Elden Ring (PS4,XB1,PC,PS5,XSX) (February 25th, 2022)

[Carl Tethers]

Got my fingerprint shield with a blood spear, shyt is dumb easy , once I get that bull goat armor, shyt is a wrap and got the Guts sword with the bloodhound step for fukkery

Kinda wanna start a rogue and go straight parry build, with black bow for bleed

Bull Goat armour is wild. I haven't switched from it

 

[KingsnBucs1987]

Bull Goat armour is wild. I haven't switched from it

Yeah I heard that armor is dumb strong, sucks I won't be able to roll, but shyt with the shield and it, I'm tanking everything so no need to dodge

 

[homiedontplaydat]

I'm currently alternating between getting my ass kicked by the Elden Beast and Malenia

The Elden Beast at least seems possible but I don't know how the hell yall beat Malenia

 

[HiiiPower]

Just killed Godrick, this may be my favourite FS game when it’s all over, this is literally everything you would want from an open world souls game

From someone who’s been playing these games for years, tweaks like an actual jump button, no “soul” form and no weapon degradation make a big difference in enjoyment imo, I’m all for the combat being hard and punishing, but these things always seemed like they were added just to be overly annoying rather than challenging in previous games

 

[Duke Dixon]

What class are you?

There's an incantation that will poise break her pretty easily if you run faith.

What's the name? I'm a samurai but I have ~16 faith.

 

[KingsnBucs1987]

What's the name? I'm a samurai but I have ~16 faith.

Flame of the redmane, should be in Caelid on one of those invisible scarabs that run around.

You can poise break enemies in 1-2 hits with it and most bosses get poise broken in 2 hits as well.

 

[FloorGeneral]

I'm currently alternating between getting my ass kicked by the Elden Beast and Malenia

The Elden Beast at least seems possible but I don't know how the hell yall beat Malenia

lol I was right there with ya. It's all about figuring out when you can hit her. For me, I just waited til she did something. She seemed to input read me to death, so once I moved to a more counter-hit type of fight, it got better. It sucked, cause I find it so hard to just stand there and wait. I wanna attack, but every time I pushed the button, it seemed she attacked right along with me, and trading is no good. I'll try to explain both phases the best I can, spoiler'd because maybe kinda long (sorry lol):

Spoiler: First Phase

There's like a jump kick thing she does that you can reliably bait and punish (as long as you stay kinda close to her she will do this A LOT. Find the right distance and first phase becomes much easier). When she dodges/leaps backwards (NOT sideways. When she goes sideways, dodge out), chase her (as long as you don't panic dodge/roll/run away from her too lol) and jump attack her. That's a free hit. Her lunge attack is another free hit. She has that attack where she runs at you with sword then jumps up and comes down after a slight delay. Get that timing on the jump down cause that's another punish opportunity. The attack where she puts sword into the ground then comes forward with multiple hits is tricky. BHS works good, but regular rolling I'd probably suggest going in and to the left of her instead. If you roll backwards you might still get hit unless you were a decent distance away from her already. And if you're far enough away, she'll sometimes do it twice in a row.

Now the big attack (Waterfowl). All I can say to help there is use Bloodhound's Step lol. That's what I used, and I can dodge it reliably now. When she goes up in the air, I try to run away a bit, then BHS away from her once she comes down to do first string. Both 2nd and 3rd only require one BHS towards her. On the 3rd, I like to BHS IN, then roll AWAY once, then immediately run at her for a jump attack after the last part of her attack. She'll often dodge it, but depending on weapons (for instance, I dual-wielded Katanas) you can still catch her (I'd catch her with LH katana if she dodged).

Spoiler: Second Phase

2nd phase starts the same way every time. Again, please be aware I use Bloodhound's Step, so I'd just stand there until she started to come down then BHS away twice. Kukris (suggested to me by someone here and on a Discord I'm part of, thanks guys lol) are good for when the flower petals are coming down, then run in and get some good licks in. She has a couple attacks that look similar and almost all will proc Rot, so this shyt sucks lol. Waterfowl is the same as before, though in my winning fight I still managed to get hit with it smh. She has the clone attack (she will have like a red pulse right before she goes in the air). I run away, then just run to the side (I went left, I'm sure right will work the same) until she does the finish (one lunge from clone, closely followed by her lunging at you). So you have to dodge to the side twice basically back to back or you'll get hit. Again, this was BHS for me.

She can stagger in this form just the same as in first form, but it's hard to find that out because you're so worried about getting hit lol. Like, she does the same jump attack that I punished her to death in the first phase, but I just panic BHS instead of just doing a regular roll into hit smh. She also does attacks where she goes into the air, then comes down ending with a rot explosion in front of her. This is probably the best time to punish her in 2nd phase as long as you can get behind her. So try to recognize that and instead of going backwards, go behind her.

But 2nd phase was basically luck of the RNG draw for me. She did the flower slam (that she starts the 2nd phase with) two more times during my winning fight (and I got hit by both of them SMFH). But they allow for punishes and that's the only time I used Corpse Piler on her, and was able to finish her after the 3rd time she did it).

Spoiler: Video of my winning fight

You can see the little jump kick I was talking about multiple times in first phase.

 

[Batsute]

Powerstancing the Uchigatana & Meteroic blades feel amazing.

Considering if I should drop unsheathe for bloody slash though.

 

[OJ Simpsom]

Updates nerfed all the good weapons and ashes.

 

[firemanBk]

Powerstancing the Uchigatana & Meteroic blades feel amazing.

Considering if I should drop unsheathe for bloody slash though.

Bloody Slash sucks after the patch. once you start getting into tougher fights the damage it does to yourself will be very noticable and gets to be too much.
Unsheathe is basically what I used to solo every boss in the game. It's not great but it is reliable

 

[Deezay]

Updates nerfed all the good weapons and ashes.

SheeeeeeeeeIIIIT!
These Hoslow Whips still splitting shyt open on New Game+

 

[Deezay]

Man....I just found a mission I missed on the first run, and I thought I covered most of the map.
shyt is deep

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Beat melania on new game+

Thought she was gonna be a lot harder based on what people were saying in here.

You just gotta run like hell when she starts that bullshyt ass move. Everything else was pretty manageable.

 

[Batsute]

Bloody Slash sucks after the patch. once you start getting into tougher fights the damage it does to yourself will be very noticable and gets to be too much.
Unsheathe is basically what I used to solo every boss in the game. It's not great but it is reliable

I like unsheathe because I combine it with the poise break tear in the Flask. Knees buckle when they see me take that stance.

 

[The Frozen One]

Anyone else miss Dark Souls 3 after finishing this game?