Elden Ring

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 😁

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.

DrDamn

He appears to have some sort of bumhole fetish…

https://www.eurogamer.net/exploring-elden-ring-in-first-person-vr-is-a-real-game-changer

Brave

DrDamn he can be bit overly biological and scatological imo, but he’s definitely turned EG’s previously crappy attitude to VR around, so I’ll not hold it against him too much.

Alex

Well the name “elden ring” is crying out for bumhole jokes.

DrDamn

Explored the Capital Sewers a little and decided to leave them for a bit and concentrate on the main quest line, so now up to the Forbidden Lands.

DrDamn

Done a decent chunk of Mountaintops of the Giants. Just killed Commander Niall and progressed to the Giants Gravepost. I’ve also gone for a little bit of a respec as my weapon of choice (Moonveil) scales better with intelligence so I’ve made a switch from Dex with some sorcery to Sorcery with some Dex. This has made a few of the more powerful spell accessible to me. Comet was very disappointing, Comet Azur on the other hand … Nice. It’s got some limitations in application but against the right sort of mob (big and slow) it melts stuff and I haven’t even looked at optimising the rest of my kit to get the most from it.

I also realised I had neglected the Ranni questline so picked that up again and progressed down the the Lake of Rot.

I’m now level 128 and 175 hours in 😮

DrDamn

Fire Giant down! Progressed on to the first Grace in “Crumbling Farum Azula” but have backtracked to Hidden Path to the Haligtree is that about the right time to tackle that. I’m assuming Crumbling Farum Azula is the normal end game route?

Brave

DrDamn yup it is. Didn’t realise there was another way?

DrDamn

Brave Haligtree is effectively optional I believe - given what you need to do to get the medallion halves I’d say it would be easy to not go that route. Some people seem to think it’s the hardest area and better to leave to post game, but logically it feels more appropriate to go this route.

Brave

DrDamn ahhh. Yeah. I went there before finishing. Don’t really see the logic of not doing it that way as you’re making the end easier by levelling up. And the end needs all the help it can get.

DrDamn

Making my way through now. Backtracked a little as is my want to those Stag spirit bosses in the underground area. Discovered that over leveling to 140 means you get out of range of some boss summons 😕 - will have to backtrack to Ng+ range for rune arc top ups.

DrDamn

Made it to the Haligtree. Fuck those branches and fuck the trumpet tooting fuckers who inhabit them. That is all.

Brave

Haha. I’m really enjoying my second play through. Much less a sense of urgency about it so I’m just dropping in every so often to make some progress and then dropping out for other games.

Currently in Volcano Manor / Altus Plateau doing the dodgy quests I skipped on my first go round and really enjoying helping other folk out. I’m finding it easier to get summoned as my build is way more focused this time (mostly faith / little bit of strength) and I’m doing decent damage at a lower level.

Have settled on a few key lightning spells and two ridiculous frenzy spells ( a damage type I wasn’t even aware of in my first run), plus rot dragon for truly difficult bosses.

I also have a lightning ram ash of war that sees me bleat like a sheep then roll at my target covered in lightning, for shits and giggles =D

Managed one of those chariot dungeons yesterday and actually destroyed the chariots, which got me a nice armour set. Still to do the boss though.

DrDamn

I’m ummm, about to hit 200 hours. 😁

DrDamn

First part done, Loretta down, on to more traditional castle. \o/

DrDamn

Malenia down! Had about 8 tries as a co-op furled finger and only once got her to the second phase. First try with myself as host and got a result \o/. There is a definite art to choosing your co op partners 😁

DrDamn

And … DONE!

Level 171 and over 221 hours on the clock.

It’s a stunning game in so many ways and absolutely firmly atop my list of greatest games of all time.

Looks like I ended up with the same ending as you @Brave. Only trophies I’m missing are two alternative endings, one boss (Mohg lord of blood) and the all legendary weapons/spells/talismans ones.

Apparently there are other games, I may well try one of those.

Brave

DrDamn well done matey. Next build time!

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