#Elden Ring (DLC hype room)
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Mimic Tear, O Mimic Tear
why do you have to make me look so fucking bad
The Mimic is fearless
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||
Lemme guess yours doesn’t draw aggro right
It basically solo'd 2 bosses so far for me
1 was a dlc boss, npc but still fucking stupid
Also how did you get questlines already
and it proved fucking fearless in ||Rellana's fight||
I got ||Ansbach||
i'm doing some base game stuff
Oh
i forget that like, talismans and shit exist
so i've been running around with dogshit
going to get alex's shard
for one of the new weps
is he still at Radahn?
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
then he'll tp to farum
since scrble is in dlc i assume they did radahn
Yes
I.. don’t remember where Alex is
Idk the jar shard might not matter too much
Hmm
15% bonus skill damage
Oh
Which is the same as ||Rellana's Cameo||
That could get me the edge against the sunflower
Hey btw question
Where do I go after the ||Saint of the Bud|| fight
I'm very loat
Lost
Did you get ||Messmer||
Shit, it’s fucking Steam maintenance time
I feel like I've gone just about everywhere I can pre-Messmer >:|a but no damn way to tell
Is your map filled out
Missing a chunk above the Jagged Peak
And can't seem to get to the area above Rauh Base
Also even without all the gods interfering I think this nation would've fallen due to infrastructure issues how does anything get anywhere fack
Those are explorable preMess
Okie! Shall search more
I will say the right area is truly a Journey to get to
What about that other like ||Finger Ruin|| thing, it looks attached to the Black Keep
is there some fucked up cave
i'm tryin to avoid it
Youve got a lot explored without hitting the Keep at least
I have a huge gap missing in the middle
No clue what it is
I've got to be running out of ||big damn bears|| to find
Wanna know how to get there?
Sure does it have fragments
Yes. Just two tho.
Yup.
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.||
I don't...think there's any incantations? But there is predictably a boss and dungeon area, which I only just found last night.
Oh
I can’t find any other saudutree fragments
I probably have some at Rauh
I think I have two
The boss has incantation rewards, technically
genuinely just getting demolished by the final boss still
So like
||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||
P. much
(final boss)||managed to survive first phase with full crimson flasks, pretty good||
Max upgrade is +12/14 flasks right?
yes
still getting absolutely annihilated by this boss but this is better
There's actually more seeds than you need in the basegame. Remember that ulcerated tree spirits tend to drop them when they die
Fair
For a weapon like say
Sword of night and flame
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
Or should I go int/faith mix
Cause idfk what makes the fire attacks and basic attacks not feel weak af
the fire scales with faith, the comet with int
What about basic attacks like R1
Both I assume?
Or mostly str/dex
I see
not sure about basic attacks
Fair
Hmm
So the checklist is
- Get Fragments
- Sunflower
Hmm
Yall do any bosses drop fragments
I’ve found all of the ones on the Graven Plain
final boss spoilers
||prime radahn got hands, but i got shield, took me a few attempts but man, what a fight||
damn
impressive
i'm stuck atm
getting my ass beat
i just don't have the technical skill to fight this boss
its such a cool fight
it's a cool fight but it's so difficult i honestly kinda don't want to continue trying it
at no point trying it solo have i gotten past ||half health on his healthbar||
none of my weapons do enough damage to even feel like they are hitting when i fight either
||I joined you just now||
||And the WILDEST FUCKING THING||
||THEY ALL LIVED||
||ME, ANSBACH, THOLLIER, AND THE MIMIC TEAR||
||It was borderline cinema||
||Thollier was stuck on the door until halfway through phase 2, so it was like the cavalry arrived||
||My sad little lean-addicted twink came in and poisoned him and clinched it for us when we were on the ropes||
my strat was hide behind my shield, and poke with a cold spear and hope i survive long enough to get enough frost procs so the boss dies
it worked
i was at 1 flask at the end

mimic doing extra pokes got me a few extra procs while i was hiding behind the shield
We barraged him with as many statuses and %HP DOTs as possible
Rot, deadly poison, bleed, black flame, destined death, so on
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||
looool
hmmm
post final boss
||am i missing something or is just defeating radahn the end of the dlc?||
fuck yeah!
||theres a memory you can interact with, but as far as i can tell thats it||
Nice!!!!!!!!!
||that motherfucker is built fucking ford tough, we had to bleed and rot him multiple times to kill him||
yeeeeeep
I wanna hug Leda and tell her how much I appreciate her ahhh
Plz don’t be violent Leda
She even notes that she wasn’t aware ||of how bloodthirsty she was||
Were they naked
Naked random summons are either useless or godlike
No inbetween
(Gimmick characters also count for this rule)
Peak physical form
Well
Is it the ||Masoleum||
oh hey hes doing my build
they did confirm the dlc added no endings in an interview
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
its wild knowing i started the dlc at level 121 and ending it at level 169 lmaooo
Wait what
Wait WHAT
Yeah
Yeah the DLC is self contained
I don't mind it tbh
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
I thought that Bloodborne and Dark Souls added endings
No idk how to get there
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
Nah, no added endings, just extra context
I left my base game unfinished
holy shit that was a fucking thing huh
So I’ll come back and nuke the beast
also
Just for yall
The dlc doesn't exactly overpower you since most of your scaling is done exclusively in the shadow realm
go down that river
(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||
using DLC weapons on in-game bosses has been hilarious so far
Yeah
I found the ||Bonny Village|| do I follow the bridges
||I THOUGHT SHE FUCKED UP HIS PLANS BUT HE SENT HER TO KILL RADAHN SO HE COULD BECOME MIQUELLA'S CONSORT||
Oh ok
basically just keep going Down
Went to get the magma wyrm in West volcano for Alex jar and it fucking melted her with SoMaF
fucking hell
The verticality of this area is very confusing
I lost the masoleum and can’t find my way back at all
(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||
Also will they release the OST on YouTube
I know they have the official ost on Spotify
||if you went through the coffin, you wanna start near the Ruins of Unte||
For the main game
Ohh ok
Wait does this lead to the ||Abyss||
yes
and from there just keep going Down
But ||Unte|| sounds very New Londo
Also are there any bosses that drop fragments
I think I’ve found almost all of the easily reachable ones in the Plain
indirectly i think ||Commander Gaius gates off 5-6 of them ||
yeah
I'm letting it sit and nerding out with a friend still learning their own lore tidbits but
wow
I'm so satisfied
(finale spoiler)||read the item descriptions on Young Radahns armor and the miquella item and holy fuck that is some lore||
||Also Mohg basically beat the allegations after all||
(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||
||in the sense that he was probably compelled by Miquella?||
||cause it REALLY seems like Mohg was just compelled by Miquella to be used as a vessel for Radahns spirit later on||
||He was basically mind controlled to do a lot of the stuff he did by Miquella, purely so Miquella could get to the Lands of Shadoe, and take his body to.pit Radahn's soul into||
||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||
||and then mind control Radahn into being his Consort but that's a whole.other thing||
||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||
What’s it weak to yall
ILL JOIN YALL
..eventually
||Yep! Ansbach himself was mind controlled when he tried to kill Miquella to free Mohg, and basically got remade into a "I always supported Miquella" sorta state||
||the fucking grab Radahn does allowing miquella to put a charm on you that can completely subvert you if hit twice is fucked||
||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||
||Leda's first thoughts after being uncharmed were basically "who can I justify killing"||
||i love that his own rune breaks this||
||Ansbach was a real G, he even forgave you for killing Mohg||
||it's a REALLY twisted irony||
||her sword has fascinating lore||
Oh my hof
||incredible fucking writing honestly, and presumably why he broke the rune to try to deny anyone from gaining its power||
||Yeah, cause he realized that A. Mohg was basically a victim who needed to be put out of his misery and B. That's kinda just what tarnished do||
||absolute fucking king shit moment||
Out of raw spite
And yeah, the parellels are definitely intentional
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?||
Uuugh
Fuck this
I’m gonna keep heading down the damn waterfall
I can’t kill a single boss
Also Rakasha us weak to stagger
i cannot
||Miquella saw in Radahn the ideal lord/knight; malenia is rotting and a fellow empyrian, godwin has no soul anymore, so they cant work
the ending fight is to both make sure Miquella doesnt compete with you as lord but also to ensure he doesnt Miquella Love Bomb the world and just become Marika 2||
||its telling that the first thing that Leda does upon the charm being removed is to plot to kill her companions in a fit of paranoid projection||
i was wondering about that lmao
||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)||
Is there fucking fucking ANYTHING that can be done about light speed attacks
be FTL
Great
||"love bomb" more like charm everyone and strip their free will||
||and she couldn’t even do that right||
||i do wonder if Miquella had Malenia charmed like he did Leda||
||honestly, it could go either way||
||It's not impossible, she's pretty devoted to him||
I might have stronger thoughts about it after all of it sits with me a bit, and im still hunting around like a truffle pig in the dlc for more lore items that might add more to it for me, but i do largely agree with you
||Malenia feels like the the kind of character who would be devoted anyway, trying to serve a greater cause before her rot consumes her||
Not worth it
||it would explain why she just decided to throw away the dignity that defined her entire existence so her brother could get what is in essence a glorified love doll||
||i can 100% accept her being charmed but i also don't think it has to be the case||
||it would yeah||
Gonna eat dinner and rematch
Rematch time.
Also I’ll record a video of my fight
I literally cannot stun him
What are his weaknesses
i found stunning to be fairly unreliable the entire dlc personally
i mean not every enemy has a Specific Achilles Heel
For this guy specifically nothing worked
||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||
sometimes you just have to execute your strategy
||yeah i could buy that tbh||
||oh my god the golden needle removes outside influences. like miquellas influences||
||Could also play into why Gowry wanted Millicent to flourish so much, he wanted her to sort of replace or complete Malenia||
||yeah i’d love to talk to a post-Millicent reintegrated Malenia||
||she’d offer a very interesting perspective||
GOT THE FUCKER
gj
that spell is godly
Time to Fog Rift Catacomb again ig
That dongeon has caused so much pain for me I swear 
||yeah not only did his goddess reject him, she was subservient to another divinity (Miquella), so he tried to make a “pure” version of her by despair-breaking Millicent||
||poor Millicent 😭 ||
i get you
Tbf
my first one was with DS3 and Midir was soulcrushing
Yeah
from base game
Big exception
(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||
yay, dragon pit boss down. Second try upon coming back today :)
||i find this acceptable mostly because i am a rabid fucking dog so it fit me well||
Oh, and the furnace golems, do not like those either
can i show you something that might change your mind
what an absolute shitter enemy
Hmm
Have not killed one, do not plan too
I just treat them as area hazards tbh
I tried going down and lost my way
Avoid at all cost
Restart
Bro I
They're slow as hell and don't have range so that strategy mostly works
Oh cool I'm talking about the current topic
In one of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree's dungeons, players can come across a stone golem calmly petting a lava slime.
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Jesus fucking christ Moe, do I agree
Oh wait
wrong enemies
Sh*t
I thought we were talking the giant wicker men
the giant wicker men also suck to kill
I just found the one in ||Rauh||
The one who, you know
||Has a fire whirl cannon||
Yall need to decide
that ones SO FUNNY
They're incredibly boring fights
Are you meant to kill them or nah?
i love fromsoft pranks
you get rewards for doing so
Those aren't furnace golems
The wicker men's canon name are furnace golems according to item descriptions
Fire golems? Yeah, you're meant to kill them
ooooooh
Kill me in my face
well im still happy i sent that to you anyways
i like you all and want you all to do well
and killing them actually gives rewards
I like the bois in the furnaces
I like the forge dungeon golems yeah
It may be that they and the forges themselves remind me of the first area in Darksiders II
Anyone else played Darksiders II?
you don't have to but they do give (spoilers obv)||physick tears||
THEY GIVE WHAT????
I always end up at the area with the militiamen @junior spade
Yeah...........
AS IN ||MULTIPLE PHYSICK USES???||
||no, the things you put in physicks||
there should be some statues pointing the way in that area!
Ooooohhhh, right
Okay
Good
Then I give literally zero fucks they're not worth it
(more minor spoilers)||one of them gives you sekiro parries||
I do not care and ||Sekiro is my least favorite fromsoft game due to its reliance on parries||
i dont mind them but im a freak who likes torrent fights
I cannot stand torrent fights
HOW DID I MISS THE DOOR
Torrent fights can
Torrent is useless
do a thing I can't say here
This guy wants me to consume the throbbing meat of an ancient dragon.
I'm quite down
so i have Torrent fights
damn
the dlc made me happy cuz i got more uses out of torrent lmaoooo
Torrent can get me to places quicker and then leave
Torrent is just barely a utility at all
except half the time he just walks off a ledge or just flies off into a direction you don't want
Torrent is so fucking unreliable it's crazy
sometimes he'll just keep walking after i stop doing inputs
so mean to my boy
literally just launch us to our deaths
anyway the ||Rau furnace golem|| jumpscare kinda annoyed me lol
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
Also I know you said not worth, but dammit I wasn't going to delete everything I'd written lol
the armoured version was fun to puzzle out
also torrent does not scale at all to the DLC so a stray hit will just kill him and then you're also dead
He gets boosted by revered spirit ashes
seriously?
It says in their description.
that's crazy cause it did not fucking feel like it
Anyway I know it kinda got lost but the fit is good
And the tutorial you get
yeah torrent tanks hits well as long as, like the player, youre not hit mid-action
anyway
(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||
||the incantation does SO MUCH DAMAGE with the dryleaf seal||
||unless i want to farm the 10 levels between 240 and 250||
dogs! (spoilered for being in the dlc, but I don't think it actually spoils anything other than the style of an enviroment)
dogs!
||which would be 5055304 runes||
So, Ive got an interesting theory
I started at level 121 and ended at level 169
started at 150 ended at 240
i leveled purely for stat reqs and some scaling boosts
i do think you need 60 vigor but i also was tanking stuff
So have people just been ignoring this mechanic?
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
I've seen some stubborn players try to clear some bosses with low fragments, getting blown up a lot along the way
I mean no, I'm at 12 Scadutree Blessing and 10 Revered Spirit Blessing
Started 150, now at 175 and intend to stay that way
oh god
For the Jolly Cooperation
Darklight sucks
like with spirit ashes and co-op, i have seen people outright say "using the scadutree blessings is for tourists" etc
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!"
After a point its also kind of a pain to even get them
Around 13 I was having to look up scadu locations on the wiki
Like I appreciate the idea and it more or less does work
But after a while its collectable hunting, except mandatory
Some folk just have a really toxic elitism with skill-based gaming
And of course those are the people that most bitch about the difficulty
I just enjoy the game my own way
I've been going through the whole game on the backs of player summons, don't intend to stop now
based
time for
jolly cooperation
i won the final boss with a bit of jolly cooperation
I dueled Messmer, thats enough for me
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
There anything I should know about the DLC going in?
I know it's supposed to be Extremely Fucking Hard
How it started vs. how it's going
Defensive talismans are good
I do run pearldrake and irondrake
the game means it, very seriously, that you need Scadutree Blessings
yes
explore a lot
also if you are struggling, utilize summons
That's a given
they are there to help you
Moreso than the base game, exploring when stuck is so crucial
it's very important
dont stick to a boss too long if it sucks go another direction for a while
Dogs <3 (of the long-necked + armored version. Like the pope)
Scadutree is not optional, use summons, explore every nook and cranny you can find
Guessing I can't hit em with the ol "Comet Azure Terra Magica No FP Consumption Flask"
you cannot
yes
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
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
I'm 100% gunning straight for her
I want that armor for my spellblade fit
And her swords
I did it!
visions of victory...
She's the "second" in "intended order" and she is, indeed, a skill check
that always sounds so funny to me
p sure all bosses are skill checks (or maybe I'm just bad at the game?)
cause i beat her so easily, probably because i didn't jump at her immediately
the whole DLC is a skill check
especially if you don't want to run summons
as a challenge i guess
What kind of hard is she?
I got ||Yosh|| and am loving him
Is she like, Pontiff Sulyvahn type hard where she has comboes for DAYS?
He's a very silly summon
time for ||Yoda||
:) you'll see
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
||Midra|| down. I think if I was relying on parries this would be a fun fight but as it was, hhrgh.
Nah that mf is ||Vergil||
...ah fuck I think I started a NG+ before
||wish i could do that shit fr, looks so sick||
Oh well!
oh well
I gotta beat up Mohg and Radahn right?
correct
Roight
the Mohg like enemy and King of Shit himself do need to die violently and terribly correct
Jumping avoids a suprising number of attacks because of long lower-mid body invuln
||vision of death, therefore seek hiding place||
Wait is it Fake Mohg or Real Mohg I need to beat up?
Real
Real Mohg
the real one
you may kill the sewer dweller if you feel like it
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
I AM SCARED
Gonna be a bit before it's downloaded
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
||Didn't expect fear... in short danger ahead||
||Horse? Horse!||
That's a pretty cool caster build you got going
I like how you didn't even have to use the black blade
i like using destined death, free health chunk
I’m back to black blade for the moment
Also I beat Romina with blinkbolt axes
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
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
||Gotta sneak through the tall grass/reeds, I've seen running work with limited effectiveness, they chase far.||
||Don't touch the corn||
randomizer runs gunna go crazy
did you see the notes on the ground
Yeah it's a sneaking mission, Snake
snake? SNAKE?! ||HOOOOOORSE??||
That's a drum corn
I have found the secret to fire knight ownage
multihits and lightning
Just
shove lightning elbow deep
I made it through
Good!
Took a while to process but:
My clear of the final boss
||https://youtu.be/hgIr8PdoWfM?si=GzgKv4I5TipcXnbS||
now you go into The House
amazing name
south
oh sweet
And multilayer rings
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
still proud of you, good job
Remove the audio 🤔
Replace it with breakcore 😌
one scarlet rot proc did like 25-30k damage or some dumb shit like that
add Slayer - Raining Blood
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
🙏
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
Wait did they add the fucking winter lanterns
no
With summons the boss' health gets so crazy
The DOT on black flame was doing additional thousands of damage
Cuz its percent based
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
Just got the dlc and I think I can see why people are complaining about the performance 
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
the game loads into my character obnoxiously slowly
but otherwise it's mostly fine
the final boss did lag switch me though
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
it hit me with an attack while attacking another player outside of melee range of my character
That was fucking horrid
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 >->
hit me with the ghost attacks
yeah i had to buy elden ring on pc cuz my ps4 died, i feel yea
Finally nearly done redownloading
Shouldn't take all fucking day to download 67 gigabytes but that's another can of worms
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
||Toobers||
Anyone summoning for the final boss
Been slamming my head against this dude for hours
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
I'm going to bed soon as well, but I can write up what my successful gameplan was if you'd like
Also seriously this dude just randomly decides he’s not interested in my Mimic Tear
||I can be halfway across the arena doing nothing and he’ll go “hmm I should light speed attack THIS guy”||
his soulless husk is a aggro god
Locked out this save
spoiler tags btw not everyone is there yet
much obliged
||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||
Ahh, makes sense
||using a shield is an INSANE powerup||
My %maxHP option is Godslayer fire
||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
I’ve been parrying
personally scarlet rot was the GOAT for me
Since it halts the entire attack sequence
Yeah sacred haligtree is GOAT
||summoning makes his healthbar enormous||
That I am aware of
||he has like 50k health without summoning so if you summon it becomes unfathomably worse unless your summon really is doing business||
i suck at parrying so i havent tried
There any good new spells?
Playing a spellblade build, wanting something new to spice my build
lots of new good weapons / weapon arts for spellblades too
Are those dual swords from ||Rellana|| good?
the boss weapons this dlc seem pretty good
Well
...aw, man, I might need to refight Radahn and Mohg
I've officially converted to the church of Zamor Ice Storm
Eh, I like both their fights, I'm okay with this
Found a REALLY good spell thanks to a cooperator
God bless Radahn honestly
i tried both int and faith builds in the dlc and i enjoyed both sets of new goodies
Bosses that aren't immune to Frostbite get BODIED by the spell
Cmoooooooooooooooon man
Cmooooooooooooooooooooooooooon I wanna play Elden Ring
I wanna go to DLC Land
i wanna go on miquella crazy ride
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
Actually
I just realized
I have a backup of my save
So i can fight the final boss again
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?
i ship em
Okay so current thoughts on the dlc:
-Wow this is pretty
-Oh god the lag, can’t even have antialiasing on if I want it to not stutter
-Light greatswords seem fun
-They literally named a weapon milady
Oh SHIT
(God I need a new pc)
||MIDRA||
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
||the spineless failure guy, he's interesting||
...oh right I'm at the Haligtree, I think I'm good on Radahn and Mohg lmfao
oh at lvl 200+ youre more than ready
Oh god I forgot how fucking dripped out I am
i finished the dlc at 181
GOD the Hoslow armor is so fucking cool
Also people please spoiler tag shit
the hoslow armor does go hard
New people are still going into the DLC
Right, uh
I should take pictures of my haligtree knight going places
How do I access the DLC
go back to mohg
Stealing that drip btw
I had pretty good drip by the end there
(DLC armor and weapon spoilers) lookin pretty swag
oooh which set is that?
Fuck
Putrescent knight still fucked me up in three hits
I can’t get this guys moveset
Not a set, used parts from two armors
But if I’m gonna do the dlc i need to know the whole truth
It's ||Solitude helm amd gauntlets and Fire Knight chest and greaves||
Looks pretty swag
...oh goddammit
Drip time?
lol
Feel free
Also had these fits which are super cool
I have enough fragments
First one is cool af
I can see I’m doing fine if a little low damage
Love that helmet
I usually run this fit
It's a good helmet
It's a hard one
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
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
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
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||
This guy
Thiolliers bottles do deadly poison, which is only slightly weaker than scarlet rot
my current drip
mostly base game with a tiny bit of dlc flare
||Flameseer Freyja who spent most of the DLC cosplaying a Carian Knight and a holy knight respectively did in fact end up showing their true nature as a pyromantic warrior and became a burning knight with a sword wreathed in baleful flames||
Well he sucks at drawing aggro
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
Shadow Militiamen Helm is so fucking funny
And the HORSE.
Like. Just look at that thing. Goofy
The what?
Stink Knight is hard to hit, but he's actually pretty squishy at the end of the day. You can do it!
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
||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||
Yeah it's weird
||I expected him to sleep me, not freezerburn me||
That would have made the fight so much worse lmao
Sigh
A proper ||Sleep boss|| would be scary as hell
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.
What did you think of the ||slumber party outside?||
I am doing a save dupe because I wanna do a playthrough as muh swordmonk build
||read the remembrance when you kill the boss||
||Remembrance always describe stuff about the boss they are from||
I can’t click that
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
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
Yeah summoning is a bit iffy rn
Boss spoilers ||Rakshasa is a bitch||
They get summoned really quick so getting one is hard as far as my exoerience goes
I know I say the indomitable human spirit a lot
||Fucker is poising through shit she wasn't before, I stg||
But I’m getting tired of trudging through the game alone
I did some Jolly co-operation for the final bit
My friend played this game with me for hours on launch but dropped it immediately
He said it was too hard
Is there a good way to get Deadly Poison or Scarlet Rot for a sorc build? Or am I SOL there?
I’m not a quitter so I beat it five times
Oh, pots, duh
I was disappointed to hear it’s sitting in his library doing nothing
Grease!
Pots and pans
... On a sorc?
Oh
Yeah
Yeah true I assumed you had a backup melee
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
Me personally, i would cast Scarlet Aeonia and just melt
Factual
That looks like dual Reduvia too
So you know the build is going to be absolutely foul
Castle Ensis loot: ||okay I can see why Rellana’s cameo(whoever that is) exists, wing stance is cool as hell||
I can’t even touch half these spoilers until I beat it
Oh my poor sweet child
(feel free to call on me as a summon in there if needed, I'm bored)
(assuming you're on PC)
||Also I have no clue who Rellana is but I get the feeling I’m gonna meet her soon||
Brutal
Gj
Nice
Big moves
ngl my I've been so spoiled by greatswords and the like that I don't know if these are good damage numbers or not
||Also god I love how this thing can chain r2s into r1s and vice versa||
||you die||
Try it
Thioller.. I am afraid.
Drink Deep, and Descend
||he cast everything away, no exceptions||
he is kicking my *ASS
Like a ||permadeath|| or just death
Just normal
||the eepy||
...I'm not sure what y'all're talking about but it sounds ominous as hell
Keep drinking... Deeper... And Descend Further
A visage of my lord is in front of me
Not ominous, merely ||eepy||
||It is of him, surely as the grass and trees are of the land||
||No matter how much it may be discarded, it makes it no less a piece of the greater whole||
But this is also the same chamber where he cast his ||love|| away as well
Finally I can pull out this meme for you (St Trina)
How sad
OH FUCK YOU LMFAO
||No love for the loving bloom? No love for the sweet embrace of the dreamer?||
Fucking
That is true.
Hint: ||keep drinking||
||There was a loudass eagle RIGHT there, scared the shit out of me||
Milord has made a terrible mistake. I must find him.
That was so fucking funny holy shit
This is wrong. You should not have done that, Miquella.
I see. Drink from the Well.
Also please be wary of spoilers
Ah yeah
||Drink... Deeper...
Descend... Further...||
||There is actually a different way||
||Oh god those stupid birds, I hate them||
This was worth all the struggle it’s so.. unique
||You can resist the allure of the dreamer by warding against charm||
Good to see the community's still on its same ol shenanigans
A classic
||At least, if you are capable of warding off charms, you may obtain the truest use of the dreamers gift immediately without innoculation||
Wait... ||Do you mean Miquellas Gold Needle?||
Milord would never.. ||make a new god||
DRINK DEEP
AND DESCEND
||Nay, the needle does naught but silence the whispers of the outer voices||
He.. rejected ||godhood.||
It was just a dream, surely.
surely.
HOLY SHIT YALL WERE RIGHT
I FOUND THE TRUTH and it terrifies me
You drank deep? (||The third dialogue?||)
||He rejected himself, and in his sorrow he cast off bits of the self until naught remained, not even love||
I… ||but if ||messmer|| is genocidal what about Miquella? Surely they can’t be as bad…||
||Doesn’t he want to make a paradise?||
…..
I am afraid.
…please just mark everything as spoilers at this point
Yeah tbh
Still have new players about
Classic fromsoft lol
Like genuinely just mark stuff at what point in the game or whatever location it is (if the name itself isn’t a spoiler)
I’d like a ||eepy sword build|| that could scale off of faith dex and use sleep as a sort of element proc
Oh ok
I was trying yes
🫂
No worries
I hope it doesn’t ruin your enjoyment
It doesn’t really
if in doubt, spoiler the whole thing and tag it with early/mid/late game
||Like I kinda assumed Messmer was a genocidal lunatic from the trailers and him looking blatantly evil||
How's Ensis treatin' you?
I do hope they put out a performance fix for folk tho, i know its hitting a chunk of players with framerate drops
Hnmmmmmm
||Godhood would be Miquella’s prison.. but why? Does he lose his humanity||?
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
I think thats the only real issue ive seen with the dlc for folks, i feel lucky to have avoided it
Mostly I've been fine tho
Terribly. ||I got to the bridge after the gate you can raise from the other side, then I had to go to work :(||
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 
...oh boy I forgot how fucking anemically Elden Ring characters drink potions
OH
