Elden Ring

Gordon

Brave Well closer than I was before, I’m fairly confident of that at least

Gordon

Brave What’s your build / gear like? I’m pushing faith with just enough strength to use blasphemous blade and using the dragon cult seal. I’ve got a bunch of different lightning spells but I mostly stick with lightning spear, it seems to be as effective as anything else I’ve got and it’s easy to use.

Brave

Gordon

This is my current setup. Plan is to stack up faith (and to a lesser extent, mind) to about 60 from this point forward. I’m strong enough to wield the hammer but honestly it’s mostly for show now as I’m normally hitting things with lightning spear and deleting less powerful groups with lightning strike, although I find that to be literally a bit hit or miss.

Lightning spear is super enjoyable though and I believe there’s a frost version to be found as well. Oh, also I have an Ash called Prayerful Strike on my hammer which is uninterruptible and heals almost all the damage I take while swinging the thing.

Gordon

Maliketh down. After the initial attempt it felt like it was going to be a bit of a road block, but it only took 4 tries. The tree sentinel outside gave me more trouble. I hate those guys.

Brave That’s not too far from my build, except I only have 22 strength so I can use the blasphemous blade. Faith is at 50 currently. I think the soft cap is 55 so I’ll probably start pushing strength/endurance/mind after that.

I don’t bother with lightning strike, it’s too hit or miss as you say. Aside from lightning spear, I usually have blessing of the Erdtree to keep my HP ticking up, and I keep rotten breath if something is annoying me.

I’ve got a morning star with prayerful strike on it for any “try striking” situations. Also just finished levelling the coded sword. I’m not sure how good it is yet, but it has S scaling with faith, a fairly long range unblockable L2 attack, and it looks like a light sabre, so it can’t be all bad.

Also got this yesterday. Definitely gives me at least a 5% damage buff.

Brave

Gordon just realised I missed out the spiked Caestus, which I’ve got scaling with faith now via the Golden Vow skill. It buffs anyone within a certain radius, which is great for sunbro sessions immediately before going through the fog door.

Looks great when you run out of fp and just charge in with your fists and start wailing on a boss. 🙂

I’m glad I decided to switch this build into a Thor one, but I’m very definitely going to do a pure pugilist run as well. It’s far too much fun.

DrDamn

Once done with my usual shield + fast sword + minor magic build I’ll go for:
Faith build - more Paladin than cleric
Mage build
Heavy/strength build

Gordon

Got to Elden Beast tonight. Had a quick try.

I’m going to bed now.

Gordon

Finished, finally 🎉

Full sorcery build next I think.

Brave

Well done matey!

They’ve just buffed a whole heap of spells too so it’s a great time to give it a go.

Gordon

Margit down. Sorcery is fun!

DrDamn

Not official but a mod … Elden Ring VR?
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/elden-ring-may-soon-get-a-vr-mod-first-gameplay-footage/

Jogort

DrDamn watched that video the other day, looks like it runs very well

Jogort

Oh, and that horrible fucker red wolf down. That’s a horrible jumpy bouncy annoying fight and I don’t think it’s a very good boss graphically either. Glad that one is done.

DrDamn

Progress Update.

Made my way into the capital proper now, that Draconic Tree Sentinel was an absolute Rune Arc sapping one-shotting bastard. Got him close so many times before eventually taking him down. Explored a few areas inside but also covered off the majority of the Atlas Plateau bar a couple of dungeons and the Hero’s Graves.

Discovered a new way to fail horribly. When you have your summon sign down before a small minor boss and you give up waiting and decide to go in by yourself remember to cancel your sign before entering! I bubbled up, got my ashes ready, sorted my items and headed in using the mimic tear ashes on entry, only to have the middle of my screen filled with “Your summon sign has been removed”, button panic set in trying to get the message out the way so I failed to heal from the ashes summon and didn’t see the very rapidly approaching git who dispatched me with gusto. FFS. Got him on second attempt and went with the safer skeleton shield dudes option.

Approaching 140 hours in and just a couple of levels off 100 - FOMO FTW!

Gordon

DrDamn I really struggled with the tree sentinel. Eventually I tried on horseback rather than on foot and discovered that it’s way easier that way.

DrDamn

Gordon oh yeah I’ve been on the horse from the start, but avoiding the one shot kills can be subject to tree crashes and having to combine it with some direct combat means a Torrent death is also a me death as you have no time to recover before the next strike comes in. You can summon a good couple of NPCs for the fight (Millicent and the guy with the hammer were both available). It was just getting past that very aggressive end stage for me. That lighting bolt from the sky with massive distance tracking was killer, though to be fair I hadn’t bothered putting on my lightning resistant talisman 😁

Brave

Rachel’s been plugging away. I’ve tried to have a fairly hands off approach and give just the occasional “message on the floor” style hint if she asks but man it’s been an occasionally tough watch (and fun).

Trying to persuade her to go to the damn castle (she found her way to the swamp by going round it on a path I had no idea existed) and then subsequently trying to persuade her to do the damn swamp she ignored the castle with has been tongue bitingly difficult.

JUST USE THE DAMN HORSE.

Currently in the Academy and pretty much only has Renalla to do now.

She plays completely differently to me (always has in souls games), much more stealthy, much more use of arrows, much slower, but also I reckon a lot less deaths. She also has to take on everything she sees. I honestly think she’s a better player than I am. Far more patient.

She’s not seen the prawns yet though. I will be recommending horse usage.

DrDamn

Continuing to make gradual progress in the capital. Unlocked some shortcuts and now some graces. I’m not entirely sure which way I should be very actually going, but I’m heading towards the big obvious bit. So many possible detours and alternative ways to go though, FOMO is strong. The level design here is top tier FROM.

Also that twatty knight near the one of the short cut routes can do one. The one which is through the initially locked door to right just in from the initial grace into the city. I ended up cunningly luring him out close to the boss area in the main street - just far enough so that the boss wasn’t triggered, but far enough that I could summon my skeletal tanks 😃 - he ended up just backing off them whilst I peppered him with arrows

DrDamn

Morgott now down, just exploring a couple of additional bits in the capital before I move onwards.

Brave

DrDamn he’s a good one to farm. Ridiculous amount of runes for a successful coop.

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