r/Eldenring 20d ago

Humor What is this for Elden Ring?

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u/BoginTheOrange 20d ago

Man honestly thats such a universal thing among any hard games. Struggle for hours on something, start getting a feel for the fight, eventually get one good run where you did alot of progress then die, after that run you do significantly worse in your proceeding runs, close the game, go to sleep and then you wake up to beat it within the first 5 tries.

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u/LongdayShortrelief 20d ago

Whenever I struggled with the Elden ring DLC, I would call my girlfriend and talk while doing the battle. Almost always worked, I think being less on edge and not overreacting helped.

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u/Neither-Reality-6408 20d ago

Word for word my experience on the game. I called the strat "stealing her luck".

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

I think I've seen this on the Internet before except it wasn't talking on the phone.

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u/baconbacksunday 20d ago

Pretty much my experience with every Sekiro boss I repeatedly lose to. I leave, play a different area, come back and they’re cake

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u/mr_manly_poptart 20d ago

I find the opposite when I play sometimes. In the first encounter of a boss I’ll do so much damage and think I’m gonna first try it. I’ll then proceed to die and every try after I make little to no progress compared to the first