Designer1 Posted March 8, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 8, 2022 There's been some brilliant areas so far but I think Leyndell Capital has been the standout. Challenging, but **** cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 8, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 8, 2022 47 minutes ago, dubbs said: Playing through a lot slower than the Souls vets on here. Just took down Margit the Fell Omen after about 5 attempts. It turned from this can f### off to woohoo this is great!! Nice one! Always great when they finally topple 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted March 8, 2022 Author VT Supporter Share Posted March 8, 2022 Decided to do the place that the game tells you to go to after Radahn. Another sucky boss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 8, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 8, 2022 19 minutes ago, Chindie said: Decided to do the place that the game tells you to go to after Radahn. Another sucky boss. Spoiler Nokron? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted March 8, 2022 Author VT Supporter Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Designer1 said: Hide contents Nokron? Indeed. Edit I might walk away from this for a bit. I've not enjoyed playing it in the last few days at all. Edited March 8, 2022 by Chindie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 8, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 8, 2022 Just now, Chindie said: Indeed. Haven't been there yet, only the mini version which is reachable via the Four Belfries. In other news the Mountaintops of the Giants is kinda epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubbs Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Out of interest what type of build do you guys go for initially? On my first playthrough of any have like this I tend to opt for melee / strength build. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 9, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 9, 2022 2 hours ago, dubbs said: Out of interest what type of build do you guys go for initially? On my first playthrough of any have like this I tend to opt for melee / strength build. Strength. Two hand weapon with armour / talismans that give me plenty of poise. Giant Dad variation basically 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daweii Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 3 hours ago, dubbs said: Out of interest what type of build do you guys go for initially? On my first playthrough of any have like this I tend to opt for melee / strength build. I usually go for a glass cannon dexterity build in every Soulslike, but this time I went sorcery which worked relatively well until late-game. Magic unfortunately doesn't scale too well in Elden Ring given most enemies have some form of magic resist, and that only gets worse as the enemies get tankier. I started pure sorcery, but now I'm more of a dexterity mage using a very powerful intelligence/dex scaling Katana. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubbs Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 2 hours ago, Designer1 said: Strength. Two hand weapon with armour / talismans that give me plenty of poise. Giant Dad variation basically I switched to a shield / sword combo and I'd collected a few talismans but forgot to actually do anything with them so thank you! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubbs Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 46 minutes ago, Daweii said: I usually go for a glass cannon dexterity build in every Soulslike, but this time I went sorcery which worked relatively well until late-game. Magic unfortunately doesn't scale too well in Elden Ring given most enemies have some form of magic resist, and that only gets worse as the enemies get tankier. I started pure sorcery, but now I'm more of a dexterity mage using a very powerful intelligence/dex scaling Katana. I've been tempted to try a magic build before but wondered how well I'd get on in later game areas. I usually go for strength build but thinking about changing it up once I've completed my first playthrough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 9, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 9, 2022 With the addition of the whetstone knife and Ashes of War, there are an absolute tonne of different build variations you can go for. I've played with some ridiculously OP magic users in Co-Op who seem to be able to one-shot bosses. I'll definitely be going in a completely different direction with my next playthrough. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 9, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 9, 2022 I've got my Colossal weapon (Dragon Greatclaw) up to +9 now and am rocking the full Radahn armour set so I'm in a good place build wise. I'm going boss trophy hunting tonight so I can start whittling down the list. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted March 9, 2022 Author VT Supporter Share Posted March 9, 2022 I invariably end up going Dex/strength (which I believe is described as a 'quality' build in the community?). Katana and shield, with a bow for distanced and aggroing. The problem with this is you'll be **** if you come up against anything that resists slash or bleed damage. As I found out when fighting a big stone thing last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 9, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 9, 2022 I think the feature that sends your summon sign to various places is really well implemented. If I'm travelling about the map I just use that and get randomly sent to different boss battles. Nice touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted March 9, 2022 Author VT Supporter Share Posted March 9, 2022 On 08/03/2022 at 22:31, Chindie said: Decided to do the place that the game tells you to go to after Radahn. Another sucky boss. Beat this ****. Had to respec and grind some souls to level up a weapon and a couple of attributes. Discovered Miyazaki has played Symphony of the Night. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 9, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 9, 2022 Think I've nearly finished my first playthrough. I've inadvertently gone past the point where you can get the three different endings (I read up after the fact) so the plan is now to finish the main story and then decide when to trigger NG+. I may decide to respec before going to NG+ so it feels like an even fresher start. I'm glad they have gone with giving the player control over when to move on. Never really liked the DS1 way where the last boss auto triggers NG+. Oh and **** that word removed Fire Giant. **** him **** him **** him. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 10, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 10, 2022 "The chest high wall!" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted March 10, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 10, 2022 This plus GT7 might finally get me buying a PS5 if I can ever locate one 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted March 10, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted March 10, 2022 In case anyone needs a quick ref guide for Soft/Hard stat caps (always find it useful) then here you go: Vigor First Soft Cap: Level 40 (HP gain decreases from 26 to 13 per level up) Second Soft Cap: Level 60 (HP gained is 5 or 6 per level up) Third Soft Cap: Level 90 (HP gained is 3 or 4 per level up) Hard Cap: Level 99 Mind First Soft Cap: Level 20 (FP gained per level up is 6) Second Soft Cap: Level 50 (FP gained is 8 or 9 per level up) Third Soft Cap: Level 55 (FP gain decreases from 7 to 4 per level up) Fourth Cap: Level 60 (FP gained is 2 or 3 per level up) Hard Cap: Level 99 Endurance First Soft Cap: Level 12 (Get 1 and 2 Stamina alternatively each level up) Second Soft Cap: Level 18 (Get 2 and 1 Stamina alternatively each level up) Third Soft Cap: Level 32 (Get 1 and 2 Stamina alternatively each level up) Fourth Cap: Level 50 (Get 1 Stamina per three-level up) Hard Cap: Level 99 Strength First Soft Cap: Level 20 Second Soft Cap: Level 80 Third Soft Cap: Level 90 Hard Cap: Level 99 Dexterity First Soft Cap: Level 20 Second Soft Cap: Level 80 Third Soft Cap: Level 90 Hard Cap: Level 99 Intelligence First Soft Cap: Level 20 Second Soft Cap: Level 80 Third Soft Cap: Level 90 Hard Cap: Level 99 Faith First Soft Cap: Level 20 Second Soft Cap: Level 80 Third Soft Cap: Level 90 Hard Cap: Level 99 Arcane First Soft Cap: Level 20 Second Soft Cap: Level 80 Third Soft Cap: Level 90 Hard Cap: Level 99 Looks like they have added quite a bit more leeway in comparison to usual Soulsborne stats. I'd capped out my str at 50 until I saw these. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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