Elden Ring (George RR Martin and From Software)

I've found a few bosses/dragons are regen health during fights (or seem to be) really bloody annoying.

I've a feeling that belarut door will be opened from above not connected with the gaol

Looks like I missed the Catacombs. My plan to follow the each individual map to a tee went out the window ages ago. In fact, I've been in this area for hours and the map itself is somewhere on lower ground – can't get to it at the moment.

Have hit my first big roadblock of a boss. A damn dragon. As per usual with these games, did pretty well on my first try, and since then can barely get him down below half. Going to have to leave him and come back later, need to get Mimic and myself some more upgrades.

Met them in other areas too, there's actually one in the open field area at the start who jumped me. Hateful pricks!

Their weapon looks cool though, haven't tried it out yet.

My vigour is at 65 and I'm getting 2 shot by the first mini boss I've found, I was worried id be worried id be over levelled. Not much dividend in putting more points into vig either.

Nah it's all about the Scadurtree Blessings in the DLC. 60+ Vigor helps, but upgrading your blessings for you and your summons is what will make the difference in here.

I picked up 2 strong sounding ash summons but it's hard to know if they'll replace mimic or shield soldiers by the time i get them to +10. I haven't looked up anything about the dlc but I'm gonna see if any of the new summons are worth upgrading. I want to use new items and take a chance but don't want to waste precious resources.

Same deal with weapons but at least you know if you like a specific weapon first or not but it works be handy if you could see the full upgrade path to see what +16/+10 looks like.

I'll never forget you mimic teeeaaaarrrr....

Haha I know the feeling. To be honest I only beat him with luck. My dodges just happened to work once in about 50 attempts

Dragon hunters great katana. Upgraded it to 10 and smashing people.

I found myself in the river of the starting area last night, it's huge and annoyingly doesn't have it's own map as it shows as if you're on the grass of the main map, so no underground map option. Anyway, i have to decide between doing Belarut settlement or Ensis Castle next. Which of those is a side dungeon and which progresses the story?

I was a bit disappointed with the lava intake dungeon. Looks really cool and remembered it from a trailer but was surprised just how short it was and no boss unless i completely missed it 😂

Messmer is down, I repeat, Messmer is down. F*cking nightmare of a fight. I could do that fight another 100 times and still might not win. I wouldn't say I got lucky, but just everything fell the right way in that one.

God damn it, an NPC quest was ruined because I wasn't able to summon him for a certain fight like he asked me to, but I could never find his summon sign at the gate. Reading online that some people have put messages over the summon sign. F*cking idiots...

Think I've reached the endgame area, but going to try explore a few more of the other areas I've missed, try level up a bit more.

Been away for 3 weeks, only got back today, went total blackout on the DLC.

Looking forward to getting an hour or two in now😁

Yeah the messages are crap but every now and then it pointed out a hidden path for me

I have upgrade materials to upgrade 4 Somber weapons all the way. Not yet decided which 4

Yeah stones are plentiful for the most part. The Ghostflame Dragons also drop Somber Ancient Dragon Stones, I've gotten 3 so far. Got maybe 3 normal Ancient Dragon stones in other places.

Went back to Belurat Settlement after the first time it kicked my ass. For my scud blessings to 3 and found it much handier, waltzed through it. The dancing lion boss was class but i got him on first try, felt a bit too easy with the npc summon and mimic but feck it, enough things in this game kill me so i don't feel bad about it.

Look at me, I'm doing the dancing now.

"Those twin swords look tasty."

Her swords are cool to use but would take some getting used to. The weapon skill puts you in a stance and activates both swords effects, then standard attacks are magic and heavy attacks are fire.

Seems like the main cheese strat for her going around is

I give Black Knife Tiche a run every now and again, depending on if I'm struggling against the boss (or once yesterday when I picked her by accident and she helped wreck the boss).