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Just wanted to stop by and leave a message in this behemoth thread. Started reading through it a few months ago before getting the game (was waiting until getting a PS5 because my 4 was exploding with heat/scarlet rot (lol) with other GPU-intensive games) so much of the early content I had no context for but still enjoyed reading in preparation.
After realizing how shitty I was since this was my first From game, I decided to take advantage of the ver. 1.0.0 pre-nerf dealies like hemorhage, frostbite, hoarfrost stomp and spinning weapon on staves and dedicate the PS5 to an offline playthrough at least until I finished.
Played first 100 hours or so without looking up specific info on hidden things (like hidden drop down ledges, hidden walls, various character questline deets and boss tactics) and really got into it, but eventually after the umpteenth giant new area with no ending in sight started reading up on specifics which made the last 80 hours much more efficient and rewarding with stuff.
After finding the Impassable Greatbridge site I finely tuned a Torrent loop firing swift glintstone shards and using the knights vs "dogosaurus rex" fighting to my advantage to farm about 10k runes every 5 mins, albeit with high-risk avoidance combat and many nasty deaths (especially once I started deciding to agro the giant crow near there for more runes).
Then after Radagon (*edit* Radahn
) found the War Dead Catacombs where I could walk in from the grace, set down the controller for 15-20 minutes while doing other things, and let the spectral knight guys duke it out while my character banked the runes. That was about 20k every 10 mins with the benefit of being safe and not needing to actually do anything (and also added a ton of time to my game hours).
Finally about 160 hours in decided to look up a better spot and found the Greyoll's Dragonbarrow farm site at Farum Greatbridge and remembered a post from this thread a loooong time ago that was replying to someone asking where the best farming is and simply said "Farm Greatbridge" and it clicked and I laughed pretty hard that I hadn'y looked it up sooner.
ANYWAY...
Overall fantastic game, visuals, story is engaging enough, lore is way deeper than I originally thought, and I like the design of "infinite lives but die twice and you loose ya runes" as well as the ease of having a single save game.
Currently stuck on Godskin Duo which is proving to be one of the down sides of V1.0.0, but convinced I've now read enough of the details on tactics to crush them next time I attempt, knowing that fatty's sub-50% rollig attack can be avoided by sleeping the oaf and slaughtering Skinny a few times.
St. Trina bless!
Going to make sure my lvl 10 mimic is swinging that sword only, while I shamelessly spam Hoarfrost from behind various pillars hahaa!!!
Anyway, thanks all who contributed and who read my post, been looking forward to entering the thread for a while but wanted to know more what I'm talking about first!
After realizing how shitty I was since this was my first From game, I decided to take advantage of the ver. 1.0.0 pre-nerf dealies like hemorhage, frostbite, hoarfrost stomp and spinning weapon on staves and dedicate the PS5 to an offline playthrough at least until I finished.
Played first 100 hours or so without looking up specific info on hidden things (like hidden drop down ledges, hidden walls, various character questline deets and boss tactics) and really got into it, but eventually after the umpteenth giant new area with no ending in sight started reading up on specifics which made the last 80 hours much more efficient and rewarding with stuff.
After finding the Impassable Greatbridge site I finely tuned a Torrent loop firing swift glintstone shards and using the knights vs "dogosaurus rex" fighting to my advantage to farm about 10k runes every 5 mins, albeit with high-risk avoidance combat and many nasty deaths (especially once I started deciding to agro the giant crow near there for more runes).
Then after Radagon (*edit* Radahn
) found the War Dead Catacombs where I could walk in from the grace, set down the controller for 15-20 minutes while doing other things, and let the spectral knight guys duke it out while my character banked the runes. That was about 20k every 10 mins with the benefit of being safe and not needing to actually do anything (and also added a ton of time to my game hours).Finally about 160 hours in decided to look up a better spot and found the Greyoll's Dragonbarrow farm site at Farum Greatbridge and remembered a post from this thread a loooong time ago that was replying to someone asking where the best farming is and simply said "Farm Greatbridge" and it clicked and I laughed pretty hard that I hadn'y looked it up sooner.
ANYWAY...
Overall fantastic game, visuals, story is engaging enough, lore is way deeper than I originally thought, and I like the design of "infinite lives but die twice and you loose ya runes" as well as the ease of having a single save game.
Currently stuck on Godskin Duo which is proving to be one of the down sides of V1.0.0, but convinced I've now read enough of the details on tactics to crush them next time I attempt, knowing that fatty's sub-50% rollig attack can be avoided by sleeping the oaf and slaughtering Skinny a few times.
St. Trina bless!
Going to make sure my lvl 10 mimic is swinging that sword only, while I shamelessly spam Hoarfrost from behind various pillars hahaa!!!
Anyway, thanks all who contributed and who read my post, been looking forward to entering the thread for a while but wanted to know more what I'm talking about first!
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