Elden Ring (PC/PS5/XSX/PS4/XB1) - George R. R. Martin x Hidetaka Miyazaki - Feb 25, 2022

[Mertron]

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The fucker on the horse right before the mega bosses is harder than any fucking boss I’ve fought. I beat the game by just running past him but that dude is seriously strong

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if you take him down he drops his armor set tho

who’s the tree sentinel now bitch

[AoE]

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The fucker on the horse right before the mega bosses is harder than any fucking boss I’ve fought. I beat the game by just running past him but that dude is seriously strong

I hit him with the blue Kamehameha and dude was like "I'm only using 10% of my power." If I didn't respec to INT, I wouldn't have even bothered fighting him. All the tree knights are annoying as shit to fight.

[Elcura]

Finally beat

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Melenia

After quite a few tries. An interesting boss that asks the question what if they could heal and the answer might not surprise you. She was pretty easy to take down in the first phase with dual whips, but 2nd phase really ramps up.

Is there a consistent way to dodge her waterfowl dance? That shit either straight up killed me or took 90% of my health (while giving herself like 1/4 HP back lol). Shields kinda work but she still gets the HP, side rolling works occasionally but her first set of attacks feels impossible to completely avoid.

The weapon you get is pretty disappointing for what I've seen is pretty much the only high requirement dex weapon. No unique animations and the AoW on you is actually shit. A shame.

Kinda feel like going ARC something based next run, any recommendations for weapons? Or maybe a FTH pyro build.

[Tyrath]

Just ran into my first Wandering Mausoleum, yes I'm slow.

I know there's a limited number. Which remembrances are the best to duplicate?

[Mertron]

Just ran into my first Wandering Mausoleum, yes I'm slow.

I know there's a limited number. Which remembrances are the best to duplicate?

one thing to note is some masoleums only let you duplicate certain remembrances, so you should take a couple masoleums down and plan based on which ones are offered (or look up which ones allow what)

i duplicated as many out of the way remembrances from optional bosses on my first run so i could avoid doing them if i wanted in ng+. stuff like the plot shardbearers are easy enough to get to compared to them if you need to re-acquire them

[Mertron]

Finally beat

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Melenia

After quite a few tries. An interesting boss that asks the question what if they could heal and the answer might not surprise you. She was pretty easy to take down in the first phase with dual whips, but 2nd phase really ramps up.

Is there a consistent way to dodge her waterfowl dance? That shit either straight up killed me or took 90% of my health (while giving herself like 1/4 HP back lol). Shields kinda work but she still gets the HP, side rolling works occasionally but her first set of attacks feels impossible to completely avoid.

The weapon you get is pretty disappointing for what I've seen is pretty much the only high requirement dex weapon. No unique animations and the AoW on you is actually shit. A shame.

Kinda feel like going ARC something based next run, any recommendations for weapons? Or maybe a FTH pyro build.

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you can run away and dodge away from the first two parts of the attack, but the third part she seems to basically zip right on top of you and you can’t get away from it, and it seems she keeps moving forward hitting you multiple times if you do roll away. i had more success trying to roll into her on the third attack, sometimes i would still get hit a couple times but not all the way through the animation

i had more problems avoiding her divebomb in phase two and timing when to rush in to hit her without getting hit by the leftover rot aoe. ranged fighters probably have phase 2 easier

[KuroTsuki]

Finally beat

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Melenia

After quite a few tries. An interesting boss that asks the question what if they could heal and the answer might not surprise you. She was pretty easy to take down in the first phase with dual whips, but 2nd phase really ramps up.

Is there a consistent way to dodge her waterfowl dance? That shit either straight up killed me or took 90% of my health (while giving herself like 1/4 HP back lol). Shields kinda work but she still gets the HP, side rolling works occasionally but her first set of attacks feels impossible to completely avoid.

The weapon you get is pretty disappointing for what I've seen is pretty much the only high requirement dex weapon. No unique animations and the AoW on you is actually shit. A shame.

Kinda feel like going ARC something based next run, any recommendations for weapons? Or maybe a FTH pyro build.

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Yeah, to add on to what Mert said you can consistently dodge her 2nd flurry by dodging into her as well. But that first strike I've only been able to run from it with a last second dodge for the last part of it. Dodging into it sucks cause the animation is too long

I just beat her earlier today as well. I recently changed to a bleed build and had a lot of success with Swarm of Flies. Her last 1/3 of health in the 2nd phase was great cause she kept using that dive bomb move which allows me to spam flies to bleed her to death cause she just sits there as the flower disappears.

Was helping some randoms afterwards and one group all 3 of us had Swarm of Flies with bleed weapons lol. She didn't last long

[Madeline]

finished at 166 hours, level 150. did everything quest-wise and collected next to everything.

what a wild ride.

[Krandor]

The little NPC icons they added to the map are nice, lets you know when NPCs for various quests have moved from their spot to trigger the next step

[Gokulo]

one thing to note is some masoleums only let you duplicate certain remembrances, so you should take a couple masoleums down and plan based on which ones are offered (or look up which ones allow what)

i duplicated as many out of the way remembrances from optional bosses on my first run so i could avoid doing them if i wanted in ng+. stuff like the plot shardbearers are easy enough to get to compared to them if you need to re-acquire them

If I remember correctly, the one's that have the bells dangling only allow you to duplicate the 'story' bosses?

[Krandor]

I prioritized getting all the spells, and then worried about what looked to be the better weapons.

Which I mean, a fair number of the rememberance weapons do kinda suck so not that hard to pick out the good ones.

[KuroTsuki]

Went back to help with some Mohg fights and Swarm of Flies absolutely destroys him(funny that bleeding of all things messes him up lol). As long as the host and/or helpers keeps his attention for the first couple of seconds, you can pop the infinite fp flask and just unload a shit ton of flies and basically lock his ai into that move that puts a "counter" on you cause of the massive HP loss he goes through.

Also, I noticed the patch got rid of rewards for beating a boss as you're dying when you're a helper.

[fantasticdan]

Kinda feel like going ARC something based next run, any recommendations for weapons?

Pretty much anything you want with bleed infusion. Anything with native bleed + occult. Reduvia, bloody helice, eleonora poleblade are all good for unique weapons. Rivers of blood katana WA is super OP and probably gonna get nerfed. Mohgwhyn's spear WA is busted for invasions. Dual-wielding is really strong with bleed in general, curved swords especially.

Dragon communion seal scales incantations primarily with arcane, and you get a lot of decent spells with small faith investment. Serpent bow has ARC scaling for bleed/poison/sleep arrows.

[Gokulo]

https://twitter.com/IronPineapple_/s...bnGiye57g&s=07

[Xno Kappa]

Perhaps we may have been too harsh about the hidden wall messages.

[Elcura]

This changes everything

not like I needed more motivation to do a new game

[Krandor]

Yeah I'm letting the internet autists figure those out for me

[Shenrien]

Apparently some walls have poise and this is literally just killing the wall.

[Tyrath]

https://www.pcgamer.com/this-50-hit-...robably-a-bug/

They gotta be a bug right? Because 50 hits, come on

[fantasticdan]

I think a dev just messed up while trying to basically remove that illusory wall. Probably because that shortcut is completely redundant, and maybe you could hit that NPC on the other side by accident while opening it if you were using a big weapon.

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Breakable objects in souls games have HP (determines how many hits it takes to break, this is almost always set to 1) and defense (determines what can break them; just walking into them, rolls, player attacks, big enemy attacks, etc. There are plenty of 'cut content' breakable walls in these games that used to be shortcuts, or don't lead anywhere, that no longer function in the final games because they boosted the defense value. I think here someone just boosted the HP instead by accident.