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Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Seananigans
Honorary Shit-PhD
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Real men wear the whole set. 50 endurance and jar arsenal talisman and I can wear the whole Lionel set and not fat roll!
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Honorary Shit-PhD
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Hmm my game is corrupt. I was worried last night when I went to rest mode after quitting, it green screened on me.
Here’s hoping it’s just the game and not the save file that’s fucked.
Here’s hoping it’s just the game and not the save file that’s fucked.
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That's suddenly my experience as well. Don't use faith (even though that was my plan).
I reached the ice zone now, level 120ish. I have a combination of Radahn armor and the armor which has the chestplate with the fat stomach. Poise is 70ish and have 1500 hp. Using a starscourge greatsword and a greatshield upgraded to 20 with 70ish guard. Got to the first ruin and the enemies there hit with a regular hit for 30+% of my HP. I do 10% of their HP with a hit. They dodge like mad and don't stagger. They killed my level 10 mimic before I cleared the camp, so ran when 3 came at once.
Ran into some stormbirds, they too hit for 30% of my HP. They died in two hits, but I chug pots like mad. Ran into bats, they kill my horse in a hit combo. Came to an erdtree and it duped itself, where one of them oneshot my horse and did 90% of my HP with one hit.
Granted I am using the item that raises my stats and increases my damage taken, but need that + the equip load talisman to be able to equip all the armour and still be at medium load.
I also miss my Golden Halberd. Starscourge is better fighting on the ground and MUCH better on the mimic since it uses the special skill all the time, but it is awful for horse combat.
I've felt somewhat overleveled for every zone I've been in, except perhaps Caelid. Using summons, it's never been a "hard" game. Most I've died to a boss is 4 or 5 times which was the glint dragon as its breath oneshot me. Probably because I explore so much and there has always been other places to go if I entered a place where mobs were clearly higher level than me. Now this is the only area I can think of to go to, and trash mobs make me feel about as powerful as I did exploring my first ruin. Only difference was that the first ruin had one soldier that was more powerful than the rest, now entire camps are filled with enemies like that.
Makes me want to restart and go mage. I know I can respec, but recently also did a lot of talking in the roundtable hold and I suddenly understand all the "Why is it always regret" messages. I think I did a lot of quests wrong or in bad orders. Things escalated so quickly!
Will of course push through, but man did the game suddenly turn Dark Souls mode on in the last 5 hours.
EDIT: One thing though. I am 84 or so hours into this game now. Take Skyrim or the Fallouts and this was the point when the vanilla versions had fatigue set in, in terms of everything being too easy even at the hardest difficulty. Loot didn't matter anymore so exploring suddenly started feeling pointless.
My "complaint" now is that the game just got harder after 80 hours and 120 levels and became more Dark Souls than its been in a while. And I love Dark Souls. So guess I am just complaining that the feeling of being OP has suddely gone away and the game reminded me that I also need to git good.
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Tuco
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I think this will be a common complaint with this game. If you like to explore the zones or look up ideal builds you'll be OP for the first 75% of the game. Then when you get to the last 25% it's balanced around you hitting the attribute softcaps and the game feels like you just emerged from the newbie zone again but now have a dozen flasks. Those guys in the ruin are no joke though, they look like trash mobs but should be taken seriously.
Hateyou
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Anyone else have this annoying fucking bug where anytime you get anything that has a message like “Somewhere a heavy door has opened” and the message won’t fucking go away so you can’t open menus or do anything? Really annoying bug, introduced with last patch.
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Hateyou
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The Halberd move sets on horseback is the same as colossal except if you fully charge a halberd it does a double swing instead of a single.
Also, the halberd only knocks people into the air if you hit with that fully charged second swing. Unlike colossal which only takes one swing and doesn’t need fully charged. Colossal is better than halberd due to that imo.
Phazael
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I transitioned to a couple of different weapons myself for this reason. I had been heavily leaning on the Gold Halberd with a magic pike as my backup. Now I rotate between the Sword of Dark and Flame, Tree spear, a holy ring toss enchanged Naginata, and Wing Scythe depending on what I am fighting. I am working up a couple good scaling magical weapons too, in case I need to start power stancing all the time. The ludicrously long combos and seemingly ridiculous poise on even trash in the later game is a tad bit over the top. Even the DS3 DLC mobs were not this bad. And forget about Guard Counter completely once you are halfway through the game, because every fucking mob has a fakeout move or sidestep designed to fuck you in the ass if you even try it.
Learn from my mistakes, don't load from the cloud if it asks you.
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Ya the save was synced it was fine. Luckily I just had to reinstall the game.
Got up and running again and beat Mohg. Now I’m dying to the dogs in the blood lake while I explore the rest of his area.
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Leadsalad
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Yeap, I've nearly died a couple of times to suicide pulling the level and then having shit murder me with that message on my screen.
You have to mash Y or Interact to clear it, it's maddening that it disables all of your menus/combat skills while the text box is on screen.
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Synj
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Khane
Got something right about marriage
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So that guide on the "intended" route that was posted here a couple days ago was apparently removed from reddit by moderators... WTF? I was using that for my NG+ playthrough to see everything I missed and now it's just gone.
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ronne
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Bosses are never really the issue, it's all the trash mobs and how they scale in the final couple of areas. You suddenly have to treat every trash mob as a boss encounter and circle around them for 30 seconds waiting for a single jump attack opportunity or whatever.
It just gets tiresome and annoying to the point where you skip everything. Contrast to my last run when I was on DEX/INT and you can soften up any scary mob with meteors, stagger them in a single hit with moonveil, and crit them to death. Or just slice them up with 2 hit chains over and over because you're fast enough to do that between their huge attack stricks.
Meanwhile on STR I've gotta have like 42 endurance to be able to use my colossal weapons and be anything but naked, and my individual hits are maybe what, 150 more damage than a DEX weapon that is 3x faster than me? And what someone said about great shields and guard counters is completely true, the second you step in to the giant mountaintops guard counters just stop working entirely, much less mobs actually getting attack staggered on your block.
It just gets tiresome and annoying to the point where you skip everything. Contrast to my last run when I was on DEX/INT and you can soften up any scary mob with meteors, stagger them in a single hit with moonveil, and crit them to death. Or just slice them up with 2 hit chains over and over because you're fast enough to do that between their huge attack stricks.
Meanwhile on STR I've gotta have like 42 endurance to be able to use my colossal weapons and be anything but naked, and my individual hits are maybe what, 150 more damage than a DEX weapon that is 3x faster than me? And what someone said about great shields and guard counters is completely true, the second you step in to the giant mountaintops guard counters just stop working entirely, much less mobs actually getting attack staggered on your block.
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