FromSoftware Thread

Syzygy

People are who having difficulty with Margit might want to try following the river under the bridge until you have met an old friend . . .

I found where non-samurai can pick up an Uchigatana. The third swing of its combo animation looks very proper.

yeso

ER has a real new wave SF/fantasy book cover feel

I alluded to this much earlier in the thread but even during the network test certain item descriptions had people speculating that (theory) Elden Ring is sci-fi and the more I see the more probable that seems. The ruins are (early item description) structures that “fell from the sky” and in the woods east of Stormveil (describing enemy encounter) centipede robots. One of the ‘base templates’ for character appearance is Numen, the “supposed descendants of those from another world”, and the magic of this setting is founded in (early item descriptions) astrology and meteoric metals. There is after all some precedence (Bloodborne spoilers) in the Victorian monster horror -> Lovecraft cosmological horror shift. My only curiosity is whether the aesthetics will become more explicit or not.

yeso

Syzygy our pal gene wolfe seems like a reasonable touchstone for Miyazaki and the team…

JoJoestar

Syzygy I have also found a couple of items mentioning meteorites falling from the sky, and those have gravity warping properties, which sounds positively sci-fi-ish. Looks like it’s going to be an element to the game at least, if not the ultimate twist.

@yeso Dude, if they pull off a Book of New Sun it’s going to be amazing because I swear I started reading Shadow of the Torturer like three days ago following another of your recs lol

treefroggy

Syzygy

I’m a wretch so I got my uchi from the dungeon
My advice for Margot is pick a weapon that scales with your main stat and get it to +3 or +5 by exploring the world for resources

From playing these games I can always count on two things being available shortly after the start: a morning star, and the uchi. Definitely the type of tips and hints you wanna see at this point is where to find x bread and butter item. I do really like using whatever stand-ins I can find until then though. I had the demons fork before I ran and got my uchi. Tip for skeletons: just run past them. They respawn so freaking quickly.

I may be spreading myself too thin as I always do in these games on my first try. I have 18 dex, 14 str, 16 int. Int is almost totally useless, I just like having access to spells. In one of the areas I mentioned earlier there are many magical items, there I found a bow and matching arrows that do magic damage, so at least int can benefit that. But I think since I’m committed to uchi, it would have been smarter to put those 6 points into Arcane, since that improves bleed damage, and bleed has been super effective against enemies with giant health pools, as it is meant to be.

To be honest the respec option from dark souls 2 was wonderful. Since this game is the first to let you edit your appearance mid-game, I could see respeccing perhaps making a comeback as well…

Anyways margit was a breeze because of how much exploring I did. And godwin isn’t far behind, I’ve gotten pretty close to defeating him.

Gaagaagiins

I used a spirit summon thing and wiped the floor with Margit.

ELDEN RING BOUNTY:

I will award one “Like” and send my eternal gratitude to whoever can point me towards my beloved ZWEIHANDER, also while being as vague as possible. Maybe, a cryptic hint or two, but spoiler tag the location name/nearest landmark/method of acquisition? Also lmk the required stats.

fridgeboy

Gaagaagiins yeah I’d like to know this too. Any UGS to be frank.

Syzygy

yeso
I know for a fact he is: I started reading him because of a Miyazaki interview where he mentioned it as the source for the recurring motif of ‘demigods are tall’! And, of course, praise the (new) sun.

sabertoothalex

yeso I just picked up Claw of the Conciliator to continue that series so this is suuuuuuper cool to see y’all talking about!

yeso

Syzygy some of the enemy encounters have an out-of-place quality to them, like the alzabo. Going to keep an eye out for a green man npc.

robinhoodie

When I triangle jumped through a window sill, then slowly worked my down rafter by rafter to the basement of an area, then into a pit under the basement with a non title card writhing electric serpent boss, I knew this was indeed a Souls game. There is very much something else down there that I am dying for the lore-sters to spin me tale about.

goonbag

treefroggy Tip for skeletons: just run past them. They respawn so freaking quickly.

by trial and error I found I was able to kill them properly without much trouble at all. cryptic hint for anyone wondering: don’t hesitate

matt

I’m about 23 hours into Elden Ring. Wow. This is how you do an open world game. I didn’t think it would be possible to have this little hand holding and it work so well. All those little accidental finds, little bits of info from some NPC, it’s all here and it all works. Bravo From Soft.

I chose the prisoner class, a gamble, as I’ve never used magic in any souls games. Glad I did, there are so many horrifying enemies that are much better being far away from me. I’ve gone heavy on DEX and INT, boosting my other stats as I need them. I feel I may be spread a bit thin, but I’m making up for it with strategic diversity. Might start to go heavier on DEX, as my main weapon THE HOOKCLAW (shout outs to hookclaw gang) is doing so very well. Making bosses bleed RULES.

Also I’ve never taken off the spooky metal prisoner helmet. None shall see my face.

treefroggy Arcane, since that improves bleed damage

Ah, thanks for the tip. I have a feeling I’ll be boosting ARC a bit more :D

treefroggy

goonbag go ahead and just tell me the trick to permanently killing then without incantations or holy please

Also good news. There’s totally a respec mechanic. Also, neither good bad depending on how you think— the respec is locked behind a major boss later in the game and, similar to dark souls 2 requires a rare item. Yep alright best game. We got it all.

JoJoestar

treefroggy After a lot of trial and error using holy damage assuming it would be like the classic skeletons, you just have to hit again when they start regenerating, just as the soul effect thingie appears.

For people who don’t want to read spoilers but still want some tips, in order to kill skeletons, take in consideration what Syzygy was saying here about the audio/visual cues. There is something clearly visible when you down one of them, try to do something then.

goonbag

treefroggy obviously the skeleton killing method has been addressed already but please indulge me sharing my story of how i worked it out for myself:

i was exploring the overworld when i came across a location where a skeleton spawned. just one by itself, i assume more were probably there but i only got close enough to trigger one. so i fought it, and fought it, and fought it, and i must have ‘killed’ it 5 times before i noticed that it hadn’t dropped any runes yet, and then i noticed the animation as it reconstituted itself, and so i immediately and reflexively slashed at the animation. i felt a sense of achievement. and boy, did that knowledge come in handy when i went looking for that uchi

fridgeboy

Yeah the world is collectively overthinking skeletons and I love that

ukigusa

Bloodhound’s Fang might be my main weapon till end game. Curved Greatsword with good scaling and bleed? Only downside is the upgrade materials are a little rare, but it’s doing plenty damage at +2.

Gaagaagiins

Stormveil Castle is like someone stacked 4 or 5 Boletaria Castles on top of each other. It defies reason for it to be so huge.

JoJoestar

Gaagaagiins Immediately amazed by the route choice right out of the gate (literally).

yeso

I still wish they didn’t do the hoover up crafting junk thing, but as others have pointed out, just about every other new design choice is clever and effective. The downbeat ambient soundtrack is cool, and a welcome change from the sometimes overbearing music of past games

Gaagaagiins

yeso I still wish they didn’t do the hoover up crafting junk thing

I think with some tweaks it would be much better. I mean, not that they’re going to do it but I’m just speculating. I don’t like how in particular Rowa Fruit, Erdleaf Flowers, and Ruin Fragments are literally everywhere and I have more than I know what to do with, yet I still feel compelled to pick up a ton of it just because it’s there, I get a button prompt, and I don’t want to potentially overlook something else being next to it.

Concentrating sources of them in less easily found locations but with a higher yield per pickup I think would probably solve a lot of it. If I want some, it would feel more satisfying, I think, to have to go looking for it, but for not that long. Like, if they were 1/3rd as common but you got 3x as much per pickup, it would probably feel a lot less distracting.

yeso The downbeat ambient soundtrack is cool, and a welcome change from the sometimes overbearing music of past games

Maybe I’m a minority in this but I am not digging the music quite as much and I wish I could turn the ambient stuff off. I got acclimated to it while playing Sekiro but for some reason it feels like it deflates some of the tension. No complaints about most of the boss music though.

Syzygy

Gaagaagiins

Concentrating sources of them in less easily found locations but with a higher yield per pickup I think would probably solve a lot of it.

This exists. For example, the grove in western Stormhill with 20+ goats gathered closely together, most of which are the rams who aggro on you so you needn’t chase them down. I have more bone arrows than I will ever need, not great for damage but fine for ranged pulling robinhoodie .

robinhoodie

I am pouring all my level up points into Dex and Stamina. My main weapon has been the Reduvia a special dagger I sound that causes bleeding. Basically I just keep slashing until that triggers and even bosses can lose 1500 hp in a burst. I also often summon the wolf pack to distract a large enemy so I can get to slashing. I will say though that my regular DEX build has been up ended by the fact that you can’t just buy arrows everywhere or even cheaply. Snipping enemies with a bow even just to get them to run over to me has always been part of my strategy, but now I mostly save arrows for when a large enemy is down to their last few hit points and I am all out of heals.

treefroggy

robinhoodie yes also there is an ash of war that uses blood magic which scales with arcane. I recommend it.

I was among the many who were weary of crafting years ago— mainly after playing Breath of the Wild. It was my disdain to hear that both animal crossing and dark souls (my yin and my yang) would be including it… I even wrote about it here.
However………
They both have included them in such a way that it doesn’t bother me…… sure, impulsively grabbing shit is probably bad for my 🧠 though.

I’ve met 5 or 6 of the merchants, and they’re all early in the game and have provided all the staple recipes for arrows, bombs, moss.
the way it just lists the items for you, no need to memorize ingredients, is good.
just mark your map when you find a rare ingredient
I haven’t had to farm ingredients at all, aside for the flame butterflies which are like crack.

yeso

sabertoothalex lol I read the first part of that sentence and thought you found it as an item in the game and my brain exploded.

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