about never letting that shield down ever and healing during the brief respites||

kind garden
#

Ahh, makes sense

frozen olive
#

||using a shield is an INSANE powerup||

kind garden
#

My %maxHP option is Godslayer fire

frozen olive
#

||you'll want to grab one of the heavy ones, i used the Haligtree Crest Greatshield since it's kinda the best one in the game||

#

blackflame is a good option

kind garden
#

I’ve been parrying

frozen olive
#

personally scarlet rot was the GOAT for me

kind garden
#

Since it halts the entire attack sequence

frozen olive
#

also

#

hot tip

glossy delta
#

Yeah sacred haligtree is GOAT

frozen olive
#

||summoning makes his healthbar enormous||

kind garden
#

That I am aware of

frozen olive
#

||he has like 50k health without summoning so if you summon it becomes unfathomably worse unless your summon really is doing business||

junior spade
#

i suck at parrying so i havent tried

atomic plinth
#

There any good new spells?

junior spade
#

yes

#

so many cool new spells, for all kinds of casters

atomic plinth
#

Playing a spellblade build, wanting something new to spice my build

junior spade
#

lots of new good weapons / weapon arts for spellblades too

atomic plinth
#

Are those dual swords from ||Rellana|| good?

junior spade
#

i have heard they are

#

i dont use paired weapons myself but ive seen rave reviews

frail ferry
#

the boss weapons this dlc seem pretty good

kind garden
#

Well

atomic plinth
#

...aw, man, I might need to refight Radahn and Mohg

left willow
#

I've officially converted to the church of Zamor Ice Storm

atomic plinth
#

Eh, I like both their fights, I'm okay with this

kind garden
#

Found a REALLY good spell thanks to a cooperator

atomic plinth
#

God bless Radahn honestly

junior spade
#

i tried both int and faith builds in the dlc and i enjoyed both sets of new goodies

atomic plinth
#

Man came in like a goddamn meteor

#

10/10 design

left willow
#

Bosses that aren't immune to Frostbite get BODIED by the spell

atomic plinth
#

Cmoooooooooooooooon man

#

Cmooooooooooooooooooooooooooon I wanna play Elden Ring

#

I wanna go to DLC Land

frail ferry
#

i wanna go on miquella crazy ride

left willow
#

Cause 1 maybe 2 hits from it procs the effect (in addition to p good damage) and +10% damage for however long it lasts goes so good

frozen olive
#

Actually

#

I just realized

#

I have a backup of my save

#

So i can fight the final boss again

tropic stream
#

I'm rly intrigued by the Dryleaf Sect

#

They were Erdtree worshippers who adopted an ascetic lifestyle as a response to the Erdtree starting to shed leaves, right?

#

And then they adopted worship of Miquella?

atomic jetty
#

i ship em

tropic stream
#

lol

#

btw

#

Are Messmer's serpents of the same variety as Rykard's?

frail sky
vivid spire
#

Oh SHIT

frail sky
#

(God I need a new pc)

vivid spire
#

||MIDRA||

tropic stream
#

Light greatswords are my new main weapon

#

btw is there a way to copy save files?

#

I wanna go through the dlc with two diff builds

frozen olive
atomic plinth
#

...oh right I'm at the Haligtree, I think I'm good on Radahn and Mohg lmfao

atomic jetty
#

oh at lvl 200+ youre more than ready

atomic plinth
#

Oh god I forgot how fucking dripped out I am

atomic jetty
#

i finished the dlc at 181

atomic plinth
#

GOD the Hoslow armor is so fucking cool

frozen olive
#

Also people please spoiler tag shit

atomic jetty
#

the hoslow armor does go hard

frozen olive
#

New people are still going into the DLC

atomic plinth
#

Right, uh

vivid spire
#

I should take pictures of my haligtree knight going places

atomic plinth
#

How do I access the DLC

atomic jetty
#

go back to mohg

frail sky
frozen olive
#

I had pretty good drip by the end there

#

(DLC armor and weapon spoilers) lookin pretty swag

atomic jetty
#

oooh which set is that?

vivid spire
#

Fuck

#

Putrescent knight still fucked me up in three hits

#

I can’t get this guys moveset

frozen olive
vivid spire
#

But if I’m gonna do the dlc i need to know the whole truth

frozen olive
#

It's ||Solitude helm amd gauntlets and Fire Knight chest and greaves||

atomic jetty
#

thanks freyja

frozen olive
#

Looks pretty swag

atomic plinth
#

...oh goddammit

mellow silo
#

Drip time?

atomic jetty
#

lol

atomic plinth
vivid spire
#

Goddamit

#

I just. Want. To. KNOW!

frozen olive
#

Also had these fits which are super cool

vivid spire
#

I have enough fragments

mellow silo
#

First one is cool af

vivid spire
#

I can see I’m doing fine if a little low damage

mellow silo
#

Love that helmet

atomic plinth
#

I usually run this fit

frozen olive
#

It's a good helmet

vivid spire
#

But this boss fucks me up every time

#

Also drip

frozen olive
#

It's a hard one

vivid spire
#

I do lightning and holy but it’s barely scratching it

#

I try to get close for rocks or something but that doesn’t work it splits from the horse

#

I’ve come back and fought this boss dozens of times but it’s the one thing that I can’t beat

glossy delta
#

I just noticed
The greatsword of solitude
Has 89% phys block
That weapon skill sure chewed shit up npcside so maybe I should give it a look

vivid spire
#

Even ||Mesmer|| I got to second phase easy

#

I just noticed thioller as a summon

#

But if their deal is poison

#

That might suck ngl

#

Poison is useless

mellow silo
#

Drip List for Inquisitor Trila
||Helmet: Dane Hat
Chest: Depraved Perfumer
Gloves: Omenkiller
Legs: Confessor
Main Weapon: Fire Knight Greatsword
Secondary Weapons: Pulley Crossbow, Fire Knight Seal||

mellow silo
glossy delta
#

Thiolliers bottles do deadly poison, which is only slightly weaker than scarlet rot

atomic jetty
#

my current drip
mostly base game with a tiny bit of dlc flare

frozen olive
#

you know

#

there is something funny about my final fit of the DLC

frozen olive
vivid spire
#

I’m in a position where due to the dead Xbox playerbase and the fact people haven’t reached the coast yet

#

That if I want to learn the truth I’m on my own

#

I have to git gud

#

Also blinkbolt is working kinda well

atomic plinth
#

...I see they still have yet to fix the dodge input delay

#

How lovely

vivid spire
#

For dodging the worst hits

#

But even still this boss attacks with a mad frenzy

mellow silo
#

Shadow Militiamen Helm is so fucking funny

vivid spire
#

And the HORSE.

mellow silo
#

Like. Just look at that thing. Goofy

mellow silo
#

Anyone feel free to summon me on pretty much anything but the final boss

#

Bored

vivid spire
#

GOD

#

I will find the truth. I swear.

mellow silo
#

Stink Knight is hard to hit, but he's actually pretty squishy at the end of the day. You can do it!

vivid spire
#

I am a fucking knight of the haligtree and I didn’t come this far to get burned alive—hey wait

#

Why is a knight of ||Trina|| using Ghostflame

#

And why does it have the appearance of a Silver Tear

#

This makes no sense

frozen olive
#

||If you use a summon with good aggro i found Knights Lightning Spear to be strongly effective against that boss since it's in water and you get bonus damage||

mellow silo
#

Yeah it's weird

vivid spire
#

Blinkbolt is a lifesaver

#

The axes do give I frames

mellow silo
#

||I expected him to sleep me, not freezerburn me||

#

That would have made the fight so much worse lmao

vivid spire
#

Sigh

mellow silo
#

A proper ||Sleep boss|| would be scary as hell

vivid spire
#

Time to wait for someone to pop up

#

Also the music for this area

#

It’s so…

#

Revelatory.

#

There’s something down there. It wants me to come and see.

mellow silo
#

What did you think of the ||slumber party outside?||

tropic stream
#

I am doing a save dupe because I wanna do a playthrough as muh swordmonk build

frozen olive
#

||Remembrance always describe stuff about the boss they are from||

vivid spire
#

Also uh

#

Do yall know anyone who plays on Xbox

#

Anyone at all

#

I’d love help for this boss

#

I summon and someone is immediately snatched away

#

My summons can’t keep aggro and I can’t solo bosses so I gave up and tried co op

atomic plinth
# frail sky The what?

Feels like there's a delay between when you press the button and your character dodging

#

For me at least

#

It's been a consistent issue

frozen olive
#

Yeah summoning is a bit iffy rn

vivid spire
#

Oh

#

Idk like

tropic stream
#

Boss spoilers ||Rakshasa is a bitch||

frozen olive
#

They get summoned really quick so getting one is hard as far as my exoerience goes

vivid spire
#

I know I say the indomitable human spirit a lot

tropic stream
#

||Fucker is poising through shit she wasn't before, I stg||

vivid spire
#

But I’m getting tired of trudging through the game alone

frozen olive
#

I did some Jolly co-operation for the final bit

vivid spire
#

My friend played this game with me for hours on launch but dropped it immediately

#

He said it was too hard

left willow
#

Is there a good way to get Deadly Poison or Scarlet Rot for a sorc build? Or am I SOL there?

vivid spire
#

I’m not a quitter so I beat it five times

left willow
#

Oh, pots, duh

vivid spire
#

I was disappointed to hear it’s sitting in his library doing nothing

vivid spire
frozen olive
#

Pots and pans

left willow
vivid spire
#

Oh

left willow
#

Yeah

vivid spire
#

Yeah true I assumed you had a backup melee

atomic plinth
#

Oh you already KNOW they are going to shred the fuck out of Mohg

#

"Naked abomination" types are ALWAYS the ones with stupidly high skill

frozen olive
#

Me personally, i would cast Scarlet Aeonia and just melt

frozen olive
#

That looks like dual Reduvia too

#

So you know the build is going to be absolutely foul

vivid spire
#

sigh

#

My father said I wasted forty dollars on sighing and dying

#

This boss.

frail sky
#

Castle Ensis loot: ||okay I can see why Rellana’s cameo(whoever that is) exists, wing stance is cool as hell||

vivid spire
#

I can’t even touch half these spoilers until I beat it

mellow silo
#

(feel free to call on me as a summon in there if needed, I'm bored)

#

(assuming you're on PC)

frail sky
#

||Also I have no clue who Rellana is but I get the feeling I’m gonna meet her soon||

vivid spire
#

YES

#

YES YEA YES YES

frozen olive
#

Gj

mellow silo
#

Whoo!!!

#

Stinky Knight dead 😌

left willow
#

Nice

vivid spire
#

Look at this shit

#

I DID IT

frozen olive
#

Big moves

frail sky
#

||Also god I love how this thing can chain r2s into r1s and vice versa||

vivid spire
#

Wait…

#

What happens if I.. drink?

mellow silo
#

||you die||

frozen olive
vivid spire
#

Thioller.. I am afraid.

mellow silo
#

Drink Deep, and Descend

vivid spire
#

Did Lord Miquella cast this thing away for a reason?

#

….drink deep and descend.

atomic marsh
#

I have gotten to the boss

#

That I did not know how to get to

frozen olive
#

||he cast everything away, no exceptions||

atomic marsh
#

he is kicking my *ASS

vivid spire
mellow silo
#

Just normal

frozen olive
frail sky
#

...I'm not sure what y'all're talking about but it sounds ominous as hell

mellow silo
#

Keep drinking... Deeper... And Descend Further

vivid spire
#

A visage of my lord is in front of me

frozen olive
#

Not ominous, merely ||eepy||

vivid spire
#

But… it’s not him is it.

#

Fuck it. I came this far.

frozen olive
#

||It is of him, surely as the grass and trees are of the land||

vivid spire
#

HAH

#

that was… about what I expected

#

I can see why he cast it away

frozen olive
#

||No matter how much it may be discarded, it makes it no less a piece of the greater whole||

vivid spire
#

But this is also the same chamber where he cast his ||love|| away as well

mellow silo
#

Finally I can pull out this meme for you (St Trina)

frozen olive
vivid spire
#

Well

#

I.. don’t know

atomic plinth
#

OH FUCK YOU LMFAO

vivid spire
#

It could be poison or something more.

#

But..

frozen olive
#

||No love for the loving bloom? No love for the sweet embrace of the dreamer?||

atomic plinth
#

Fucking

mellow silo
#

Hint: ||keep drinking||

atomic plinth
#

||There was a loudass eagle RIGHT there, scared the shit out of me||

vivid spire
#

Milord has made a terrible mistake. I must find him.

atomic plinth
#

That was so fucking funny holy shit

vivid spire
#

This is wrong. You should not have done that, Miquella.

vivid spire
frozen olive
#

Also please be wary of spoilers

vivid spire
#

Ah yeah

mellow silo
#

||Drink... Deeper...

Descend... Further...||

vivid spire
#

My apologies

#

God it’s so interesting

frozen olive
frail sky
vivid spire
#

This was worth all the struggle it’s so.. unique

frozen olive
#

||You can resist the allure of the dreamer by warding against charm||

atomic plinth
#

Good to see the community's still on its same ol shenanigans

mellow silo
#

A classic

frozen olive
vivid spire
#

OH

#

||The adoring knight reaches for a god..||

#

OH

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||MAKE MIQUELLA STOP?!?!!||

mellow silo
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Wait... ||Do you mean Miquellas Gold Needle?||

vivid spire
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OH FUCK

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OH MY GOD

atomic jetty
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YES

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all ill say is

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dragon
me
i win

vivid spire
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Milord would never.. ||make a new god||

mellow silo
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DRINK DEEP
AND DESCEND

frozen olive
vivid spire
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He.. rejected ||godhood.||

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It was just a dream, surely.

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surely.

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HOLY SHIT YALL WERE RIGHT

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I FOUND THE TRUTH and it terrifies me

mellow silo
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You drank deep? (||The third dialogue?||)

frozen olive
vivid spire
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I… ||but if ||messmer|| is genocidal what about Miquella? Surely they can’t be as bad…||

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||Doesn’t he want to make a paradise?||

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…..

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I am afraid.

frail sky
mellow silo
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Yeah tbh

vivid spire
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Oh yeah

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My apologies

mellow silo
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Still have new players about

vivid spire
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Yeah

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Very sorry

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Hmm

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The remembrance is useless to me

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(lol)

mellow silo
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Classic fromsoft lol

vivid spire
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I will say having an entire ||Trina bit|| with no ||eepy boss||

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Is disappointing

frail sky
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Like genuinely just mark stuff at what point in the game or whatever location it is (if the name itself isn’t a spoiler)

vivid spire
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I’d like a ||eepy sword build|| that could scale off of faith dex and use sleep as a sort of element proc

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Oh ok

mellow silo
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All the stuff scrble is talking is in a mid/late game area

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Just ignore it all

vivid spire
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Yeah very sorry

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I’ll just spoil everything from here on out

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I got excited

frail sky
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🫂

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No worries

vivid spire
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I hope it doesn’t ruin your enjoyment

frail sky
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It doesn’t really

atomic jetty
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if in doubt, spoiler the whole thing and tag it with early/mid/late game

frail sky
mellow silo
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How's Ensis treatin' you?

junior spade
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I do hope they put out a performance fix for folk tho, i know its hitting a chunk of players with framerate drops

vivid spire
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Hnmmmmmm

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||Godhood would be Miquella’s prison.. but why? Does he lose his humanity||?

twilit path
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I have a beast of a PC and when I ran into (mid boss) ||meteorite beast the fifteenth or whatever|| I was so frickin laggy out of nowhere

junior spade
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I think thats the only real issue ive seen with the dlc for folks, i feel lucky to have avoided it

twilit path
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Mostly I've been fine tho

left willow
frail sky
# mellow silo How's Ensis treatin' you?

Less laggy than the area immediately outside of it (thank god), the basic mobs do a ton of damage but they also die in like two hits so that’s alright by me (says the person whose build includes ranged options)
Gonna have to finish it up tomorrow though, need to eep early sadplush

atomic plinth
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...oh boy I forgot how fucking anemically Elden Ring characters drink potions

vivid spire
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OH