I finally beat Malenia with no summons on my 2nd playthrough, but I had to switch to a blasphemous blade build to do it.
>>683675821It's been nerfed, but it's still really strong for a number of reasons.
just play the game nigga stop worrying about which ingame mechanic manchildren have declared "no-no"
You people are so fucking retarded, it's in the game right? So it's meant to be used. Imagine playing any other rpg, finding some dope loot and then telling yourself nahhhh it's too good.
>>683677002I was nerfed with the patch but buffed in the dlc due to the talisman of the dread and bloodsucking tear synergy
>>683677138Remind me, what do those do?
>>683675821Everything but an unupgraded shortsword at level 1 is cheating.
>>683677126Relax nigger, the day that Mitsubishi passes away he will release his will and only people that used only the ALLOWED builds will be able to play the new Fromsoftware game.
>>683677184Talisman of the dread buffs magma by 14%, so the ash of war's damage, and bloodsucking tear gives a 20% buff at the cost of draining 1% of your hp per second.
>>683677286Wait, how the fuck is Taker's Flame considered magma? It doesn't leave a linger patch on the ground.
>>683677378Idk I guess it's because lava comes from the ground when you use the ash of war.
It's not cheating, the game is just not that hard.
it's by far the strongest piece of equipment (including spells, summons, talismans etc) in the game
>>683675821it's definitely super strong, I watched my friend that hadn't played a single player game since the ps2 kill malenia with it>>683677126I mean, if you find something that's insanely strong it's not retarded to decide not to use it because you feel like it'll ruin the game for you. then again, this is souls games we're talking about, every weapon plays the same except for the ashes of war, and even then 90% of them are just "press to kill enemy in one hit" buttons
>>683677627Was this before or after 1.12 when it got nerfed. I heard before the nerf Malenia was a pushover because you could endlessly stun her with this.
I think I played the DLC in hard mode, I was getting hit like a truck, most hits I was losing half my health bar, but then I watched streamers play and they barely get hit a fifth. Is the Radagon Soreseal just bad?
>>683677753Yes, -15% damage reduction makes huge difference in the late game
>>683677724Before the DLC Blasphemous Blade weapon art had hard knockdown property. Which can be chained against enemies susceptible to it. Which Malenia is. I think it's still impossible to hard lock her down, unless maybe you execute it frame-perfectly, because she can initiate a hyperarmor animation and break out of the loop.
>>683677753>Is the Radagon Soreseal just bad?Don't use this thing after like level 100 wtf. You take 15% more damage for like 20 levels worth it stats which don't matter whence you reach level 100+. Also did you collect the scadutree fragments? It gives up to a 52% reduction in damage.
>>683677852>>683677882I already beat the DLC, but I did struggle a lot, I didn't think it was so bad, but it seems like all the damage negation stacks in the end and if you have that it just fucks you up so bad.
Weird how a lot of weapons and spells from the base game remained some of the best and a lot of DLC stuff is pretty mediocre with very few outliers like Bloodfiend's arm, backblade, claws of night, messmer soldier spear, Ancient meteoric ore GS, faux, DK long Axe, Impenetrable thorns, knight lightning spear, pest spear threads and fleeting microcosm.
>>683675821It's still "the best weapon in the game" despite being nerfed, according to the autist who treats Elden Ring like a spreadsheet simulator
>>683677753Everything just hurts badly in DLC, but by the time you reach the DLC recommended level, the Soreseals have far outlived their usefulness. They're early-mid game items, which help your build to come online.
>>683677973you get most of your damage negation by 10 scadu levels. The first 2 scad levels give like 17 percent (total).
>>683677973Damage negation and buffing multiplicative rather than additive in this game.
>game gives you buttload of options to play it>YOU DIDN'T BEAT THE GAMENot playing the game is beating the game.
>>683677978The new weapons are mostly good though. like fire knight weapons or black steel weapons, they are ones of the best in their category. And yeah the new spells are super underwhelming and need some buffs to be uaseable
I used the chicken leg to beat everything and I dont regret it
If you chug pots against enemies who do not heal, you didn't beat the game.
>>683678425>chicken legI also used bloodfiends arm to beat everything except radahn where I switched to a thrusting shield.
>>683678519I still bonked him with it but it was a bit harder in phase 2
>>683677627>it's not retarded to decide not to use it because you feel like it'll ruin the game for youYes it is, it's extraordinarily retarded. Every other RPG or every other game ever, people get excited when they find good loot and they try their best to build a strong character which works well. It's only a subgroup of the "Soulsborne" community that has this absolutely autismal obsession with knowingly and intentionally playing poorly in pursuit of challenge, as if beating these video games in some delusionally imagined """correct""" way were their only source of self-esteem or something. When the devs make a game and put some mechanic or item in, it's meant to be used. If they think it's broken or OP, then they fucking patch it, which From has already done many times to ER already.
>>683678729>If they think it's broken or OP, then they fucking patch it, which From has already done many times to ER already.To be fair does anyone actually think impenetrable thorns is balanced.
>>683678376I feel like some weapons would really benefit from hyper armor in ther ashes of war like poleblade of the bud, spear of the impaler, sunflower, also some feel like inferior versions of other weapon like putrecent cleaver,devonia hammer and raddahn weapons not to mention the awful smithscript weapons, perfume weapons and the way to annoying to manage euporia
