No Spoilers Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC

[Dizzy]

 

[shunyata]

I love Messmer’s fight so much. It’s peak From quality.



Still have no idea what the hell hit me at 1:27. Also peak From quality.

He gave me a lot of trouble on the initial playthrough. Now that I'm rerunning in NG+ with 20 skadoosh after killing Radahn I dropped NG+ Messmer in two attempts.

No more hiding behind shields. Faith strength with sacred blacksteel greathammer and lion's claw staggers the crap out of him.

The base game is ridiculously easy after doing the DLC. Malenia gets wrecked, elden beast seems even easier than on release.

 

[Dizzy]

 

[shunyata]

The real anti dragon weapon is 80 faith and pest thread spears. Took revenge on ng+ Bayle so badly Igon would be proud.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

He gave me a lot of trouble on the initial playthrough. Now that I'm rerunning in NG+ with 20 skadoosh after killing Radahn I dropped NG+ Messmer in two attempts.

No more hiding behind shields. Faith strength with sacred blacksteel greathammer and lion's claw staggers the crap out of him.

The base game is ridiculously easy after doing the DLC. Malenia gets wrecked, elden beast seems even easier than on release.

messmer drove me straight to the liquor strore on my first go around. that motherfucker gave me grief for days. i guess maybe because my scat level wasn't high enough and i was just too high to get the timing down of his attacks.. nonetheless i made him my bitch in my second runthrough. this bloodfiends arm is just wrecking shit. and my mimic tear ain't quite as incompetent this time around either.

 

[Lovestorm]

Beat Scadutree Avatar and Romina which were fairly nothing bosses. I guess i'm at the endgame now and i'm aware of who is around the corner. So, as an Elden Ring message once wrote "let there be suffering..."

 

[Dizzy]

Scadutree can still suck my ass. Even worse with no range on your attacks, thankfully he got cooked with a shift to flame fists.

 

[Dizzy]

RIP to the sticky

 

[idrankyourbeer]

RIP to the sticky

truly a dark day for the karate forum. i don't know if this place will ever be able to recover from such blasphemy.

 

[iNoScopedJFK]

truly a dark day for the karate forum. i don't know if this place will ever be able to recover from such blasphemy.

An act worthy of Rykard

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

RIP to the sticky

Seems a bit premature to unsticky the thread. I thought it seemed to be getting decent enough traffic still and I’m not aware of any big releases worthy of bumping it off.

 

[Cantalope]

Scadutree can still suck my ass. Even worse with no range on your attacks, thankfully he got cooked with a shift to flame fists.

Yeah Spoodgetree cab eat a dick. I'm taking a break before I do another playthrough. Probably going to do a fresh character and try the DLC at a little lower level and use a guide for all the quests.

 

[shunyata]

ng+3 on my dlc run and still finding new stuff, there's a poison swamp in the sewer under Belurat with a poison fist weapon.

 

[Dizzy]

One shot Radahn

 

[Dizzy]

 

[Dizzy]

Felt like I finally beat Radahn legit this time. Grew a better appreciation for it the more I played. Phase two is still a spectacle of bs at times but it’s learnable.

I’d still like to take it to NG+3 and do a completely different build again. Never really used magic or incantations much outside of some buffing. Definitely had my fill but I’ll pry still play a bit here and there.

 

[Ashen One]

So after doing the DLC on two separate characters that were already done with Mohg I decided to take one of them to NG+2.

My lord is the base game a complete joke compared to the DLC

 

[Gingerdead Man]

Seems a bit premature to unsticky the thread. I thought it seemed to be getting decent enough traffic still and I’m not aware of any big releases worthy of bumping it off.

Repinned for now. Wanted to give EA College Sports the stage for launch weekend but the guys we had excited for it didn't much enliven their thread post-launch. Ideally, I'd like to give every game at a minimum a launch weekend pin but first need see players vibing in-sub; it's always tricky to forecast.

 

[Gingerdead Man]

Ghosted thread until now, largely. Sorry about that; didn't want any pepperings on this, that to spoil the journey.

Tough AF, the whole expansion. I stand by an earlier thought on skills for new DLC weapons being by and large just anaemic. Because Hidetaka said on record that ER is now done and they're moving on, I don't see the harm in giving us some pain-bringer, screen-shattering weapon arts.

I wasn't consuming the Scadutree Fragments for a long time. Purity of play something something. Lol, me stupid. Been stuck on (a) for...holy crap, so long now; can't survive second act and am Elden-Ringed out a bit, TBH. I found (b) early by accident and thought I beat the DLC. O, boy. Time to beat for real now and say farewell to Shadow Realm and Lands Between.

Spoiler: a

Radahn redux

Spoiler: b

Bayle

The expansion outshines most standalone titles – been going at it for 35h-ish now. Bandai could have charged full price for this and it would have been warranted. From remain the studio we don't deserve. Loving the memes you guys find and throw up. Hilarious.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

the thread has been rightfully re-stickied.

thank god. i was just getting ready to tie myself to a tree and protest.