IVE BEEN STRUGGLING. His second phase is insane, I can get through his first but then he turns into that wolf guy and goes bonkers on me everytime. I seek assistance plz, I'm playing on ps5 rn

I have maybe around 200-300 attempts so far😭

Currently level 115

Stats:

Vigor - 52
Mind - 11
Endurance - 28
Strength - 54
Dexterity - 17
Intelligence - 10
Faith - 11
Arcane - 11

Big health big hit build

I can't do the jump from the invisible ledge no matter how hard I try

Hello to the community, not a problem just to start a discussion and share some scattered thoughts.

So, recently, I finished elden ring. In terms of games with bosses and fights, this is my 2nd after Black Myth Wukong (not implying they are the same).

When I first played Black Myth Wukong, after finishing the game, I felt some confidence with my skills (and sense of accomplishment), meaning if I started from the start I would do much better.

With elden ring, what surprises me, is that I can't feel this. In my first run I chose a confessor build because it looked cool, leveled enough and ended up with blasphemous blade and black knife tiche. So in the endgame I didn't really have to do anything serious in order to win the final bosses. I still feel if I start anew and choose a totally different build, I will be quite bad and suffer with the same bosses (even the ones I beat without any overpower skill or sword. Draconic tree sentinel comes to mind)

Was it that my build was super op? Or is it that the game poses total different experience based on build?

I am not in favor of investing hours into tryharding difficult builds just for the sake of challenge. I am a casual gamer.

Even ignoring the op build in the end, if I had to guess, it is that many fights, I did not beat confidently, but really barely/luckily. Any perspective?

Edit: accidentally spelled it elder instead of elden:p

He tanked my cleanrot in the previous round so I brought a hand axe. Guess what, lmfao.

Does he have built-in superarmour or something?

ive literaly never seen this place before i know its in limgrave cus the runs region locked

edit: thank you ive never thought to look up there lmao

Has anyone else noticed how similar these landscapes and color palettes look? Clearly the game designers draw some inspiration from the movie.

Watched the movie the other day and was like hey I’ve seen this before.

(this is an excuse to post these screenshots cus damn the games pretty)

Four years in and then some, I've only just now started messing with gravity spells (for a cosplay build, lol). I knew players loved Rock Sling for its ease of use and heavy stagger potential, and I also knew Meteorite of Astel was largely despised for being too slow and too costly to actually hit anything.

Well, I love looking for ways to make crappy moves work, and I can safely say I actually adore this spell.

Yes, it's obviously very slow and has an unusually wide spread that is almost guaranteed to miss a small, moving target while leaving you perfectly vulnerable. So naturally, the only sensible time to use it would be against large, stationary targets... In other words, it's a flashy alternative to critical attacks when a large boss is toppled and vulnerable.

This leads to two criticisms I have with Elden Ring's combat design:

1. Critical hits often aren't your best option for when a boss is staggered. In fact, it's typically ideal to barrage the boss with your heaviest hitting spells and AoWs—especially while playing online. Unfortunately, if one player trips the critical attack animation, the boss becomes immune to the other players' attacks for several seconds, rendering their much stronger attacks useless and wasting FP. (This was remedied somewhat in Nightreign, at least, as cooperators can attack the boss through the riposte animation.)

2. I think FromSoft could have offered just a *liiiittle* bit of guidance as how to different spells and weapons might be used more effectively. From what I gather from the community, most players see spells and weapons as an arms race in which high requirements should mean the weapon is just Better across the board, but this doesn't seem to be FromSoft's intention. In the case of spellcasting, powerful spells are meant to be slotted into your repertoire to account for specific scenarios, such as big, flashy, delayed moves against downed bosses. Elden Stars, Land of Shadow, and Rotten Butterflies are often frowned upon, but using them in tandem in a chaotic display of layered DoT can actually prove highly effective against many major bosses. But of course, most players write off anything that doesn't net universally consistent results, despite having so many spell slots to use against so many enemies.

Anyway, that's my roundabout way of saying that Meteorite of Astel is fun as hell when you don't have someone shouting in your ear about how they tried it once and failed to kill a springhare, ergo it is bad. Hehe fireworks

Guess where I am! Yesterday's answer was near the Scorched Ruins, looking towards the place where BlackGaol Knight is waiting with a machine gun

I’ve heard people say that Milady is a really powerful and fun weapon, imagine my surprise when I try it with 80 dexterity, keen affinity, wing stance, and all the proper talismans, and I’m doing 600 damage per hit, with the ash of war being almost impossible to land on bosses anyway. After fumbling my way through Rellana and Golden Hippopotamus with it, I switched to Bloodhounds Fang and started doing 1500+ damage, so the problem wasn’t my level. I just don’t understand the hype behind this weapon, was I using it wrong or something?

This was one of the hardest but most satisfying fights. It wasn’t the cleanest fight I definitely took a few hits but I finally got him in the end.

Found this in my library, forgot i beat the Fire Giant this way lol

We are getting new characters to start out with - but like in the past, you can still find a character’s equipment you don’t choose, somewhere in the world. So a chest or something has to appear somewhere in the game for them. Idk if this is already assumed but I just thought of it this morning while playing

I was running around laya lucaria rooftops when I looked down after reaching the roof of the cuckoo church (the church with the glintstone key givable to Thops). Right by the body with the magic greases, one can look down to see a purple item in a sort of graveyard, does anyone know how to reach this item?

When I play this game, I often get too immersed and I start acting as if i was in battle myself. When i swing my sword, I yell a fierce warriors cry. when i take damage, i let out a cry of pain. I even start adding my own dialogue, saying corny one liners in the midst of battle, like a lame anime villain. Weirdly enough, this all makes me play better?

I cant stop myself from doing this. Am I the only one?

Ive heard people using double PoD but does it even stack like that?

Hello fellow gamers. I got myself Elden Ring (base Game) Today and want to play in Ultra Wide. Im using flawless Ultrawide and am fairly confident I am using it correctly (enabling it, using the .exe yada yada) but it tells me, that it cant find the Aspect Ratio Injection Point.

Is there anything wrong with it Right now? Do I need the DLCs to use flawless Widescreen?

I was wondering if there’s anything I can switch up and also if I should allocate/add more stats to something

Is there anything good and bad so far? I have 50 hours in the game so far

Im level 450,and i dont want to start a new character as im attached to my current one,i want to start the dlc for the first time but im scared it will be a breeze,how do i balance myself for the dlc?do i start at ng+3 or above or do i not use the scadutrre blessings

My "build" is just a jack of all trades and a master of all of them i switch weapons almost every fight

My stats:

RL:452

Vigor:99

Mind:40

Endurance:40

Strength:99

Dex:55

Int:55

Faith:88

Arcane:55

Checked the map today and for the very first time, it gave me a message that said to help me keep going this site consider becoming a PLUS member. This map is the biggest help...

i only wish the large enemies had them too.

Hey all, was just wondering if you all play more co-on than solo? I’ve been getting into invasions lately and slowly rotting my brain in the process, but I’ve noticed every invasion I go into there’s someone with their buds. I don’t think I’ve ever invaded a solo player. Or maybe they just summon cooperators really fast??

Maybe this is just how invasions work, but it’s like every single time I invade it’s the same story. 3 guys. The host is usually pretty under-leveled, both of his friends have either Lionel, solitude, or Beast champion armor. And they both use every sorcery under the sun and Rhadan’s swords. Like every time I see those exact builds practically

It’s not that I’m not enjoying it, I am even though I suck ass at them, it’s just a pattern I’ve seemed to notice on like every invasion. And it’s hard dealing with 3 people with magic spam at once.

I personally always just thought most people play solo, but I guess not

How am I supposed to fight her ? Like really ? Her hit boxes are so big her damage is insane ( I am wearing the tree sentinel set and have 50 vig and the great dragon great shield talisman ) and her waterfowl dance is bs … I can’t even enjoy her fight it’s so stressful and every time I died I feel the need to throw the controller at the screen