Strength and arcane build using the bloodfiends arm. Been wrecking with it.

Nice, I'm a pure strength build using heavy/colossal weapons. Mostly been using the Grafted Blade Greatsword. I just watched a stream where they were using the Bloodfiends Arm and I think I'm gonna try and get my hands on one of those.

I mean I’m not even f***ing close to beating Gaius.

Just best dual gargoyles fight on my replay no summons or anything. Biggest hurdle so far for me lol. Took me like an hour

last boss is so much easier with parry lol

That final boss...yeah they need to think how they approach difficulty in the next games because that wasn't it

Not even close to the final boss but a parry like sekiros would make this game god status

If you're going in completely blind ignore the below

There actually is a hard tear you can find to mix into your flask that gives you a parry like ability for your guard. That was partly how I even beat them

I'll have s**

Dont see the hate for final boss.

Gaius on the other hand

That’s how it usually starts but eventually you shall overcome

Finally beat the final boss. Lowkey was going to let him kill me in the first phase bc i bungled it, but came out on top

Ending cinematic kinda disappointing tho. Overall an amazing dlc, makes a great game even better.

Finally managed to beat Gaius, I only have to beat Metyr before being able to go to the last area, but that hoe kicking my ass and as a melee fighter I'm having a hard time finding a good strategy tbh

Get under her and strike the stomach area

Marika is such an awesome character ngl. She lowkey dunks on Gwyn when it comes to being the mysterious souls like godfigure

Very GRRM of a character though. She hits almost all the same notes as Daenarys.

If there is actually a show or something coming I could see it being a prequel about Marika's rise to godhood.

, Hidetaka Miyazaki: "When Martin wrote these characters, and when he provided that origin story and that mythos for the world of Elden Ring, these demigods were much closer to their original form, and maybe closer to human form back then, before the Shattering,” says Miyazaki. “So it was more up to us to interpret this and say, ‘how did they become such inhuman monsters? And how did the mad taint of the shattered shards of the Elden Ring and its power affect them?’ So that was our job to take these grand heroes and sort of misshape them and distort them into something that they’re not."

I think its bit of both. I think especially on the representation kind of side Marika has this fascinating "Jesus" like aura to her. She is untouchable, eternal. Even post game in 4 out of 6 endings her corpse remains. She is in an eternal prison of godhood just like her name suggests. So I hope she wont be a protagonist to not destroy that.

So I’m getting back into this and just went through the entire weeping peninsula. I think im starting to get hooked on this. This s*** really clicking with me right now. Idk it’s too early to say but I’m feeling it for sure

Enjoy bro. If you enjoy adventures its hard to argue this isn't the greatest adventure game ever

I always felt like I could learn a boss with time, but I’m not learning s*** with that Phase 2.

Interesting he specifically says basically the great runes/elden ring corrupts them never knew he said that, thought it was just speculation

Still kind of irritated that that nerfed this just cause some people couldn’t be bothered to actually play the game and find scad fragments

watched a bit of RDC play this they really just went straight from rellana to the hippo no type of exploring lol is this how people be playing fr? No wonder they're struggling

And then they’ll complain that it’s “unbalanced” after doing zero exploration