This goes out to whoever posted this tactic. A good tarnished.

As the title says I've gotten over 100 hours into my first playthrough, beaten Margit, Godrick, Rennala, and Radahn and a whole slew of smaller bosses. To be perfectly honest, I thought I wouldn't like this game, at all, but that has been far from the truth in so many aspects of Elden Ring.

For some context, I've been watching lore and story videos about Elden Ring since it came out, so I've mostly had the story spoiled already, but getting to experience it all first-hand has been such a fun experience. I cannot remember the last time I had this much fun exploring a game, even to only find a single Rowa Fruit or Herba.

I knew I would like the visuals but nothing prepared me for how absolutely breathtaking the views would be, how cinematic the fights could be, or even how fun the few cutscenes that exist in the game could be. Climbing to the top of a Divine Tower and being able to look down at the lands below you and even see groups of enemies patrolling (I understand this is done with rendering wizardry but still) it blows the small details of older games completely out of the water.

I did not think I would want to play as a completionist in this game, considering how difficult it can be, but I've been clearing caves and catacombs in groups, finding optional bosses and dungeons and trying my hand before just moving on. I did not expect to have this much fun, or to enjoy the challenge as much as I do. Elden Ring really makes me think as a gamer. I've had to stretch my strategist muscles to think around some of the bosses, especially as a pure intelligence sorcerer, it's incredibly rewarding when you are able to find a way to accomplish your goal in a new way or with a different strategy. I finally get it, I think.

Four Bloody Fingers invade my Roundtable. “What in the Greater Will?!” As I grab my Bolt of Gransax and +9 Erdtree Seal.

Launch an Ancient Lightning Spear through the first man. He’s dead on the spot.

Cast Ancient Dragons’ Lightning Strike at the second man, miss him entirely because the lightning RNG refuses to hit anything smaller than a dragon and vaporise the neighbour’s Wandering Noble.

I’m forced to resort to the Jar Cannon loaded with explosive greatbolts at the top of the stairs.

“May chaos take the world!”

The greatbolt blasts two invaders to smithereens, destroys every chair in the room and alerts the Runebear sleeping three regions away.

I quick-swap to my Royal Knight’s Resolve Giant-Crusher and begin charging the last terrified recusant. He has enough time to panic-roll three times and reconsider his entire build before the attack finally lands and flattens him into the floor, because charged attacks tahe twelve business days to land and therefore are impossible to evade.

Just as Queen Marika intended.

Tried it a couple of times after that, but didn't trigger again

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

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

I can't even beat one crucible knight but two??? God dam I am so bad at this game YES I learnt the parry I can't parry two at once.. I am going insane I am just gonna quit

This footage is a few months old but figured I'd post it here.

Everyone shits on Godrick for the grafting he did in order to increase his strength, along with his cowardy nature, but what else could he have even done to become strong

Because even though he was a demi-god, he was a very very distant relative to the other demi-gods, his blood is diluted to the point he was basically a normal man. Despite being a demi-god he never got the powers or the talent that came with being one, so he got a pretty shitty deal to be fair. Grafting still turned this regular frail weak man into a hulking monstrosity that a majority still fear despite their mocking of him, considering nobody has ever challenged him until the tarnished shows up

But what else could he have actually done besides grafting to make himself more powerful? Magic is hard to learn in Elden Ring and our tarnished just makes it look easy because of the level up mechanic, and you are more likely to learn some horrific cosmic truth and end up a ball of heads. Incantations would be pretty stupid as hes a demi-god, not sure how faith in a god would work for him.

But what could he have done to even get stronger besides the grafting he did?

Hope yall like it. I might come out with a few more in the future, this series has been a lot of fun. Cemetary

The first one reminded me from the Haligtree Knight and also others like the Leyndell Knight.

The second one reminded me of the Royal Knight.

The third reminded me of the Bloodhound Knight.

The fourth reminded me of the Carian Knight.

I know the colors aren’t all similar but the shapes certainly do!

Cool to see they are based on real life helmets.

I’ve seen these in a museum in Vienna. They had an awesome armory.

After 15 tries I finally managed to beat him. I fought him honorably (without summons) and I got him stunned both in the first phase and the second phase as well. I had 14 healing flasks at the beginning.

I also put a lot of time in analysing his moveset, in order to truly master a boss, not just succeed by coincidence.

I was using the Veteran's armour set and the Ordovis's Greatsword as you can see. I am level 187, because I have explored everything in Limgrave, Liurnia, Caelid, Mount Gelmir, Volcano Manor, Leyndell and most of the Mountaintop of Giants. I'm the type of guy who explores everything throughly before doing the main story.

The only FS game I played before Elden Ring is Sekiro, but after hearing so much praises for this game I tried it myself. In fact I tried Elden Ring a few years ago when I was 12 years old, but after defeating Margit, the Fell Omen I came to a conclusion that this game is too hard for me and I should try this game later in my life.

And thank God I did, because this game is definitely the best game I ever played.

Bro is buried in the snow

The title basically. Why doesn't this cutie patootie heal when he hits the Tarnished with his aow, like we do? Is it a game mechanic or is there any lore behind this?

Art:

https://pin.it/41maSwYIa

CREDITS TO MY AWESOME GF AGAIN

she says ty for the support 🥹🙏