ok what’s the best place to farm runes before Godfrey? he’s kicking my ass and I think I need to just be able to take him down in fewer hits. there’s a place in farum azula where i can kill guys for 3091 runes, but uh when I need 160,000 to level up that’s no good.
my usual strategy of being summoned for the current boss I’m going up against and the most recent couple bosses I killed isn’t going great because everyone else sucks even worse than I do and I end up spending an hour to get summoned ten times and get nothing from it.
I love this game but this motherfucker is a wall for me and I would probably actually pay $5 for DLC that gave my character ten levels, a thing I have never otherwise thought
Also if you get bored of killing regular mobs or repetitive actions, a much slower but very fun way to get a lot of runes is to kill the boss from that zone as a helper. I believe he drops the most runes out of any easily repeatable boss in the game? 100k I think? I was unable to farm runes from the mobs without getting super bored and frustrated but I had a great time running that boss like 10x a night
Finally got far enough in the game I’m happy to read through all 3000 posts in the SB Elden Ring thread.
I don’t have anything to add besides the fact that these games always present a weird issue for me. On the one hand, wandering around open world games looking for stuff to do causes me major anxiety that I’m wasting my time and Ive never really enjoyed that kind of gameplay much to begin with. On the other hand reading wikis and guides quickly leads to rabbit holes and engaging the same lawnmower brain min-maxing mindset as the worst Ubisoft games and suddenly I’m spending hours reading comments on fextralife weapons pages trying to find a weapon that’s good but not part of the meta, like a real psycho.
Oh wow I’ve missed all this even though I’ve had the Haligtree Medallion for, like, forever at this point. (I think I’m way past time for the Varre guy’s quest, haven’t seen him in a very long time.) Finally catching up with this whole area.
jumped back into the lands between after having put it down almost immediately after it came out because of overloading myself with work/school stuffs. sorry to have missed all the hype of everyone playing it at the same time and figuring stuff out collectively, but ah well.
like cask, i basically don’t have anything else to add that hasn’t been said. i’m not very good at these games and never beat sekiro or bloodborne, but somehow i feel like i don’t suck as bad as i usually do. it probably helps that i spent a lot of time riding my horse around, inadvertently levelling and bypassing the main quest line, so when i got back to it i was able to kill things pretty easily. the bigness of it does give me anxiety about not meeting some silly dumb npc because i know that i won’t realistically play this game again. it’s so long! so big! there are so many people and places to remember, so i have to look up stuff sometimes and feel like a big ol’ cheater.
i put in the GOD.HAND code and was super excited to see finally see a golden glowing note from a selectbutt behind ranni at her house. delighted to find it was a butt joke.
I am seriously considering to start Elden Ring for the first time.
I would like to play a dex/magic build, ideally… something like a Samurai with spells, but does it make sense? Would such a hybrid be able to reach powerful spells, will his spells be underpowered and not very useful?
it’s a very good build and there is a great early midgame katana that scales on intelligence that makes it a pretty popular choice. you won’t be able to cast the strongest magic (some spells require 60 INT which you likely won’t have room for if you wanna be effective in melee) but you’ll have access to most of it and be in a great spot to take advantage of intelligence-scaling weapon skills
Thanks! It looks a very cool path and I might even call my character Sekiro
I was evaluating other two possibilities:
a Faith build
a pure strength build using huge weapons
These are the two things I have never tried in a Soul-lime game… how fun would they be?
And… is faith severely underpowered or can it be comparable to magic?
for what it’s worth, this build is still very effective if you dump points into int, because the moonveil’s ash of war primarily does magic damage, and that ash of war is (imo) the best reason to use the moonveil. and! the melee damage still scales decently enough with int to remain viable for the late game. I wanna say I stopped putting points into dex after reaching 25/30 or so and just started putting points into int because the transient moonlight damage increase was totally worth it. by the time I was at the endgame my int was like 50 or something and there were only a few legendary sorceries I couldn’t use. but certain bosses I had to rely on sorcery to get good damage, so that is a caveat worth noting.
DS1 done. The bosses in DS were much easier but generally I felt more tension in each fight. In ER I went into each arena ready to die, in DS I dared to beleive I could win first try
I am running around Caelid (being clearly underleveled) and it’s great! Super horrorific / nasty area with some Bloodborne vibes!
I would like to beat Godrick, but I keep getting slaughtered. Any advice? Also regarding the summoning ashes. I am playing solo (I have a “curated” Ps4 and I cannot connect to internet)
Also, any advice (also regarding which beast to summon) to kill the Magma Wyrm? It would give me a weapon that would work great with my Intelligent Samurai.
my goto for early game boss fights was the ancestral spirit. it can be acquired by completing part of the underground siofra river area, which is tough pre-godrick but do-able. he’s basically just a dps turret. won’t draw aggro but drawing aggro isn’t that useful when the arena is so small, and it will survive longer than spirit summons that do.
