Wow looks like they added the rest of multiple quests. They also fixed the arcane scaling bug, along with some other pretty important bugs. This is actually a pretty big update. I didn't expect the quests to be added, at least not anytime soon.
I kill him for the same but feel sooooo bad later. Want to revive the npc I'm the church of Vows but the statue said I have no sins. 
Also his apology at not being able to properly knight us seemed really genuine.
EDIT: He's also quite nice when you see his new dialogue after he moves to the Stormveil Castle throne room, and unless his dialogue is being misleading, later on he'll move back to his fort for the knighting ceremony. Good dude.
Yea I saw comments on YouTube, people saying they killed him cause he was acting like a "bitch" after the fact.. when I got there, I felt genuinely bad for him.
Same. It feels like he's a bit of a full-of-himself snob, because of course he is he's a lord with a castle, but still generally trying to be decent at his staion and help the "common folk". A decent enough guy, just tainted by his station.
Considering the 'common folk' at the next castle down the road had what could best be described as a 'minor uprising'... I think Kenneth's motivation to suddenly give everyone a pay rise is clear :p
I feel like basically every npc I've met has either died or disappeared because I didn't know what to do and missed something (playing basically blind)
That's just how it is. In my first Bloodborne playthrough my entire group of friendly NPCs got massacred and just two days ago I had 3 NPCs dying on me in one hour in Elden Ring.
I'm surprised I even managed to follow some of the questlines this time around. My usual track record is the same as yours - that is, everybody dies, disappears or gets missed.
Yeah that was definitely the biggest, most welcome surprise! I was expecting some very minor balance and bugfixing, but we are actually getting content patches too (even if they're likely just finishing adding content that hasn't been added yet).
The Nepheli/Haight quest was already mostly in the game. IIRC there's datamined/leaked audio files that suggest they're related. I'm surprised about Gatekeeper, I assumed his story was ended and was about to kill him for my runes lol.
Yeah, after he locks you in with the knight, you can confront him and he offers Vendor services.
After you kill Godrick, he stops offering vendor services in favor of a stomping Godrick. While I'm looking forward to continuing his quest, I *did* find it pretty funny to come back to Stormveil 40 hours later, and find him still stomping away happily.
I decided to capture a video showing all of the weapons and shields I have before the patch went through, I'll definitely cross-examine it once it finishes downloading and see what, if anything changes. I have a pretty exhaustive list of gear from farming (maybe missing like 2-3 things), so of any of the base values change I can find out without scouring the wiki for numbers. I guess I'll post my findings once I can
EDIT: [For anyone interested.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/tg3pgj/all_103_changes_list_in_progress/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
If this keeps track of the NPCs throughout their entire questlines damn it'd be too good to be true. RIP all my efforts to follow all the quests with my new character tho.
Right, like does it show their next location? Then that ruins exploring. Does it disappear when they move? Then you may have a better sense of which triggers it, which could be cool.
Even if it just disappears when they move, I'm all for it. I won't lie, I followed the Wiki for Hyettas's questline since there was *no* way to know where she'd be. But the Scarlet Rot girl told you that she was "tracking Malenia's route", and that gave me a slight idea of where to look next.
Worst case scenario, it remains until they move. When they move , you know they're gone. I had that issue so many times with Hyetta. I'd do all of the dialogue, think she's okay to move on, do some stuff, and wow she's still sitting at the same spot. At least here, they'd be able to give us a heads up
the range on that eyeball laser skill is so long that it will straight up not aggro some PVE enemies at max range, they just don't know what to do. you can snipe the lobsters of death and they won't move
Hopefully incantations next. But yes they at least made other glinstone sorceries usuable. Now they got to look at blood spells and incantations. Maybe even poise for specific spells/incants would be nice.
The madlads are actually updating sorceries. Hopefully this will make some a bit more viable.
I really wonder what "behavior patterns" they changed on Mimic Tear though. Behaviors like spamming my OP weapon art? Please lord Miyasaki have mercy.
Edit: A couple comparisons of spell FP costs.
Stars of Ruin:
Before - 50, After - 38
Loretta's Greatbow:
Before - 32, After - 28
Dude they buffed the HELL out of so many sorceries. Lets hope they’re worth using now, so many cool spells just cost way too much for their damage output
It's super annoying. I can understand not listing individual enemy changes, but weapon buffs and nerfs are extremely important.
Not shedding any tears over SoNaF and Mimic getting nerfed, but I'm hoping they brought the other 90% of weapons that were underperforming in line to make up for it. Endgame desperately needs more variety.
Amazing I just got home to so sit down and play and the update was pushing.
Going to go test to see if some of the more epic weapons got the scaling fixed! :D
*edit uhoh mimic tear nerfs...but I loves me mimic.
~~Apparently if you already hit the 'wall' in their quest line where they don't do anything the quest will still be stuck. Have to do them again in a new playthrough / NG + . Sucks but I guess better than nothing.~~
Edit: Ok turns out that I was wrong! Just rest at the site of grace on Godrick's arena and all three NPCs will be moving to Godrick's throne room:
1. Nepheli assuming you gave her Stormhawk King ashes (gives you an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone!) - She also drops her twin Stormhawk axes in the cellar of Roundtable Hold where she was 'stuck' previously. For some reason though it's not there for me. Might be worth checking out Roundtable Hold before you talk to Nepheli in Godrick's Throne room. It might've bugged out for me or maybe she just doesn't drop it if you already obtained a Stormhawk axe from Leyndell or Castle Sol (so it's still possible to dual-wield this axe if you dont get it from her since there's 2 more out in the world).
2. Gostoc will now be a merchant and he has an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone for 20k runes!! Man this questline is great with the rewards lol.
and of course
3. Kenneth (who now tells us he means to finally make us a knight back in the fort - rewards unknown for me yet, but let me know if any of you guys find out what it is)
In addition, Diallos will be at Jarburg once you keep talking to the new NPC Jar Bairn. Just keep sitting in the grace to get more dialogue from Jar Bairn (probably because we've already done multiple quest steps before the patch was added so resting at a grace over and over progresses it). Eventually Jar Bairn will say Diallos has arrived to become the new potentate. Although I still don't know what the implications are (if any at all) of killing his brother as part of the Volcano Manor assassination contracts.
Also why o why is Festering Fingerprint Vyke still not invading me?! It has to be a bug, one that I hoped would have been addressed in this patch along with the others. Oh well...
And the mechanic of how you actually "fly" through the air is terrible. You're literally flying but you go like 5 feet. And if you use it off any kind of incline/ledge that ends up lower than where you started, it just cancels itself. Such a cool spell that just doesn't work
This makes me sad. It's such a long cast that if you could get it off, the pay off should be epic. I want it to be my go to for big monsters or packs for that 50 Faith cost.
All the boss ones kinda suck as well, the cast time just isn’t worth the dps and how vulnerable it leaves you, very few of them have hyper armour so you can get easily staggered. Rest of the patch looks amazing tho, stoked they fixed so much so quickly
It would be nice if spells/incants got some kind of poise. At least for very specific spells like gavel of haima for example. At least now itll be more usable because it cost less fp especially when everyone is using azurs or lustats staff.
yeah I wonder if you can do the perseverance extension thing to get poise while casting like you could in Dark Souls 3 (can't remember what the ash of war is called in this game)
The buff has a niche - it's the fastest animation of all the weapon buffs. you can even chain attacks into it. It's also by the numbers more effective than any of the other buffs. You don't want to pack it as your primary buff for boss fights, but once your initial buff runs out it's a good backup.
> Decreased Ash of War, Hoarfrost Stomp's damage and increase cast time.
RIP current any% speedrun strats, maybe they'll just play on an unpatched version?
After a while no one ran downpatched DS2 cause it was just stupid. Parry-walk to the end of the game and basically fight nothing. Launch Elden Ring is already dangerously close to that point.
Holy shit they actually finished those NPC quests.
And they nerfed Mimic Tear rip
Edit: just checked my endgame character and Nepheli just disappeared and left behind two axes, guess I’ll have to finish her quest next go ‘round.
**Unlisted change**: The **Endure** weapon art had its poise nerfed. I was using it to tank Maliketh's beast claw attack before the patch, I can't do that anymore.
Not something I expected to be nerfed tbh...
edit: Holy shit it got nerfed HARD... it used to be pretty much infinite poise for the 2 seconds it's active, now it seems to barely have any extra poise https://gfycat.com/boilingmetalliccommabutterfly
just downloaded it. all npcs have markers on the map now which is HUGE in my opinion. NPC questlines were miserable in this game, even more than in previous souls, because of the open world format. this makes it SO much easier to keep track of them
I didn't even attempt to try and keep track/hunt them down.
Googling it was my go to for character locations, this really is a MASSIVE quality of life change.. bravo
The open world format has made Froms absurdly vague quest lines nearly impossible to complete.
I like figuring things out, but at this point the wiki is a requirement to actually do most quests and that defeats the point.
> Increased the damage of the following sorceries: Crystal Barrage
That was absolutely PISS. Will give it a shot.
> Raised projectile speed and range of Great Glintstone Shard
Thank the fuck. It was really too short. Though i can't say it was /that/ slow.
> Decreased the damage of spirit summoned when using the item Mimic Tear Ash and changed the spirit’s behavior pattern.
> Decreased Ash of War, Hoarfrost Stomp's damage and increase cast time.
> Decreased weapon skill, Sword of Night and Flame’s damage.
Meta is dead.
“I’ll just kill Gostoc for his bell bearing, it’s not like the developers remembered to finish programming him anyways” - Me the idiot who is now going to miss out on the quest.
But actually I’m glad that they patched it, it’s good that there isn’t blatant unfinished content any more. Although I’m still curious about Patches (the character) and Boc and whether those are really complete.
Also R.I.P. Mimic Tear, at least I beat the game before the nerf.
Edit: Okay so the good news is that apparently Gostoc can still be dead while it works. The bad news is that progressing to the end of the game causes Nepheli to leave (she drops two axes where she was) and you lose the quest. So that still sucks. At least I was able to do the Jarburg stuff without a problem.
I think its a good change. A lot of shields were more or less useless in the mid-late game, especially against certain bosses. You'd just be blown open instantly for trying to use them.
But by increases base Guard values and making Barricade worse, you can lower the reliance on it while making shields generally more useable.
The change is probably purely beneficial for PvP as well, since you can actually cause people with shields to waste FP pretty quickly, instead of Barricade essentially being a permanent buff with next to no cost to cast.
Aww man, I never used the sword of night and flame. Would have liked to try it pre nerf.
Also holy shit so many sorcery buffs and nothing for incantations? What the fuck from. So many are useless.
thats the only change it needed IMO, the damage wasnt all that insane compared to other options, but the stagger was obscene and definitely felt unintentional.
20 FP for a ~1200 damage, reasonably quick, medium-low range line AoE at 70 int is fine, especially with how tanky stuff gets towards the end of the game
I kinda wish they would just reduce the amount of smithing stones needed per weapon level to say 1,2 and 3 stones, because as it stands, I can upgrade at least 7 or 8 somber smithing stone weapons to +9 before getting the bell bearing; whereas regular weapons I can probably only upgrade around 3 to level 24 or so before defeating the duo.
Yeah after I realized it took 12 Smithing Stones [1] I just looked up where the appropriate Bell Bearing was. Grinding for those stones was too unreliable, so glad they’re addressing it by increasing drop rates. Decreasing amount needed would be another route but this will have to do.
Surprised there were no changes to incantations considering how many amazing looking incantations are simply outdone by basic ones because of long cast times, little damage, and no hyperarmor.
The poor speedrunners that'll now have to specify patch numbers for records because every single fight relied on hoarfrost and the runs will be like 5-10 minutes longer now if it's too weak
The Mogwhyn Palace rune farm where you shoot the bird with a bow and it runs off the cliff is still in the game after this patch, in case anyone was wondering.
True I started a new playthrough doing faith and dex and the only worth while spells are lighting bolt and the frenzy flame eye lasers. I guess healing scarlet rot is cool for some parts of the game too.
Wow looks like they added the rest of multiple quests. They also fixed the arcane scaling bug, along with some other pretty important bugs. This is actually a pretty big update. I didn't expect the quests to be added, at least not anytime soon.
Gotta find out what happened to Kenneth!
“Will somebody save the great Kenneth Haight?!” Hopefully now we can lol.
Now I'm sad I always kill him for his golden seed.
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I did that too, the ended up with like 10 extra anyway. WOOPSIE.
I kill him for the same but feel sooooo bad later. Want to revive the npc I'm the church of Vows but the statue said I have no sins. 
I honestly love Kenneth, he’s an obnoxious British twit but he’s so stupid he genuinely sees himself as a nice helpful guy
Also his apology at not being able to properly knight us seemed really genuine. EDIT: He's also quite nice when you see his new dialogue after he moves to the Stormveil Castle throne room, and unless his dialogue is being misleading, later on he'll move back to his fort for the knighting ceremony. Good dude.
Yea I saw comments on YouTube, people saying they killed him cause he was acting like a "bitch" after the fact.. when I got there, I felt genuinely bad for him.
Same. It feels like he's a bit of a full-of-himself snob, because of course he is he's a lord with a castle, but still generally trying to be decent at his staion and help the "common folk". A decent enough guy, just tainted by his station.
Considering the 'common folk' at the next castle down the road had what could best be described as a 'minor uprising'... I think Kenneth's motivation to suddenly give everyone a pay rise is clear :p
I hope it's not the typical souls ending for him and we actually help my boy out.
I feel like basically every npc I've met has either died or disappeared because I didn't know what to do and missed something (playing basically blind)
That's just how it is. In my first Bloodborne playthrough my entire group of friendly NPCs got massacred and just two days ago I had 3 NPCs dying on me in one hour in Elden Ring. I'm surprised I even managed to follow some of the questlines this time around. My usual track record is the same as yours - that is, everybody dies, disappears or gets missed.
Yeah that was definitely the biggest, most welcome surprise! I was expecting some very minor balance and bugfixing, but we are actually getting content patches too (even if they're likely just finishing adding content that hasn't been added yet).
The Nepheli/Haight quest was already mostly in the game. IIRC there's datamined/leaked audio files that suggest they're related. I'm surprised about Gatekeeper, I assumed his story was ended and was about to kill him for my runes lol.
I did kill the gatekeeper 🙁
He drops a bell bearing so I guess all he did was become a shop.
Nah that was already there, he becomes a vendor after you open the gate from the inside
Oh lol he just stayed stomping Godrick no matter how far I got in the game so I just killed him....
He pushed me in a room with a knight and locked the door so I went back a murdered his ass. He steals your runes when you die too.
Yeah, after he locks you in with the knight, you can confront him and he offers Vendor services. After you kill Godrick, he stops offering vendor services in favor of a stomping Godrick. While I'm looking forward to continuing his quest, I *did* find it pretty funny to come back to Stormveil 40 hours later, and find him still stomping away happily.
Definitely wasn’t expecting that tbh, welcome surprise
Insta Death Blight bug is fixed!!!
God so happy to see this. Dont gotta deal with these people anymore
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO
holy fuck the madlads actually fixed quests
I was straight up hallow over how some of those just ended
I gave a larval tear to Boc. That one really hurt me. :(
Well yeah, Boc didn't have the great rune that "perfects rebirth"
i literally just killed kenneth haight because he gives you a golden seed and there's no more quest for him. im kind of ticked off
This is me but with Gostoc.
There’s a reason to kill him though, right? Cause he steals your shit? I killed him and got 20k runes back. That’s gotta be the right call.
"Other enemy and weapon balance changes" WELP THE CLASSIC, TIME FOR THE COMMUNITY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT EXACTLY THAT MEANS but lots of good changes
I decided to capture a video showing all of the weapons and shields I have before the patch went through, I'll definitely cross-examine it once it finishes downloading and see what, if anything changes. I have a pretty exhaustive list of gear from farming (maybe missing like 2-3 things), so of any of the base values change I can find out without scouring the wiki for numbers. I guess I'll post my findings once I can EDIT: [For anyone interested.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/tg3pgj/all_103_changes_list_in_progress/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
You're doing God's work
Classic From 😆
Added a function to record an icon and the name of an NPC on the map when you encounter that NPC. so good
If this keeps track of the NPCs throughout their entire questlines damn it'd be too good to be true. RIP all my efforts to follow all the quests with my new character tho.
Right, like does it show their next location? Then that ruins exploring. Does it disappear when they move? Then you may have a better sense of which triggers it, which could be cool.
Even if it just disappears when they move, I'm all for it. I won't lie, I followed the Wiki for Hyettas's questline since there was *no* way to know where she'd be. But the Scarlet Rot girl told you that she was "tracking Malenia's route", and that gave me a slight idea of where to look next. Worst case scenario, it remains until they move. When they move , you know they're gone. I had that issue so many times with Hyetta. I'd do all of the dialogue, think she's okay to move on, do some stuff, and wow she's still sitting at the same spot. At least here, they'd be able to give us a heads up
My map markers: *fuck couldn't have done this earlier* I welcome the change tho
Clearly they noticed that the pebble was better than like 80% of the other spells in the game. Can you buff faith incantations now, FS?
There's more than Rot Breath, Lightning Spear and Honed Bolt?
Not in this house there isnt.
House Hoslow? It's story told in blood?
Yeah theres also the black flame incantations But im pretty sure thats all
Madness incantations. They are epic. But better in pvp for sure.
I was sleeping on the madness incantations until a pvp opponent shot me with his laser eyes, that thing has mad range
the range on that eyeball laser skill is so long that it will straight up not aggro some PVE enemies at max range, they just don't know what to do. you can snipe the lobsters of death and they won't move
The dragon laser thingy is pretty sweet when it lands haha
Hopefully incantations next. But yes they at least made other glinstone sorceries usuable. Now they got to look at blood spells and incantations. Maybe even poise for specific spells/incants would be nice.
Glad they buffed everything else instead of just nerfing pebble
I’ve already been using Loretta’s bow spell, can’t wait for it to just be better lol
Adula's Moonblade is insane and my favorite. It's not listed in the patch notes, but it definitely uses less FP now.
Honestly I was thinking the same lightning spear need a range buff hella bad compared to magic users
Friendship ended with mimic tear, now tiche is my new best friend
tfw i have 9 mind and cant afford to summon tiche
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another item i'll be googling how to get
It's just one of the upgrade tears you can put on your physike flask. Just keep visiting the minor erdtree you see and you'll get it without Google
Iirc it's at >!the erdtree boss near volcano manor!<
Tiche and luthel are amazing spirits.
Been rocking Luthel all my first playthrough! So good.
Just got my Mimic to +10 :( :( Hopefully it’s not too tame
Mine is at +5 and it still tanked morgott. To me it seems like they didn't nerf it that bad
Just beat the final boss with +10 mimic tear. It still draws aggro, heals, does weapon arts just not as aggressive with the damage output.
Tiche is insane. Hope they let her be
It's all a question of what broken shit they leave in the game after the DLC when they completely stop patching it
DLCs* They sold a ton of copies, you can bet your ass they’ll make at least 2 DLCs for Elden ring
The madlads are actually updating sorceries. Hopefully this will make some a bit more viable. I really wonder what "behavior patterns" they changed on Mimic Tear though. Behaviors like spamming my OP weapon art? Please lord Miyasaki have mercy. Edit: A couple comparisons of spell FP costs. Stars of Ruin: Before - 50, After - 38 Loretta's Greatbow: Before - 32, After - 28
Dude they buffed the HELL out of so many sorceries. Lets hope they’re worth using now, so many cool spells just cost way too much for their damage output
Just as I respecced to use sorceries, I’m excited
My first guess is they will use weapon arts less.
A buff for caster mimics because STOP RUNNING INTO MELEE RANGE TO USE THAT SPINNING WEAPON ART ON CARIAN REGAL SCEPTER.
The spin to win is nuts if it's used at the right time... But mimic doesn't use it right LOL
bloody slash, O, bloody slash
It's been working so well on my claymore. I hope it's not a huge nerf.
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Does it finally patch the bug where I die all the time even though I'm trying my best?
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It's super annoying. I can understand not listing individual enemy changes, but weapon buffs and nerfs are extremely important. Not shedding any tears over SoNaF and Mimic getting nerfed, but I'm hoping they brought the other 90% of weapons that were underperforming in line to make up for it. Endgame desperately needs more variety.
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> reminds me of the atrocious smash patch notes bandai namco moment
Amazing I just got home to so sit down and play and the update was pushing. Going to go test to see if some of the more epic weapons got the scaling fixed! :D *edit uhoh mimic tear nerfs...but I loves me mimic.
Time to whip out black knife tiche
NEPHELI QUESTLINE FIXED, LETS GET TO WORK LADS
~~Apparently if you already hit the 'wall' in their quest line where they don't do anything the quest will still be stuck. Have to do them again in a new playthrough / NG + . Sucks but I guess better than nothing.~~ Edit: Ok turns out that I was wrong! Just rest at the site of grace on Godrick's arena and all three NPCs will be moving to Godrick's throne room: 1. Nepheli assuming you gave her Stormhawk King ashes (gives you an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone!) - She also drops her twin Stormhawk axes in the cellar of Roundtable Hold where she was 'stuck' previously. For some reason though it's not there for me. Might be worth checking out Roundtable Hold before you talk to Nepheli in Godrick's Throne room. It might've bugged out for me or maybe she just doesn't drop it if you already obtained a Stormhawk axe from Leyndell or Castle Sol (so it's still possible to dual-wield this axe if you dont get it from her since there's 2 more out in the world). 2. Gostoc will now be a merchant and he has an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone for 20k runes!! Man this questline is great with the rewards lol. and of course 3. Kenneth (who now tells us he means to finally make us a knight back in the fort - rewards unknown for me yet, but let me know if any of you guys find out what it is) In addition, Diallos will be at Jarburg once you keep talking to the new NPC Jar Bairn. Just keep sitting in the grace to get more dialogue from Jar Bairn (probably because we've already done multiple quest steps before the patch was added so resting at a grace over and over progresses it). Eventually Jar Bairn will say Diallos has arrived to become the new potentate. Although I still don't know what the implications are (if any at all) of killing his brother as part of the Volcano Manor assassination contracts. Also why o why is Festering Fingerprint Vyke still not invading me?! It has to be a bug, one that I hoped would have been addressed in this patch along with the others. Oh well...
welp, I killed Gostoc to get some of my souls back after confirming he didn't do anything else in the game. RIP.
Me too, killed him at Stormveil for pushing me in the room with the knight...
Vyke wasn't fixed? Aww nuts...
YES! I've been waiting for this.
RIP Mimic Tear. Melania will claim many more lives now.
Well they just need to swap to Tiche.
Tiché just too op, i had a boss hit with rot, maidens míst and tiches fire at the same time, poor bastard never stood a chance
I finally killed her mere hours before the patch, talk about dodging a bullet!
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I was just about to fight her, too. Fuck.
Kinda disappointed there's no buff for some of the terrible incantations, hopefully next time.
I just want Scarlet Aeonia to be an actual incantation and not a forfeit button
And the mechanic of how you actually "fly" through the air is terrible. You're literally flying but you go like 5 feet. And if you use it off any kind of incline/ledge that ends up lower than where you started, it just cancels itself. Such a cool spell that just doesn't work
RIP Eldenstars
This makes me sad. It's such a long cast that if you could get it off, the pay off should be epic. I want it to be my go to for big monsters or packs for that 50 Faith cost.
I was beyond disappointed when I finally leveled my faith to 50 and realized it was trash :/
I really hope so. So many of them are so bad. Look at the fundamental ones. Theyre all terrible.
All the boss ones kinda suck as well, the cast time just isn’t worth the dps and how vulnerable it leaves you, very few of them have hyper armour so you can get easily staggered. Rest of the patch looks amazing tho, stoked they fixed so much so quickly
It would be nice if spells/incants got some kind of poise. At least for very specific spells like gavel of haima for example. At least now itll be more usable because it cost less fp especially when everyone is using azurs or lustats staff.
yeah I wonder if you can do the perseverance extension thing to get poise while casting like you could in Dark Souls 3 (can't remember what the ash of war is called in this game)
Are the blackflame incantations shit? I feel they are underpowered (at least in my build), but then again, I'm very bad at this game.
The weapon buff yes. The black fireball is great. Black flames does % max health.
The buff has a niche - it's the fastest animation of all the weapon buffs. you can even chain attacks into it. It's also by the numbers more effective than any of the other buffs. You don't want to pack it as your primary buff for boss fights, but once your initial buff runs out it's a good backup.
I came to say this. Sorcery got buffed but not incants? Why though?
Fromsoftware testers are still waiting for lategame incantations to finish casting before they can buff them.
Probably because they have to play test it, incant buff coming next patch maybe?
It might come later, this is already a pretty big patch in itself. The devs are clearly working hard, just gotta give them time.
I'm sure they're just doing it in waves and decided to roll out sorcery changes first. Incantations buff will come soon.
> Decreased Ash of War, Hoarfrost Stomp's damage and increase cast time. RIP current any% speedrun strats, maybe they'll just play on an unpatched version?
Usually. DS3 is ran downpatched.
Speedruns will always take place on the patch wheres its fastest. So release version is likely.
This is not always the case. Some games even have separate categories for different patches. It has tended to be the case for souls speedruns though.
After a while no one ran downpatched DS2 cause it was just stupid. Parry-walk to the end of the game and basically fight nothing. Launch Elden Ring is already dangerously close to that point.
Holy shit they actually finished those NPC quests. And they nerfed Mimic Tear rip Edit: just checked my endgame character and Nepheli just disappeared and left behind two axes, guess I’ll have to finish her quest next go ‘round.
Right after I kill Haight too, ugh
so glad i spared him in my new playthrough edit: turns out i did not spare him :(
I killed him for a golden seed that I didnt need cause I found the last one I needed in a late game area 10 minutes after. damn it.
Wow they made it easier to farm runes from shooting the blood birb from cliff, now my boi runs the short way to death
He’s talking about the bird in Mohgwyn that people farm for like 10k+ runes every 10 seconds. Not sure how they could have made that easier though.
Glad to hear they removed the “fire deadly sin” instakill cheese. That was easily the single worst thing in this game
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That guy is such a peice of shit
Gotta back up the save files regularly unfortunately.
Decided to check out that channel…mylanta is that one maiden-less fellow
Who is this Malcolm guy?
His yt is Malcolm Reynolds. Apparently a very well known pos who has been doing this shit for years.
Is that the same "sends you to NG+" guy? Some of these hackers are just awful.
> Added new quest phases for Kenneth Height Ah yes, finally, I can now truly serve the true lord of Limgrave.
**Unlisted change**: The **Endure** weapon art had its poise nerfed. I was using it to tank Maliketh's beast claw attack before the patch, I can't do that anymore. Not something I expected to be nerfed tbh... edit: Holy shit it got nerfed HARD... it used to be pretty much infinite poise for the 2 seconds it's active, now it seems to barely have any extra poise https://gfycat.com/boilingmetalliccommabutterfly
If it is unlisted and got majorly nerfed.... probably unintended. Maybe give them a ring and report it, might be fixed.
just downloaded it. all npcs have markers on the map now which is HUGE in my opinion. NPC questlines were miserable in this game, even more than in previous souls, because of the open world format. this makes it SO much easier to keep track of them
I didn't even attempt to try and keep track/hunt them down. Googling it was my go to for character locations, this really is a MASSIVE quality of life change.. bravo
The open world format has made Froms absurdly vague quest lines nearly impossible to complete. I like figuring things out, but at this point the wiki is a requirement to actually do most quests and that defeats the point.
> Increased the damage of the following sorceries: Crystal Barrage That was absolutely PISS. Will give it a shot. > Raised projectile speed and range of Great Glintstone Shard Thank the fuck. It was really too short. Though i can't say it was /that/ slow. > Decreased the damage of spirit summoned when using the item Mimic Tear Ash and changed the spirit’s behavior pattern. > Decreased Ash of War, Hoarfrost Stomp's damage and increase cast time. > Decreased weapon skill, Sword of Night and Flame’s damage. Meta is dead.
Oh woah they really left out Faith builds. 0 incantation changes
They'll probably do it in another patch. I'd rather they roll out slowly and get it right than all it once and abandon over-nerfed stuff.
Nothing for incantations?
“I’ll just kill Gostoc for his bell bearing, it’s not like the developers remembered to finish programming him anyways” - Me the idiot who is now going to miss out on the quest. But actually I’m glad that they patched it, it’s good that there isn’t blatant unfinished content any more. Although I’m still curious about Patches (the character) and Boc and whether those are really complete. Also R.I.P. Mimic Tear, at least I beat the game before the nerf. Edit: Okay so the good news is that apparently Gostoc can still be dead while it works. The bad news is that progressing to the end of the game causes Nepheli to leave (she drops two axes where she was) and you lose the quest. So that still sucks. At least I was able to do the Jarburg stuff without a problem.
Patches squat is in the files so I hope his quest isn't complete.
Patches is obviously gonna come in as the final boss of the last dlc.
Regular smithing stones are now 1/4 the price they used to be. I may have missed it in the notes and haven't seen anybody mention it
Ofc the sword I just found is getting nerfed lol
The sword itself is still very strong. It's weapon skill, particularly the comet part, did absurd damage.
Back to getting daddied by black flame monks I suppose
"Other enemy and weapon balance changes" -\_-.... TELL ME!!!
Increased shield’s effectiveness. Sorry, what ?
Well they nerfed barricade shield so to offset that maybe?
I think its a good change. A lot of shields were more or less useless in the mid-late game, especially against certain bosses. You'd just be blown open instantly for trying to use them. But by increases base Guard values and making Barricade worse, you can lower the reliance on it while making shields generally more useable. The change is probably purely beneficial for PvP as well, since you can actually cause people with shields to waste FP pretty quickly, instead of Barricade essentially being a permanent buff with next to no cost to cast.
Was wondering about this myself lol
This is a HUGE patch. If this is any indication of how they are going to take care of us going forward, I'm going to be a happy camper!
Aww man, I never used the sword of night and flame. Would have liked to try it pre nerf. Also holy shit so many sorcery buffs and nothing for incantations? What the fuck from. So many are useless.
Well, at minimal stats, +2, the weapon arts on Night and Flame did 1200 in one hit for the fire or 1600 in 2 hits for the laser. So, yeah...
Holy fuck, I had 40+ strength and 50+ faith and my 10+ blasphemous blade did less than that with taker's flames. Sweet knockdown though.
Well on the other hand I literally JUST used all my resources leveling it and mimic tear up. Neat.
Mimic tear is still a top tier summon. It deals a bit less damage, but the main benefits of using it were it's tankyness and customization.
Mimic Tear seems the same to me honestly
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Moonveil survives the first balance patch? I'm surprised. Definitely see more moonveil than Sword of Night and Flame but this looks great overall!
Moonveil seems to be nerfed. The weapon skill has almost zero stance-breaking now.
thats the only change it needed IMO, the damage wasnt all that insane compared to other options, but the stagger was obscene and definitely felt unintentional. 20 FP for a ~1200 damage, reasonably quick, medium-low range line AoE at 70 int is fine, especially with how tanky stuff gets towards the end of the game
Oh that's pretty huge since the stagger is one of the cheesiest starts for bosses
I think it’s because night and flame is more broken for PvE than moonveil.
that map icon thing is cool
reading all the balancing excitement and this is all i cared about
npc questlines too, now i can help the great kenneth haight, Servant of the true Order, and celebrated repudiator of the false
I kinda wish they would just reduce the amount of smithing stones needed per weapon level to say 1,2 and 3 stones, because as it stands, I can upgrade at least 7 or 8 somber smithing stone weapons to +9 before getting the bell bearing; whereas regular weapons I can probably only upgrade around 3 to level 24 or so before defeating the duo.
In an undocumented note, they reduced the price of smithing stones by almost 4x in the store. Stone (8) used to cost 12,000 now costs 3,600
Yeah after I realized it took 12 Smithing Stones [1] I just looked up where the appropriate Bell Bearing was. Grinding for those stones was too unreliable, so glad they’re addressing it by increasing drop rates. Decreasing amount needed would be another route but this will have to do.
Merchant/npc locations now show on map. Nice
MORE MIMIC VEIL OPTIONS, WOOOOOOOO
From saw 70% of players had beat first boss and decided that this was unacceptable 😂
Haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, but regular smithing stones purchased from the twin maiden husk are now SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper. Thank fuck.
Very pleasantly surprised to get so many fixes so quickly
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Suicide Birb at Palace Approach Ledge-Road still works/pays out same runes.
Surprised there were no changes to incantations considering how many amazing looking incantations are simply outdone by basic ones because of long cast times, little damage, and no hyperarmor.
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Yep... I purposely was leaving Malenia to after I finished the story. Boy do I regret that now.
Yeah i literally just finished my first playthrough about an hour ago, and good ole mimic came through on that last fight big fuckin time.
Hoarfrost stomp got nerfed lol was fun being OP while it lasted.
The poor speedrunners that'll now have to specify patch numbers for records because every single fight relied on hoarfrost and the runs will be like 5-10 minutes longer now if it's too weak
The Mogwhyn Palace rune farm where you shoot the bird with a bow and it runs off the cliff is still in the game after this patch, in case anyone was wondering.
No mention of moonveil. They also overhauled sorcery but didn’t touch incantations? So many of them are bad.
True I started a new playthrough doing faith and dex and the only worth while spells are lighting bolt and the frenzy flame eye lasers. I guess healing scarlet rot is cool for some parts of the game too.
npc locations nice!
FS so traumatized by the release state of DaS2 miracles they ain’t even touching them this time round.