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Elden Ring (PS4,XB1,PC,PS5,XSX) (February 25th, 2022)
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- elden ring ohhhhhh
All weapons can be made “good” through upgrades.Where do I get the good weapons
Just depends on how you wanna play.
Wink Beaufield
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Decided to try out the night maidens mist spell. That spell is a godsend for dealing with mobs and slow moving bosses.
djthegreat88
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These dudes hilarious but 9 hours straight just fighting Malenia
Like why?
RaspberryFitted
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These dudes hilarious but 9 hours straight just fighting Malenia
Like why?
Watched the stream. Purposely ignoring the chat’s advice and not using the entire map to fight will do that
beat malenia. she was definitely as difficult as advertised, but not as unfair/unbalanced as people who didn’t like the fight made her out to be. imo.
looking back, there was only one move that felt super unbalanced: her running roundhouse kick. in the first phase, she eventually starts pairing it with overhand swipes, to the point you have to wait a moment before attacking. in the second phase she can and will go from the kick to one of her massive damage attacks when you attack, so much so that it’s best not to counter it at all.
otherwise? i didn’t feel like she did anything I couldn’t eventually learn and overcome. it just comes down to the strategy you deploy. I think because she staggers super easily and can lifesteal, the tendency is to go in super aggressive, to take advantage of her weaker defense. but i had MUCH more success being patient and waiting for opportunities to attack/counter and wear her down.
I went in with two scythes, and bloodhound step on my main weapon, which gave me more room to dodge her attacks. I wouldn’t use summons until phase two, and when I did I stuck with black knife tiche, who moves around enough to avoid most of the waterfowl dance. once tiche came out I would let malenia target her, topple her with blasphemous blade’s L2 attack, hit her with it again while she was on the ground, run, rinse and repeat. if she targeted me with waterfowl, I switched back to my scythe and used bloodhound step to dodge it. if she knocked off tiche, I used the same strategy from the first half, but focused on getting behind her attacks to avoid her ground-based rot charge-ups.
looking forward to fighting her again without a summons in NG+. cause I definitely can handle her first form with minimal problems now. and I noticed I’m nicer overall now too; beat malekith on my first attempt.
looking back, there was only one move that felt super unbalanced: her running roundhouse kick. in the first phase, she eventually starts pairing it with overhand swipes, to the point you have to wait a moment before attacking. in the second phase she can and will go from the kick to one of her massive damage attacks when you attack, so much so that it’s best not to counter it at all.
otherwise? i didn’t feel like she did anything I couldn’t eventually learn and overcome. it just comes down to the strategy you deploy. I think because she staggers super easily and can lifesteal, the tendency is to go in super aggressive, to take advantage of her weaker defense. but i had MUCH more success being patient and waiting for opportunities to attack/counter and wear her down.
I went in with two scythes, and bloodhound step on my main weapon, which gave me more room to dodge her attacks. I wouldn’t use summons until phase two, and when I did I stuck with black knife tiche, who moves around enough to avoid most of the waterfowl dance. once tiche came out I would let malenia target her, topple her with blasphemous blade’s L2 attack, hit her with it again while she was on the ground, run, rinse and repeat. if she targeted me with waterfowl, I switched back to my scythe and used bloodhound step to dodge it. if she knocked off tiche, I used the same strategy from the first half, but focused on getting behind her attacks to avoid her ground-based rot charge-ups.
looking forward to fighting her again without a summons in NG+. cause I definitely can handle her first form with minimal problems now. and I noticed I’m nicer overall now too; beat malekith on my first attempt.
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If you made it to malenia you don’t need to buy runes. There were at least 2-3 great farming spots along the way to haligtree.
Literally just beat her. Just had to keep trying.
This game has the easiest farming spots of any From game.
Just google best farming spots and you will be overleveled in no time.
Melania took me 5 tries to beat.
Assault: Ekzyke's rotten breath (best incantation in the game imo) + Black blade + mimic summon (level 10) + Blasphemous blade for 1st phase to save flasks + Blood grave scythe with bloodhound step.
Support: Black flame protection + damage reduction tear + great shield talisman + blessings of the erdtree (to heal mimic if low on health)
That's all I needed.
Assault: Ekzyke's rotten breath (best incantation in the game imo) + Black blade + mimic summon (level 10) + Blasphemous blade for 1st phase to save flasks + Blood grave scythe with bloodhound step.
Support: Black flame protection + damage reduction tear + great shield talisman + blessings of the erdtree (to heal mimic if low on health)
That's all I needed.
Imo Radigon and Elden Beast are more difficult than Malania.
With her all you gotta do is get the fukk outa the way of that special attack. Everything else is pretty easy.
Even now on new game+ radigon/elden beast gave me more problems than her.
With her all you gotta do is get the fukk outa the way of that special attack. Everything else is pretty easy.
Even now on new game+ radigon/elden beast gave me more problems than her.
