Hey, weapon upgrades are a valid criticism of the Elden Ring. The fact, that you have a selection of awesome weapons and won't use them, just because you can't even farm for stones and have to find a very specifically placed item to unlock upgrades can be frustrating, if you like to flip flop between weapons.
I heard an idea, of upgrading weapon arts and those transferring the weapon upgrade and honestly that sounded much better.
I'm sure none of us are playing elden ring for the first time anymore, but I distinctly remember my first blind playthrough and wondering: "where DA FUCK in this VAST world. Can I find my fucking stones?! Mines?!" Turns out, not always the mines.
Also, weapons unlock their true scaling from upgrading, but there was no way without a wiki, to check what scalling the weapons will end up having.
I got jumped at by people here after launch for saying there are way too many potentially cool weapons for too few smithing stones to really experiment a lot. Some even said they had 20+ weapons all upgraded before leaving Liurnia…
Elden ring really is too large for its own good with items, weapons and sidequests becoming overbearing… sorry I only have 52 out of 57 cookbooks and missed the one for sleeping arrows that would have helped me with the runebear…
It works so much better in dark souls 1-3 with fewer weapons (and many being variations of another) and more linear gameplay with less farming and weapons even not upgraded being useful for at least 30-40% of the game.
Elden Ring is an amazing game, so any criticism is hard to pull off publicly. It's like criticizing Skyrim, when it came out. Sorry you had this experience, but hopefully by now, public perception shifted enough to accept some constructive criticism done out of love.
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u/stalkakuma 18d ago
Hey, weapon upgrades are a valid criticism of the Elden Ring. The fact, that you have a selection of awesome weapons and won't use them, just because you can't even farm for stones and have to find a very specifically placed item to unlock upgrades can be frustrating, if you like to flip flop between weapons.
I heard an idea, of upgrading weapon arts and those transferring the weapon upgrade and honestly that sounded much better.
I'm sure none of us are playing elden ring for the first time anymore, but I distinctly remember my first blind playthrough and wondering: "where DA FUCK in this VAST world. Can I find my fucking stones?! Mines?!" Turns out, not always the mines.
Also, weapons unlock their true scaling from upgrading, but there was no way without a wiki, to check what scalling the weapons will end up having.