why is everything in the end game still two shotting me with 80 vigor
>>735142752are you actually wearing armor
>>735142752because you are getting hit you fucking scrub
>>735142752The game ia balanced poorly. You'd think enemies do less damage with each attack as it gets harder to defend or dodge them.
>>735142752lmfao this mfer leveled vig
>>735142752Bro your scoobysnacks?
>>735142752there's only a 200hp difference between 60 and 80 vigor, you got scammed out of 20 levels you could have put into another stat
>>735142752>leveling vigorNew player mistake, Vigor was always good only in the early game and useless later, with the respecs in ER you should put everything into Vigor then respec it back to base value and pump it into damage stats instead
>>735143197dont do this, get at least 40-50 vig or you'll be one of those people who always summons then dies as soon as they enter the boss room
>>735143063I only eat miqqysnax
>>735142752Because you're trying to dodge through Radahn's dual strikes instead of using a shield. You are seriously the type of person to look at a jet engine and think you can dodge through the blades if you time it right. This ain't Bloodborne. Your stamina bar is your shield bar, and your health bar is your actual health bar. git gud
>>735143169what if all my other stats are at 80
>>735143401there's no reasonable way every single one of your stats is at 80 when you reach PCR for the first time unless you cheated or grindedin either case if you can't beat PCR despite having max stats you don't deserve to beat him
>>735143401you obviously cheated your levels and suck at the game
>>735143020or even hit themi swear some of these bosses have movesets designed to troll the fuck out of you by making them incidentally harder to hit
>>735143401You would be better off simply levelling endurance to 99 to let you roll with stronger armor. The Souls meta still is, and always will be, flipping havels.
>>735143563if that were true how come no one uses the ring that makes rolls better
>>735143596skill issue
>>735143596Because it takes a ring slot that is practically replaced by having 99 endurance
>>735143169Whats the point of making 40/100 skill points completely fucking useless?Why can't they just make it a linear scale?
Who is this lovely maiden on Radagn's shoulder? I haven't played Elden ring in 3 years
>>735143713Softcaps and Hardcaps. You *can* keep leveling Vigor past the hardcap, and if you're so-inclined you can grind to max level, but you're better off investing your Runes elsewhere after a point Probably there to disincentivise people just spamming one single stat their entire playthrough, and interact with the game's content.
>>735143828Mohg with the curse lifted after you do the formless mother quest in the DLC
>>735143713nobody really knows, especially because in most other stats 60 to 80 at least has some benefitespecially INT and FTH where there's spells that require insane stat investment Vigor is just the weirdest stat where you almost need the meta knowledge to know the first thing you do on a character is get to 40 VIG, and then when you start struggling with 40 VIG you upgrade to 60 VIG like going from 10 to 20 VIG is pointless too
>>735143828That's Godwyn the Golden, Lord of Death.He's revived in Shadow of The Erdtree, and is the final boss of the DLC.
Miquella...
>>735143868>Probably there to stop people from having funFTFY
>>735144021What's fun about having a huge healthbar but not being able to use anything other than your shitty starting weapon?
>>735143995he doesn't look like that
>>735143995do you think his dad...
>>735143868I mean, don't they already have that with weapons having 2-3 stats besides vigor? Plus needing to level endurance or mind (depending if you're melee or magic) and arcane (if you're bleed or frostbite)If all you level is a single stat, you're never at your maximum potential. My real question is, why did they put the potential so low? I don't necessarily have a problem with the enemy numbers in the endgame, but the caps they put on shit makes leveling after a certain point complete placebo, and the enemies continue to scale. The only way to match them is to respec into faith and stack buffs like crazy. Is it really so much to ask that 80 strength + colossal weapon lets me flatten anything that isn't a rune bearer even through the first NG+?
>>735144094That's still fun, but then why should the game need any other stat?
>>735144163>Is it really so much to ask that 80 strength + colossal weapon lets me flatten anything that isn't a rune bearerbruh, 80 STR and a colossal weapon already lets you flatten everything including runebearers how are you fucking up elden ring easy mode?
>>735144163>why did they put the potential so low?That's fair, yeah. It seems like the bosses start to outscale you at a much faster pace after Leyndell.I suppose it's just the nature of the open world: balance is all over the place. Still, late game is a fairly linear path, so that shouldn't have been too hard to work out.
>>735144163Frost doesn't scale, and Cold Infusion scales your AR with INT, not ARC.>If all you level is a single stat, you're never at your maximum potential.Pure builds work just fine, especially pure STR or ARC, in fact pure STR in particular is one of the strongest builds in the game second only to STR/FTH and ARC/FTH.>why did they put the potential so low?They didn't, it's an issue on your end.Stop playing this game like it's Souls.
>>735144163>The only way to match them is to respecI play as pure str builds and have no issue steamrolling the game with various weapons. This sounds like a genuine skill issue.
>>735144462elden ring is a hard game
>>735144707no its not
>>735144408STR/FTH isn't even STR/FTH it's STR with the bare minimum FTH to use golden vowactual equal STR/FTH as in a 60/60 is far weaker than 80/25 despite requiring more levels
>>735144707The skill floor is higher than Souls but that doesn't mean much because Souls has always been braindead, it's as hard as you want it to be.>>735145085You can put as much FTH as you want honestly, the clawmark seal lets you get away with the bare minimum FTH and still be able to be a decent to good offensive caster, Ancient Dragon's Lightning Strike only wants 26 FTH for some reason and that's arguably the strongest offensive spell in the game so it's either 25 FTH to get all the support spells or you splurge a little bit to 36 FTH to get core offensive spells up to Knight's Lightning Spear and Pest Threads Spear, 70/80 STR and 36FTH is plenty doable and legally STR/FTH.Combine it with being able to use all the busted STR+FTH weapons like the Blasphemous Blade and you have a much stronger and versatile build than pure STR.
>>735145621any build can be extremely versatile in ER due to ashes of war being so easily swappable
>>735144163>why did they put the potential so lowI beat the main game at level like, 160, and it was enoughBy the end at crumbling farum I was already bored with the exploration as I had everything maxxed out and exploration gave shit I didnt need
>>735145621Eh, it's only knight's lightning spear that requires 36, pest thread spears is 26 same as ADLS and really while KLS is good it's not invest 10 points into a situational ability good, I'd much rather have the 10 points into Endurance or Mind on a predominantly STR build since Lion's Claw is a thirsty bitch for stamina and FPLion's Claw is also more busted frankly than blasphemous blade, which also only requires 21 FTH anyways, hell I can't even think of a single weapon worth using on a STR build that requires more than 25 FTH
>>735142752You get stronger but you also face stronger enemies.
>>735145797Ashes of war only help you so much if you do not have the necessary stats for the infusion to work, let alone certain ashes of war that scale directly with stats you just end up as a mediocre hodgepodge with no real direction.Things like Stance or Impaling thrust don't really give a shit about anything but your AR, but there's plenty of other ashes of war that do, Bloody Slash/Blood Blade scale directly with your ARC score so if you have low ARC they're borderline dogshit regardless of your infusion, Flame of the Redmane is worthless on anything that isn't a STR build because the flame projectile scales purely off STR, Storm Blade's projectile scales off DEX and so on.Spells open up entirely new options because you can get away with bullshit like having your spell boost scale off stats that aren't necessarily INT or FTH, hence why ARC/FTH is widely considered the strongest build in the game, because you're putting the bare minimum of FTH necessary to cast what you want while ARC does all the heavy lifting through a busted seal, STR/FTH ends up being in a similar niche.>>735146185There's no FTH weapon that wants 25 FTH to begin with, it's just the bare minimum to get the spell version of Golden Vow, beyond that you have to ask yourself whether you want to actually use offensive spells or just play a really beefed up cleric.Given STR already gets monstruous returns through two handing it's merely a question of choosing between an almost entirely weapon focused character or somebody who can also use strong ranged options like ADLS, frenzy/pyro stuff and the occasional busted single target spell like Knight's Lightning Spear, the clawmark seal lets you get away with either.
>>735146634ADLS is only 1 point investment over golden vow and frankly it's not a ranged option, it's as far as I'm concerned an alternative to riposte on big enemies (at least for a STR build) Flame of Frenzy and Frenzied Burst are both below 25 requirement so might as well pick them up (especially the latter for use as a ranged option if you don't want to swap to a bow) really there's nothing beyond 26 that realistically improves your game plan much if you're using a STR weapon, especially considering in ER you usually want to be as close to a boss as possible since the most dangerous moves bosses have are their gap closers anywaysthis is not DS1 where you could just backpedal and chuck pyromancies at certain bosses regardless of what build you had
>>735142752Elden Ring's HP par is built around the two shot. You level VIG to the point that you're two shot by most enemies, and then accept that is the intended experience. VIG caps at 60, and that is not enough to tank much in the late game. It isn't like Dark Souls at all, in that you have way less room for to learn from errors and make readjustments.
>>735142752Because you're a homosexual faggot and the game can sense that, therefore you will get punished
>>735143401Leveling in souls is a scam beyond a certain point.
>>735147786this is why I stick around 120 maximum for every fromsoft game
>>735143995how do you get a son like this?
>>735147040I mean, it depends entirely on the enemy, some bosses dodge some stuff while others don't, others straight up can't.At the end of the day it's just choosing what you want to focus on, imo going up to 36 FTH for KLS is a good investment if you want something ranged that can deal both good damage and good posture damage, not to mention the lightning damage, you also get to cast Giant Golden Arc which is diabolical for PvP, Multilayered Ring of Light, Giantsflame Take Thee/Flame Fall Upon Them, Frozen Lightning Spear, Divine Beast Tornado, Rotten Butterflies and Black Flame Protection, they're all interesting and worthwhile options.
today while playing I learned horses are FULLY MODELED
>>735150067They didn't want to be outdone by RDR2 I thought Miyazaki was only into feet
>>735142752This isn't dark souls 2 where armor is useless.
>>735142752unfortunately being a filthy cheathing high damage tornado is the only way bosses can make fight interesting when you can break elden ring open wider than marika's cunt.>tower shields>scarlet rot>bleed/frost>retarded AI abuse>using more than 2 neurons on mimic tear>hyper armor attacks and buffs>stagger spam>damage reduction stacking>busted spells and arts
>>735151540we should have stuck with the pace in Demon Souls.
>>735151540>Enemies actually put up a fight for a change>Also most things are actually good instead of being straight sword/rapier/Zweihander central with everything else being mediocre to bad>This means the game is broken and enemies cheatAnother case of "I'm a big FROM fan and Dark Souls 1 was their only good game"
