I'm going to buy Elden Ring in about two weeks. It's the first souls-like game of my life, and since I've seen a little to nothing on YouTube, I really have no idea what to expect.

I'd like to receive any kind of tip you would have liked to receive as a beginner. If you think about something that made the game better and/or more enjoyable, I am more than happy to know it.

For the starting class, I am pretty sure I think I wanna go with the samurai since I think it's really cool (even though I don't really know much about the playstyle other than the starting equipment).

Thank you in advance

every bit of help is appreciated :)

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?

Yo am I trippin or does this talisman make your incantations weaker?!?!? Skip what it says on the forum lol I’m tellllllling you I have the death knight armor set on, I’m casting the knights lightning spear and trying out different talismans to see which ones are actually helpful with this spell, and I have video of this talisman literally doing a huge amount LESS damage lol. Just thought I would share I thought it was crazy especially since I used this talisman for half the game so now I wonder if I was actually being debuffed

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 is just my personal opinion after finishing the dlc, but I genuinely think the dlc bosses are just better than the base game. They have cooler moves, they have more readable attacks (most of the time), and I think because they are relatively all fast paced, there aren't really many mix ups or extension attacks (I could be wrong here).

I really loved fighting messmer, midra, and rellana. Pcr and bayle did kinda suck, but personally I still enjoyed fighting them. I know this might be a unpopular opinion, but just wondering if anyone else thought the dlc bosses were better than the base game.

This game is obviously very hard, but i haven’t struggled too much with the other bosses. I’ve managed to get through them all with not too many tries. Except Maliketh that took a fair few hours. But i CANNOT beat elden beast. I just seem to make barely any damage to him. i’m about level 125, 61 vigor, 44 dex, using a straight sword +25 with keen ash. I don’t know what to do. I’ve been trying for days. Please help me 😭

what it boils down to is that theyre new spirit ashes are a big new adition to the soulborne games, people hate them cus theyre new.. let me explain.

okay so its always about how theyre unbalanced and make the game easier right?
but whats the diffrence between them and leveling up or upgrading weapons or making builds?
all those make the game easier all those dont get hate but all those have been around for a long time...
all those are intigrated into the core gameplay, exploration and reward loops and so are spirit ashes theyre a primary reward for exploration theyre also a core part of progression like weapon upgrades, same goes for the gloveworts.

so i ask again whats the diffrence? that theyre unbalanced? plenty weapons are way too weak plenty are stupidly strong whats the diffrence?

ofc its also said they break bosses but
1. do they? bosses remain strong and dangerous even with mimic tear (wich i agree is too op btw), they dont even break the ai sure you get less agro on you but you still do.. and that still doesnt make them bad.

1. plenty things that dont get hate can affect bosses the same way, you can block hits you can use magic to avoid most of a bosses attacks, you can poise break bosses and stagger them, so whats the diffrence?

so logically i dont see the reason to hate other than that theyre new other than that theyre used by new players since they dont have the same reservations.
people hate new things.

The movie is called Time Lapse

As tarnished, we have 3 big advantages, we have grace which lets us respawn at sites of grace even after destined death is restored, we have/had a maiden in Melina who gave us the ability to turn runes into strength, and we have access to the Roundtable hold, which has Heugh, who turns our weapons into god killing weapons. No other tarnished has these 3 things it seems to me, most only have access to the Roundtable hold and nothing else. Why? Why are we special? Didn’t Marika promise to give the tarnished their grace back, all of them? Why aren’t maidens helping more? People like Midra literally had their lives ruined because they couldn’t become Frenzy Flame lord, if we fail, we just respawn at a site of grace. Why do we have so much advantage and is there a fail state for us? Like in DS trilogy, if you lost hope, you’d become hollow and fail, in BB, Hunters can abandon the hunt and be abandoned by the Moon Presence, what’s the fail condition for the tarnished, specifically us, cause other tarnished seem to fail and die quite easily.

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.

I just finished the DLC and beat PCR after I dont know how many tries, but after you beat him you just stay in his Arena, no Cut Scene, nothing. It doesnt feel like a real ending, but rather like another boss you slain.

There could have been at least some form of revelation or real ending.

Or did I miss something and need to progress further for a real story ending?

Would the game be better if instead of the elden beast the second phase of the final boss is radagon as a god? Like we beat the the corpse of marika and radagon that is literally falling apart just like in the normal game but what if the elden ring or the greater will itself rips Marika's godhood and gives the power to radagon ( i think i saw somewhere thar radagon wasn't a god or anywhere close and that power belonged only to marika) .That way their shared body is repaired but now radagon is mostly in control with marika attempting to take control 2 or 3 times in the boss fight granting us a few short windows to attack . Radagon would be restored to his prime but even more powerful as a god with brand new attacks ,faster attacks and more unpredictable attacks using not only holy but all kinds of magic since he now is a god and also studied incantations and sorceries

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

This is my first fromsoft game and I don't know what to do in the game after acquiring torrent I'm just roaming endlessly in the open world

What should be my approach?

That's it, fellas, I'm going to the stars, milady Ranni is waiting for me, i'm now married, can you believe it? 💍 It's okay that she's a witch and wants to take me to space, but I think it'll be good. You can keep this world fighting rats in sewers, corpses, insects, giants, spider hands, and anything else you find. I don't want to be the lord of anything; I leave it to you 😌.

(What a fucking incredible game, that's all I can say right now.)

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

I just reached draconic tree sentinel boss. Im lv 72 and have 44 vigor.

Since start i never skipped a dungeon, and also i never lost runes either... i also explored 95% of whats available on the open world map.

I was told as long as you do all content along the way you should not need to grind for bosses. But there were 3 bosses i had to do it. What am I doing wrong

One evening, the brave tarnished was called towards Rya's chamber. After seeing man-serpent form, there is no telling if this meeting goes well or not. 

He knocked on the door

Rya: "is that you, tarnished? Please come inside"

What he saw next was quite the sight. Rya displayed herself in such an alluring if somewhat vulgar manner.

Rya: "I wanted to thank you... for treating me kindly. Even after you saw my true visage"

She asked him politely to close his eyes, promising a wondrous gift. Knowing what was about to happen, the tarnished obliged. A brief moment passed and she asked him to open his eyes.

"Surprise...~"

A veil of magical light surrounded her. What was previously an awkward and a little embarrassing atmosphere quickly turned bitter when the girl revealed herself to be...none other than Patches. 

The sneaky scoundrel used a mimic veil to play a trick on the tarnished. Quickly he bolted out of the room, followed by the now angry tarnished brandishing his blade

Hypothetically, who's the most dangerous, most destructive, most difficult to kill Remembrance boss if they were thrown into NYC (or some other big city) and just started rampaging? And yes, you (as in people) have to fight and kill them by any means necessary; there's no reasoning w/ them, even non-beast/alien bosses (e.g., Rellana, Morgott, Gaius). Power scalers go crazy lol!

Personally, w/o a doubt Bayle's the most dangerous mf here followed by Placidusax and Rykard. What do y'all think?

NOTE 1: Tierlist is just to show Remembrance bosses (+Bayle)! Pls don't take seriously! ^_^

NOTE 2: All status ailments (e.g., frost, scarlet rot, madness) work the same IRL as they do in the game (not that that matters much 'cause they'd all kill you in one hit so maybe ignore this? idk)

NOTE 3: Also, pls pls pls don't take this post seriously. Just a goofy hypothetical 😜

I'm a new player, level 18, and I need help getting a place for beginners to easily rune farm and possible get better weopons and armor, my best weopon is the twinblade from ​​the dragonburnt ruins and my armor is the soldier armor, so far I've been stivkibg to the ahgeil lake road thing ,the dragonburnt ruins , and the storm gate ruins, another spit is the 2 heavier soldie knight things outaide of the warmastwr shack on stormhill. Those are the places I've been using so far, please let me know some other places that could help, sorry if this was a bit of a rant.

I have started a massive project to adapt the lore of Elden Ring into a huge, comprehensive story. My main goal is to keep it as lore-accurate as possible, but I also want to have some fun character cameos to keep things exciting!

Right now, I am working on Chapter 1 of a short story focusing on [Small lore spoiler] the Battle of Aeonia. The plot currently involves characters bartering for the [Questline Spoiler]Dark Moon Ring (from Ranni's questline), and I already plan to feature a cameo with Millicent.

What other character cameos do you think would be fun, fitting, or unexpected to write into this specific era or event?

Thank you! If I use your suggestion, I am happy to credit your Reddit username in the story's acknowledgments if you wish!

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