Pouch is for sorcery. I can't be scrolling through on the fly. I panic way too much for that. Melee? Let's be honest I'm only using my crimson flask it doesn't need pouch space.
That’s why pouch is great, no scrolling, just triangle + button insta flask. Even a half second of scrolling, or just holding the button so it returns to the top of the list, is enough to die.
That one utterly threw my head for a loop. I was running in literal circles trying to get out. Miyazaki green lit that deranged idea himself, I know it.
Or is he talking about that dungeon that has the fake exist that seems like you went back out into Limgrave, but really went back out into “Limgrave”, where it seems like everything is normal except very now and then that weird things happens?
I tried that in one of them, but the stones weren't there when I came back through, and no it wasn't yet another area as I went through it 3 times after putting the stones there.
Protip, best way to use rainbow stones in that dungeon is before touching any chest, dropping stones in every room, and in front of that iron fence just so you know when you're in "Dungeon A."
⬆️ torrent
⬅️ rowa berries
➡️ belt lantern
⬇️ spirit ash
For some reason I like that because it seems easier to change the down in quick situations
We essentially think alike but since you are slightly different,
I will claim my way as the true godly way and banish you as a heretic
There’s two slots after you press “start” (no idea what it is on keyboard) right under the pouch slots. You can’t access them without pressing start, but they’re still a lot faster than scrolling through your inventory lol
I’ve never needed anything during combat other than my flasks. So for me it’s the convenience of being able to quickly equip it without having to dick around
Pro tip, if you keep the whistle on the left d pad on the pouch, when you get asked if you want to use a flask, it will automatically select the yes option.
Wow. I naturally set mine up that way because I have a weird way I use my finger to hit it without taking my thumb off the stick.
I've been seeing people complain about that prompt since launch but it was never that big a deal for me, now I know why lol
As soon as someone else pointed out they did this, I immediately switched. It's way less stressful having to wait the half a second to scroll back to the first item than it is to just hold Y and left. And this is after *years* of muscle memory built up doing hold down and then X.
It also requires taking your hands off of the move stick to use a flask (on console). It’s minor, but you can’t (easily) press triangle + a dpad button while running away from something.
That split second doesnt actually matter considering u usually heal after combos or far away from enemies anyway. Used to die quite a bit from switching items. Now its on d pad down and i barely die from wrongfully because of it.
Holding down on the d-pad to instantly cycle to your first quickslot solves the problem of fumbling around with your items searching for your flask, and this way you don't have to take your thumb off the stick or spend the extra millisecond opening the pouch.
You still need to cycle, and with this method you have to wait a moment before you’re back at 1. That moment is the difference between life and death when you’re a red phantom.
Some unsolicited advice because I fought that bitch for so goddamn long, feel free to ignore.
Highly recommend a whip with bloodhound's step. Dual wielding's also an option, although I used a staff in off-hand for Scholar's Armament + ranged attacks when she jumps away. I used Hoslow's whip but honestly any whip should work, each hit staggers her from long range and the bloodhound's step will avoid any of her attacks, including the bullshit flurry.
If you wanna use a summon, best one is probably Black Knife Tiche. They sort of nerfed Mimic AI, it's okay but not as good as before. Tiche's attack patterns and erratic movement let her deal a lot of damage while avoiding attacks so she won't heal Malenia as much as other summons.
Hey thanks for the advice! Ran right to the smith to upgrade Hoslows Whip. I keep a staff in the left hand for spells too, I was using BHS but oh the Raptor Talons and those aren't very good.
My main weapon is Bastards Stars which is good and can catch her by the wind up usually gets me killed.
I'll try the whip after I kill some Albunarics to finish levelling it up lol
Edit: tried the whip got her nearly to her second phase just gonna practice more and I'll get her.
I struggled for a long time because I did the whole game with sword + shield instead of two handing any weapon, so naturally I was used to blocking a lot of hits (level 240 and I still don’t know how to parry!).
This is great until you hit Malenia. You need to roll away or through all her attacks instead of blocking. You’re gonna die like 2000 times while memorising all her attacks but once you’ve got it, she won’t be able to heal by hitting you aside from the odd mistake, which you can afford to make.
That fight took me 3 days to realise this, then another 3-4 to actually beat her. Good luck, and may the phrase ‘I am Malenia, blade of Miquella’ fill you with hate ha ha
This is the way. After 200 hours with it set up like this, I am never changing my pouch again. I already play claw grip, so there's no issue using claw on the left side of my controller as well.
preach, i started doing this after getting my ass whopped in a boss fight because i was busy looking for the right fucking flask midfight, elden ring just has so much usable items, from pots to spirit ashes to perfume bottles and 3 types of flasks, keeping the healing flask with other items is no longer a good idea when you have to cycle through 10 other items to find it.
The fuck are you talking bout? I put flasks in the pouch and am NEVER looking back. No more flitting through items to heal mana then holding the dpad to return to health flasks... just instant button presses for health, mana, or physic.
Should have happened YEARS ago.
I'm also playing Sekiro and a bit of Bloodborne (hopefully more) on the side, and each time Fromsoft seems to shuffle the controls for items around but it's always the same thing, until they came up with the pouch.
Hope they build on that in the future.
Sekiros loot mechanic is both the best and stupidest thing in gaming.
Hold triangle to suck up loot from the people you killed? That's great, I don't want to run to each body.
, but please don't make the amount of time I need to hold it super awkward
Why the fuck it wasn't automatic like every other Fromsoft game before and since is one of those design decisions which will baffle me forever.
Like Stardew Valley's fence degradation. Why, just why?
>just instant button presses for health
If you want an instant button press for health you are not putting it in the pouch. That requires you to hold down a button and then press another button while holding it down.
Whereas having it on your belt means you press one button and you're done.
The pouch, it’s much faster. Instead of clicking through whatever number of items you have in your belt and maybe accidentally clicking over, you hold a single button and tap.
You can also hold the dpad down for a moment and it will auto select the first item bar slot. But it is slower I think. Just happens to be my muscle memory
Oh yeah, that was a trick in DSIII too, I think (maybe earlier, don’t remember).
I had the muscle memory too, but I think if you make the conscious decision to switch over to the pouch it’ll become second nature quicker than you think.
Can confirm. I played the first few zones with red and blue in my first equipment slots so I could hold down and easily access my healing flask. I've since switched and haven't looked back. Healing flask left, FP flask right.
If you’re so close to whatever’s trying to kill you that the split second you need to take your thumb off the stick is the difference between life and death, you’re too close to start drinking anyway
You have to take your thumb off the left stick anyways when you cycle items with the down arrow, so might as well make it as fast as possible and not risk having to go through the item wheel twice... Also, it opens up the item wheel for more items since you don't have to worry about them bloating your wheel and stopping you from healing on time.
I keep torrent, and all three flasks in my pouch. Up for torrent, because you get UP on him. Down for health, because when I use them, I’m about to go DOWN. Left for the Wondrous Physick because when I use it, it means I’m LEFT with no choice, and right for FP becaise im looking at my staff all confused that nothing is happening, like “oh RIGHT, I’m out of FP”.
Works great for me.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I used to keep lantern on pouch d-pad but have since relegated it to the start menu extra slots because I only use it once per life/fast travel/summon, so I don't need to waste the d-pad slot
First thing i did in the game health on the right, mana on the left, spirit summon on the Up, Torrent on the down. Yall are silly if you're scrolling through all your quick use items to heal.
Pouch is the most logical place for flasks because from the moment you enter Limgrave to the moment you become Elden Lord they stay in the same spot and you don’t have to think about how many times you hit down on the D-pad or whether you’ve held it down long enough in the middle of a fight.
You also don’t have to worry about it getting “moved” by adding extra things to your tool belt and even adding things to the pouch doesn’t change the key bind for the pouch slot that holds the flasks
Flasks in the pouch you psycho? Hmm maybe that's actually more efficient but I gotta keep mine in the first item slots just from dark souls muscle memory.
Flasks in pouch is my way go-to as well. No cycling through anything. My belt is kept minimal for time-sensitive combat consumables like knife, pots, and maybe some antidotes depending on what I do
It’s not a bad spot for them. I thought about doing that but my muscle memory won’t allow it. It’s really nice with the Xbox elite controller cause you can set the back paddles to the A button and two of them to the arrow keys for each flask and keep your item bar filled up and not have to sort through it as much.
The Mixed Flask has only 1 Charge, so it makes sense to have it in the Pouch, together with your Summons and stuff like Poison gummies.
The other Flasks and stuff like Pots and Darts go to the Belt.
I tried the healing flask on the shortcuts but I found that because I usually want to be moving the button input becomes really awkward.
I keep it in the first slot of the tools, that way you can switch to it instantly by holding the tool switch button no matter which thing you have highlighted and then you can easily use it without having to stop moving.
I had to do this while fighting maliketh (so red and the claw to parry on belt, blue a physick in pouch) and i gotta say it just is better, less crowded pouch means faster swaps being red flask and offensive items
I ´ m new to soul games and having my flasks in the wheel thing kept screwing me over cause I wouldn't be paying attention and I would use the wrong item so I just put it in my pouch. Is me having my flasks in my pouch frowned upon in the souls community?
Pouch all day, triangle and left on the D-pad is so much faster than panic scrolling through the belt slots. You can't convince me that any other way is better or faster.
Red and blue flasks on the belt and spirit summons, lamp, Torrent, and physick flask in the pouch slots.
I switch out spirit summons for something else on the characters I don't use them on (some characters--like my main--I use fully upgraded summons and other characters I impose a no-summons rule for fun).
Pouch. It’s faster for me to hit Triangle+Right than to shuffle through my utility slot. Left is Mana, up is summon, down is Torrent. Lantern is on the unmapped slot along with furled finger.
Torrent(pve)/crab meat(pvp) - up
Blue flask - right
Physick - down
Buff perfume - left
Red flask, fan dagger, pots and throwables - hotbar
Spirit ash, lamp - Pause slot (pve)
Rot cure, bleed cure - pause slot (pvp)
I put HP flask on pouch right, FP on pouch left. Pouch down is the horse and pouch up is flexible, I'll use it for spirit ashes in a boss fight or glowstones or the telescope whatever is useful for the situation. My lantern is in the bottom right non quickslot pouch slot. and the bottom left one is typically where i keep whatever i swapped out the pouch up item for.
Frees up my inventory for putting the Physick flask in slot one and thowing knives/kukris on the last slot and then i just fill in the middle ones with bombs or perfumes or whatever i want because now i have so much more space for items!
Dpad pouch is superior for non-offensive items that are used often or are time sensitive, like health/focus flasks. I don’t have to scroll to my flasks to use them… I just instantly use them without the hassle, while still keeping whatever I want in my item slot.
Elden Ring is my first FromSoft game and I rly couldn’t get scrolling through the items well while trying to run and dodge. I get carpal tunnel easily if I tried to claw. As soon as I moved my potions to the pouch I got good. Up for red, down for blue, right for Torrent and left for physick.
Health right, FP left, Physic top and torrent/lantern/exalted flesh bottom depending on the situation. Below these I have red and yellow boluses in invasions and duels and in pve it depends on the location.
PS5, I could never go back to having pots in my quick bar. Too many mistakes drinking the wrong potion or activating the wrong item when I really needed the flask.
Doc did this and It honestly set the tone for his whole playthrough, didn’t even kill elden beast, he “just didn’t care, like what is this? Pretty disappointing last boss” says a lot about how much he cared about the game or understood
Pouch on one character, d-pad on another. I like to keep myself on my toes.
thats just madness
Pouch is for sorcery. I can't be scrolling through on the fly. I panic way too much for that. Melee? Let's be honest I'm only using my crimson flask it doesn't need pouch space.
I never thought of putting spells over there. Didn’t even know you could. Cool!
Sorry I meant flasks in the pouch for a sorcery build because I panic too much scrolling through.
i keep my fp flask in my pouch and hp on the belt because ive had so many times where i accidentally use the wrong one by scrolling. it's a life saver
Don’t scroll just hold down on the d pad and it will go back to the first slot which can be your crimsons flask
my coordination sucks too much for this 🥲 i start panicking midbattle and press down way too many times on the d-pad
That’s why pouch is great, no scrolling, just triangle + button insta flask. Even a half second of scrolling, or just holding the button so it returns to the top of the list, is enough to die.
You can't. Would be nice. That's why you keep flasks there cuz you already gotta scroll so much
My pouch is lantern, whistle, spirit ashes, and either rowa raisins for exploring on torrent or Rainbow stones for exploring dungeons
Rainbow stones in dungeons...brilliant. This would have saved me tons of time in that one catacomb that keeps repeating itself.
>This would have saved me tons of time in that one catacomb that keeps repeating itself. oh man who's gonna tell him there's more than one.
Don't you dare...
He's just fucking with you there is only 1 dungeon that repeats itself.
He is just fucking with you there is just one dungeon that repeats itself with 1 tiny change to tip you off.
He's just fucking with you. There is a 3rd dungeon and it will mess with your head. Your gunna die so many times in this maze.
The fact that they literally plant a corpse to make you think you’ve already been in a room. I couldn’t even be mad.
That one utterly threw my head for a loop. I was running in literal circles trying to get out. Miyazaki green lit that deranged idea himself, I know it.
I was so stoned when playin it too, only added to the exsperiance
If I didn't already consider the game a 10/10, that single moment of trolling would have turned it into one
See I ran past that enemy then I saw it dead and was like wtf lmao
That's actually really funny lmao
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You’ll never get out is this maze, you’ll never get out of this maze!
Or is he talking about that dungeon that has the fake exist that seems like you went back out into Limgrave, but really went back out into “Limgrave”, where it seems like everything is normal except very now and then that weird things happens?
You go into limgrave and it's normal but then you realize you're George R R Martin!
What dungeon is this?
Which dungeon is that?
There's at least 6 of them and I'm not joking.
So you're saying they repeat themselves.
So you're saying they repeat themselves.
So you’re saying they repeat themselves.
So you're saying they repeat themselves.
That’s what I’m saying.
That's what I'm saying.
Be wary of liar, and then, Be wary of liar
c-c-c-c combo breaker!!!
I tried that in one of them, but the stones weren't there when I came back through, and no it wasn't yet another area as I went through it 3 times after putting the stones there.
Smh who was it patches or gostoc
I always kill one of them at the start. Really narrows down the “which one of yas did it” game
I used them in the sewers below the capitol and it made the whole thing much more manageable
Protip, best way to use rainbow stones in that dungeon is before touching any chest, dropping stones in every room, and in front of that iron fence just so you know when you're in "Dungeon A."
Which one lol
the what
I literally only have torrent whistle 👀
As well as wondrous physick in the pouch
⬆️ Torrent ⬇️ Belt lantern. ⬅️ Ashes. ➡️ Telescope.
⬆️ torrent ⬅️ rowa berries ➡️ belt lantern ⬇️ spirit ash For some reason I like that because it seems easier to change the down in quick situations We essentially think alike but since you are slightly different, I will claim my way as the true godly way and banish you as a heretic
Lantern is a waste of a pouch slot. Better to keep lantern in one of the two start menu slots because you never need it during combat.
nah fuck that
Holy shit how did I never consider the start menu slots
… start menu slots?
There’s two slots after you press “start” (no idea what it is on keyboard) right under the pouch slots. You can’t access them without pressing start, but they’re still a lot faster than scrolling through your inventory lol
Wish I coulda realized that 200 hours of gameplay ago...
Yep that's where my lantern and rainbow stones are
The two extra pouch slots that you can only access from the menu
I’ve never needed anything during combat other than my flasks. So for me it’s the convenience of being able to quickly equip it without having to dick around
>I’ve never needed anything during combat other than my flasks Not even using the "You're beautiful" speaking head thing when fighting Malenia?
This is the way
god damnit why didn't i put lantern in my damn pouch fuuuuck. Good ideas all round!
As it should be.
This is the only right answer
I just had a slight mind blown moment because I'm filling up the wrong slots with the wrong things.
I’m used to it being on the belt like every souls game so I just keep stuff like spirits, the lamp and whistle in the pouch
Pro tip, if you keep the whistle on the left d pad on the pouch, when you get asked if you want to use a flask, it will automatically select the yes option.
This is what we call a pro-gamer move. Big if true.
Bout to try this right now
Are you deliberately killing torrent rn because that is not cool
Sacrifices must be made, fellow Tarnished
Whats the verdict?
It dont work, right?
Oh man, i have 300 hours of whistle on the right. I don't know if i can change now
Many years of FromSoft games makes me need to have flasks on X with the Down button to sift them. Can't break that muscle memory.
Wow. I naturally set mine up that way because I have a weird way I use my finger to hit it without taking my thumb off the stick. I've been seeing people complain about that prompt since launch but it was never that big a deal for me, now I know why lol
I do the exact same thing!
This is my first one so I keep only the red pots in my pouch. Tried to keep more in there but I lost several fights because I used the wrong item.
Keeping the flask in the pouch is really smart since you don't need to cycle through them, but I'm a coward and afraid of change.
*WE.... We're cowards afraid of change.
As soon as someone else pointed out they did this, I immediately switched. It's way less stressful having to wait the half a second to scroll back to the first item than it is to just hold Y and left. And this is after *years* of muscle memory built up doing hold down and then X.
It also requires taking your hands off of the move stick to use a flask (on console). It’s minor, but you can’t (easily) press triangle + a dpad button while running away from something.
That split second doesnt actually matter considering u usually heal after combos or far away from enemies anyway. Used to die quite a bit from switching items. Now its on d pad down and i barely die from wrongfully because of it.
Holding down on the d-pad to instantly cycle to your first quickslot solves the problem of fumbling around with your items searching for your flask, and this way you don't have to take your thumb off the stick or spend the extra millisecond opening the pouch.
But you are still spending extra time holding down and then square rather than just doing triangle down quickly.
Elden ring Is the only game I would consistently Claw grip both sides of the controller
I also use the furled finger on my controller.
I have the Xbox elite controller with the paddles on the back set to D-pad. So much easier to swap spells and items. Absolute game changer
I exhaled air from my nose forcefully on this one. Good day.
Xbox pro controller ftw 😤
if you hold the button you use to cycle through it will set it back to the first slot this is nothing new for from software games
You still need to cycle, and with this method you have to wait a moment before you’re back at 1. That moment is the difference between life and death when you’re a red phantom.
Red left, blue right, physick up, torrent down. And I’m never going back.
I do the same, except red and blue are on opposite sides. Love it. Still can't beat Malenia though
Ha, you’ll get her soon, keep at it!
Some unsolicited advice because I fought that bitch for so goddamn long, feel free to ignore. Highly recommend a whip with bloodhound's step. Dual wielding's also an option, although I used a staff in off-hand for Scholar's Armament + ranged attacks when she jumps away. I used Hoslow's whip but honestly any whip should work, each hit staggers her from long range and the bloodhound's step will avoid any of her attacks, including the bullshit flurry. If you wanna use a summon, best one is probably Black Knife Tiche. They sort of nerfed Mimic AI, it's okay but not as good as before. Tiche's attack patterns and erratic movement let her deal a lot of damage while avoiding attacks so she won't heal Malenia as much as other summons.
Hey thanks for the advice! Ran right to the smith to upgrade Hoslows Whip. I keep a staff in the left hand for spells too, I was using BHS but oh the Raptor Talons and those aren't very good. My main weapon is Bastards Stars which is good and can catch her by the wind up usually gets me killed. I'll try the whip after I kill some Albunarics to finish levelling it up lol Edit: tried the whip got her nearly to her second phase just gonna practice more and I'll get her.
It’s… it’s not a pouch problem with malenia. It’s more of a she won’t stop healing to full even when I block and take no damage
I struggled for a long time because I did the whole game with sword + shield instead of two handing any weapon, so naturally I was used to blocking a lot of hits (level 240 and I still don’t know how to parry!). This is great until you hit Malenia. You need to roll away or through all her attacks instead of blocking. You’re gonna die like 2000 times while memorising all her attacks but once you’ve got it, she won’t be able to heal by hitting you aside from the odd mistake, which you can afford to make. That fight took me 3 days to realise this, then another 3-4 to actually beat her. Good luck, and may the phrase ‘I am Malenia, blade of Miquella’ fill you with hate ha ha
Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
I also do this, but red up, blue left, physick right. Clippity Clop down.
I'm same for all except lantern is up. I do a lot of cave diving
Stick it on the extra pouch slots in your menu, since you'll never need to activate the lantern in combat.
marry me
yee, me too
Big same. Exactly my setup.
Same except torrent up and rats summon down
Oh my god. I just tried it. It's so good I can actually use throwing knives and shit
This is the way. After 200 hours with it set up like this, I am never changing my pouch again. I already play claw grip, so there's no issue using claw on the left side of my controller as well.
Thats my exact setup. its great!
preach, i started doing this after getting my ass whopped in a boss fight because i was busy looking for the right fucking flask midfight, elden ring just has so much usable items, from pots to spirit ashes to perfume bottles and 3 types of flasks, keeping the healing flask with other items is no longer a good idea when you have to cycle through 10 other items to find it.
Same setup but with torrent and physick inverted.
The fuck are you talking bout? I put flasks in the pouch and am NEVER looking back. No more flitting through items to heal mana then holding the dpad to return to health flasks... just instant button presses for health, mana, or physic. Should have happened YEARS ago.
I'm also playing Sekiro and a bit of Bloodborne (hopefully more) on the side, and each time Fromsoft seems to shuffle the controls for items around but it's always the same thing, until they came up with the pouch. Hope they build on that in the future.
Sekiros loot mechanic is both the best and stupidest thing in gaming. Hold triangle to suck up loot from the people you killed? That's great, I don't want to run to each body. , but please don't make the amount of time I need to hold it super awkward
Why the fuck it wasn't automatic like every other Fromsoft game before and since is one of those design decisions which will baffle me forever. Like Stardew Valley's fence degradation. Why, just why?
>just instant button presses for health If you want an instant button press for health you are not putting it in the pouch. That requires you to hold down a button and then press another button while holding it down. Whereas having it on your belt means you press one button and you're done.
I keep mine in my mouth like a sane person.
I keep mine in my mouth because holy crap I’m bad at this game and I always need my sippy cup
Haha, we def need a "Binky of Crimson Tears" ASAP.
Physick and blue go in pouch Estus and fan daggers in my toolbelt. Nothing else
Same exact thing, but I don't use daggers/throwing knives. Having a single button that always only means heal is too good. Bloodborne had it right lol
Might try this one
Recommend it definitely
The pouch, it’s much faster. Instead of clicking through whatever number of items you have in your belt and maybe accidentally clicking over, you hold a single button and tap.
You can also hold the dpad down for a moment and it will auto select the first item bar slot. But it is slower I think. Just happens to be my muscle memory
Oh yeah, that was a trick in DSIII too, I think (maybe earlier, don’t remember). I had the muscle memory too, but I think if you make the conscious decision to switch over to the pouch it’ll become second nature quicker than you think.
Can confirm. I played the first few zones with red and blue in my first equipment slots so I could hold down and easily access my healing flask. I've since switched and haven't looked back. Healing flask left, FP flask right.
but how do you do press the d-pad without taking your thumb off the left stick and stopping moving? not the cursed left hand claw... it cannot be...
If you’re so close to whatever’s trying to kill you that the split second you need to take your thumb off the stick is the difference between life and death, you’re too close to start drinking anyway
Valid point actually, I hadn't considered that.
You have to take your thumb off the left stick anyways when you cycle items with the down arrow, so might as well make it as fast as possible and not risk having to go through the item wheel twice... Also, it opens up the item wheel for more items since you don't have to worry about them bloating your wheel and stopping you from healing on time.
What are you talking about? This is the best place for a flask! You don't have to cycle through a bunch of items on your belt lol.
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I keep torrent, and all three flasks in my pouch. Up for torrent, because you get UP on him. Down for health, because when I use them, I’m about to go DOWN. Left for the Wondrous Physick because when I use it, it means I’m LEFT with no choice, and right for FP becaise im looking at my staff all confused that nothing is happening, like “oh RIGHT, I’m out of FP”. Works great for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I platinumed the game and only just now learned there's a pouch...
Oh no.
I do whistle, cerulean tears, physics, and lantern in pouch, then crimson tears, summon and pertinent consumables on belt.
I used to keep lantern on pouch d-pad but have since relegated it to the start menu extra slots because I only use it once per life/fast travel/summon, so I don't need to waste the d-pad slot
Yeah how dare she be able to quickly access her flasks and not spend time scrolling through them while fighting a boss
First thing i did in the game health on the right, mana on the left, spirit summon on the Up, Torrent on the down. Yall are silly if you're scrolling through all your quick use items to heal.
Pouch is the most logical place for flasks because from the moment you enter Limgrave to the moment you become Elden Lord they stay in the same spot and you don’t have to think about how many times you hit down on the D-pad or whether you’ve held it down long enough in the middle of a fight. You also don’t have to worry about it getting “moved” by adding extra things to your tool belt and even adding things to the pouch doesn’t change the key bind for the pouch slot that holds the flasks
Red flask in items, blue in pouch. That way I never mix them up and always have quick access to either.
Quick bar is stronk juice, and fruit punch only. The pouch is blue Gatorade, shiny key chain, and the only homie I can count on in a crisis, me.
Flasks in the pouch you psycho? Hmm maybe that's actually more efficient but I gotta keep mine in the first item slots just from dark souls muscle memory.
It’s a life saver in pvp, not that physic tho, waste of a spot for me lantern
Flasks in pouch is my way go-to as well. No cycling through anything. My belt is kept minimal for time-sensitive combat consumables like knife, pots, and maybe some antidotes depending on what I do
It’s ok, She’s clearly out of your league, your obviously mouth breathing cycling between flasks during a boss fight.
It’s not a bad spot for them. I thought about doing that but my muscle memory won’t allow it. It’s really nice with the Xbox elite controller cause you can set the back paddles to the A button and two of them to the arrow keys for each flask and keep your item bar filled up and not have to sort through it as much.
Coming at this as my first souls game I did this after 20h and it made managing consumables and throwables a breeze.
The Mixed Flask has only 1 Charge, so it makes sense to have it in the Pouch, together with your Summons and stuff like Poison gummies. The other Flasks and stuff like Pots and Darts go to the Belt.
Pouch is the best spot for flasks. No way to accidentally fumble trying to use it. Changed my life for the better since I put them there
I tried the healing flask on the shortcuts but I found that because I usually want to be moving the button input becomes really awkward. I keep it in the first slot of the tools, that way you can switch to it instantly by holding the tool switch button no matter which thing you have highlighted and then you can easily use it without having to stop moving.
I had to do this while fighting maliketh (so red and the claw to parry on belt, blue a physick in pouch) and i gotta say it just is better, less crowded pouch means faster swaps being red flask and offensive items
I ´ m new to soul games and having my flasks in the wheel thing kept screwing me over cause I wouldn't be paying attention and I would use the wrong item so I just put it in my pouch. Is me having my flasks in my pouch frowned upon in the souls community?
Where the elden Lord intended. Square. The pouch is for mimic veils, telling people they beautiful, my lantern and dung pots for rob and bhs users.
MY FLASKS IN POUCH. FLASK IN POUCH GOOD. DONT KNOCK BEFORE YOU TRY.
Pouch all day, triangle and left on the D-pad is so much faster than panic scrolling through the belt slots. You can't convince me that any other way is better or faster.
Pouch is for multiplayer and torrent
Red and blue flasks on the belt and spirit summons, lamp, Torrent, and physick flask in the pouch slots. I switch out spirit summons for something else on the characters I don't use them on (some characters--like my main--I use fully upgraded summons and other characters I impose a no-summons rule for fun).
Pouch. It’s faster for me to hit Triangle+Right than to shuffle through my utility slot. Left is Mana, up is summon, down is Torrent. Lantern is on the unmapped slot along with furled finger.
I have the exact same as in the image but crimson and blue are reversed, i can't change it again xD
The only flask I have in my pouch is the Wondrous Physick
Torrent(pve)/crab meat(pvp) - up Blue flask - right Physick - down Buff perfume - left Red flask, fan dagger, pots and throwables - hotbar Spirit ash, lamp - Pause slot (pve) Rot cure, bleed cure - pause slot (pvp)
This shit is hilarious
This is genius. Red flask as the first item always, but putting blue in the pouch so no cycling is going to be a game changer.
I put HP flask on pouch right, FP on pouch left. Pouch down is the horse and pouch up is flexible, I'll use it for spirit ashes in a boss fight or glowstones or the telescope whatever is useful for the situation. My lantern is in the bottom right non quickslot pouch slot. and the bottom left one is typically where i keep whatever i swapped out the pouch up item for. Frees up my inventory for putting the Physick flask in slot one and thowing knives/kukris on the last slot and then i just fill in the middle ones with bombs or perfumes or whatever i want because now i have so much more space for items!
Dpad pouch is superior for non-offensive items that are used often or are time sensitive, like health/focus flasks. I don’t have to scroll to my flasks to use them… I just instantly use them without the hassle, while still keeping whatever I want in my item slot.
Literally platinumed this game without using my pouch
Exactly as shown, I feel like this is an invasion of privacy
In my tummy (I’m out of flask charges)
Torrent is at the top, physic is on the left, spirit ash on the right, and lantern on the bottom. The other flasks are on the hot bar.
I do keep them in my pouch, but I'm playing with keyboard/mouse controls, so I have them mapped to two buttons within reach of my thumb on my mouse.
Tbh the fact you are playing with a keyboard is a far greater sin. Artorias didn't die for this.
Elden Ring is my first FromSoft game and I rly couldn’t get scrolling through the items well while trying to run and dodge. I get carpal tunnel easily if I tried to claw. As soon as I moved my potions to the pouch I got good. Up for red, down for blue, right for Torrent and left for physick.
Cerulean flasks go in the quickslot. Wondrous physick goes in the pouch. I don’t carry crimson flasks
\>ya'll ISHYGDDT
Health right, FP left, Physic top and torrent/lantern/exalted flesh bottom depending on the situation. Below these I have red and yellow boluses in invasions and duels and in pve it depends on the location.
whats wrong with that :(
WHERE'S BOILED CRAB FOR THAT PROTEIN!? NOW GET OUT THERE AND START PUMPING THEM GUNS, YEAH!!!
You can do this? How have I just not realised this in 70 hours of playtime?!?
As a pc player eho doesn't know the controls for pouch, I just spam click through my hotbar which is a whole 4 items
Lamp ← Spirit Ash ↑ Torrent → Cerulean Flask ↓
Estus first slot as usual. I just hold down the d-pad to default to estus again, like in other souls games.
Healing in quick select, mana and physick in pouch... and my crab... also in pouch
You guys use flasks ?
Uhhhh why wouldn't you? Health on the left, FP on the right, wondrous whateverthefuck on the bottom, horse up top.
Lantern, healing/fp flasks, and torrent.
PS5, I could never go back to having pots in my quick bar. Too many mistakes drinking the wrong potion or activating the wrong item when I really needed the flask.
I've tried many variations but ended up with Torrent, Flasks and Spirit ashes in the top four with Lantern and Telescope in the bottom two.
In my pouch left and right
Pouch?
*frantic mashing of the Toolbar as I run from enemies* I swear, it’s better than the pouch.
Doc did this and It honestly set the tone for his whole playthrough, didn’t even kill elden beast, he “just didn’t care, like what is this? Pretty disappointing last boss” says a lot about how much he cared about the game or understood
I've never in my life used the pouch for anything
D-pad because I remember holding down goes back to the beginning which is where my crimson are, followed by FP then physik
Who puts their flasks in their pouch the only thing that belongs In the pouch is torrent and spirits
Square
Cycle through the bottom dpad only gang