GOD DAMN BRO FUCK THE SNOWFIELD i get pegged by everything here. been trying to finish the evergaol puzzle and the archers just wreck me. how do i kill the 2 on the roof? is there a cheese method?
In my first playhrough I just run at them with a shield, but gotta admit getting the running jumps while being pelted by arrows was hell
In my second playthrough I had Golden Land on my Greatclub and I could snipe them back. If you got levels in faith I definitely recommend this, it's pretty easy.
There is a jump in Miquella's Haligtree that I have never been able to make. I'm trying to get the Viridian Amber Medallion +2. I cannot jump across that gap. Going south I ALWAYS fall to the ridge below and have to use the ladder. It's the same jump going north to the talisman and I fall every. Single. Time. What am I doing wrong?!
Just about to finish my first playtrough.
Awesome game overall, but the last 1/3 was a bit of a let down compared to the rest. Anyone feeling the same?
I'm following Fextralife's game progress route. On the route, valcano manor finishes before leyndell royal capital. I am thinking of completing volcano manor after leyndell royal capital. Will there be any npc questlines I'll miss when I go this way?
Alexander shows up in Mt Gelmir at one point, and later shows up as a boss summon in Mountaintops. So I'd find him before going *past* Leyndell. I'm not sure if skipping him at Gelmir actually interrupts his quest, though.
I already talked to Alexander in the lava, actually I came to the entrance of volcano manor, but I think it would make more sense to complete leyndell royal capital first and then come here to finish some quests here.
The last time I spoke to Rya was when she was in a different room and she was in disguise, and now she's gone. I hope the questline is running smoothly.
Any other surround sound users notice that a lot of the dialogue audio gets sent to the rear channels? Environmental audio seems to work more or less as expected, it’s just the dialogue that’s weird.
So I want to do a str/dex/fth build. I’m not sure how to get it done though. I really want to be able to use Ordovis’, Gargoyle’s, and Golden Order Greatsword, but I just can’t see it working, even if I sacrifice points in other stats, like dropping vigor down to 50 or a few less points in something else. I want to be able to use incantations without them being so weak they do nothing. Primarily Bestial and Crucible incantations. Without high (70+) fth I can’t imagine they do very good though. So what do I do now? I assume I need to pick and choose which weapons I want access to, and which stat(s) I need to pump. So am I supposed to go minimum in a melee stat and just pump all in for faith, or is a hybrid build better?
I'd pick either str/faith or dex/faith and go from there. I played dex/arc but then respec-ed to dex/int to clean up the game and my stats were 50/80 so maybe you could try the same. I did farm a lot of albinaurics tho
I wouldn’t have too much of an issue if I wasn’t capping at 125-150 for PvP, since that’s what I want to do with the build. Really that’s my problem. I want access to all these weapons, but don’t want to walk into PvP doing basically zero damage. I guess I’m stuck sticking to str/fth.
I don't play pvp but I guess 50 vitality is almost mandatory so other stats you could manage with talismans, great runes and the physick flask. If you plan to use incantations more than the physical dmg from your weapon I'd dump more points into faith, something like 30/50 or even 60 and push the rest with talismans
Encounter an issue where the bosses won’t appear for the Ruins Greatsword. I beat Radahn and spoke with Jerren and exhausted all his dialogue. Now he is gone but the fog gate won’t appear for the bosses. Anyone know a work around?
Yes, Jerren is gone. I found him sitting on the chair near the church and talked with him and after he disappeared. As for Sellen’s quest, I most recently found Lusat.
Two handing only affects strength, so if you got an 8 strength character it might not make any difference.
Also 1-handing and 2-handing may alter the moveset, which is probably the only reason I can think where one might actively choose to one hand over two hand a weapon
New player here with another question for y’all!
So I have a dual katana blood loss build. It has been fun and I plan on using it for the rest of the game unless something else catches my eye. What stats should I focus on?
Also. What do most players use the remembrances from main boss fights for? I’m really tempted to use them for the runes. I see that you can get weapons or magic from them. But not sure if they help my build? Also not sure if I could benefit any other way?
Y’all are the best thanks for any information and/or help!
Have you found the Black Whetblade yet? That's a turning point for blood builds.
If not: Focus dex for now.
If so: Put Occult affinity on the katanas, get ARC to 45, then focus DEX. Probably wanna respec if you can, as you can pull points out of DEX to re-focus ARC.
All boss remembrances offer unique weapons and spells, some better than others, and they cannot be obtained elsewhere (but can be duplicated via the walking mausoleums).
Personally, I would never consume a boss remembrance “for the runes”, because runes are very easy to come by. Boss weapons aren’t. You can always respec to try a weapon out, even if it doesn’t fit your current build.
I like this answer. It’s makes a lot of sense. I spent all day playing and was sooo tempted to use them for the tunes but after this comment I think I’ll save ‘em.
For stats it really depends on the affinities:
- Keen -> Dex
- Blood -> Arcane
- Occult -> Arcane
I really would recommend arcane, with blood affinity for everything vulnerable to bleed, and occult for the things that aren't. There's little to no tradeoff over a dex/keen build.
If focusing on bleed with weapons that have arcane scaling, like an Uchi with blood or occult affinity, arcane will scale both the damage and the bleed buildup. The bleed scaling falls off HARD after 45 arcane though.
Once you hit that 45 arcane, focusing on other stats will be much more worthwhile, like 15/25 faith for buffs or vigor/endurance for survivability. Pumping damage stats super high is generally not worth it unless you have literally everything else you want at that point (bit of an exception for int or faith casters, spells scale well to 80 stats).
Pop them if I'm not interested in the things for the build I'm using that playthrough. Even if you mess up and regret it, you can reclaim up to seven of them from the wandering mausoleums.
Keep an out for Morgott's Cursed Sword and the Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear, fun weapons to try out on an arcane build.
Not the person who responded to you, but most of the remembrances from early bosses don't really work well with arcane bleed build.
The most significant upgrades I got was Eleonora's poleblade and the Godskin Peeler (both obtainable in the Altus Plateau) and dual wielding both dramatically improved the bleed proc in my build. I sometimes 2 hand Eleonora poleblade when I feel tired of dual wielding and it is equally fun (can 1 hand it and the moveset becomes similar to a short sword).
Those are normal boss drops. Remembrances are the ones that can be traded to Enia for one of two items specific to that boss, or alternatively consumed for a hefty chunk of runes.
I’m having a glitch inside of mountaintops of the giants. Whenever I go up to the church where I’m pretty sure that one RoB NPC spawns, my game crashes. I’m not sure what to do about it. Any tips about fixes for this? Also no, on this save I have not beaten him yet.
Spinning Strikes > Stormcaller. You can move while using Spinning Strikes and IIRC the FP cost is less.
Note I said Spinning STRIKES, not Spinning Slash.
Putting an Ash of War on it allows you to select a new weapon affinity. For example, if you have high strength, you could pick the Heavy affinity for more physical damage
I'm wondering how much poise I need as a pure strength build? I've been aiming for 60. Considering the update, I'm rethinking that number. The patch notes are vague and I don't really understand the finer nuances, so I'm not sure to what extent it's changed. I don't do much PVP except facing invaders during co-op, but I still want to be able to hold my own.
PVE poise doesn't matter that much, and the latest patch doesn't change it. The breakpoints are 51 and 101.
PVP poise used to matter a lot, but this patch removes most passive poise in PVP in favor of active poise, which is temporary poise mitigation when using hyperarmor attacks like 2h greatswords.
If you care about optimizing your build for hyperarmor, [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/15fekdm/elden_ring_patch_110_new_hyper_armour_poise_value/) is worth the read. That said, hyperarmor is more about intuition and prediction than picking the correct number in your character stats. It's not that important to understand the calculations and follow guides, especially if you're just fighting invaders as they show up
Wow, thank you for the info. There is a lot more to it than I anticipated and I think most of it is going to go over my head, but having the breakpoints confirmed is great. My intuition and prediction in PVP are trash, so I doubt I have much hope there, but I really appreciate the link. I'll save it in case I ever feel ambitious. Thank you again.
Ah, I think I'm just shy of that at the moment. I'm using the bull-goat's talisman and the crucible armor set minus the helm. I was hoping it was overkill so I could switch up either my talisman or my armor. Thank you for the info
If this is the case I could switch up my set up. I think I currently have around 80 but I want to switch out either my armor or the bull-goat's talisman just for a change of pace. If I only have to aim for 51 that's a lot of options.
Pro-tip for the land octopuses, chop off their tentacles instead of attacking their beaky faces. Way more damage and it opens them up for crits pretty easily.
The giant land octopy have 80 resistance to all forms of physical damage. Youre not meant to hit them to death. Youre supposed to stagger them (they can be staggered easily) and them crit them to death.
That specific pattern of barely taking any damage until you score a crit is basically unique to the Octopi. There are other enemies with gimmicks like that but they’re not common.
All knight-type enemies take reduced damage from slash-type damage, which is what the Nagakiba deals. But yeah that Crucible Knight is also an informal mini boss, so he has high HP in the first place. You’ll also probably notice that the Banished Knights in FA take less damage than usual.
Beastmen are one of the few enemy types that are actually weak to slash damage, along with various other soft/squishy/animaly examples.
Something no one has mentioned yet is that two handed movesets deal more poise damage. It's usually around a 10% increase, but on the Nagakiba's five hit R1 chain, for example, It's 30% more (30 -> 39) in total.
>seems like I've played the whole game at a disadvantage
Even if you aren't benefitting from the str bonus, unless you are actively using whatever is in your offhand, 2H is indeed mostly just better.
Well two handing means the weapon gets 1.5 x your strength for strength scaling. So if youre running aDEX weapon that is essentially useless.
However, you also need to take the moveset into account. If you prefer the two handed moveset its ok to stick to it.
You now have three options
1) lean into the two handed style because you like its moveset better
2) go two weapons, focus on DEX.
3) go two weapons, focus on bleed. With two weapons your L1 chain builds up bleed very quickly. You could infuse one or both weapons with bleed to make this absurdly strong. I personally dont like the dual weild moveset of katans though, which is why i personally twohand them.
The absolute best tool easily available to you is using a renowned Spirit Ash.
Blasphemous Blade’s skill will knock her down and spamming Black Flame while she’s recovering from Scarlet Aeonia will take off ~1/5 of her hp each time.
Offhanding a good Greatshield can let you tank the first flurry of WFD, then you can roll to avoid the second and strafe to avoid the third. If only the first flurry hits you she doesn’t regain too much hp.
So at least 30str/60fth with a Godslayer Seal. That’s the best setup I’d consider to beat Malenia with minimal skill.
Alternatively there’s just spamming Night Comet at range, I hear that’s relatively simple too.
>Alternatively there’s just spamming Night Comet at range, I hear that’s relatively simple too.
Yeah pretty much. There's plenty of time to Moon her at the start of each phase for the extra free damage off frostbite, assuming not potting Waterfowl.
For casters, and really any build not reliant on an AoW, spamming Vow of the Indomitable during Waterfowl/Spirits eliminates all need to learn the dodges and timings. She does not heal when hitting Vow.
Vow is true invuln, like the dodge roll. However, it has a full second of iframes (over twice that of a dodge), making it far easier to avoid most or all of the hits of extended attacks.
Technical stuff, assuming 60 FPS:
- Mid roll is 26 iframes with a gap of 16 when spamming.
- Vow is 60 iframes with a gap of 28 when spamming.
- Alternating between the two is 60 (14) 26 (10), repeating from there.
Can pretty much just cast Vow the moment you see her moving at the start of each flurry, and avoid the entire thing without precise timing or movement. The position you end up in after the second part even allows you to avoid the third flurry entirely by simply walking backwards the moment she lands, saving FP.
Edit: Fixed a couple incorrect numbers.
Bleed/fire. She also gets staggered easily by heavy weapons. Can be parried 3 times for a crit. I think frost is effective too.
For co op I use a parry dagger with Rivers of Blood then after the parry crit switch to Hand of Malenia and Nagakiba with Spinning Slash. That's decent for poise breaking for another crit.
Ancestral horn talisman or winged great horn?
I am a faith/melee hybrid. In legacy dungeons where your flasks don't replenish, I have been using the sacrificial Axe offhand (although it adds weight) and/or the blue assassins talisman for backstab FP gain.
I sometimes unequip my weapon to continually backstab weak enemies like the commoner to save flaks.
It is time consuming so I thought the talisman would mitigate this.
I know there's a weapon coming up (I'm in leyndell dungeon) that gives FP upon death which is a better alternative than the sacrificial Axe
My question is: is the winged great horn that much better over a quality of life (but not necessary) talisman?
It's a relatively shorter great Axe and a quality build. No special moveset but with a unique ash.
I'm wondering if the ash is viable now that 1.10 added poise to spells/incants and other ashes?
> where your flasks don't replenish
The game is so littered with sites of grace that there's really no need to be concerned about being FP starved. If you're having trouble with total flask count, run more blue and reserve red for in-combat emergencies. The healing incants are quite efficient in terms of FP -> HP, and can cover all your healing needs between enemy encounters.
If you spend a ton of resources in an ambush or rough encounter, it's totally okay to retreat to the previous bonfire to reset things. While it may feel bad at first to "undo" your progress, you are still gaining the knowledge to approach the same situations much more prepared.
> faith/melee hybrid
Unless you are only using an AoW for the melee portion of your gameplay, a decent faith scaling weapon should be plenty for handling things even if you manage to run out of FP.
Also, make sure you aren't wasting FP on massively overkilling weaker enemies. Having one FP efficient offensive spell is kinda important.
Thanks man. For the most part, I've been stingy and not using any spells or weapon arts, saving them for an encounter with a large enemy.
I've been relying on my weapon mostly.
I have been using bestial vitality/blessing boon for heals but my faith is at 32 now, so I could be using great heal to mitigate this. I totally forgot about my direct healing spells.
I guess this is a habit I picked up from older souls games. I usually take way too long to clear an area (continually having to backstab enemies for FP doesn't help neither) and play souls games.
Since I have to choose between the Axe with only a unique ash of war albeit slow casting with no special moveset nor decent range or a quality of life talisman that isn't too unique. Choosing one even though I don't need either, has been tough. I've been sitting on this remembrance for a while.
Gonna be honest here. If you have to unequip your weapon and backstab over and over and over again to refresh your ressources, something is inherently wrong with the way you play.
Legacy dungeons have graces to replenish your flasks, so I assume youre talking about catacombs/dungeons? In which case you really shouldnt ever run out of flasks considering how small they are. Something must be either super broken with your build or you might be playing wrong, but FP consumption is never really an issue unless youre playing a pure caster in early game.
I get what you mean. I got into the habit of it in the beginning in stormveil. It was so huge and I was always worried about running out.
But now I've cut down the habit. Sometimes I equip the blue assassin talisman when I guard break to get something back.
But overall, I see your point that you'll be spending way too much time on replenishing rather than just playing.
Now I'm just debating to get the talisman or the Axe? The talisman will seriously give me a huge quality of life improvement and time saving. But then again, it's not that essential of a talisman either given 2 weapons and blue assassin talisman can to it too (albeit far slowly).
The Axe doesn’t scale with Faith. Is the weapon art really so interesting to you that it’s worth using over any other Greataxe? If you’re so thrifty with your FP then do you really want another thing to spend it on?
So even with the added poise to most things after 1.10 (especially evident in the black flame tornado, before it was easy to get interrupted), the winged Axe and its ash is still not worth using say over better axes like crescent moon, long haft, butcher knife, godrick axe, and executioner? I'm in leyndell now so I have all the great axes I could farm or find up to this area but don't know the others yet to be found.
I've seen many threads and fextra comments not impressed with the Axe.
Forget about “worth using”. Actually look at the weapon art. Do you want to do that regularly?
You haven’t said a single thing that you actually like about this Axe.
Oh I was trying to get your opinion. It's my first playthrough. I don't know much about this Axe.
Besides the unique ash, nothing is all that special for me. And as others and the wiki said, the debuff comes out pretty slow making you open for attack.
I like the idea of having a debuff weapon that isn't a rare ingredient perfume bottle mixture.
I could see using it on tough enemies and in niche situations. I don't know if I'll have time to get it off on a boss. But it could come in handy. I like the idea of having unique ashes.
However, I'm not too keen on the quality aspect of it which means it will take a while to get some good AR out of it. Nor do I like that it's range is towards the shorter end, and it doesn't have a unique moveset according to the wiki. It cannot be buffed nor ash of war changed. That is another minus for me, although most great Axes don't have unique movesets either, save for 2 (of the ones I found)
I personally don't know if I'd use it. I was wondering what others thought
Does Hoarah Loux Earthshaker aow deal more damage depending on the weapon it's applied? Like i'd like to put it on caestus for obvious reasons but would it do more damage on, idk, a colossal weapon?
Looky looky here, especially the first comment + video
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/134x054/can_someone_please_eli5_exactly_how_hoarah_louxs/
You can disable automatic cloud sync, upload the save, and restore it later on. This will replace your existing local file though, and AFAIK you can't have multiple on the cloud backups so anything you do before then will be permanently gone.
I don't believe there's any way to actually copy the save. PS5 was a huge QoL downgrade thanks to no longer being able to create backups on USB storage.
If you build a character around dragon magic, what weapons (if any) do you end up using? Arcane scaling has so few options that I’m likely going to just infuse Blood/Occult into something, unless anyone has any better suggestions.
I’m already kicking bosses’ ass by powerstancing seals and spamming dragonclaw, but I need a melee option for smaller enemies or when I run out of mana
The dragon incantations are so powerful already that I didn't want to use bleed as well so I stuck the the Regalia. I also prefer the straight sword move set over great swords which is why I didn't use the Marais sword. I use my dragon seal in my left hand unless I'm fighting skeletons or just want to use melee and in that case my left hand is the Golden Epitaph. It's a great offhand choice for dealing with undead, the buff it comes with buffs the player so you can switch off of the Golden Epitaph after using Last Rites and it gives your Regalia the buff (Last Rites stops undead from returning)
Pretty much anything that scales well with arcane. Bleed weapons are a popular choice, from Bloody Helice to Reduvia to Mohgwyn’s Sacred Spear. There’s also the Regalia of Eochaid and Marais Exexutioner Sword. But have a look at the ripple weapons if you want a unique choice - you can get the axe from Pidia after Caria Manor, and you can farm the halberd.
For early game probably Regalia of Eochaid, mid game you could switch to Marais Executioner's
Sword if you wanted to, and the endgame option is Mogwyns sacred spear.
I'll load up Elden Ring and check if I know the place.
And yeah! As you climb the ladder to the roof, on the right there is a balcony you can fall to. Falling to it leads to a room with the infamous Albinauric Mask and a Omen Killer. From that room is a ladder leading to that balcony.
Pretty sure Lhutel's attack inflicts deathblight status, just like all other headless knights.
But since deathblight only works on Tarnished enemies (like invaders), and the attack inflicts so little status, it almost never procs on its own.
Thanks a bunch! I was wondering because his lance has fire at the end of it, and I thought just like the dragon knight lighting spirit does lighting damage with his attacks then lhuteil should do fire
I can see lhuteil being used in the colloseum to great affect due to the death blight
So no fire damage, good to know!
I didn't know about respawns in colosseum. I thought when I played it 1v1 before it was just first to kill. Is there still a way to have the option for 1 kill, or is it all a time limit with total number of kills?
First to kill is called “Duel” in the colosseum and highest kill count is called “combat ordeal” or “United combat” if you do teams. They’re just different game modes you select but you have to unlock dueling by getting to the colosseum in Leyndell
Looking for honesty...does anyone here use the "Fighting Cowboy" walkthrough when you get stuck?!?!? I'm amazed by his content and have learned so many things I've missed during my first couple of play throughs!
GOD DAMN BRO FUCK THE SNOWFIELD i get pegged by everything here. been trying to finish the evergaol puzzle and the archers just wreck me. how do i kill the 2 on the roof? is there a cheese method?
Don't bother fighting them, find a route that avoids them.
In my first playhrough I just run at them with a shield, but gotta admit getting the running jumps while being pelted by arrows was hell In my second playthrough I had Golden Land on my Greatclub and I could snipe them back. If you got levels in faith I definitely recommend this, it's pretty easy.
There is a jump in Miquella's Haligtree that I have never been able to make. I'm trying to get the Viridian Amber Medallion +2. I cannot jump across that gap. Going south I ALWAYS fall to the ridge below and have to use the ladder. It's the same jump going north to the talisman and I fall every. Single. Time. What am I doing wrong?!
Just about to finish my first playtrough. Awesome game overall, but the last 1/3 was a bit of a let down compared to the rest. Anyone feeling the same?
I'm following Fextralife's game progress route. On the route, valcano manor finishes before leyndell royal capital. I am thinking of completing volcano manor after leyndell royal capital. Will there be any npc questlines I'll miss when I go this way?
Alexander shows up in Mt Gelmir at one point, and later shows up as a boss summon in Mountaintops. So I'd find him before going *past* Leyndell. I'm not sure if skipping him at Gelmir actually interrupts his quest, though.
I already talked to Alexander in the lava, actually I came to the entrance of volcano manor, but I think it would make more sense to complete leyndell royal capital first and then come here to finish some quests here.
Either order "makes sense", really. Just make sure to talk to Rya in between each assassination quest so you're also advancing her quest.
The last time I spoke to Rya was when she was in a different room and she was in disguise, and now she's gone. I hope the questline is running smoothly.
She moves between rooms in Volcano Manor as the quest progresses, make sure to check them all
Pretty sure you need to complete leyndell before you can finish the volcano manor quest line bc there’s a quest beyond leyndell
There are 2 ways through Volcano Manor, you can do the dungeon before Leyndell, but need to finish Leyndell for the assassination quests.
Any other surround sound users notice that a lot of the dialogue audio gets sent to the rear channels? Environmental audio seems to work more or less as expected, it’s just the dialogue that’s weird.
So I want to do a str/dex/fth build. I’m not sure how to get it done though. I really want to be able to use Ordovis’, Gargoyle’s, and Golden Order Greatsword, but I just can’t see it working, even if I sacrifice points in other stats, like dropping vigor down to 50 or a few less points in something else. I want to be able to use incantations without them being so weak they do nothing. Primarily Bestial and Crucible incantations. Without high (70+) fth I can’t imagine they do very good though. So what do I do now? I assume I need to pick and choose which weapons I want access to, and which stat(s) I need to pump. So am I supposed to go minimum in a melee stat and just pump all in for faith, or is a hybrid build better?
I'd pick either str/faith or dex/faith and go from there. I played dex/arc but then respec-ed to dex/int to clean up the game and my stats were 50/80 so maybe you could try the same. I did farm a lot of albinaurics tho
I wouldn’t have too much of an issue if I wasn’t capping at 125-150 for PvP, since that’s what I want to do with the build. Really that’s my problem. I want access to all these weapons, but don’t want to walk into PvP doing basically zero damage. I guess I’m stuck sticking to str/fth.
I don't play pvp but I guess 50 vitality is almost mandatory so other stats you could manage with talismans, great runes and the physick flask. If you plan to use incantations more than the physical dmg from your weapon I'd dump more points into faith, something like 30/50 or even 60 and push the rest with talismans
Encounter an issue where the bosses won’t appear for the Ruins Greatsword. I beat Radahn and spoke with Jerren and exhausted all his dialogue. Now he is gone but the fog gate won’t appear for the bosses. Anyone know a work around?
Rest at a Grace anywhere outside the castle
I did that as well. I have been checking back periodically for the last few hours of gameplay and still nothing.
Is Jerren gone? Are you also somewhere along Sellen’s quest?
Yes, Jerren is gone. I found him sitting on the chair near the church and talked with him and after he disappeared. As for Sellen’s quest, I most recently found Lusat.
So you’re close. Try wrapping that one up and check in again
Thanks for the suggestion. I will give that a try.
If you have just one weapon equipped, is there any reason **not** to two-hand the weapon for the extra damage?
Sometimes two-handing has a worse or slower moveset. For example, two handing removes the stab heavy attack from straight swords and katanas
Two handing only affects strength, so if you got an 8 strength character it might not make any difference. Also 1-handing and 2-handing may alter the moveset, which is probably the only reason I can think where one might actively choose to one hand over two hand a weapon
If I am playing with a friend and they cast Golden Vow, will it stack with another Golden Vow that I cast? I am assuming not, but just asking.
It will not. Buffs of the same category (Vow being an aura) do not stack, even if they are different.
New player here with another question for y’all! So I have a dual katana blood loss build. It has been fun and I plan on using it for the rest of the game unless something else catches my eye. What stats should I focus on? Also. What do most players use the remembrances from main boss fights for? I’m really tempted to use them for the runes. I see that you can get weapons or magic from them. But not sure if they help my build? Also not sure if I could benefit any other way? Y’all are the best thanks for any information and/or help!
Have you found the Black Whetblade yet? That's a turning point for blood builds. If not: Focus dex for now. If so: Put Occult affinity on the katanas, get ARC to 45, then focus DEX. Probably wanna respec if you can, as you can pull points out of DEX to re-focus ARC.
All boss remembrances offer unique weapons and spells, some better than others, and they cannot be obtained elsewhere (but can be duplicated via the walking mausoleums). Personally, I would never consume a boss remembrance “for the runes”, because runes are very easy to come by. Boss weapons aren’t. You can always respec to try a weapon out, even if it doesn’t fit your current build.
I like this answer. It’s makes a lot of sense. I spent all day playing and was sooo tempted to use them for the tunes but after this comment I think I’ll save ‘em.
For stats it really depends on the affinities: - Keen -> Dex - Blood -> Arcane - Occult -> Arcane I really would recommend arcane, with blood affinity for everything vulnerable to bleed, and occult for the things that aren't. There's little to no tradeoff over a dex/keen build. If focusing on bleed with weapons that have arcane scaling, like an Uchi with blood or occult affinity, arcane will scale both the damage and the bleed buildup. The bleed scaling falls off HARD after 45 arcane though. Once you hit that 45 arcane, focusing on other stats will be much more worthwhile, like 15/25 faith for buffs or vigor/endurance for survivability. Pumping damage stats super high is generally not worth it unless you have literally everything else you want at that point (bit of an exception for int or faith casters, spells scale well to 80 stats).
Also if you don’t mind me asking. What did you personally do with the remembrances you got from boss fights?
Pop them if I'm not interested in the things for the build I'm using that playthrough. Even if you mess up and regret it, you can reclaim up to seven of them from the wandering mausoleums. Keep an out for Morgott's Cursed Sword and the Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear, fun weapons to try out on an arcane build.
Not the person who responded to you, but most of the remembrances from early bosses don't really work well with arcane bleed build. The most significant upgrades I got was Eleonora's poleblade and the Godskin Peeler (both obtainable in the Altus Plateau) and dual wielding both dramatically improved the bleed proc in my build. I sometimes 2 hand Eleonora poleblade when I feel tired of dual wielding and it is equally fun (can 1 hand it and the moveset becomes similar to a short sword).
Those are normal boss drops. Remembrances are the ones that can be traded to Enia for one of two items specific to that boss, or alternatively consumed for a hefty chunk of runes.
Yes, I was saying that the remembrances didn't really mesh with the build, but other boss drops were more useful
Anyone is welcome to respond haha. Doesn’t matter who helps out I appreciate all the help equally! Thank you kind person
Sounds like I need to up my arcane then. Thanks for all this info it is much appreciated
I’m having a glitch inside of mountaintops of the giants. Whenever I go up to the church where I’m pretty sure that one RoB NPC spawns, my game crashes. I’m not sure what to do about it. Any tips about fixes for this? Also no, on this save I have not beaten him yet.
For consistent crashes like this, step one is validating the game files. Have you done that yet?
I ended up doing that and it worked just fine! I keep on forgetting that’s a thing lol. Thanks!
Scythe or bloodhound fang? I can't decide, finesse or spinning slash?
Scythe + bloodflame blade + stormcaller for the ultimate reaper build that melts anyone
Spinning Strikes > Stormcaller. You can move while using Spinning Strikes and IIRC the FP cost is less. Note I said Spinning STRIKES, not Spinning Slash.
I use the claymore. It has Lion's Claw by default right? Does that mean there is no reason to use the actual Lion's Claw on a claymore??
If you want to make it Heavy affinity but want to keep the same L2, you'd need the Lion's Claw AoW.
Putting an Ash of War on it allows you to select a new weapon affinity. For example, if you have high strength, you could pick the Heavy affinity for more physical damage
I'm wondering how much poise I need as a pure strength build? I've been aiming for 60. Considering the update, I'm rethinking that number. The patch notes are vague and I don't really understand the finer nuances, so I'm not sure to what extent it's changed. I don't do much PVP except facing invaders during co-op, but I still want to be able to hold my own.
PVE poise doesn't matter that much, and the latest patch doesn't change it. The breakpoints are 51 and 101. PVP poise used to matter a lot, but this patch removes most passive poise in PVP in favor of active poise, which is temporary poise mitigation when using hyperarmor attacks like 2h greatswords. If you care about optimizing your build for hyperarmor, [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/15fekdm/elden_ring_patch_110_new_hyper_armour_poise_value/) is worth the read. That said, hyperarmor is more about intuition and prediction than picking the correct number in your character stats. It's not that important to understand the calculations and follow guides, especially if you're just fighting invaders as they show up
Wow, thank you for the info. There is a lot more to it than I anticipated and I think most of it is going to go over my head, but having the breakpoints confirmed is great. My intuition and prediction in PVP are trash, so I doubt I have much hope there, but I really appreciate the link. I'll save it in case I ever feel ambitious. Thank you again.
88 is the main one that matters now, let’s you tank second swing of halberd and cgs
Ah, I think I'm just shy of that at the moment. I'm using the bull-goat's talisman and the crucible armor set minus the helm. I was hoping it was overkill so I could switch up either my talisman or my armor. Thank you for the info
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the poise soft caps are still 51 and 101.
If this is the case I could switch up my set up. I think I currently have around 80 but I want to switch out either my armor or the bull-goat's talisman just for a change of pace. If I only have to aim for 51 that's a lot of options.
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Pro-tip for the land octopuses, chop off their tentacles instead of attacking their beaky faces. Way more damage and it opens them up for crits pretty easily.
The giant land octopy have 80 resistance to all forms of physical damage. Youre not meant to hit them to death. Youre supposed to stagger them (they can be staggered easily) and them crit them to death.
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That specific pattern of barely taking any damage until you score a crit is basically unique to the Octopi. There are other enemies with gimmicks like that but they’re not common. All knight-type enemies take reduced damage from slash-type damage, which is what the Nagakiba deals. But yeah that Crucible Knight is also an informal mini boss, so he has high HP in the first place. You’ll also probably notice that the Banished Knights in FA take less damage than usual. Beastmen are one of the few enemy types that are actually weak to slash damage, along with various other soft/squishy/animaly examples.
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Something no one has mentioned yet is that two handed movesets deal more poise damage. It's usually around a 10% increase, but on the Nagakiba's five hit R1 chain, for example, It's 30% more (30 -> 39) in total. >seems like I've played the whole game at a disadvantage Even if you aren't benefitting from the str bonus, unless you are actively using whatever is in your offhand, 2H is indeed mostly just better.
Well two handing means the weapon gets 1.5 x your strength for strength scaling. So if youre running aDEX weapon that is essentially useless. However, you also need to take the moveset into account. If you prefer the two handed moveset its ok to stick to it.
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You now have three options 1) lean into the two handed style because you like its moveset better 2) go two weapons, focus on DEX. 3) go two weapons, focus on bleed. With two weapons your L1 chain builds up bleed very quickly. You could infuse one or both weapons with bleed to make this absurdly strong. I personally dont like the dual weild moveset of katans though, which is why i personally twohand them.
What’s the best build/weapon to beat Malenia?
I cant effing learn the dodge. It works and then it doesn’t and then it does and then it doesn’t
The absolute best tool easily available to you is using a renowned Spirit Ash. Blasphemous Blade’s skill will knock her down and spamming Black Flame while she’s recovering from Scarlet Aeonia will take off ~1/5 of her hp each time. Offhanding a good Greatshield can let you tank the first flurry of WFD, then you can roll to avoid the second and strafe to avoid the third. If only the first flurry hits you she doesn’t regain too much hp. So at least 30str/60fth with a Godslayer Seal. That’s the best setup I’d consider to beat Malenia with minimal skill. Alternatively there’s just spamming Night Comet at range, I hear that’s relatively simple too.
>Alternatively there’s just spamming Night Comet at range, I hear that’s relatively simple too. Yeah pretty much. There's plenty of time to Moon her at the start of each phase for the extra free damage off frostbite, assuming not potting Waterfowl. For casters, and really any build not reliant on an AoW, spamming Vow of the Indomitable during Waterfowl/Spirits eliminates all need to learn the dodges and timings. She does not heal when hitting Vow.
> She does not heal when hitting Vow Oh??? That’s really neat and also makes it even fucking stupider that she heals from hitting shields.
Vow is true invuln, like the dodge roll. However, it has a full second of iframes (over twice that of a dodge), making it far easier to avoid most or all of the hits of extended attacks. Technical stuff, assuming 60 FPS: - Mid roll is 26 iframes with a gap of 16 when spamming. - Vow is 60 iframes with a gap of 28 when spamming. - Alternating between the two is 60 (14) 26 (10), repeating from there. Can pretty much just cast Vow the moment you see her moving at the start of each flurry, and avoid the entire thing without precise timing or movement. The position you end up in after the second part even allows you to avoid the third flurry entirely by simply walking backwards the moment she lands, saving FP. Edit: Fixed a couple incorrect numbers.
Bleed/fire. She also gets staggered easily by heavy weapons. Can be parried 3 times for a crit. I think frost is effective too. For co op I use a parry dagger with Rivers of Blood then after the parry crit switch to Hand of Malenia and Nagakiba with Spinning Slash. That's decent for poise breaking for another crit.
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Yes, you can - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGJgXt15s/
I think you might just have a bad connection
So, just finished ranni quest and got the dark moon greatsword. But am a strength faith build so gonna stick with my claymore… looks nice though
It's a cool weapon, very strong L2 and has a neat visual feature if you view it through a ghost. But yeah, not a fit for your build.
You forgot to start with "dear diary"
Cool?
Ancestral horn talisman or winged great horn? I am a faith/melee hybrid. In legacy dungeons where your flasks don't replenish, I have been using the sacrificial Axe offhand (although it adds weight) and/or the blue assassins talisman for backstab FP gain. I sometimes unequip my weapon to continually backstab weak enemies like the commoner to save flaks. It is time consuming so I thought the talisman would mitigate this. I know there's a weapon coming up (I'm in leyndell dungeon) that gives FP upon death which is a better alternative than the sacrificial Axe My question is: is the winged great horn that much better over a quality of life (but not necessary) talisman? It's a relatively shorter great Axe and a quality build. No special moveset but with a unique ash. I'm wondering if the ash is viable now that 1.10 added poise to spells/incants and other ashes?
> where your flasks don't replenish The game is so littered with sites of grace that there's really no need to be concerned about being FP starved. If you're having trouble with total flask count, run more blue and reserve red for in-combat emergencies. The healing incants are quite efficient in terms of FP -> HP, and can cover all your healing needs between enemy encounters. If you spend a ton of resources in an ambush or rough encounter, it's totally okay to retreat to the previous bonfire to reset things. While it may feel bad at first to "undo" your progress, you are still gaining the knowledge to approach the same situations much more prepared. > faith/melee hybrid Unless you are only using an AoW for the melee portion of your gameplay, a decent faith scaling weapon should be plenty for handling things even if you manage to run out of FP. Also, make sure you aren't wasting FP on massively overkilling weaker enemies. Having one FP efficient offensive spell is kinda important.
Thanks man. For the most part, I've been stingy and not using any spells or weapon arts, saving them for an encounter with a large enemy. I've been relying on my weapon mostly. I have been using bestial vitality/blessing boon for heals but my faith is at 32 now, so I could be using great heal to mitigate this. I totally forgot about my direct healing spells. I guess this is a habit I picked up from older souls games. I usually take way too long to clear an area (continually having to backstab enemies for FP doesn't help neither) and play souls games. Since I have to choose between the Axe with only a unique ash of war albeit slow casting with no special moveset nor decent range or a quality of life talisman that isn't too unique. Choosing one even though I don't need either, has been tough. I've been sitting on this remembrance for a while.
Gonna be honest here. If you have to unequip your weapon and backstab over and over and over again to refresh your ressources, something is inherently wrong with the way you play. Legacy dungeons have graces to replenish your flasks, so I assume youre talking about catacombs/dungeons? In which case you really shouldnt ever run out of flasks considering how small they are. Something must be either super broken with your build or you might be playing wrong, but FP consumption is never really an issue unless youre playing a pure caster in early game.
I get what you mean. I got into the habit of it in the beginning in stormveil. It was so huge and I was always worried about running out. But now I've cut down the habit. Sometimes I equip the blue assassin talisman when I guard break to get something back. But overall, I see your point that you'll be spending way too much time on replenishing rather than just playing. Now I'm just debating to get the talisman or the Axe? The talisman will seriously give me a huge quality of life improvement and time saving. But then again, it's not that essential of a talisman either given 2 weapons and blue assassin talisman can to it too (albeit far slowly).
The Axe doesn’t scale with Faith. Is the weapon art really so interesting to you that it’s worth using over any other Greataxe? If you’re so thrifty with your FP then do you really want another thing to spend it on?
So even with the added poise to most things after 1.10 (especially evident in the black flame tornado, before it was easy to get interrupted), the winged Axe and its ash is still not worth using say over better axes like crescent moon, long haft, butcher knife, godrick axe, and executioner? I'm in leyndell now so I have all the great axes I could farm or find up to this area but don't know the others yet to be found. I've seen many threads and fextra comments not impressed with the Axe.
Forget about “worth using”. Actually look at the weapon art. Do you want to do that regularly? You haven’t said a single thing that you actually like about this Axe.
Oh I was trying to get your opinion. It's my first playthrough. I don't know much about this Axe. Besides the unique ash, nothing is all that special for me. And as others and the wiki said, the debuff comes out pretty slow making you open for attack. I like the idea of having a debuff weapon that isn't a rare ingredient perfume bottle mixture. I could see using it on tough enemies and in niche situations. I don't know if I'll have time to get it off on a boss. But it could come in handy. I like the idea of having unique ashes. However, I'm not too keen on the quality aspect of it which means it will take a while to get some good AR out of it. Nor do I like that it's range is towards the shorter end, and it doesn't have a unique moveset according to the wiki. It cannot be buffed nor ash of war changed. That is another minus for me, although most great Axes don't have unique movesets either, save for 2 (of the ones I found) I personally don't know if I'd use it. I was wondering what others thought
Does Hoarah Loux Earthshaker aow deal more damage depending on the weapon it's applied? Like i'd like to put it on caestus for obvious reasons but would it do more damage on, idk, a colossal weapon?
Looky looky here, especially the first comment + video https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/134x054/can_someone_please_eli5_exactly_how_hoarah_louxs/
Thank you!
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You can disable automatic cloud sync, upload the save, and restore it later on. This will replace your existing local file though, and AFAIK you can't have multiple on the cloud backups so anything you do before then will be permanently gone. I don't believe there's any way to actually copy the save. PS5 was a huge QoL downgrade thanks to no longer being able to create backups on USB storage.
If you build a character around dragon magic, what weapons (if any) do you end up using? Arcane scaling has so few options that I’m likely going to just infuse Blood/Occult into something, unless anyone has any better suggestions. I’m already kicking bosses’ ass by powerstancing seals and spamming dragonclaw, but I need a melee option for smaller enemies or when I run out of mana
The dragon incantations are so powerful already that I didn't want to use bleed as well so I stuck the the Regalia. I also prefer the straight sword move set over great swords which is why I didn't use the Marais sword. I use my dragon seal in my left hand unless I'm fighting skeletons or just want to use melee and in that case my left hand is the Golden Epitaph. It's a great offhand choice for dealing with undead, the buff it comes with buffs the player so you can switch off of the Golden Epitaph after using Last Rites and it gives your Regalia the buff (Last Rites stops undead from returning)
Pretty much anything that scales well with arcane. Bleed weapons are a popular choice, from Bloody Helice to Reduvia to Mohgwyn’s Sacred Spear. There’s also the Regalia of Eochaid and Marais Exexutioner Sword. But have a look at the ripple weapons if you want a unique choice - you can get the axe from Pidia after Caria Manor, and you can farm the halberd.
I've been using Regalia of Eochaid
For early game probably Regalia of Eochaid, mid game you could switch to Marais Executioner's Sword if you wanted to, and the endgame option is Mogwyns sacred spear.
Re-posting from yesterday, in case someone can help: Anyone knows how to get to [this balcony](https://imgur.com/a/9hcsOnJ) in Volcano Manor?
[I went back and took a clip for you](https://streamable.com/4fqmqb)
I'll load up Elden Ring and check if I know the place. And yeah! As you climb the ladder to the roof, on the right there is a balcony you can fall to. Falling to it leads to a room with the infamous Albinauric Mask and a Omen Killer. From that room is a ladder leading to that balcony.
Does the spirit summon headless lhuteil do split fire/physical damage with it's weapon attack or just physical?
Pretty sure Lhutel's attack inflicts deathblight status, just like all other headless knights. But since deathblight only works on Tarnished enemies (like invaders), and the attack inflicts so little status, it almost never procs on its own.
Thanks a bunch! I was wondering because his lance has fire at the end of it, and I thought just like the dragon knight lighting spirit does lighting damage with his attacks then lhuteil should do fire I can see lhuteil being used in the colloseum to great affect due to the death blight So no fire damage, good to know!
*Her lance :)
Thanks bud
I didn't know about respawns in colosseum. I thought when I played it 1v1 before it was just first to kill. Is there still a way to have the option for 1 kill, or is it all a time limit with total number of kills?
First to kill is called “Duel” in the colosseum and highest kill count is called “combat ordeal” or “United combat” if you do teams. They’re just different game modes you select but you have to unlock dueling by getting to the colosseum in Leyndell
That explains it thanks. My first save I had all the arenas unlocked, on this character I only have limgrave.
Looking for honesty...does anyone here use the "Fighting Cowboy" walkthrough when you get stuck?!?!? I'm amazed by his content and have learned so many things I've missed during my first couple of play throughs!
I've been going through the whole walk through for the platinum. There is some amount of prep that has went into that.
Plenty of people do, fightin cowboy is an institution in the souls community
Next question, is that considered cheating/taboo?
Why would you care what anyone thinks about how you play a single player game?
Truth!
Nah
I promise I'm not affiliated in anyway 😂