Elden Ring (George RR Martin and From Software)

140 new posts aha - the thread is exploding ha. Was busy for this nice long weekend and took extra days off as well.

I started new game as astrologer as planned - beat Margit at the entrance and then decided to completely skip the rest of Stormveil heh. Explored 'naturally' south weeping peninsula and then north - I was at Leyndell without a single Great rune aha - literally just went with the flow - I think this is my 'wizard run' doing Int build and I just beat Raya Lucaria (nice name but ya i just called it harry potter castle). Supposedly astrologer has an older history than sorcery/sorcerer so I am like the lost tribe descendant focusing on anything magic related - all quests now point to Radahn so ya I will go to Caelid next. Absolutely fantastic world built by From - I keep finding new things in my second playthrough and since I already knew more or less where/what is the 'usual' path, I spend more effort to double checking on secrets etc and then pleasantly suprised aha.

And ya new patch hit - indeed i have been using Sword of night flame - the nerf didnt bother me one bit since i am doing glass cannon build (need to repeat 5-10 rounds of attack to the bosses anyway) - nearly everything 1-3 shots me lol - overall working as intended, still strong but balanced. But ye i put more stats on Vigor now...

And ya because I have never been to inside Stormveil,

I need to pay closer attention to npc's, it's not as if they have a ton of lines to get through but i have no recollection of an area mentioned by Seluvis.

I'm level 50 now and going all in with Str and Vig from here out. May regret that later reading some of the stuff here but I'm loving the build at the moment.

https://youtu.be/NUcFkpIVEHA

Has anyone been to the final area Vaati mentions in this video? So many secrets in this game.

No the area behind the secret wall in the forest where everyone died of Frenzy.

Ah yeah. I knew about that area and what happens down there from seeing it on someone's stream, but I haven't ventured into it. I need to progress the Blind Maiden's quest first, but it seems to be bugged for me. Can't find any more grapes, as it seems a certain NPC invader has decided not to show up for me.

😂ya not surprised 'Limgrave' is all he said lmao. And ya the NPC dialogues require our full attention as they wont repeat all info they say lol. I met Sellen at the ruin beforehand (i saw her spectral forms somewhere also) - and then the new patch hit so i can see who's in Limgrave ha. I am just starting to get used to the (less commonly used) places/graces roughly located where on the map after 100 hours lol.

Ive steam rolled nearly every boss, including Melania, but the final boss is testing my patience. Find the actual final boss incredibly frustrating to fight as a Meleee build because I cant see what is going on half the time.

Sellen is bugged for me. I met her in one cellar where you can speak to her and learn spells but she's also in another cellar chained to a wall saying the same line everytime you interact with her.

Anyone playing this with a gtx 970? Worth buying and trying to run it on that? I do have 16gb ram if that helps? I know i am going to have to bite the bullet on replacing that gpu soon anyway but so far it copes fine with everything I play and even with VR. Half considering buying it on steam and if it doesn't run then ordering a new GPU, but they are still hard to come by it seems and i think Nvidia are shortly to announce a new generation, which will hopefully help reduce the price of say a 2070/3070.

What level did you beat it at? And did it just come down to RNG? I feel like this is what its going to take for me (less explosions, more staggers in phase 1)