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| Software | Windows 10 Pro |
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Been playing Elden Ring on and off today. Cleaned house at Carian Manor. Those hands can be such a pain. IF you're engaging them right, it's only tedious and not stressful. But it is high stress or take a lot of time. I ended up using the fire pot trick. Even in the ground, a pot will draw them out so they can't hit you wit the devastating grab. When they're out, being hit with another pot will make them catch on fire and lose a big chunk of health. They roll around for a few seconds, giving you time to approach and land a strong jump attack, killing them. I systematically cleaned out the courtyard. I had 36 Somber Smithing Stone [2]'s by the end of that. I also had ~14k runes to show for it.
Loretta is easy as long as you know when to mount-dodge. The perfumers outside got a better jump on me than her. The manor as a whole is way easier than the academy. The college has ganks so definitive and constricting that you know they are there and still can't avoid them, just brace and plan your reaction correctly. The manor really doesn't - even if it has a ton of ganks, they're all easily bypassed or dealt with cleanly by patience alone.
I also finished the Liurnia time-of-day bosses I left behind before.
There was a Deathbird northeast of the Academy Gate Town swamp ruin area. He gave me a lot of trouble. I beat him on my first go this time, and about had a heart attack. I had used all 6 potions allocated by the time I had the Deathbird down to having just a good hit or two remaining - and I fucked it up twice when one more blow would've killed ME. That one is a bit tough with all of the frost AOE stuff. He was eating me up with that stuff. Catching without the stamina to escape.
I also had to deal with the morning Bell Bearing Hunter at the Church of Vows. Those guys sometimes give me trouble just with their default moveset. I always forget the power of rolling forward with them. I had just spent my remaining runes so I finally took some time to work it out and ended up finally besting him by just a hair, like with the deathbird. And now I finally know how to dodge all of their moves easily. It really is about staying in the fray. If you get back into the range of the red magic-sword-rope-swinging attacks, everything is a lot harder and they rack up lots of damage with you having almost no chance to recover from their combos. Whereas rolling into the attacks at the right times often puts you behind him. I'm still powerstancing so I have that very nasty attack that pops right out of the roll, as well as quick nasty jump attacks. I think I got two criticals on him.
Liurnia is nothing to me at this point. I run towards the Giant Crayfish now. All I have left is the area past Carian Manor, and I can't remember if I took the secret Abductor Virgin teleport you can fall to from the academy into the little volcano dungeon. There is also that tower that you can only finish on Ranni's questline, as well as the cliffside ruins/caves that take you up to Altus Plateau. Other than that, I have done everything in Liurnia. The midgame areas of Caelid are next, I think.
I'm like level 74 and feeling like it's time to respec. I'm gonna go from powerstancing with the Moonveil and Uchigatana (even DEX/INT split) to using a staff with just the Moonveil (INT heavy with secondary DEX.) I'm about to get the Moonveil to B scaling with INT. I had kept both DEX and INT ~30 since I'm running this hybrid thing, but with investments in INT now, the damage can start running up big time with what I can use. I think I can drop DEX from 28 to 18 and throw that in INT. Pull a little out of END since I won't be carrying the weight of two kaytans. I think I have like 24 points in Mind, which I'll just keep. I feel like the 30 vigor I have is low for approaching level 75, though. I want to put it closer to 40 when I reallocate. I may actually still keep ~20 DEX for a little bit of casting speed and falling boost, as well as using the bow with good fire arrows to save FP, and keep my phsyical strike damage special-utility weapons. Definitely gotta start pivoting harder towards INT, though. I've got the sorceries and gear. Just need the power to use it and I think I'll have a fairly strong character on hand.
I think I got my first Larval Tear on the northeast end of friggin Limgrave... by accident. See, there's a cliff along that road to the bridge with that mad pumpkin... a random platform jutting out that you can fall to from the enemy camp up above. It looks like there's just another of the many zombie guys doing his digging in the general area there. There are actually a few little cliff platforms next to that road with zombies on em. The road forks where that cliff starts and goes to a camp with Godrick's knights...
...but one particular cliff there hides an invisible Runebear that only appears when you land on it! That's a *HELL* of a thing to find there! It could be the first one you encounter in the game if you're very, very unlucky lol. You'll be super low-level, and it will literally be right on top of you with nowhere to go but down. But he drops a Larval Tear. I was such a low level and I barely survived. But of course one of the worst Runebear ganks is one of the few with a really GOOD reward.
Loretta is easy as long as you know when to mount-dodge. The perfumers outside got a better jump on me than her. The manor as a whole is way easier than the academy. The college has ganks so definitive and constricting that you know they are there and still can't avoid them, just brace and plan your reaction correctly. The manor really doesn't - even if it has a ton of ganks, they're all easily bypassed or dealt with cleanly by patience alone.
I also finished the Liurnia time-of-day bosses I left behind before.
There was a Deathbird northeast of the Academy Gate Town swamp ruin area. He gave me a lot of trouble. I beat him on my first go this time, and about had a heart attack. I had used all 6 potions allocated by the time I had the Deathbird down to having just a good hit or two remaining - and I fucked it up twice when one more blow would've killed ME. That one is a bit tough with all of the frost AOE stuff. He was eating me up with that stuff. Catching without the stamina to escape.
I also had to deal with the morning Bell Bearing Hunter at the Church of Vows. Those guys sometimes give me trouble just with their default moveset. I always forget the power of rolling forward with them. I had just spent my remaining runes so I finally took some time to work it out and ended up finally besting him by just a hair, like with the deathbird. And now I finally know how to dodge all of their moves easily. It really is about staying in the fray. If you get back into the range of the red magic-sword-rope-swinging attacks, everything is a lot harder and they rack up lots of damage with you having almost no chance to recover from their combos. Whereas rolling into the attacks at the right times often puts you behind him. I'm still powerstancing so I have that very nasty attack that pops right out of the roll, as well as quick nasty jump attacks. I think I got two criticals on him.
Liurnia is nothing to me at this point. I run towards the Giant Crayfish now. All I have left is the area past Carian Manor, and I can't remember if I took the secret Abductor Virgin teleport you can fall to from the academy into the little volcano dungeon. There is also that tower that you can only finish on Ranni's questline, as well as the cliffside ruins/caves that take you up to Altus Plateau. Other than that, I have done everything in Liurnia. The midgame areas of Caelid are next, I think.
I'm like level 74 and feeling like it's time to respec. I'm gonna go from powerstancing with the Moonveil and Uchigatana (even DEX/INT split) to using a staff with just the Moonveil (INT heavy with secondary DEX.) I'm about to get the Moonveil to B scaling with INT. I had kept both DEX and INT ~30 since I'm running this hybrid thing, but with investments in INT now, the damage can start running up big time with what I can use. I think I can drop DEX from 28 to 18 and throw that in INT. Pull a little out of END since I won't be carrying the weight of two kaytans. I think I have like 24 points in Mind, which I'll just keep. I feel like the 30 vigor I have is low for approaching level 75, though. I want to put it closer to 40 when I reallocate. I may actually still keep ~20 DEX for a little bit of casting speed and falling boost, as well as using the bow with good fire arrows to save FP, and keep my phsyical strike damage special-utility weapons. Definitely gotta start pivoting harder towards INT, though. I've got the sorceries and gear. Just need the power to use it and I think I'll have a fairly strong character on hand.
I think I got my first Larval Tear on the northeast end of friggin Limgrave... by accident. See, there's a cliff along that road to the bridge with that mad pumpkin... a random platform jutting out that you can fall to from the enemy camp up above. It looks like there's just another of the many zombie guys doing his digging in the general area there. There are actually a few little cliff platforms next to that road with zombies on em. The road forks where that cliff starts and goes to a camp with Godrick's knights...
...but one particular cliff there hides an invisible Runebear that only appears when you land on it! That's a *HELL* of a thing to find there! It could be the first one you encounter in the game if you're very, very unlucky lol. You'll be super low-level, and it will literally be right on top of you with nowhere to go but down. But he drops a Larval Tear. I was such a low level and I barely survived. But of course one of the worst Runebear ganks is one of the few with a really GOOD reward.
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I'd say 80% Pixar Movie, 20% Souls-ish
I get a strong Mordheim vibe from the whole warband idea too, more so than I had with Vermintide, I think a big part of that is the fact you can now have the same class more often and of course the Ogryn class