Elden Ring (George RR Martin and From Software)

It never even entered my head to equip them there, will swap it out tonight!

Yes it's perfectly playable, I get 60fps with GPU and CPU headroom for much more (if they ever unlock the fps) but the stutters are there and they can be annoying. And it doesn't even look like a performance bottleneck but very much like an asses streaming one.

Is there any point to using the dragon hearts at the church place if you don't use incantations? Was just looking it up there and it seems like all the rewards are incantations; no sorceries or weapons or anything. Is there anything else you can use them for instead?

Picked up this. Havent had a chance to play with it but looks sweet. Very handy pick up too. If you have Rock Sling spell you can stand at the fog gate and fling them in and cheese the absolute bejaysus out of him

I'm on a 3070 and 9700k. It generally plays fine, but with lurch down to 0fps for a split second then and again (usually at the start of a play session). The worst performing areas are literally at the start of the open world

I don't think this kind of performance is acceptable, but I've managed to get through it anyway and would put up with the PC issues over erratic framerate on PS5 without VRR, it's still a better option than that imo

The huge stutters from asset streaming can be reproduced over and over to the point other players will sometimes leave messages right on the trigger point saying stuff like 'behold the bug, therefore try jumping'

Got it and the Meteorite Staff, quick 10-minute run and gun during lunch. Didn't realise they were so close to each other, very handy.

They should give you a refund for any reason if under 2h of playtime.

I struggled in the academy too. I don't think magic helps too much either, especially if you havent been levelling it up so far. I'd suggest luring and distance as much as possible. In a few areas I used fire arrows which did decent damage to most of the sages, 2-3 arrows (mighty shot) would take them down. Use backstabs where you can. And in the graveyard just lure as much as you can. It's very easy to get surrounded or hit from the sides.

But for other areas, there's another thin landmass to the west of the lake area might be worth exploring. Check the map for possible caves or ruins around the lake area too, though best not to go too far north of the academy area.

It's not to the same extent as Limgrave but there's a decent amount of things dotted around the lakes to discover, I kept finding more stuff when travelling back through it even after beating the demigod of the area.

Curious if magic would actually help alot in the Academy unless you levelled up that part alot, I'd imagine the enemies there have a fairly high magic resistance

Ok, looked up moonveil katana and it has me intrigued. The location is putting me right off but think i might make a 'stab' at it. My Uchi is currently +8 with heavy affinity with blood slash skill which I'm loving but the magic damage could be nice. Need to look up my shields and see what's the best magic defense.

Edit: 23 int to wield, that's me out.