I can not spell for I have dex.
Would need to respec anyways so… ya kind of my point. 
Dex is - NO GOOD -
Kafka has the same problem being recognized as one of the funniest novelists!
Solaire putting the sun bug on his head is hilarious in the same way that Gregor Samsa getting turned into a bug is
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In this example it’s not a Dex problem, it’s that +2 is quite low an upgrade level for Margit. He feels balanced for around +9 to me, and it’s quite feasible to get to +9 if you discover the right mines on the two continents next to Stormveil Castle.
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Yeah the game certainly funnels players much more directly to stormveil and margit than it should. Leonine misbegotten actually teaches you the specific margit fight mechanics, but the first Grace lines you see point very directly and quickly toward margit, while the misbegotten is more than twice as far away and it takes more time to find the lines that point at him. I do think most people bouncing off margit hard are under leveled and have very low level weapons
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That said though the rush of beating margit while possibly under leveled was very potent, haha. That fight is a ton of fun once you figure it out and choose the right summons/buddies
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The weapon seems always to be the problem with Margit. I get the impression that many players do “just ride away” from Margit as recommended, and then they explore for 5 hours and invest thousands of runes to get to level 30, and figure “that’s probably high enough for Margit, I’ll give it another try”.
The reality (which nothing in the game signals clearly, so I don’t blame any player for this misunderstanding): it’s actually not enough, unless you found the 3 specific tiers of smithing stone mines as part of your exploration.
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or in my case, got a somber-upgrading weapon from an evergaol, waited until you had enough str/dex to wield it, realized you had a couple somber stones too for good measure, and decided then you were good to go
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idk i beat him with a +1 backup weapon after having a good long think about my tactics
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I beat him with a +2 weapon and the NPC summon and an ash summon.
(I’m a magic build though – used an unupgraded starting staff from being a Prisoner, actually still using it!)
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always summon, playing solo is for chumps
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I had a +2 sword and like 13 strength for 20 hours lmao (high INT astrologer though)
whenever i have randos summoned i always get a red guy in there, too, you gotta keep things spicy and fuck the red guys for thinking they deserve to live, die forever red guys
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It takes me too long to get summons because gold signs get snatched up almost immediately. If I wait too long I resort to fighting a boss solo and that usually makes it easier anyway. It’s hard to rely on other players to not die early and then just leave me with a bigger health bar to deal with
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I don’t summon because I have a weird hangup best described as experiential FOMO. When I have summoned, the boss sometimes quickly gets deleted by the other player, and then I felt a sense of loss like, “would this have been a deeply enriching combat experience to do solo? now the boss is gone so I’ll never know”
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part of the charm, imo.
i stuck around the magic academy for a couple hours just roaming trying to find anything I missed and putting my co-op sign into the pool.
I don’t think I ever realized that you also get runes/souls for co-op, before that? That’s money for nothing. That’s free real estate.
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So satisfying to successfully divide a boss’s attention between players, had a real nice dance going to take down that subterranean lava spewing dragon/salamander thing I forgot the name of and also pairing up with the Kindreds of Rot, waltzing a wailing with a stranger buddy, good times.
(my irl dog buddy does not enjoy so much, very concerned about my furious fixation with the TV)
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Hello!
Just now taking my first timecation - came back 30 years to see these “oceans” I’ve read so much about (did not disappoint! I feel like I understand better now how yall in this time haven’t found what’s lurking beneath them yet, what with all that water!)
Anyway, since everyone here seems to be enjoying this GRRM masterpiece so much, I wanted to share a souvenir I smuggled past the Time Transit Authority (wasn’t hard, causal security theatre) that I think you fans would appreciate!
Behold, a first edition, before the covers got distasteful, wasn’t cheap:
I’ll upload the rest of the text later to some kind of proxy site, GRRM broke new ground and illustrated the book with naked women, which I understand is frowned upon in your time. What an artiste! What a time to be alive!
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did you never go back and talk to varre, or melina at grace sites. and there’s the volcano manor and ranni. I feel like at this point I’ve been around way more anti-fingers/erdtree people than pro
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I talked to Varre and Melina at least, and I’ve been doing the east-side content first so I haven’t seen Ranni/Volcano Manor yet.
I’m getting the vibe that the Erdtree is at once the source of all good and sublimely inhuman, like the Deer God in Princess Mononoke. And just going by appearance, the Fingers faction is probably pure evil. (Correct me if I’m wrong, I’m missing a lot of questlines and might never see some of it)
I like that and I probably should’ve given it more credit in my brief summary for being fresh too by videogame standards, even if I don’t like it quite as much as DkS1’s absurdism. Elden Ring’s themes are particularly similar to Demon’s, come to think of it.
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you telling me naked women colored this book?
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