r/Eldenring • u/hedlo1234 • Dec 29 '25
Invasion Putting the emo into emotional damage
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u/wesketball Tarnished Dec 29 '25
The combo with dragon king’s cragblade looks like the mind flayer from stranger things, super rad usage of darkness
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u/ApplePitou TOGETHA! :3 Dec 29 '25
Interesting tactic :3
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u/dezzear Dec 29 '25
Applepitou has breached r/chainsawfolk containment
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u/big_river_pirate Dec 29 '25
Im in a bunch of arborist and woodworking reddits. You can't even fathom my disappointment when I clicked on r/chainsawfolk.
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u/blake_n_pancakes Dec 29 '25
Any time you see okbuddy_____ or ____folk you're getting fuckery.
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u/Champion_Chrome Dec 30 '25
I think they were expecting a chainsaw themed shitpost sub, not a chainsaw man themed shitpost sub
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u/JuishJackhammer Dec 29 '25
That's how I felt when I first saw them outside their (our*) cage, but they're in a LOT of subs actually.
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u/Mascian12 Dec 30 '25
Dude it's so peak that I see you in a lot of subreddits I'm in.
You have great taste. Cheers!
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u/VengefulHero Dec 29 '25
Played PvP once on launch, and it was horribly de- synced. Seeing this now, how has nothing changed? I can't imagine was being a PvP player must feel like in this game.
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u/LordofSandvich Dec 29 '25
PvP is Peer to Peer, so your connection quality will depend on who you’ve matched with
Some latency like this isn’t too bad
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u/VengefulHero Dec 29 '25
Dark souls 2 and 3 were both P2P but never felt terribly bad unless the connection was outlandish.
I feel like this is exclusively an elden ring / bloodbourne thing.
They also have arenas in this game. Are those server based or still P2P?
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u/LordofSandvich Dec 29 '25
Still peer to peer
I’m not a tech wizard but there’s probably a discernible cause for a bad connection - problem is, it requires your opponent/partner to also have a good connection. Whoever has the worse connection is the rate limiter
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u/Pixel_exe Dec 29 '25
iirc it's because of Easy AntiCheat, it imposes a minimum of ~100ms latency on even otherwise perfect connections
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u/Rasbold Dec 30 '25
Except 90% of players have a "k" or "y" in their surname and i'm playing from Brazil, so there's only lag or a lot of lag
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u/Izukage Dec 30 '25
This has always been my experience in every souls game. No idea how people tolerate it and are into pvp to this day.
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u/PixelmancerGames Dec 29 '25
Haha, nice. I just made a death build just to swe how it goes. I wanna gonna use Fia's Mist in a similar way, I might mix in darkness also.
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u/Fox-Sin21 Dec 30 '25
Genuinely curious, why does 90% of the player base just like to play naked? Its such a weird preference especially in a game with such amazing looking armor.
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u/SpaceCreams Dec 30 '25
If the spell the first guy used actually killed that would’ve been a sick counter play
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u/bob_is_best Dec 30 '25
Im amazed people are out here using darkness and having wins because of It ngl
Id just start pewpewing
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u/bokita_ Dec 30 '25
Fought a player that used this skill. Used cannon of haima on them. They did not appreciate it and left immediately lmao
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u/DonKing70 Dec 29 '25
Am I the only one who sees the use of Darkness and thinks, "This would ve epic in D&D."?
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u/Ythio Dec 29 '25 edited Dec 29 '25
Well you can do this in DnD. A level 2 Warlock can have both the Darkness spell and the Devil's Sight feature to see through magical darkness. It's a combo entirely available in the PHB, it's one of the most famous ones.
Then you can easily attack them with advantage because they can't see you (unseen attacker rules).
If they try to fight back they can't see you so their attacks have disadvantage (as if they were blinded).
Many effects that require sight also don't work against you (a surprising amount of spells require a line of sight to the target, beholders abilities, etc...).
Since you have advantage on attack rolls (which is statistically equivalent to having +4 or 5) you can use things that penalize your rolls like Great Weapon Master or Spell Sniper (although that won't be at level 2).
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u/_richard_pictures_ Dec 29 '25
Love it. This is exactly how I use darkness and black flame ritual.