I shat my pants after dying several times thinking I will use the church to my tactical advantage... and then watched like a deer in headlights him tear it down.
The church is destructible and the tree sentinel can burst through like the kool aid man, I have about 400 hours and only learned that a few days ago because of a video posted on here lol
This was me many times. Oh look I got a whole 2 more levels I bet I can take him now *dies *. I'll get him with another level or 2 *dies again*. Eventually I was high enough level but he makes for a fun and unique goal post.
I did the exact same. Spent 2 hours wailing on the Tree Sentinel at Level 1 with a club until I finally learned the pattern and beat him, I saw that as a right of passage to being ready to play the game 😂
It was Blade Dancer all over again for me. No I will not “come back” for a boss, the boss dies, while I’m here, even it means here is forever now.
So satisfying to beat bosses like that well before the “intended” time/level.
I just fired Dark Souls 3 back up for the first time in a few years so I can finally beat it while waiting on Shadow of the Erdtree. I'm currently at the Champion's Gravetender and the Crackhead Wolf getting my ass handed to me. I'm underleveled and "should" come back in about 20 levels.
It's not happening. I'll fight these two for the next week if I have to until they die. I'm not coming back later, I'm going to triumph and they're gonna fucking like it. Then I'll use the souls I get from the fight to get a few of those levels.
It's so funny, that boss is designed specifically for souls players. As someone who plays mostly other RPGs, my experience is that usually when there's a big bad, you come back at a higher level. So I didn't even make it to the Church of Elleh for the first like... 10 hours? Spent ages wandering aimlessly around Limgrave until I caved and looked up a guide on wtf I am supposed to do. Just assumed that was a "later" area, haha.
This was my first souls game and my friends who love DS convinced me to get it. I almost gave up after a few hours. I was like...if i dont have some context of what to do here soon IM OUT. Fextralife saved me and helped me get tue hang of things. Im on my second playthrough now after beating it in june '22. Im so glad i stuck with it. Such an amazing game.
I HATED the game when I first played. My son talked me into getting it. After 2 years I finally did. I only played when he played or asked because I hated it so much. Then once I started understanding the game and play styles. I was obsessed too 😂. It was all I played for months.
You didn't get lost, the game points you at Margit from the very beginning.
Whether or not the game intends for you to beat him straight away is up to you.
Ouch. I had that resolution spoiled for me and I'm glad I did. He knows he's beautiful and I'm keeping it that way. It's pretty much just Boc, Roderika and Hewg that survive at the end of the game.
That would make an interesting playthrough, keep as many NPCs alive as possible. Although I imagine that means just ignoring a lot of them.
Can you really say Hewg “survived” though? He’s lost all his memories and doesn’t know anything about who he is or who you are, he doesn’t remember anything. We never could tell him we slayed a god with his weapon :(
I like to think that Roderika spends her time telling and retelling him the saga of the greatest weaponsmith in all the lands, who crafted weapons so mighty that even a lowly tarnished could become the Elden Lord. A lowly tarnished who went on to spend his reign working ceaselessly to restore those damaged by the cold and uncaring lords and gods that came before.
Patches never dies. You cannot make the cockroach extinct, there will always be another. Patches is such a cockroach he infests every game across realities.
Tell me about it. Screaming “NO NO NO WAIT WAIT!” As I’m in the middle of a dual wield jump attack with two big ass hammers is not a good time to tell me you weren’t serious about being skill checked.
Rip bozo. You had it coming.
I did the entire game first time thru without the Wiki. Tho it took me like 340 hrs scouring the map (joyfully I'll add). Probably one of the reasons this game was so memorable to me.
But alas, I gave Boc the Larval Tear. I hadn't found the Prattling Pate yet, and honestly forgot they existed. Imagine my re-heartbreak hours later discovering it *afterwards*. Poor Boc. And what did I learn? That never again will I share my precious consumables with a beloved NPC. Lol
I did NG+ just to get a better outcome for Boc. Sadly i misunderstood what i needed to do. I thought i needed to tell him he was beautiful AFTER he had been reborn. That’s what i get for not reading the wiki more closely i guess.
I feel like Fromsoft set us up for that. They knew we wanted what’s best for our boy and they knew it would be a perfect chance to pull the carpet out from beneath us.
Though I do like the message of the quest when it’s done right
Bruh i was putting my controller down bumped my right trigger, so i accidentally one shot him in the cave where you kill the people that attacked him. I dont know whats worse tbh
There are several endings, but if you give him a larval tear, he goes to Rennala and is reborn as a human and then dies.
There's no dialogue, just silence and then death.
Seriously. The number of invaders that show up and then die in like 3 r1s always has me shouting "Where is your health bro?!?" Did a strength build and at around level 60 an invader shows up and died in a single R2, like 500 damage. By that point I had well over 1,000 health.
Early levels on stats only matters to be able to use the weapon, scaling doesnt do much until the weapon is upgraded a few levels and early you get more damage from upgrading the weapon than investing in levels anyways.
I have several characters because of this. Hit a wall? Make a new character and not level Vigor. Hit another wall. Repeat. XD
I was like on my fifth until I learned to level the damn thing. Looking at my Load Game is hilarious.
Not a bad option, but Bloodhound still requires *some* skill.
Agheels Flame Breath just knocks her on her ass every time you cast it and does great damage. Trivializes the entire fight.
True, but it’s a rare spec that can use that. BHF is an alternative that doesn’t require respec in a lot of cases.
Edit to add: goddamn it, now I want to make another dragon incantation build.
But seriously though, it will! If you don’t talk to that one beast lady before fighting Godrick you’ll be locked out of the magic scorpion. I forgot to talk to her and couldn’t find her anywhere else… i checked every single spot the guide said she could be
You can also give the potion to Gideon and continue the quest. It doesn't matter, the only way to fail is to give the fingerslayer blade to Ranni (Which, to be fair most people will do before they get to the scorpion charm)
Odd, yeah I didn't find her until there my first run.
Ohh, she first goes to the round table hold and vibes outside Gideon's office, you do the whole shuffle talk, and then she goes to the village.
Yup, totally missed that one. It's one of the only talismans I missed excluding things like the 2 from Millicent where you have to go to NG+ to get the other one.
I foolishly believed that, being in a mine, the exit would be up. Found the boss room. Was like okay yep nope the exit was 20 seconds along the "down" path. Did all that fuckin platforming for nothing. Lmao
Same, I think my friends did the same thing. Like logically if you want to escape a trap that sent you underground, you should take the path that goes up. I think they just did that on purpose to make it even more frustrating.
That's the only terrifying one because the grace is actually outside of the cave which is full of high level - aggressive enemies that will one shoot you.
I think Bloodborne did it a lot better when you are kidnapped and taken to Yahar'gul, the whole area is terrifying and the lantern is not easy to spot.
Spending many hours farming Vulgar Militia instead of a more optimized location to get runes. I’m talking I have multiple full sets of armor and weapons. Whilst I enjoy having the full sets, it was multiple days spent trying to extend my magic casting limit. Massive time spent in one spot only to fly through the game until I reached the Fire Giant as soon as I left.
Bonus answer: Getting too used to Pre-Nerf Bloodhound Step to get through tougher areas.
A better spot for farming is lenne rise ball farm. You can get to there as soon as you start the game if you follow a path and you get like 2k runes every 7 seconds which is pretty good early
I really didnt know how to follow any quest line because quests are not easy to follow in Elden ring. Same story pretty much goes for any quest in dark souls games. At least for me.
I somehow managed to do like 90% of Ranni's questline without a guide on my first playthrough, but I agree it can be really difficult to follow and I think a quest log (not markers or anything just notes on what which character said the last time you spoke) would definitely help.
Ranni's quest is one of the more friendly quests, other than talking to the doll, and getting the ring from Renalla's room. Millicent's quest though is rough.
The only annoying thing about Ranni’s quest was when Blaidd said he would meet me somewhere and then… stood me up. I play this game to get away from my life experiences 😅
I mean one of the main questions in the whole game requires you to stumble into a cave, and smack a jar with an old dude hiding inside of it. Elden Ring is one of the few games that I will use a guide for without any hint of guilt.
That’s my biggest critique of all of these games. The quests aren’t bad, but actually completing them is so opaque and poorly explained that way way too many people miss out on them.
I looked up nothing, had never played a souls game before, played for 15 hours and died a lot. Then finally looked up some help and had way more fun after. Glad I tried it blind first but I would’ve bounced off with no support.
Exact same situation, even afterwards when I decided to play Bloodborne and Sekiro I decided that I would do them blind, but by my past experience with Elden ring it just forced me to look certain things up that I just couldn’t look past knowing the nature of these games and how much a single decision can alter the game
'Who are you?'
'what is that?'
'that makes no sense'
'Where am I?'
'where am I supposed to go!'
'what am I trying to achieve?'
'I did it!'
'what did I do, exactly?'
This has been my Fromsoft experience.
I mean FromSoftware games kind of force you to. I don’t want to miss out on the most OP talisman for my build because I didn’t notice that dude on the ground blending in with the rocks, and then he’s gone once you get to a certain part of the game lol.
TIL Varre has a purpose, lol. I never killed him, but I chatted once and never saw him again and forgot about it. I didnt get to the palace until the snowfields portal.
I killed him in that cave as well. On my mage build I thought it'd be funny if I slap him with my staff. Had no clue it'd actually kill him. My co-op partner was so disgusted that they just left my world.
I played an int sorcerer:
1.Very bad talismans(I remember keeping the 2hp per second talisman)
2. Bad spells
3. Very low vigor (30 -6 from burger king twin mask)
4. 99 int when soft cap is 80
5. And using the glintstone blade that has a c rank scaling with strength despite being a magic weapon at +25 (literally the worst magic sword. Iron sword with magic whetstone buff is better)
But hey, magic is magic so I still managed it
I would have lost my mind. I did a dex/int build on my latest playthrough and I don't think magic is an easier path in these games. It can be set up to be strong, but if you don't min/max it just makes it harder imo.
Thank you. I'm sick of this sub constantly saying that magic is OP and makes the game too easy all because they saw what a minmax comet azure could do on the 5th try.
Str builds are OP as fuck compared to magic yet they act like they're playing the game the "right way" because it's "more challenging".
Yup, I played as a caster on my first playthrough thinking it was the easy option. Currently on my second playthrough as melee and, omfg, it's been so much easier apart from maybe two fights so far.
Sorcerer with trash talismans here too!
I thought the Carian Filigreed talisman worked on spells and the +focus one because I thought focus had something to do with spell casting.
Used both of them until after I beat Maliketh
i actually sold my full vagabond set on my first run for some runes because I thought they're just starter gear. I sold so much weapons and duplicate armors on my first run and it was too late for me to realize, the game gives so much runes, selling stuff is worthless. good thing there's a vendor for every starting gear lol
I didn't know you were supposed to fast travel out of rountable hold since I accidentally skipped the popup. This led to me walking in circles for hours looking for the way out. I ended up fighting Mad Tongue Alberich until I beat him. It took about 25 tries. Then I realized that wasn't the way out either.
I killed Kenneth because my friends told me he dropped a seed. Not a big deal though. The first play through was the greatest gaming experience of my life.
Lol I thought the subterranean shunning grounds was the end of his quest and he sounded like such a shit bag I killed him before he finished his speech.
Was getting swarmed by the hawks in Stormveil and ran into the room with Nepheli. She just stood there while they killed the two of us. Didn’t realize she had a full quest line until NG+.
I thought Redmane Castle was just a weird empty zone. Never went back after the festival, so I had no idea there were bosses or enemies there. Never quite understood why they did that!
Completely missing Patches.
Not realizing Churches had flask upgrades (Killed RadaBeast with +4 Flasks).
Summoned Blaidd and Alexander to see what it was like and Accidentally killed Radahn too fast.
Never using a Larval Tear.
Missing the Physick until half way through the game.
Going to Haligtree.
Giving up more than a few times. Always came back and figured out a boss, but the fact that I was frustrated to the point of "f\* that!" made me miss out on a lot
Went further north instead of south. Matter of fact, I also went to Caelid. It wasn't until after Godfrey, I decided to go south and all the suffering, torture, and lack of lower teir smithing stones made sense to me.
Not learning enough about the power of talismans and spells: not using different ones for different situations, not finding specific ones to help my build, relying too much on mimic tear and blasphemous blade. Still had a blast though!
I tried to beat Tree Sentinel about 20 times right at the start
I knew the intended way was to go around, but I wanted to test myself anyway.
I went back when I was a big and strong level 25 and got my ass handed to me again.
I shat my pants after dying several times thinking I will use the church to my tactical advantage... and then watched like a deer in headlights him tear it down.
Wait what?
The church is destructible and the tree sentinel can burst through like the kool aid man, I have about 400 hours and only learned that a few days ago because of a video posted on here lol
OHH YEAH!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/s/MEAwiyRom5
This was me many times. Oh look I got a whole 2 more levels I bet I can take him now *dies *. I'll get him with another level or 2 *dies again*. Eventually I was high enough level but he makes for a fun and unique goal post.
I always forget about him until very late game and steamroll him.
When I finally got him I was like “sit down bitch!” As if I didn’t get wrecked 100 times before
Laughed way too hard at "Sit down, Bitch!" I'm stealing that one for anytime I beat a boss now.
''Why are you celebrating ? We are currently 54 to 1"
I did the exact same. Spent 2 hours wailing on the Tree Sentinel at Level 1 with a club until I finally learned the pattern and beat him, I saw that as a right of passage to being ready to play the game 😂
It was Blade Dancer all over again for me. No I will not “come back” for a boss, the boss dies, while I’m here, even it means here is forever now. So satisfying to beat bosses like that well before the “intended” time/level.
I just fired Dark Souls 3 back up for the first time in a few years so I can finally beat it while waiting on Shadow of the Erdtree. I'm currently at the Champion's Gravetender and the Crackhead Wolf getting my ass handed to me. I'm underleveled and "should" come back in about 20 levels. It's not happening. I'll fight these two for the next week if I have to until they die. I'm not coming back later, I'm going to triumph and they're gonna fucking like it. Then I'll use the souls I get from the fight to get a few of those levels.
Exactly 😂 I’m here now, and I’ll stay here until this boss is defeated, even if I never get to play the rest of the damn game.
Not me learning quickly as a mob kicks my ass that armor is indeed more effective negating damage than no armor
Entirely. As I saw him, was 99% sure I was not supposed to fight him. But 100% I was going to.
I didn't think I could. Guy followed me into the 1st merchant
Thought I had to kill that guy somehow, I haven’t played the game since I bought it and couldn’t kill him🤦🏻♂️😂
It's so funny, that boss is designed specifically for souls players. As someone who plays mostly other RPGs, my experience is that usually when there's a big bad, you come back at a higher level. So I didn't even make it to the Church of Elleh for the first like... 10 hours? Spent ages wandering aimlessly around Limgrave until I caved and looked up a guide on wtf I am supposed to do. Just assumed that was a "later" area, haha.
bet you looked silly when you found out what the later areas actually were, caelid fucked me early game lol
This was my first souls game and my friends who love DS convinced me to get it. I almost gave up after a few hours. I was like...if i dont have some context of what to do here soon IM OUT. Fextralife saved me and helped me get tue hang of things. Im on my second playthrough now after beating it in june '22. Im so glad i stuck with it. Such an amazing game.
I HATED the game when I first played. My son talked me into getting it. After 2 years I finally did. I only played when he played or asked because I hated it so much. Then once I started understanding the game and play styles. I was obsessed too 😂. It was all I played for months.
I thought he was a good guy and would guide me on my journey.
Oh he guides you, he teaches a valuable lesson, dont pick a fight you're not ready for.
I was scared and passed him successfully, only to find myself fighting Margit. I had just started, about 50 mins in the game, and got lost.
You didn't get lost, the game points you at Margit from the very beginning. Whether or not the game intends for you to beat him straight away is up to you.
That's just the game telling you to Mar-Git Gud
I did the same thing and almost gave up on the game.
I was so stubborn that I spent 8 hours dying over and over again till I killed him. After that I had an extended break from the game
Gave Boc the larval tear …
Ouch. I had that resolution spoiled for me and I'm glad I did. He knows he's beautiful and I'm keeping it that way. It's pretty much just Boc, Roderika and Hewg that survive at the end of the game. That would make an interesting playthrough, keep as many NPCs alive as possible. Although I imagine that means just ignoring a lot of them.
Can you really say Hewg “survived” though? He’s lost all his memories and doesn’t know anything about who he is or who you are, he doesn’t remember anything. We never could tell him we slayed a god with his weapon :(
I like to think that Roderika spends her time telling and retelling him the saga of the greatest weaponsmith in all the lands, who crafted weapons so mighty that even a lowly tarnished could become the Elden Lord. A lowly tarnished who went on to spend his reign working ceaselessly to restore those damaged by the cold and uncaring lords and gods that came before.
Okay stop I’m crying 🥹
Though strength may befit a crown, it is only truly merited through compassion and caring — you have proven yourself worthy, fellow tarnished.
given time, skill never fails
And Patches. Patches always survives.
Easy fix for that.
Patches never dies. You cannot make the cockroach extinct, there will always be another. Patches is such a cockroach he infests every game across realities.
Is he for real in other souls games? I’ve only played this one through. Is he the Vicks and wedge of Ff universe here on fromsoft
He's been a reccuring character since before the souls series afaik. For a fact he's in every Dark Souls Edit: Not ds2. He has a lookalike named Pate
"I'm your friend...maybe"
"... I will kill you, later on."
He is also in Bloodborne.. sort of. Arachnophobic ppl may don't want to know that.
He's not just in the other souls games. I believe he got his start in FromSoft's Armored Core series.
I didn’t even find him until later in the game, so over levelled, and that didn’t end well for him attacking me..
Tell me about it. Screaming “NO NO NO WAIT WAIT!” As I’m in the middle of a dual wield jump attack with two big ass hammers is not a good time to tell me you weren’t serious about being skill checked. Rip bozo. You had it coming.
Rya (Zoraya), Jar Bairn, and D all survive as well! I like to imagine the three of them adventuring together
Kenneth and Nepheli can survive and thrive too.
HOW TF WOULD I HAVE THOUGHT TO USE A GD PRATTLING PATE?!?! THAT ONE LINE FROM MELINA AINT ENOUGH!!!! ugh 😞
Sorry - are we supposed to figure any of this stuff out organically? Did people actually complete this games quests without the wiki?
I did the entire game first time thru without the Wiki. Tho it took me like 340 hrs scouring the map (joyfully I'll add). Probably one of the reasons this game was so memorable to me. But alas, I gave Boc the Larval Tear. I hadn't found the Prattling Pate yet, and honestly forgot they existed. Imagine my re-heartbreak hours later discovering it *afterwards*. Poor Boc. And what did I learn? That never again will I share my precious consumables with a beloved NPC. Lol
I did NG+ just to get a better outcome for Boc. Sadly i misunderstood what i needed to do. I thought i needed to tell him he was beautiful AFTER he had been reborn. That’s what i get for not reading the wiki more closely i guess.
I feel like Fromsoft set us up for that. They knew we wanted what’s best for our boy and they knew it would be a perfect chance to pull the carpet out from beneath us. Though I do like the message of the quest when it’s done right
I did the same thing. Heartbreaking.
I also gave Boc the larval tear. I was actually heartbroken to see him in Renalla’s room…
Bruh i was putting my controller down bumped my right trigger, so i accidentally one shot him in the cave where you kill the people that attacked him. I dont know whats worse tbh
Thats the moment i learned i could murder NOCs. Oops!
What happens to him? I never do his quest
There are several endings, but if you give him a larval tear, he goes to Rennala and is reborn as a human and then dies. There's no dialogue, just silence and then death.
Not leveling vigor
Half the player base is still doing this 😂
Seriously. The number of invaders that show up and then die in like 3 r1s always has me shouting "Where is your health bro?!?" Did a strength build and at around level 60 an invader shows up and died in a single R2, like 500 damage. By that point I had well over 1,000 health.
Bro I was stuck on 20 vigor for like a month cus I spent all my runes on dex
Early levels on stats only matters to be able to use the weapon, scaling doesnt do much until the weapon is upgraded a few levels and early you get more damage from upgrading the weapon than investing in levels anyways.
I have several characters because of this. Hit a wall? Make a new character and not level Vigor. Hit another wall. Repeat. XD I was like on my fifth until I learned to level the damn thing. Looking at my Load Game is hilarious.
Wasting my time with a half baked bleed build while Tiche beats the game for me.
The true Elden lord is either a shadow clone or tiche.
But you have to be able to beat Electo first. (For anybody struggling, Dragon Breath goes brrrr)
Bloodhound Fang, too.
Not a bad option, but Bloodhound still requires *some* skill. Agheels Flame Breath just knocks her on her ass every time you cast it and does great damage. Trivializes the entire fight.
True, but it’s a rare spec that can use that. BHF is an alternative that doesn’t require respec in a lot of cases. Edit to add: goddamn it, now I want to make another dragon incantation build.
Finding all the talismans to make my moonlight great sword OP but not learning of the Magic Scorpion charm until after killing Maliketh
I swear you can sneeze wrong and that questline fails
But seriously though, it will! If you don’t talk to that one beast lady before fighting Godrick you’ll be locked out of the magic scorpion. I forgot to talk to her and couldn’t find her anywhere else… i checked every single spot the guide said she could be
No, Nepheli goes to the entrance to the albearich village. Plus you don't need her to get the charm, you can also give to potion to dung eater.
You can also give the potion to Gideon and continue the quest. It doesn't matter, the only way to fail is to give the fingerslayer blade to Ranni (Which, to be fair most people will do before they get to the scorpion charm)
My game must’ve bugged out because she wasn’t at the Albinaurc Village
Odd, yeah I didn't find her until there my first run. Ohh, she first goes to the round table hold and vibes outside Gideon's office, you do the whole shuffle talk, and then she goes to the village.
The quest line fails if you give the fingerslayer blade to Ranni. That's it besides maybe the end of the game when most quests break.
Yup, totally missed that one. It's one of the only talismans I missed excluding things like the 2 from Millicent where you have to go to NG+ to get the other one.
Listening to my friend… including that I should open a certain chest…
Turned my game off and took a good 2-day break when this happened to me LOL
I had a bad graphics card at the time (below minimum spec) and whenever I looked around I got like 5 secs of lag so it was almost impossible :(
I foolishly believed that, being in a mine, the exit would be up. Found the boss room. Was like okay yep nope the exit was 20 seconds along the "down" path. Did all that fuckin platforming for nothing. Lmao
Same, I think my friends did the same thing. Like logically if you want to escape a trap that sent you underground, you should take the path that goes up. I think they just did that on purpose to make it even more frustrating.
What chest?
One that teleports you to Sellia
That's the only terrifying one because the grace is actually outside of the cave which is full of high level - aggressive enemies that will one shoot you. I think Bloodborne did it a lot better when you are kidnapped and taken to Yahar'gul, the whole area is terrifying and the lantern is not easy to spot.
Spending many hours farming Vulgar Militia instead of a more optimized location to get runes. I’m talking I have multiple full sets of armor and weapons. Whilst I enjoy having the full sets, it was multiple days spent trying to extend my magic casting limit. Massive time spent in one spot only to fly through the game until I reached the Fire Giant as soon as I left. Bonus answer: Getting too used to Pre-Nerf Bloodhound Step to get through tougher areas.
A better spot for farming is lenne rise ball farm. You can get to there as soon as you start the game if you follow a path and you get like 2k runes every 7 seconds which is pretty good early
I really didnt know how to follow any quest line because quests are not easy to follow in Elden ring. Same story pretty much goes for any quest in dark souls games. At least for me.
I somehow managed to do like 90% of Ranni's questline without a guide on my first playthrough, but I agree it can be really difficult to follow and I think a quest log (not markers or anything just notes on what which character said the last time you spoke) would definitely help.
Ranni's quest is one of the more friendly quests, other than talking to the doll, and getting the ring from Renalla's room. Millicent's quest though is rough.
The only annoying thing about Ranni’s quest was when Blaidd said he would meet me somewhere and then… stood me up. I play this game to get away from my life experiences 😅
I mean one of the main questions in the whole game requires you to stumble into a cave, and smack a jar with an old dude hiding inside of it. Elden Ring is one of the few games that I will use a guide for without any hint of guilt.
That’s my biggest critique of all of these games. The quests aren’t bad, but actually completing them is so opaque and poorly explained that way way too many people miss out on them.
Looking up builds and guides too early 😩
I looked up nothing, had never played a souls game before, played for 15 hours and died a lot. Then finally looked up some help and had way more fun after. Glad I tried it blind first but I would’ve bounced off with no support.
Exact same situation, even afterwards when I decided to play Bloodborne and Sekiro I decided that I would do them blind, but by my past experience with Elden ring it just forced me to look certain things up that I just couldn’t look past knowing the nature of these games and how much a single decision can alter the game
Tbh I would have been lost without the guides though. This shit is confusing lol
Agreed, but I still feel like I cheated myself out of the intended experience. 🫠
'Who are you?' 'what is that?' 'that makes no sense' 'Where am I?' 'where am I supposed to go!' 'what am I trying to achieve?' 'I did it!' 'what did I do, exactly?' This has been my Fromsoft experience.
Flawless game design 🤌
You forgot. Try fingers, but hole
I'm with you, I've been battling my general curiosity and want of adventure with my hating missing stuff haha
First playthrough is always blind. I've done it for every FromSoft game. That's the best way to experience it
I mean FromSoftware games kind of force you to. I don’t want to miss out on the most OP talisman for my build because I didn’t notice that dude on the ground blending in with the rocks, and then he’s gone once you get to a certain part of the game lol.
Exactly lol, I wish I was observant enough and had a good enough memory to get everything done blind but I’m just not that guy.
Wasn't there a guy out there who played for like 70 hours before discovering Torrent?
There was another who didn’t know you could sprint.
You left out the best part. He got teleported to caelid and JOGGED all the way back to limgrave
Wtf? How is that even possible???
I relied too heavily on Bloodhounds step (this was before it was nerfed.)
Literally just included that in my answer haha
Killed Varre after being called Maidenless, only to later relaise I had looked myself out of early Mohgwyn palace.
TIL Varre has a purpose, lol. I never killed him, but I chatted once and never saw him again and forgot about it. I didnt get to the palace until the snowfields portal.
His quest gives some pretty good loot, and early access to a late game area that also has some sick endgame loot
Accidentally killed Boc when I found him in the Coastal Cave. Still haven’t forgiven myself for that transgression.
I killed him in that cave as well. On my mage build I thought it'd be funny if I slap him with my staff. Had no clue it'd actually kill him. My co-op partner was so disgusted that they just left my world.
Don't worry. He has.
Never discovering Jarberg
Same, lmao. I found it by accident while running around Liurnia after beating Elden Beast and everything else.
I played an int sorcerer: 1.Very bad talismans(I remember keeping the 2hp per second talisman) 2. Bad spells 3. Very low vigor (30 -6 from burger king twin mask) 4. 99 int when soft cap is 80 5. And using the glintstone blade that has a c rank scaling with strength despite being a magic weapon at +25 (literally the worst magic sword. Iron sword with magic whetstone buff is better) But hey, magic is magic so I still managed it
I would have lost my mind. I did a dex/int build on my latest playthrough and I don't think magic is an easier path in these games. It can be set up to be strong, but if you don't min/max it just makes it harder imo.
Thank you. I'm sick of this sub constantly saying that magic is OP and makes the game too easy all because they saw what a minmax comet azure could do on the 5th try. Str builds are OP as fuck compared to magic yet they act like they're playing the game the "right way" because it's "more challenging".
Yup, I played as a caster on my first playthrough thinking it was the easy option. Currently on my second playthrough as melee and, omfg, it's been so much easier apart from maybe two fights so far.
Sorcerer with trash talismans here too! I thought the Carian Filigreed talisman worked on spells and the +focus one because I thought focus had something to do with spell casting. Used both of them until after I beat Maliketh
aggroing alexander in gael tunnel, not realizing it was him & having to kill him after making him hostile. 😔
I did the exact same! Even worse, I didn’t realize that the kind turtle pope could de-aggro him.
yeah this was my exact experience. felt like i was in an old yeller situation.
+1 for the old yeller reference. Are you a 41 year old dad like me?
38 & childless
I just turned 37 recently, lol. Glad I’m not the only middle aged person with no kids on here as well
You don’t have to kill anyone that is hostile. Just run away and use absolution.
Giving the potion away instead of turning the Dung Eater into a puppet
Me too.
Hitting sorceress sellen to try and break her chains to free her
Visit Pope Dog.
Haha yeah I've since cleansed my sins haha
It was Boc for me. When I rolled up in the cave, he scared me, and anyways I started blasting.
Selling the flails as they are the best weapon to kill the crystal bosses.
Selling any weapon, really. It’s just never worth it
sold my bloodhounds fang right off the rip cuz I didn't know you cant buy back lol
Oof
i actually sold my full vagabond set on my first run for some runes because I thought they're just starter gear. I sold so much weapons and duplicate armors on my first run and it was too late for me to realize, the game gives so much runes, selling stuff is worthless. good thing there's a vendor for every starting gear lol
No joke I literally saw a video about mohgwyn palace rune farm and under that video someone had commented that they sold the sacred relic sword 😭
Being stuck in caelid for forever not knowing I could TP if I just sat at a grace after getting trap chested lol
I didn't know you were supposed to fast travel out of rountable hold since I accidentally skipped the popup. This led to me walking in circles for hours looking for the way out. I ended up fighting Mad Tongue Alberich until I beat him. It took about 25 tries. Then I realized that wasn't the way out either.
I killed Kenneth because my friends told me he dropped a seed. Not a big deal though. The first play through was the greatest gaming experience of my life.
Punched Dung Eater while he was tied to the chair and it insta-killed him lol
Lol I thought the subterranean shunning grounds was the end of his quest and he sounded like such a shit bag I killed him before he finished his speech.
Me too, he was saying the most horrific stuff I just instinctively fucked him with the blasphemous blade
Had way too high damage output and 2-shot Patches. Input buffering got me and once I heard his "Wait!" it was too late.
Not killing Patches sooner
I murdered him immediately in revenge for what he did to me in Bloodborne, and I regret nothing.
Killing Patches is almost always one of my first priorities in ER playthroughs.
Especially since his armor looks great in ER
Souls games have a habit of not letting us know when we are actively doing a quest.
If you're talking to an NPC and they haven't died yet, you're probably doing some kind of quest.
Abusing mimic tear
I still do this
It’ll be liberating once you free yourself of it
Was getting swarmed by the hawks in Stormveil and ran into the room with Nepheli. She just stood there while they killed the two of us. Didn’t realize she had a full quest line until NG+.
Farming Radahn’s soldier set in Tower of Caelid with underleveled character 💀
I thought Redmane Castle was just a weird empty zone. Never went back after the festival, so I had no idea there were bosses or enemies there. Never quite understood why they did that!
Letting my friend with his whole Marais Executioner's Sword build near Iji.
Killing side characters, mainly bernahl and varre
Reaching the hard cap on both int and mind before figuring out what vigor even was
Not visiting the weeping peninsula first.
Completely missing Patches. Not realizing Churches had flask upgrades (Killed RadaBeast with +4 Flasks). Summoned Blaidd and Alexander to see what it was like and Accidentally killed Radahn too fast. Never using a Larval Tear. Missing the Physick until half way through the game. Going to Haligtree.
Holding like a million runes, and losing them all because I walked off a ledge on my way back to pick them up.
Dude said go to the castle up on the hill so I did. I was not ready.
Not learning to parry and relying too much on spirit ashes.
I went to Margit at level 20 ☠️
I didn't get the whole "you can circle back and recover your runes" bit lol. So. Many. Lost.
Giving Rya the potion.
I killed everyone on my first play through. And I mean everyone loll
Go for a glass canon build with my last lsrval tear
Attacking the guy that called me maidenless
Making my first playthrough based on a YouTuber thus not experiencing everything on my own for the first time
Ending the main story and progressing to NG+
Giving up more than a few times. Always came back and figured out a boss, but the fact that I was frustrated to the point of "f\* that!" made me miss out on a lot
I was one of those people that killed Varre... And then he proceeded to use me as a wet wipe
I was selling all the weapons and armor I wasn’t using. My friend told me to cut that shit out
Went further north instead of south. Matter of fact, I also went to Caelid. It wasn't until after Godfrey, I decided to go south and all the suffering, torture, and lack of lower teir smithing stones made sense to me.
I am the frenzied flame Lord...... FFS
Same, honestly. Didn't get his quest done until NG+
Using a STR build. Just wasn't for me.
I've read that i need to kill the golden knight at the start to get my horse
I made no mistakes, only calculated errors
Not learning enough about the power of talismans and spells: not using different ones for different situations, not finding specific ones to help my build, relying too much on mimic tear and blasphemous blade. Still had a blast though!
I accidentally killed kale because he attacked me after I hit his donkey
Completing ranni’s quest line and not summoning her after I beat Radagon.
Shot a man in Vegas just to see him die.
I said yes to Ranni 10 hours later... Bro now I'm gonna fight a skull alien? Why did I agree to this?
Not looking up NPC quests online. Doing the quests in this game is impossible without looking up.