Elden Ring

[Elite]

3 hours ago, Scott_M said:

I got it earlier this week. I’m not sure what I make of it. I’m not sure I get it. I just seem to be aimlessly wandering about killing sheep.

Just focus on levelling up and exploring for now.

[skend04]

I've upped my Bloodhound Fang to +9 and upped my Dex and Faith. The bloodhound finesse art followed by R2 is insane and I'm burning though most the bosses. I'm sure I'll come unstuck somewhere mind.

[Pidge]

Where are you up to?

 

I've just about started to get into the capital city.  Got a couple of places I skipped to go back to at some point, and an underground location to finish.

[skend04]

33 minutes ago, Pidge said:

Where are you up to?

 

I've just about started to get into the capital city.  Got a couple of places I skipped to go back to at some point, and an underground location to finish.

Starscourge Radahn is next big boss for me but I started Ranni's quest so it'll be the empty castle first. Will have to go back to that.

[Pidge]

Loved that fight.

[Scott_M]

12 hours ago, Elite said:

Just focus on levelling up and exploring for now.

How do I do that? Nothing seems very clear.

 

Or should I keep taking down those sheep and the occasional guard? 

[Elite]

29 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

How do I do that? Nothing seems very clear.

 

Or should I keep taking down those sheep and the occasional guard? 

Get a few kills and then go back to the state of grace and level up, if you dont have enough runes get a few more. Make sure when you die you prioritise collecting the runes dropped before anything else. It's a bit tedious at first but once you start to level you can destroy most standard enemies especially in Limgrave.

[skend04]

1 hour ago, Scott_M said:

How do I do that? Nothing seems very clear.

 

Or should I keep taking down those sheep and the occasional guard? 

You literally just have to ride around limgrave and discover stuff. Get the Grace points, find encampments and mini dungeons. Find the ruins as they have an underground room with loot. You'll learn more doing that than anything else. The sheep etc give you a few runes but they're more to get you crafting items but the third grace point unlocks your Maiden and a couple more after that you'll get the Roundtable which is the same as the Firelink in DS3.

[Bobby Hundreds]

I've kind of lost interest in it now.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

I'm pacing myself as I feel it's the kind of game that could easily lead to burnout. At this rate it'll probably last me another six months off and on.

 

Never finished a Fromsoft game before. Determined to see it through to the end.

[Elite]

Anyone bother with crafting? Not bothered as of yet.

[skend04]

3 minutes ago, Elite said:

Anyone bother with crafting? Not bothered as of yet.

Only darts and blood grease for weapons. 

[Scott_M]

@Elite & @skend04 - cheers. I think I've achieved more this morning playing for an hour than I have the previous week. 

 

I've got that Maiden lass, but I skipped what she was saying so will have to Google it. Made my way east to Waypoint Ruins and Forlorn Hound Evergaol. Annoyingly I couldn't find a Grace and have died way, way east from Limegrave. 

 

I'll check out a few more of the dungeons. I've found some goblin thing with corridors of fire and one with loads of Wolves. I'll go back and try to complete them more thoroughly before venturing out again.

 

 

[Babb'sBurstNad]

1 hour ago, Elite said:

Anyone bother with crafting? Not bothered as of yet.

I've only used it for arrows / bolts, so I can draw enemies away from groups and pick them off.

[Pidge]

1 hour ago, Elite said:

Anyone bother with crafting? Not bothered as of yet.

Yeah, the merchant down on the beach selling poison and scarlet rot cure recipes has proven helpful, and to make weapon grease.

 

Also crafting pots to kill those bastard iron maiden things from a distance seem the best approach to me.

[Pidge]

54 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

@Elite & @skend04 - cheers. I think I've achieved more this morning playing for an hour than I have the previous week. 

 

I've got that Maiden lass, but I skipped what she was saying so will have to Google it. Made my way east to Waypoint Ruins and Forlorn Hound Evergaol. Annoyingly I couldn't find a Grace and have died way, way east from Limegrave. 

 

I'll check out a few more of the dungeons. I've found some goblin thing with corridors of fire and one with loads of Wolves. I'll go back and try to complete them more thoroughly before venturing out again.

 

 

Should be fairly quick to get back out there on your horse. I would also recommend going back to the Church of Elleh and waiting until night at the site of grace (pretty useful early game item). 

[Scott_M]

I think part of my issue, like Mario Odyssey to BOTW, is coming from Horizon into this.

 

Both Horizon & Odyssey are achievement heavy. I know Horizon is described as open world, and it is to an extent, but it definitely follows a structure, like Odyssey, of go to A, go to B, go to C etc etc etc.

 

Elden Ring is like BOTW. A truly open world game where you set the structure.

 

Like Zelda, I’m sure I’ll get there once my mindset changes a bit and I start to understand it all a bit more.

[Scott_M]

Final point, for now - the mention of the two finger maidens made me laugh way more it should have done.

 

[skend04]

Completed Varre's questline and got that that transportation thing to Mohg's area. Loads of loot including a couple of 50k Golden Runes. Then if you can make it to the top of the hill, through the swamp, you can snipe a big bird for 11k runes, rest and repeat. I'm going to farm the shit out of that and level up.

[Chris]

My curiosity wants to play this, but I know deep down that I'll just quit if I find it too hard. Which I will because I'm fucking shit at gaming.

[RedKnight]

43 minutes ago, Chris said:

My curiosity wants to play this, but I know deep down that I'll just quit if I find it too hard. Which I will because I'm fucking shit at gaming.

Yeah, you couldn't get on with Breath of the Wild so I think you'd find this a real slog.

[Chris]

6 minutes ago, RedKnight said:

Yeah, you couldn't get on with Breath of the Wild so I think you'd find this a real slog.

 

This is true. Although, I think I went at BOTW in the wrong way. If I had another stab, I'd probably be better. I just ended up having no shit to use against baddies more fearsome than the one-arrow wonders. 

[TD_LFC]

I'm going to get it at some point but the randomly failing quests because you'd gone to the wrong place first is going to make me want to start over all the time.

 

I don't mind a main story where picking a side determines the end game path but I hate failed side quests, especially when they show up as failed in the menu.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

2 hours ago, skend04 said:

Completed Varre's questline and got that that transportation thing to Mohg's area. Loads of loot including a couple of 50k Golden Runes. Then if you can make it to the top of the hill, through the swamp, you can snipe a big bird for 11k runes, rest and repeat. I'm going to farm the shit out of that and level up.

Heard about that the other day. Really hope they don't patch it out before I can get there. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

They've patched it a little bit already, the bird doesn't fall off the cliff quite so easily as it used too.