>>721741967
I beat him in like my third or fifth try gang

Nah he was a fun boss (post nerf)

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>>721741967
no

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He did not

>>721741967
i had endless combo fatigue by the time i reached him, so yeah, i got filtered and it doesn't bother me one bit

if resorting to op weapons (bloodfiend arm) counts as getting filtered then yes.

>>721742443
are you not allowed to roll? because rolling would've been the better option for some of those attacks.

>>721741967
No, Elden Slop was more obnoxiously designed than challenging

>>721742652
deflecting hardtear allows you to perfect block, and also makes it so that multiple perfect blocks in a row add damage to your next guard counter

>>721742454
>>721742740
these sum up why elden ring fucking sucks, bosses and enemies evolved meanwhile the player still has the same dogshit movement since demons souls

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>>721741967
>bleed spear
>greatshield
>npc summons
>mimic tear
i win. also shit game and shit dlc.

>>721741967
I cheesed him with Rolling Sparks before it got nerfed.

>>721742852
if they gave characters a little more mobility you'd have a monster hunter situation where the extreme sperg "oldschool" fans would never stop bitching about the game being better for it

>>721743252
>the extreme sperg "oldschool" fans would never stop bitching about the game being better for it
this happens with all series regardless of the genre or the extent of the new changes

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>>721743039
I wish I liked ER more cuz I'd really enjoy going thru the game using mimic tear.
I just have no desire to start NG+ or a new game.

>>721743039
>Try the game
>Hate it
>Buy the DLC
>Beat it
What exactly did you expect?

>>721743378
their purpose in life is to get mad

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>A talisman in the shape of a green turtle. Raises stamina recovery speed.
By how much? Why hide the information?

>>721741967
I've never seen this boss, or the latter half of the dlc. I fucking had it upon seeing a copypasted ancient dragon from the base game as a boss. You got to have some standards regarding what you consume, and asset flipping shit can only go so far.

>>721743378
i liked it at one point. i grew to hate it.

>>721743445
it gives 17.7% stamina regen

>Why hide the information?
you can just look at the stamina bar recovery with and without the talisman to easily get a general sense of how good it is

no, but i did use a greatshield build because i couldnt be arsed to memorize how to dodge all of his attacks. Shit boss desu.

Smashed his knees in day one of the DLC release since I got over eager in exploring. Took a few tries but eventually I settled on being willing to mindlessly trade hits using a great stars with shriek of sorrow.

I beat him pre-nerf, but it took like 6 hours. Ultimately settled on using winged crystal tear to wear full solitude set and also hitting him with scarlet aeonia three times, fighting with a flame art fire knight greatsword. Post patch I've beaten him several times with less... desperate builds, with the simplest being my pure int build where I resorted to just using comet like you would use a normal weapon's R1.

>>721741967
Him, Maliketh (clergyman), and Midra are so fast and miserable at range you need to go Carian Slicer melee to win as Sorcery

>>721744036
Comet is fast enough.

>>721742374
>>721742443
>shield build

you didnt beat the game

>>721744230
Anything is permissible except summoning

>>721743568
>NOOOOOO!!
>I NEED MY .075% MORE STAMINA AT NIGHT WHEN ITS RAINING AND MY PANTS ARE BLUE

>>721744230
Why are Soulsfags so allergic to shields nowadays when the poster characters for Dark Souls all sword and board knights?

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>>721744230
The game said I beat it.

>>721744230
if beating the game in the basic starting knight armor with the shitty kite shield and basic longsword isn't beating the game then nothing is

>>721741967
in a sense, yeah. i beat the base game but i am not very good at souls games in general, so the footage of anons fighting him were quite disheartening and i stopped playing shortly into the DLC

>>721744450
>nowadays
People seethed about shields even back in OG Demon's Souls threads.

>>721744450
They literally think, that their games are all about memorizing every enemy's animations and pressing le roll correctly. They call it "Interacting With Moveset™". If you aren't Interacting With Moveset™ by using some defense which doesn't require you to be trained for each new enemy like an animal in circus, then you aren't even PLAYING the game.
Shit that fandom is a pure cancer.

>>721744230
>>721744450
>>721744938
Stop replying to yourself, you stupid faggot

>>721741967
When I realized (quickly BTW) that they turned this shit up to 11, fingerprint shield and rapier or whatever that rot/bleed rapier name was.

I filtered the game by quiting the dlc after killing messmer

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He was a bitch with no blessings but my quality build prevailed.

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>>721745139
Here’s your (you) faggot, don’t use it all at once

>>721744335
>>721744450
>>721744489
>>721744501
>>721744678
>>721745139
holy kek, the shieldfag seethe

>>721744335
Correct.

>>721744938
Couldn't have said it better.

>>721742146
>Be honest
I stopped playing after beating Morgott, figured the game would only get uglier from there.

>>721745629
mass replying is the mark of a true coping seether who also dilates like a tranny and posts with brown hands fyi

>>721745496
wait do you just not get hit with any of the explosions if you just keep rolling into him with every attack?

>>721742443
>>721742374
are you fuckers hacking?
If he hits my fingerprint shield I lose like a quarter of my hp and a third of my stamina bar

>>721741967
i filtered him with a greatshield and rapier after i had enough

>>721741967
No but it took me like 200 tries

>>721741967
nah i beat this niggerfaggot to death with my fat iron balls. felt great

>>721746149
You need to use that talisman that increases the guard boost of the shield plus other talismans and maybe consumables that increase your resistance to holy damage.

>>721741967
no, gaius did

>>721741967
I decided to play my first DLC run on NG+7 for some reason with a night comet build and it was a fucking struggle.
Then I played it again on NG with giant crusher and nothing else and it was okay.
Then I learned to parry him and got a no hit kill.

>>721741967
No. Beat him on multiple characters pre-nerf. Malenia and Gaius were much harder.

>>721746602
>consumables
You didn't beat the game.

>>721746712
Gaius is such fucking bullshit, the only actually bad boss in the entire game

>>721741967
Nope, beat him after 100 tries.

>>721746716
Fuck off with your retardation.
Here's you daily (You) moron.

>>721741967
I used a great katana with bloodflame on my level 135 PVP character and a mimic tear and got him on the third try or so? he's a difficult bullshit ass boss but elden ring has so much bullshit you can do against the bosses in return that it really doesn't matter. I probably would have had a hard ass time if I tried it without the mimic tear but eh, I never liked the concept of this boss fight to begin with, Messmer and Midra were way more fun and way cooler and I didn't need to use any bullshit against those two

>>721744438
>doesnt work on a couple pairs of pants despite them being blue
>reduces 10% max hp to use despite being kinda shit
>patch 1.18 adds functionality to the missing blue pants and a pair of red shorts
>DLC adds more blue pants, doesnt work with them

>>721741967
Yes. I never beat him and never played SotE ever again.

>>721743445
Because even if you had it it wouldn't matter, you can't really min max with equipment in Souls games the way you can in other RPGs. For example, one build may improve jump attacks, but if you're constantly going to jump attack, you're probably going to miss windows for R1s, which another build would be better for buffing. And you generally won't find builds that give you all the buffs for either.

>>721741967
The Open World did. Have to drag me kicking and screaming to launch that fucking awful game again yet alone buy a DLC for it.

>>721741967
No, I filtered him with my great stars mixed with lion's claw.

>>721746995
I'll drag you kicking and screaming just because son

>>721741967
i beat him like i was playing dark souls 1 and clipped it too. took me a lot of tries, lost count

>>721746786
I agree. He was the only boss that made me seethe. Having
>60 vig
>ritual shield
>+10 scadu
>golden vow
>black flame protection
>full armor
>opaline hardtear active
And getting oneshot by his boar’s kick from full health, after playing perfectly up to that point, cemented him as bullshit as far as I was concerned. I don’t know if they changed him later on, but that was maybe the most baffling moment in my entire playthrough.

>>721746849
Thanks.

>>721747373
My strategy is to bait him into tard charging into the corner wall by the fog wall so he gets stuck and hitting him with poison and rot hefty pots while he runs on the treadmill until he dies. Not even trying to do him legit again.

>>721745978
If you rolled into him you got hit by either the pillars or the second swing, often times comboed by both. The reason it worked here is because blocking the first strike put you in quick enough recovery to roll both pillars and the swing simultaneously

>>721747373
>that whole list
>Not using Dragoncrest Greatshield talisman

>>721746149
No. I have all the shadow fragments and the +2 fap ring and I'm like level 166. Also, have you upgraded your shield? You need to upgrade it like a weapon

I'm still running him pre nerf. 200 losses thus far. I will beat him honestly one day.

>>721748191
it's only honest if you beat him RL1, naked, no healing, no parry, no bleed or elemental weapons, no consumables, and no fragments

no because I used the deflect flask
people who insisted on rolling even when he had objectively broken unavoidable moves are hopeless morons

>>721748089
>I have all the shadow fragments
damn those things must be fucking busted because I'm SL210 with a +25 fingerprint shield

>>721741967
Did it with a shield and iron cleaver. Rough, but Malenia is worse

>>721748839
They are. They are the DLC leveling system. You are under-leveled if you don't have 80% of them going into the final boss. They couldn't balance the DLC, so they just made a new leveling system.

>>721741967
>Did he filter you?
>No shield slow weapon only rolling
I filtered him

>>721749129
What should I be at? I've done everything in the DLC other than radahn, trying my best to explore everything and I'm at 18 scadutree blessing & 9 revered spirit ash blessing in the menu

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>>721741967
If I beat a boss but didn't have any fun doing it and thought it was fucking gay, did I get filtered?

>>721749356
You're fine, the max skibidi level is 20.

>>721749356
Well, then idk. You are level 18/20. That's plenty. Not sure why you are taking more damage and shit.

>>721749356
>>721749612
Oh, do you have this on: https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Golden+Braid
It helps a lot.

>>721742443
>>721742374
>that much HP and stam
Might as well use summons shitter

>>721749815
What do I have to use (and not use) to say I really beat the game?

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>>721749795
And these. I looked up what I had on.
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Dragoncrest+Greatshield+Talisman
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Boiled+Crab

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>>721741967
Beat them (because they are two), two times before the first patch, beat them 3 times more after that, and yeah, it was easier those last 3 times.

>>721749959
level 120 max and even 120 is pushing it 110 is more ideal.
No buffs like golden vow or anything
No buff items
No physick tear it's a built in easy mode modifier
ZERO status effects like bleed, they are gigashitter shit

>>721750293
>>721748382

>>721741967
Took me two tries
I rotted him then fucking laughed at Miquella

>>721749795
I have the +2 at the moment, didn't find the braid
>>721750127
>dragoncrest greatshield
yeah
I also use various buffing miracles, like Divine Fortification, golden vow and Blessing of the Erdtree
In addition I have on the best armour in the game

I truly do not understand why I just fall over like a wet noodle

>>721750293
Unironically i agree that status effects are for shitters they are much more easy mode than any summon ever was but people like to cope that they are good while abusing status procs solo

>>721746149
it's perfect guard with the sekiro tear. look at the stamina, some hits it barely moves (perfect guard) some hits it moves a lot (regular guard)

I made the mistake of starting the DLC on my save that was NG+2 instead of catching up on a fresh save in time for it so I ended up getting my shit kicked in by a Radahn with what felt like an absurd amount of health. I feel that if I go back now to try again it'd be a shallow victory considering Radahn has been nerfed since launch

>>721741967
i was stuck for 5 hours on ng+7 until i killed him with the shield bleed poke build on my second try

>>721750810
ng+ is fucking garbage outside of all games but DS2 when it actually did something, i don't understand why anyone wastes times with it in these games.

HP and damage going up is objectively the worst type of difficulty scaling.

>>721750675
I'm not using the Sekiro tear in my webm. I think I'm using Opaline Hardtear and Greenburst Crystal Tear or Leaden Hardtear.

>Oh, I'm sorry, do you not want to spend 15 hours learning the boss's openings through all of his infinite stamina bullshit combos and hitbox jank and particle vomit?
>Uhh then here's a cheese build where he dies in like 5 hits while you're invincible I guess
I don't get Elden Ring's balance. In neither scenario here am I having fun. Where is the fun? If the game isn't fun why bother?

>>721741967
Yes, but I did not care as I didn't particularly like the DLC and just wanted it over so I could solo the main game which I did care about.
I also never beat Ishin becuase BG3 came out.

>>721751076
yeah you're using fingerprint shield which blocks more than double what the kite shield blocks on hit

>>721751232
>never beat Ishin
The pinnacle of boss fights that will never be surpassed

>>721744230
Thsts why I disliked the DLC. The rollslop insult got to them.

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>>721741967
>Did he filter you?
lol no

>>721750886
A 5 hour first try sounds awful.

Maybe im just getting old but I really can't justify grinding a boss for 1 hour +

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>>721751457
the guy had no openings on release so running around was my only option

>>721751457
5 hours for your first Radahn try is actually pretty fast

>>721750886
>ng+7
Why would you inflict this on yourself

>>721751347
Thats the Ivory King. Litteral who Shigekichi of the Red Guard does make my top 10 though.

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>>721751616
?

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>>721751616
>>721751626

>>721751806
>know the fight to the point you can parry everything every time
Now how many hours did this take?

>>721751730
i was on a quest to collect every single piece of equipment on a single character
>>721751806
sorry for using dragon incantation build i guess

>>721751851
Do you have a fucking argument?

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>>721751539
You should just play what brings you the most fun. Before the DLC, I had most fun dual-wielding curved great swords for bosses, and picrel while exploring. In the DLC, I had the most fun using the shield and spear, probably because shields had been buffed since when I last played during launch month.

>>721751806
>parrying
ahhahhaha

>>721751759
>Ivory King
...

>>721741967
Yes, never beat him, wasn't having fun

>>721751982
newfriends like you are always funny

>>721751982
which ash of war do you use?

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>>721751894
Not only that, I sucked and never solo'ed him but by the end even I could no hit that first stage. It was super homo saiyan that filtered me.

>>721752131
Prayerful strikes. Just trade, lol. Who needs skill when you can hurt and heal at the same time? Finally my faith build came in handy.

>>721752131
None, not a shitter.

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>>721742374
Based

>>721752032
But we can agree on Shigekichi of the Red Guard ?!

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>>721751978
>and picrel while exploring
I did not mean to post that webm

Why are you guys playing this causal shit and not trying for ranked in nightreign? After that elden ring seems like a game for toddlers.

>>721741967
>first phase
>have a tough time, but gradually learn his moveset and beat him
>second phase
>LASERS EVERYWHERE
>can barely even see what he’s doing
That’s when I took out the greatshield. There are plenty of tough but fun bosses in the dlc, but Radahn isn’t one of them.

>>721752427
I'm reading rn

>>721751978
>mimic tear on bar
bruh..

>>721752520
That mimic tear is my friend. Shove that disrespect up your ass.

>>721752520
I used it on repeat bosses. I'm not fighting all the dragons "honestly" 100 times lol.

>>721752427
nightreign got old pretty quick. everdark adel was the last time it was hype

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>>721752520
>Why yes, I used Mimic Tear and bleed weapons, how could you tell?

>>721752941
I can tell by the dilation station in your house.

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>>721752941
>>721752719

>>721741967
Well I've beaten him twice, so no, but it wasn't fun in any way.

no, but after seeing FROMSOFT jump the shark this hard already with pcr I'm not gonna be enough of a retard again to buy whatever souls-esque games they release in the future.

>>721741967
I beat him with my friend before they nerfed him.

No, he took a couple hours. The only game that ever filtered me was Cuphead, the Angel and Demon fight. I didn't like the game a whole lot to begin with.

>>721741967
I felt pretty retarded when I just realized Isshin Ashina and Tengu mask are the same character.

>>721753578
My wife is so cute when she's sitting.

i summoned the tankiest looking guy and shot magic at him
not fun to learn or fight

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Everything is too easy if you play as Havel The Rock!

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>>721741967

Mindbroke me into using the swordlance every time. It is a completely stupid boss fight though. The 1st phase is fun to learn, the 2nd is just designed to annoy you. So I'm using what the game gives me to delete him.

>>721754904
You can't stop the rock

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>>721741967
Not at all. I just think he's a boring boss who goes against the design of the rest of the game (and especially the DLC). You have no freedom when fighting Radahn. There's an optimal way to avoid and punish every attack, and the timings are so tight that you can't do anything fun. He's just boring.

>>721755006
This but for the entire DLC.

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>>721741967
>can't cuck Radahn and become Miquella's consort
Why did Miyazaki do this to me?

>>721755512
Sorry gaijin, the Tarnished Lord is canonically an evil shithead who will murder any threat to his crown.

>>721752734
Same here. Fuck those boring dragon bosses.

I beat ER approximately a month after it came out and felt completely burned out. Bought the DLC, hopped back on my character, and just couldn't be fucked to play anymore. So the DLC filtered me

>>721755569
Miyazaki has been teasing us with traps and femboys for ages

>>721741967
Pre nerf PCR was the only fromsoft boss to ever filter me. I threw in the towel after 150 total attempts over the course of a week. After he was nerfed I beat him in 50 tries but the victory was meaningless

>>721754734
Beats blue splinters

i filtered the dlc by not buying this trash lol. tryhard artificial difficulty crap with inflated health pools ans subpar action gameplay.

>>721741967
once i learned this was real i resolved to never buying this
complete lore failure

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>>721741967
Not even during release, literally just spam Endure which trivializes ALL content in the game and can be found 5m in, simple as that, I have no idea why autismo obssess over rolling, you literally never have to do it outside of dodging grabs

>>721741967
bleed fists, beat him first week, at the time i felt like i cheated, actually I still do

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>>721741967
I used shield/spear build throughout the game because I thought it'd be fun, turns out it completely trivializes SSJ Radahn. Dancing Lion, Messmer, Gaius, and Bayle were all still pretty hard since a lot of their attacks would just phase through your shield and hit you. But I wasn't using fingerprint when I fought them because it was ugly.

>>721751978
Shields were the strongest during launch month when Barricade was easy longass duration spammable 100% Guard Boost

>>721757235
>THIS IS MY LAST COPE
no skill player

>>721741967
no he got me to learn the timings of deflect tear. pretty fun fight. installed a mod to respawn bosses and beat him with different builds.

>>721741967
Unironically yes, the fight was so shit I used one hit kill cheat just to get it over with to get the ending cutscene (which was shit). To this day this is the only souls boss that I "beat" with cheats. Starting from the very first Dark Souls.

>>721741967
He's not a fun fight, so I put on the whole Verdigris armor set + shield and Ant Spear'd him to death. Done and done, a win's a win. No summons, no cheats, no rot. He's a bullshit fight from beginning to end and was a lame as fuck way to end things. Slave Knight Gael was better by several miles.

>>721758183
I didn't enjoy Barricade, so I never used it. I just wanted shields to be strong on their own, and now they are.

>>721741967
My build was very weird because on release of the dlc I already had a character prepared

It was gargoyle bb + darkmoon gs yes very weird I know there's really no synergy between the two, but it was fun and that's what matters, and I NEVER needed to change my build of any of the dlc bosses cept this dog shit fight

I basically had to resort to respeccing all my stats to strength and mind, bought the filigreed crest, +25 the giant crusher, put lions claw on that bitch and spammed the ever living shit out of it

Was I proud? No BUT FUCK THIS BOSS if the boss is cheating via un-dodgeable cross slashes and fps dropping attacks I'm cheating too via lions claw spam

>never do any sports in school
>never learned an instrument
>never joined any club whatsoever that had members learn a skill based activity together
>immediately start seething when a video game requests you drill for a little bit to figure out what you need to do and get timings down
Extra curricular activities should be mandatory in schools. There shouldn't be adults that get introduced to the concept of applying themselves by video games.

>>721758561
Holy fuck those cross slashes, pre nerf it was absolute hell, thank god I already beat the dlc so I never have to touch this boss ever again what was fromsoft thinking???

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>fire giant has 40,000 HP because he has designated weak points where you do thousands of damage
>consort radahn has 45,000 HP because ???

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>>721758561
>>721758985

>>721759094
Consort Radahn is one of the worst bosses they have ever made and no coping for speedrooning troonies will ever change that

>>721741967
no, i even beat him naked with no scadus once. he's still unfun horseshit though.

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>>721741967
He took me like 50 tries. Just like Malenia did the first time. The elation I felt when I finally beat him was amazing.

Dual pickaxe
Cold infused
Both Crag blade
Jump attacks
Buffs(gold vow etc)

With this I beat him within 10 tries, TEN it was glorious, it was pre nerf too so to anyone still stuck on this piece of shit

>GO FULL PICKAXE

>>721741967
The retarded story about him filtered me, yes.

>>721741967
on like day 3 with the stupid looking bleed colossal dlc weapon

>>721741967
I was a dexCHAD beating every single boss with my uchi and rivers of blood until this asshole. I tried for 8 hours straight to beat him and then gave up and came back the next day and summoned player after player to beat him for me until 5 hours later of summoning I found some dude with a bunch of random numbers who used a fingerprint shield and a spear and he poked him to death while I watched from the sidelines. Was I filtered? No because I saw the ending.

>>721741967
I'm still on my pre-nerf dlc and I beat him twice not and looking for the third not planning to update.
>but what about online
Never used it

>>721759094
i caught on pretty quickly they really just wanted you to parry him to death while dodging the bullshit that can't be parried like the meteors. any other way of beating him takes too long unless you abuse bleed/frost/rot. maybe it's miyazaki's revenge for everyone making fun of gwyn back then.

>>721759094
Because he's the ultimate super final boss and also you have scadutree scaling, you fucking idiot.

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>>721760069
It's that everything has to be harder than what came before it. I'd love for a new souls-like to only be as hard as DaS1.

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>>721760607
This is rape.

>>721741967
I was filtered way before him, shit dlc.

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>>721760660

>>721760471
DaS1 is a baby game and it's a good thing we've moved past it

>>721760660
She started it, so it's just rough sex

>>721741967
No. Rellana did.

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>>721760747
I like baby games. I'm a big baby.

Shield build made the DLC laughably easy up until him. I beat him but it was definitely a fluke

>>721760884
Fair enough. I refuse to play real fighting games for similar reasons

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lol

>>721759094
You deal 2.05x as much damage in the DLC because of SB. He effectively has like 20k~ HP.

>>721741967
Be honest, /v/. I beat him with Martial Arts and the deflect flask on NG+ pre-nerf. Did I beat the game?

>>721761197
Anything other than basic attacks is cheating.

>>721761197
Anything other than summoning is permissible

>>721760607
Based. The only problem is that Ironjar is a bitch to farm so I usually just use attacks with hyper armour like Lions Claw and Gold Breaker and only take out the Ironjar for the really hard bosses.

>>721741967
I gave it like 7 or 8 solo tries as a caster, hit the second phase half of those.
Then summoned a couple of thumbprint shielders.

>>721741967
>equip greatshield and spear/rapier
>fight is over

>>721744938
>If you aren't Interacting With Moveset™ by using some defense which doesn't require you to be trained for each new enemy like an animal in circus, then you aren't even PLAYING the game.
kek

What is it about Elden Ring boss design that is so incredibly unfun?

>>721760471
i kind of appreciate the devs make things harder every game since they just expected players to have played previous entries. but some enemies or bosses just feel like they're scrapping the bottom of the barrel for ideas on how to raise the bar. not really a fan of fighting things that feel hard just because they're reading your inputs or just have outrageously inflated stats for example. just feels kinda cheap at times.

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>>721761301
Just go for Hyper Armor AoWs or Endure, Ironjar is not needed at all and like you said annoying to get

>>721741967
He filtered me so hard to the point I just didn't buy the DLC.
More of the same Sekiro bosses but even worse for le ebin youtube algoritm e-celeb retards playing it with click bait titles such as "I BEATED HIM WITH A DILDO IN MY ASS'

Nah.

>>721744938
Ugg... this argument. It has solid merit. The trouble is that Interacting With Moveset™ is the real game. And everything else is just a baby-walk for babies. Like the tour of the game's content, while being hand held, which diminishes the fights. And I know in my heart this is true.

But most of the later game fights feel horrifically overturned, or just dumb. Original waterfowl was so fucking stupid.

Why can't I just enjoy taking 50 tries to beat every major late game boss? I dunno, I just don't. I don't enjoy taking that many attempts. It makes me feel sick.

Other people like it, and the game is probably designed for them.

People of middlingish skill, who want a challenge, but aren't sadomasochists just don't really have a place in this game.

>>721761748
the combat is itself not that fun or interesting, and never was as far back as Demon's Souls
it just became more about spectacle and meme difficulty

it was always about smarter design, and getting in the players head, subverting expectation or delivering unexpected doses of reality, bosses were originally puzzle-like or novel encounters

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>>721761748
The fact they now have very long combos with very little openings between them + staggering you like a bitch with almost every single attack
That's why you should just take the Endurepill

I use a mod that keeps great rune effects active even after dying.

>>721741967
I quit at the lion

>>721762052
That's a fair mod. All it does is remove grind.

>>721741967
No, Malenia was harder for me desu.

>>721761963
The only good fun boss was Golden shade of godfrey.

>>721761748
A lot of the cooler ashes or spells are completely unusable because you will never have an opening long enough to get it off without being unless you summon

I know it's subjective, but I really don't understand using builds that just tank the mechanics to the point where you don't have to play the game. The fun for me is learning the fights until I get good enough to be able to execute properly. Is it really fun just having that box you want checkmarked in your brain saying you've done this boss? Help me understand? Im not even trying to be condescending, I just truly don't get it.

>>721762260
you will have an opening, but the boss won't you just stand there and spam

>>721761197
Anything other than summons is dishonest. Player intervention destroys the game balance.

>>721762601
a lot of players can't take losses, so they look for strategies that make it impossible to lose

>>721762052
I used fewer than 5 rune arcs my entire playthrough

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>>721762601
And for me the fun is literally overcoming retarded enemy damage and attack spam nonsense and just facetanking them into submission, while I find having to learn patterns for EVERY SINGLE different boss/enemy boring as fuck, especially in Elden Ring where bosses have such low recovery times it leads to you being able to get a paltry amount of attacks off in between their combos while they have longass combos instead

>>721762601
It's just as arbitrary as the way you play.

The combat isn't deep and never has been.

I used the mimic tear for every single boss as soon as I got it and before that I used the jellyfish for every boss. How based am I?

>>721741967
No, it certainly took a few tries and he was definitely shit but I did beat him normally.

>>721741967
I used summon
I always use summons
I never felt anything over beating souls bosses solo so I just stopped caring by the time ER came around

>>721762981
Let me guess, you also used the BH's fang and the Radahn set?

When you realize how half of this board plays Elden ring you start to understand why so many people were pissy about silksong's difficulty. Remember when games were actually required a bit of effort and didn't just play themselves? Good times.

>>721763336
I didn't play Silksong cuz I don't like Metroidvanias.

>>721763336
I shan't ever bother with Silksong and its ilk.
FROM games for all the memes actually let you you facetank, stunlock enemies etc. as opposed to forcing you to dodge/parry, something Silksong lacks.

>>721741967
Nah, Mimic Tear + Deflect Tear shits on him and every single boss. NG +0 btw.

can someone post a webm of THAT attack he does?

>>721762601
it's called playing smarter not harder

>>721762198
No one else on the planet has ever said this. And I respect you for it. I don't think I agree, necessarily, but I respect the take here.

Honestly, I would have liked the game 8x more if they kept all the broken shit from release, and added a madness katana.

Since Fromsoftware really slow rolled pushing out balance patches, I actually started to get used to, and later even enjoy shit like 'race car dueling.' Elden Ring was actually 3D anime fighter, rather than a Souls-like, and once this clicked, I started to having fun with it.

They got rid of all of this mostly with the later balance patches, and I sort of miss it. Because all FromSoftware has done is change which broken strats are still viable, and on occasion, inadvertently create new ones (madness beam animation lock following arcane scaling patch.) While perhaps somewhat more balanced, at present, all of the remaining broken strats are less "fun" than what was around before.

>>721741967
I don't understand people blowing smoke up From's ass and saying how huge this expansion was, it was fucking tiny compared to the main game and so many of the areas are empty. Elden Ring itself is mediocre but this DLC is abysmal.
I killed this recycled fuck and I felt no satisfaction or joy, just relieved that it was over. It ends just as it began, unceremoniously. Really nice cutscene, wow. Actual trash tier expansion.

>>721741967
Elden Ring doesnt have a single good boss fight besides Godskin Apostle in Caelid Tower

>>721762601
Once upon a time, the difficulty in these games used to be knowlege checks, not plain reactions. You made a busted build and knew how to navigate the levels? You win. Now levels are straight lines and the only diffciulty is in dodge timings/reaction gameplay. It's more skillfup, sure. But it has no depth, it's boring after an initial playthrough. Tbis is why DS3 and latter Souls games don't hit as hard as earlier games in the franchise like DS1.

>>721763469
>Mimic Tear + Deflect Tear
do you know why they are called tears? because every single one of them is a tear on Miyasaki's cheek when he reads how people play his game

>>721763430
>actually let you you facetank, stunlock enemies etc. as opposed to actually playing the game
Fixed that for you. Interrupting the enemy in souls games unironically is baby mode. It makes it so that you don't have to actually learn their moveset and they become a punching bag for you. It's essentially a non-game at that point.

>>721755006
Cool spellblade build

I used Bloodfiend's Arm

>>721750550
its fun

>>721741967
Nope, beat him inb4 nerf.

>>721763765
Is that before he dabs the tears away with the hundreds of millions of dollars he earned from the success of Elden ring + Nightreign + the movie rights to ER?

>>721744335
>99% of summons are bad and get clapped in 4-5 hits
>you didn't win tho
Cry harder, I love my boy Krystoff.

>>721762981
>mimic tear
You never even started the game
>>721763469
>mimic Tear + Deflect Tear
The game isn't even downloaded on your pc
>>721761748
Elden ring is tons of fun
>>721762198
The only good boss is Malenia which is sad because she was actually just a rehashed sekiro boss, which means that elden ring has literally zero good bosses. Even ds2 had some good ones

>>721746786
Nah, the ancient/ghostflame dragons and the wicker men are shit.

>>721751408
The game is judging you bro

Am I the only one who found the DLC disappointing? In every souls game so far the DLC was its high point, elevating it either in level or boss design, yet I found the Elden Ring DLC to have pretty much the same problems with the base game, only improving in some areas, like dungeon/cave design.

>>721755658
I did beat the DLC even though it was only a few months after I first beat the game but the open world explanation got tedious by the second area

>>721742852
That’s flat out wrong, they gave you tons of tools to balance out the coked up bosses but everyone whines that if you use any of them you “didn’t beat the game”

>>721765890
>Am I the only one who found the DLC disappointing?
nigga where the fuck have you been

>>721766365
But you didn't beat the game. Your mimic tear did.

>>721741967
first phase is a good fight, second phase is visual aids

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>>721741967
No, extremely clean, well made, positional boss

>You used tools and mechanics the game gives you? YOU DIDNT BEAT THE GAME
Anyone that says this deserves to have their hands crushed.

>>721766618
Mimic tear is not a thing in reality.

>>721766754
You're up first on the hand crusher.

>>721766914
You don't have mana you can't summon it.

>>721742443
>>721742374
Nothing wrong with these this is literally how you were supposed to beat it.

>>721766371
I remember most of the discussion being about Radahn and the Scadutree fragments but honestly the red and blue flower field areas were empty, the Legacy Dungeon (with perhaps the Shadow Keep being the only exception, and the first one being OK) were disappointing and the abyss level was also full of missed opportunities.

There was nothing in the game like Limgrave or your first visit to Caelid, nothing like Stormveil Castle or even Farum Azula.

The price tag filtered me, I ain't paying $40 for $20 of content.

>>721768549
>but honestly the red and blue flower field areas were empty
No they weren't, they are corridors to the 3 main questlines and they would be a complete slog if they were filled with enemies. Instead they have some cool bosses and setpieces

>>721750448
You might be cancelling out some of your buffs. You can only have one aura buff (Ex: Golden Vow) and one body buff (Ex: Flame, Grant Me Strength) active at once.

>>721769405
SOTE took me about 100 hours to get through so I would say you're wrong about that

>>721741967
Pre patch yes. I had to resort to going full shield on him.

>>721769702
>the red flower field has anything to do with the main questlines
I have retarded shitter tourist who didn't play the game fatigue.

are you fags not sick and tired of ugly and dead worlds?
i played DS1 and that was enough for me

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I'm 90 tries in so far but i'm getting closer to beating him, all it took was completely changing my build from STR to DEX and going for lighter weapons with bleed since I was too slow with a greatsword and he's too damn fast
funny how the build that was considered OP and carried me through every boss in the game ended up being functionally useless against because fromsoft decided to make the final boss a literal super saiyan

>>721741967
Yes. I did 206 pulls and gave up. Of the last 100 or so pulls I did, his left swing -> right swing -> uncross killed me on nearly every single one.

>>721769702
they are literally filled with the same copy and past enemies/mini bosses

>>721741967
I killed those faggots a lot of times

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I beat him with metyr's tail wand, poison perfume bottles and light rolling. Killed him with ice lightning.

I beat it with the Lizard Greatsword and hated that entire night.

>>721765091
Wickermen are boring but easy
Ghost flame dragons fucking rule, they're like base game wyverns except actually engaging to fight.

>>721771394
UGS is perfectly fine against hyper radahn

>>721741967
I beat him pre nerf by parry cheesing him and I have 0 regrets. Fuck this nigger cunt faggot bitch pussy shit and his literally undodgeable combos FUCK

>>721741967
Took me like 3 hours with greatsword. Still more enjoyable than the 3 hours i spend against the bullshit dance, stagger-cancelling rot whore.

>>721742374
BASED

>>721755882
And feets

>>721741967
Elden ring thread

>>721741967
i was filtered by that rosebud bitch.

haven't touched the game since last september.

>>721759094
Max Scadu level is 'easier' scaling wise, than the Haligtree or the Consecrated Snowfield.

>>721761059
This dungeon is such a dick flattener.

>>721762260
That is a weird thing.
All the coolest ashes are almost impossible to use in boss fights, so you start and end the game using the same shit like Impaling Thrust.

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>>721741967
What do you mean? The whole DLC filtered me. Once the leaks dropped I was like NOPE. I thought we was going to be helping Miquella and Godwyn fight something heinous, not fighting Miquella and Radahn on some crazy brain control shit.

>>721762601
For me a game is a puzzle to be beaten.
I don't get much enjoyment out of mechanical perfection, or at least not all that much to make it really feel like something I want to pursue.
I enjoy treating difficulty walls in games like problems to be solved. Where I find what the weakness is, and then I exploit it until I win. That to me is much more fun than playing something dozens of times until I learn all the specific mechanics, rather than instead planning out a big picture solution.

I never learned how to dodge Waterfowl Dance, but instead I learned to back up and attack from a distance to trigger it, and then sprint away to escape. I never learned Malenia's moveset, I instead focused on doing as much poise damage as I could in order to interrupt her combos.
And that was fine for me. I wouldn't have had more fun learning to no-hit her.

>>721763768
Why would you want to learn their moveset?

Shit DLC and non-canon.

>>721769405
>The price tag filtered me, I ain't paying $40 for $20 of content.
This is the most retarded criticism of the DLC.
That shit was fucking massive.

>>721750293
you also have to clamp your balls to your thighs and poke aids needles into your toenails for that true hardcore cred, don't want to be a mega giga shitter

>>721744450
because the meta for it """counting""" moved from having a traditional sword-and-board build to knowing when to mash out a roll in the middle of the boss' 20-hit combo and not taking damage at all, it's just further evolution of retarded 'git gud' mentality

>>721759094
blame blood borne and dark souls 3 they pioneered the faggotry that is boss hp BLOAT

>>721742374
poke bros...