Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin
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Rajaah
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Looked around Mistwood and didn't find any giant elevator on the main road...just the ruins with the massive bear and a treasure chest that I got earlier. I'll take a more thorough look later on but yeah I wasn't able to find it with a quick run through. I'm intrigued about this place.
Spoiler about the third big boss:
Anyone beaten the giant desert anime boss yet? I failed pretty spectacularly against it, gonna try just spamming NPCs and keeping a distance aside from horse jousts when it's clear.
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Wow, I might actually switch weapons. As OP as the Golden Halberd is, this looks incredibly fun. Have 50 Str and 14 Dex so I'll need to give it an ash that makes it Str scale, but other than that it should work out pretty decently. The GH is a little on the slow side and this is the polar opposite so the only question is whether I can pump the damage up.
Is Blood Loss / Hemorrhage a DoT like poison or an insta-kill like when enemies do it?
Hateyou
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The problem is you’re looking for a giant elevator. Look for a small unassuming elevator instead. A small circular building.
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If I'm not mistaken, its not a DoT, but its also not an instant kill, it just applies a huge chunk of damage when it gets filled.
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TJT
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Bro its a massive domed building right along the road. Before the mistwood ruins if coming down from the Third Church bonfire. Near the base of the small Erdtree.
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Hemorrhage takes off a % of the enemy's health bar, which could be really powerful if bosses don't just totally mitigate it or have such a high "hemorrhage" pool that it'll trigger like, once per fight.
I think once I get the ability to respec I'll go from str build to dex/arcane and try this out. I was planning on doing that from the start but kinda chased after the first weapon I found, the Lordsworn's Greatsword.
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My only complaint is the damage on the ground. I hate when something knocks me down and I’m just laying there waiting to get up then a couple more things come over and beat on me and I die. I can’t do that to mobs they’re shouldn’t be able to do that to me. Like you said those deaths feel cheap, like I had no chance to get out of it and survive.
Not feeling the burn out that you are though. I still love the aimlessness of it. I mean I see the arrows on the map showing me the things I should be doing, I’m just purposely ignoring them. If something is kicking my ass I pop a marker on it and come back later, then go find something else to do til then.
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Mine haven’t, even the early ones that were pointing the way to Margit. I wish they would go away once you’ve hit whatever it was they were pointing at.
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Finally got a chance to play a bit more. Only about 2.5 hours in though but managed to get the horse, level up a bunch, and scored a near full set of the Godrick armor. After seeing that video above, I want to go find the Twinblade now though. I am still using my newbie Wretch club. I'll spend some more time grinding up dex and getting a full set of basic gear and then will go start exploring for some dungeons and bosses. Amazing game in the short amount of time I have played it. It stutters every now and then, but my GTX 1070 and i5-6600K is doing well.
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Go back though because after the Aqueducts you get another massive area which leads to another and another etc.
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I've been thinking about why this game is so enjoyable, and I think it's because there are no quest hubs, NPC stories, whatever. It's open world RPG distilled to its purest form. There's no burden of "you just opened up this area, now go talk to these 20 village people who all need their dick sucked if you want the reward from doing the content". It's just a world with all the fun bits and not the tiresome ones. There's no buildup for the nearby dungeon from a bunch of NPC quests you are compelled to get, just the dungeon you discover and explore without preamble. I've played dozens of huge open world RPGs from Ultima to Breath of the Wild and have developed intense ennui at so much of what is in those games that ER's simplicity is a breath of fresh air.
Not every game can have this fever dream world building where there is not a living breathing world of farmers, noblemen and families with their own tribulations only you can solve, but it'd be nice if other open world devs take a hint and drop their "world-building through forced dialog" down a few pegs and use a "less is more" strategy. I can just imagine the Biowares, Bethesda, CD Projekt Red etc studios (along with all the MMORPG groups) looking at this game that has 1% of the dialog and quest NPCs as theirs and is being lauded as the greatest open world RPG and wondering whether they really need to spend so much on teams of writers and voice actors.
Not every game can have this fever dream world building where there is not a living breathing world of farmers, noblemen and families with their own tribulations only you can solve, but it'd be nice if other open world devs take a hint and drop their "world-building through forced dialog" down a few pegs and use a "less is more" strategy. I can just imagine the Biowares, Bethesda, CD Projekt Red etc studios (along with all the MMORPG groups) looking at this game that has 1% of the dialog and quest NPCs as theirs and is being lauded as the greatest open world RPG and wondering whether they really need to spend so much on teams of writers and voice actors.
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Hatorade
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Yea and No he was likely in a catacombs when he tried it, you can fast travel to any grace point from anywhere but while in a catacomb.
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You mentioned before that it used healing spells. Did you try to have a "mimic" build / gear set that you switch to, summon a spirit and then switch to your main build? I'm already wishing I had gearsets in this game, switching to my mounted set vs ground set is a minor inconvenience for the min/maxer