Elden Ring (George RR Martin and From Software)

I'd recommend Volcano Manor, otherwise you could end up being a bit overpowered for it. Plus there's a few areas after Niall which are the toughest areas in the game, so a bit of bulking up by completing Volcano Manor would help.

Finished her last night heh, ended up only comet azure phase2 once and then adula her to death, done. The key is to keep the right distance, and i summoned mimic when i nearly finished phase1. Apparently people are saying phase2 is easier than phase1 lol. And ya that lifesteal is just super annoying.

Dont forget Endurance too (defense makes your hp more cost effective). whats your level now?

Nice aye i was gonna say that when you entering late game, the sweet spot is 120-150 for 'normal mode' let's say. If you are not optimized to certain build though you might have problems with some bosses (ie needs more levels or you better respec). Nowadays I am just not keen to do underleveled challenge anymore lol

Ye i am actually thinking to respec just to fck around - I havent tried bleed build ha

aye that was my first impression - surely it makes sense both of them are/used to be 1 entity? But then ya i see so many 2-fingers corpses so in my mind i just think thats GRRM's writing (he loves those naming lol), and then From made them into literal fingers ahah.

Came across a post on Reddit where someone was telling how some epic co-op help soloed Melina with a pot on his head while the two lads watched on.

Enjoy!!

Lads I don't know what you're all complaining about, looks easy peasy 😁

Rancid bitch.

Well I'm well into this now, near 100 hours and while I'm really enjoying the game, I have absolutely no idea what the story is about, who 95% of the characters are or...what is going on half the time.

It started off grand, I'm tarnished and I want to be become the elden lord, but to do this I need ruins.

Bumped into a few random characters along the way, stormveil castle made sense on I go.

Continued on and got to a lift where id only half a medallion. Crone woman tells me I could go the cowards way below. So I'm like ok this is a clue and sure enough down at the very bottom there's a secret passage that brings me to great alteau or whatever it was called and eventually I made it to the capital.

During this time I meet some more random characters and a few I hadn't seen in ages who were on about stuff as if id skipped half the quest.

I sometimes could summon npcs and sometimes I couldn't. Again I only recognized one or two.

The worst yet was when I ended up fighting general radhan. When I decided to go exploring. I was able to.summon a heap of people in that fight, some I definitely had never met. It made zero sense but I killed the boss anyways.

Back to the capital. I fought Godfrey the golden and saw loads of dead crones lying around the place. No idea why? I'm just after fighting Margit again....or Margot as he now called himself and hes dead.

What in the **** is this game about. The story makes zero sense and as good as the game is, it really should be called out how poorly it ties things together.

I get it, from software games are vague but jaysus.

Damn this game is so good. Finally put down the twin gargoyles last night with a little help from latenna and D2. Then some spins in a coffin had me go to deeproot and then back down to ainsel. The underground areas are absolutely massive. And it's to the games credit that I've yet to feel bored, or unimpressed.

Could you take a copy of your save file onto a USB key and then just start NG+. If DLC comes out then you can reload the USB save.

Don't follow the story when you play. You finish the game and then watch some Youtube videos. What I've gleaned so far and I'm 90% done (and this is from a Soulsborne "veteran" who actually reads a lot of item descriptions)

Someone or something broke the Elden Ring.

Giants were in a war (Giants are always in wars in Fromsoft games)

Malenia gave Covid to the Lands Between instead of losing to Radahn.

Radahn went mad but still loves his horse.

Ranni wants something to do with space.

Melina, I don't know what she wants.

Dung Eater wants the world to eat shít.

Yeah thought of that. Going to have to do it during the next playthrough regardless to save-scam for the multiple endings trophies.

Decided to just start a new game. Going to go for a dex/faith build as I just don't really fancy most of the strength weapons.