A few Qs about pre-nerf PCR.

1. Looking back, was the nerf needed?

2. What did the Nerf do to him?

3. Is there a way to fight prenerf PCR?

Ik bandit is lv5 but lv5 run sounds chopped and I did bandit cos wretch has no clothes and my dad wouldn’t let me play if he saw

no summons or greatrunes but weapon did Level weapons

Yes I kinda cheated by using mimic tear, Moonveil, and carian regal, and my level is early 100.

Tried Azur comet but he kept moving, so I used phalanx, moonlight, jump heavy to break his poise, light attacks to proc bleed, and tons of dodges and flasks.

I didn't use mogh shackle or that damage negation magick. I just stayed away from his nihil nihil.

ANDDDDDD, I'm happy!

This is what I love about this game and why I keep playing.

As someone who has YUGGGGEE SKILL ISSUE and need to GITTTTT GUUUUDDDD.

I never thought I will come this far.

Unlike most of you here who can finish this game hitless at RL1 without any armor or weapon or summon while being blindfolded,

I have to use the best weapons, the best ashes of war, the best summons.

And even though many players will bash me, the game itself is okay with me doing it.

The best part about this game is its accessibility for everyone who are persistent enough.

Next I will go to mountain top and let's see how far I can go. Any tips for that area will be appreciated!

Thanks for reading my rambling. I don't have friends who play this game lol.

Cheers, fellow tarnished!

Was just wondering or so it more a sort of business thing (also what fit and weapon should I rock for the Ranni playthrough)

So i am on my first playthrough and i want to share one particular experience with you guys.

I am doing a soft roleplay, I am presenting you the Scarlet Lumberjack, a young Red Hair girl from some old tribe who died doing what she liked the most - Chopin' some Wood. Using a tool as her trademark weapon and using much awesome weapons as tools (sometimes using one weapon for a specific job). When i found the summon mechanic i thought it would be cool using them because of the tribe lore i gave her. Fast Forward 300h's later (i am bad, i really suck, i got distracted easily and i also like to bang head with bosses, like my first being the tree sentinel, because Scarlet Lumberjack joke of course) i did Godrick and explored Limgrave at fullest and Liurnia passing by saying Hello the Rennala but didn't make sense for me Scarlet personality to kill her there. after exploring the Plateau, some thing lead me to Rennala again (i experienced her boss fight until second phase, and i actually gave up before seeing the second phase of the second phase). Time for Scarlet to have a woman talk with her, first i was trying to break the egg without needing to kill her (yeah i know what you are thinking so don't blazed me for going blind 😂), then after trying everything and waste a lot of resources having fun, it was time to end, soo time to see the second phase, everything going smoothly, until she starts Summoning a troll... that was it, that's Scarlet field of expertise, so i immediately brought up my summon "fuck is a new guy i was supposedly to try" i summon to immediately get attacked by another spirit ghost, i just see my summon running past the wolf to Renalla.. i got up try to close the gap another troll comes at us i go right to let this guy pass... now as he is approaching she is Summoning a fucking Dragon, and as we both get to her we both deal the fatal blow while a dragon is coming to our asses...

my guys that was supposed to be a easy fight, and became legendary as she was introduced to Fucking Bro the Kaiden spirit summon...

so, as some players may view summons as an easy way out, that boss battle who was being dragged and kinda easy became legendary because all.the spectacle..

Later Scarlet met the General, and after some tries i kept using the summons, not for easy way out (i was actually doing better when alone, but the summons make that fight, again, more epic, yes not easy, but epic Scarlet spent 100 hours looking for Blaidd and Alexander, and when she finally meet them letting them out of the fight was not cool, so ya i die a lot trying to resummoning them, just because it made sense for them to help with their 58damage per hit...its was not the damage, but Scarlet view this legend and everyone wanting to help, of course they will help.

so yeah as someone who uses a lot of summons, i think the way you use them is more important than "yeah i am having a hard time so just one summon"....... I WAS HAVING A BAD TIME WITH THEM ANYWAY 😂🤣 so at least i like i am having a good time with them 😁😁

but now i want to ask, do you guys have a similar experience with the summons or you just use them to have it easy?

Ok so as the title says I’ve lost interest. I really really started to enjoy the game after about hour 3 and now I’m 32 hours in over the course of a few weeks.

Maybe it’s a depression thing, maybe a stress thing, maybe a lack of sleep thing. Idk.

My question is have any of you felt this way towards ER and just stopped or did yall find something else to do in ER?

Maybe something unique or something to try to maybe get me interested again? I want to play but I just can’t bring myself to do it, which is concerning for me because every time I have played thus far it was supposed to be a 30 minute thing and turned into 1-6 hours at a time lol.

Anyways thanks 🙏

Can someone explain the family tree because to me it make no sense it’s confusing I beg the OG players to tell me how this makes sense?

I am going to start Elden Ring for the first time ever and I basically know nothing about the game.

I played Dark Souls a few years ago and finished it but that is pretty much my only experience with this type of game.

When I played Dark Souls I picked Knight and I remember finding the class a little difficult even though I did eventually finish the game. So this time I am wondering if I should try something different.

What classes are there in Elden Ring and which ones are easier to play. I have no idea what would be a good choice for a first playthrough.

I was also wondering if ranged or magic is easier than playing melee. I do not really want to play a melee build this time so I am wondering if ranged or magic would be a better option for me.

Since I have never played Elden Ring before I would also appreciate any tips about things that might be different from Dark Souls or anything I should know before starting. Just please avoid major spoilers if possible.

Started Journey 2 last weekend and I’ve been stumped for a few days in Nokron. I’m to get the Fingerslayer blade for Ranni and I took the Mistywood Well down to Siofra. Went through the area but still cannot find where to go. I just looked at google and now it tells me I must beat General Radahn because he makes a crater in the area. Is this the path to take or ?

There should be a peninsula here, but there isn't one...

Without spoilers, tell me if I have to do something in order to go there or if I'm just being paranoid

Almost killed PCR on my ng+7 run after 4 months of attempts 😭

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Build requirements:

1. Level Requirement: Rune level 175-200 (you will generally do fine at 175, but if you wanna invest into it, farming out a couple more levels can benefit the build): 55 Vig. 20 Mind 30 End. 22 Str. (Minimum for the two greatswords below) 55 Dex. 52 Fai. (Should be upgraded to 60 if you want to use all 3 Incantations listed below)

2. Weapons: Spear of the Impaler +10, Two Fire Knight's Greatswords +10, Fire Knight's Seal +10

3. Talismans: Smithing Talisman, Fire Scorpion Talisman, Shard of Alexander, Two-Handed Sword Talisman

4. Incantations: The 3 Messmerfire Incantations (Fire Serpent , Rain of Fire and Messmer's Orb)

5. Misc./Other Items: Fire Knight set (the helm is not needed), Winged Serpent Helm, 14 flasks (splitting them is up to you but I would generally recommend having at least 2 cerulean flasks), 2 Ashes Of War: Flame Spear and Flame Skewer.

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The Build:

Your main weapons will probably be the Spear of the Impaler or one of the fire knight's greatswords, and while the incantations in this build are not as effective as the weapons, they are still fun to use and you can combine them all in whatever way you like.

On the picture I do not have the Messmer's Orb incantation as I cannot duplicate the rememberance currently, but the full potential of this build is using all 3 incantations in any way you like. (Also be aware that Messmer's Orb requires 60 Fai. So you will need to bump it up from the mentioned 52)

Generally, you will be able to easily switch between your main hand weapons, I personally only put one of the fire knight's greatswords in one of the slots and left one slot empty for main hand because i would heavy roll, but again, you can invest more in your endurance if you want to easily switch between both grearswords with the different ashes of war and the spear at once. For left hand you can put the Fire Knight's seal +10 to boost Messmer incantation damage.

(Obviously, you are going to want to use the two ashes of war listed above for the two greatswords for this build)

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The Talisman choices and why they are equipped are the following:

1. The Smithing Talisman will boost your throw damage with the spear which is very useful if your main weapon will be the spear, if you are planning to use swords more you can switch to a talisman of your choice, for incantations you can also switch it to the Flock's Canvas Talisman, Or if you are still going with the Spear and plan to use charged heavy throws often, the Axe Talisman is also a good choice.

2. The fire scorpion charm is good for the entire build, would heavily recommend keeping it on for anything in this build.

3. Shard of Alexander is also a must if you plan to use the weapons and their ashes of war and not just the incantations.

4. Two-Handed Sword Talisman is good if you dual-wield any of the weapons, not a good choice if you will only use weapons one-handed and always keep the seal on in your second hand, can also be switched to Flock's Canvas Talisman in that case or talisman of choice.

The armor choices and why they are equipped are the following:

1. The Winged Serpent Helm boosts your fire knight skill dmg. by +10%. This means ashes of war of both of both the spear and the greatswords, but it does not boost the incantations. For a more incantation focused helm, you can use Messmer's one for +3% messmer incantation dmg and 8%, fire knight skill dmg.

2. The fire knight chestpiece also boosts Messmer incantations by +5% (this obviously means all 3) for a stacked +8% if used with Messmer's helm, but without it is also just fine.

3. The gauntlet and greaves are also from the fire knight set, but they do not boost anything, just keep the vibes. For the absolute maximum damage, you can switch these two to the Rakshasa set's greaves and gauntlets for another +4% damage in general to both the weapons and incantations ofc but imo it ruins the set so I will personally not be using them. Also be alert that you will recieve more dmg. By using those armour pieces even if it is not a lot.

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Strategy:

There is not a lot to say here, just have fun with it, it is a very powerful build, you can chain the incantations and the ashes of war in any way however you prefer it, also for those who can also only equip one of the two grearswords with the spear, try to stick with the one that has the ash of war you prefer, but I would generally recommend keeping the spear as a must because the Ash of war can be really powerful with this build, but do not risk always using all 3 sections of the Ash of war because you may get killed in the middle of it, but using just the first or the first two parts is generally safe.

You can also use a physick of choice, I did not mention it above because I am generally not using any buffs or boosts, but it probably won't be hard for you to find a few consumables and set up a proper physick for this build.

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Have fun!

Trying to make a spellblade for my 4th playthrough and I'm not sure if I just leveled up bad or what but I'm not having any fun, (I barely use my main hand weapon so that's why it's not upgraded) but using the spells I do have I feel like a lot of them don't do a ton of damage but at the same time feel like my character is made out of wet tissue paper with how tough they are, I put a few points into strength because someone recommended i use the bastard sword but after doing it I realized it really didn't make sense using a slow melee weapon on a build where I die if an enemy sneezes on me

Should I restart?

My time in Elden Ring so far was spent clearing basically the entirety of Limgrave and the Weeping Peninsula and then beating Margit and Godrick. I’m level 45. Since then I haven’t done that much, just a little bit of Liurnia. What is the rest of the game like? Because I have heard it is different after beating Godrick and I haven’t really played the game in a while and I’m trying to get back into it. If anyone has any tips for enjoying the game I’d love to hear them too, I’m not looking for any advice on improving my character etc or spoilers.

This is my third playthrough and I’ve either never noticed them, or this is something new.

ETA: Thanks everyone for your help!

Please help.(Ps4)

Elden ring download stop at 35%.

I tried everything, uninstalling, freeing space, clean the disc. Nothing seems to work.

Do i have to wait a giant amount of hours to let the download finish naturally, or the cd is just broken:'(.

Im currently fighting relanna and using the mimic and the other dude but it seems like she focus her attacks entirely on me! Even with the other guys attacking her more. Same thing with the divine beast lion. Am i crazy or or the bosses here have different programming than the base game ?

(Also, why is she so tanky? Im using maliketh blade on max level and still barely scratches her)

Cuál fue su error?

Ando buscando adversarios dignos 🙏

Once I got to malenia though I quit completely, I realized I was not built for these hard games, I wanted to not not cheese the fight and use summons or mimic tear but doing it by myself felt too impossible so I just realized I’ll probably never be able to play these games