Topic: Elden Ring Hype Thread

@Mega-Gazz I did try my mimic tear… but was getting nowhere fast. Managed to beat her with Black Knife Tiche after about 3 hours of trying.

@velio84 cheers dude… so the final final boss is worse eh? 🤔 Sounds about right.

@Kairu yeah I don’t think that my build was very good at all for her. My all strength, colossal sword waving melee focus was far too slow to take the fight to her really. Haven’t done any casting, nor used infusions (like bleed) either.

I might go a dex bleed build when I play the PS5 version (been playing the PS4 version in back-compat) as I’ve heard so much positivity about it.

@Ralizah Just following up here…I beat Radahn and though the castle didn’t initially change back, it has gone back to it’s pre-festival state now.

Oh so that is where you start the game. Revenge is sweet!

@lolwhatno yeah maybe that would’ve done the trick actually 😉

@Jimmer-jammer Interesting. Does this include the surprise boss fight?

I made a music video showing off the twin scythe build in pvp. The angel's wings ability is strong, catches a few people by surprise, I think. Certainly nice when outnumbered.

@LieutenantFatman Ha, awesome. What sort of build did you need for those?

I’m currently on a dex build with a frozen axe but swap it for Rogier’s rapier for some bosses as it gets hits away quicker. There are a few weapons I still need to get my stats up to try out.

And has anyone here ever gone for a pure mage build? I just always wonder how you do it because it must take ages to get stats high enough to make it worthwhile but also to get the spells. Is it a NG+ thing?

@Thrillho
Thanks, only need 24 faith for the winged scythe and you're good to go. I put quite a bit into Vigor and Endurance as well, so I can wear decent armour for poise. Means I can tank some hits and not get too easily stun locked when a group jump me.

I imagine a mage build would be really handy against certain bosses such as dragons. I have encountered some in pvp. Some spells do a huge amount of damage when they hit.

@Ralizah yeah it does, I thought I’d missed the chance to beat them but they came back.

So a funny thing happened on my second character when fighting Loretta….. watch at around 1:40 in:

For anyone having trouble with malenia, swarm of flies and mimic tear make the fight trivial. Just removed all other spells so me and the mimic spammed that, she’s stunlocked the whole fight. I feel no shame.

@LieutenantFatman This mage build is pretty insane!

@Thrillho wow, that's amazing! Feel a bit sorry for the other players there, lol.

@Mega-Gazz That Melania fight == total bull****. I’m armed to the teeth and have got her down to 1/4 left on the second phase using mimic tear and moonveil+10 and she basically destroys and defiles me in a single move. I might check out your suggestion given I’ve been trying for 2 hours 😅

@render swarm of flies destroys her it’s not even funny.

So I’ve been stuck on the divine tower of Caelid for 2 days now. The boss Godskin Apostle just keeps taking me down. The very first attempt always ends up being my best one.
I usually use my wolves but I’ve been messing around with the skeleton soldier for this as I don’t have too much invested in FP- which regenerates & I like to use either holy or electric.

@Fight_Teza_Fight
Yes that boss took me a few tries but I liked it in hind sight.
I don’t have much FP either and I use the Raya Lucaria soldiers ashes. I think they’d quite good considering they dont need too much FP
Need good level to kill that boss though. Good luck

@Fight_Teza_Fight I was stuck on that one for a bit. I don't know if you are struggling with the same thing that I was but what was getting me was - that fat roll thing that he does in the second phase would hammer me every time. I worked out on the end that the best place to be was right in the middle of the church as if I had lock on him I could just circle him while he did all that shiz and I would naturally keep my distance.

@Kairu Nice work on the platinum 👍

@JJ2 I’m not entirely sure if I have enough FP for that. Just using the wolves won’t leave me enough for Holy unless I use an item.

@velio84 I’ve not beaten Radahn yet. So trying to clear everything I can before progressing. The thing is I’m getting agonisingly close. Some times I’ll have him down to 10-20% others I die within seconds.

@render I’ve beaten that boss. The Godskin I’m on about is the one in the basement of the Devine tower of Caelid. I really liked that boss though. Once I got hit with the roll I just stayed down & let the iFrames do the rest.

@Kairu Nice job on the platinum!