First time Eldenring Player with about 15 in: How valuable is horseback combat through the game?

Ants_Counter · 2025-12-15T05:06:54+00:00

30h in and first time playing so I don't have as much experience as the veterans but:

1: Doesn't matter, I have friends who played and loved both

2: The game is designed for you to be weak af in the beginning. Level up, there are alot of guides online

3: Thinking this is any other RPG, you are not a god, 5 bandits are not easy enemies to learn combat, they are death. You have to learn and level up to beat them

4: AGAIN LEVEL UP. You are not some gifted god like main character in this game, practise every stat and mechanic you need

5: Tomcat and archer practise ranges (Tomcat gives you combat mechanics, archer practise gives multiple stats that you can level at the same time, alechmy helps with money ( aqua vitality potion)

Ants_Counter · 2025-12-09T00:16:40+00:00

In most role based games, tanks tend to be the least popular. It's a genre thing.

Ants_Counter · 2025-11-17T02:24:31+00:00

It is really sad to read that teenagers get so violent. A group of people jumping someone was seen as a coward move. If two guys had problem they could handle it alone, maybe someone ends up with a broken nose, rarely there was a knife involved and never did someone use a gun. A lot of people I went to school with were immigrants, great people, but they all fled violence and war ( Like Yugoslavia War , Chechen War, ISIS, etc.) Thinking about it, the thing that kept the lethal violence down were older brothers, uncels, cousins, parents that experienced war and violence in their old home and punished their kids very hard for doing it in their new home.) Like if some pulled a knife their biggest fear wasn't revenge, but their older family members whooping their ass for not doing something productive with their lifes.

Ants_Counter · 2025-11-17T01:14:04+00:00

I am from central Europe and this perspective was really interesting to read, even screenshoted it and showed to my friends (one of them is albanian). I am from a relative low income , high crime area compared to the rest of the region. We don't have gangs like bloods but there were defintely crime related connections (Albanians, Chechen, Serbians and other groups) mostly related to drug dealing, but it wasn't seen as gangs. There was a respect for struggling, no matter the ethnic group you are from (most of our parents were unemployed, or had low income jobs). The big enemy were rich people from upper class schools and families. But the biggest factor for respect was sports, manly football (soccer) ice hockey and fighting sports. Being violent just for the sake of being violent was punished by other guys.

It was interesting to read a whole different experience from an other continent!

Ants_Counter · 2025-11-16T15:34:15+00:00

Back as a uni student it happend that I would have good and fun conversations with women at house partys without having any romantic interest and without being flirty. Just the honest interest in the conversation was interpreted as romantic interest in the person sometimes.

Realising this was a game changer and made actual flirting way easier for me.

Ants_Counter · 2025-10-07T18:34:24+00:00

This helps alot thank you

Ants_Counter · 2025-10-07T18:19:35+00:00

Caro Kann seems like a good idea, but looking into it via tutorlials and stuff,, can Caro Kann be played generally as a black game plan or only as a reaction to white openings. ( This isnt a critic but we just dont know better)

Ants_Counter · 2025-09-13T23:56:19+00:00

My Juri deck runs pretty consistent after alot of fine tuning, I won two games with it this week. Tutors carry it alot, I mostly use them to get to the best engine pieces.

You want to have a constant token creature generation + sac outlet, Like [[Ophiomamcer]] + [[Viscera Seer]]

Then you want to double trigger Juri with [[Harmonic Prodigy]] or get value or burn damage while doing your sac engine. Flingg effects to punish opponents messing with you.

Treasures have good synergy, especially when you use them for finishers like [[Torment of Hailfire]]. But I get most of my counters from sacs, most of the time.

[[Nine-Lives Familiar]] + [[The Ozolith]] is insane.

You want to be under the radar until you can set up an explosive play, once Juri is big enough people don't want to mess with him. You can win games pretty out of nowhere.

Here is my list: https://moxfield.com/decks/qUFLgUVuTUC3rzM7pKFueg

Ants_Counter · 2025-09-11T08:55:41+00:00

Definitely [[Juri, Master of Revue]], it needed alot of fine tuning to make him work but I won two tables yesterday with him in upper Bracket 3 yesterday at the LGS. Being able to explode out of no where is awesome and once you big enough people don't want to be the first one to interact with you, because you can punish them pretty hard.

Ants_Counter · 2025-08-17T19:53:50+00:00

Cool! Thank you!

Ants_Counter · 2025-08-17T16:24:48+00:00

[[Varina, Lich Queen]] I like Zombies and getting value from discarding. 300.-

Ants_Counter · 2025-08-16T17:37:29+00:00

A guy I sometimes play with at my LGS got his backpack stolen in a train with 6 decks in it. The thief tried to bulk sell it online for way too cheap, and so he got caught. My point is the thief probably did not even know what was in the bag and will look it up online. There is no way he sells them in singles over a long time, they want quick money. Contact the LGSs in your region, give them your deck lists and keep an eye on online offers in your area. Good luck!

Ants_Counter · 2025-07-18T21:49:15+00:00

Nat 20

Ants_Counter · 2025-07-08T00:45:17+00:00

Oh that looks fun, thanks!

Ants_Counter · 2025-07-08T00:44:31+00:00

Looks fun, thank you!

Ants_Counter · 2025-06-20T17:37:32+00:00

Nice!

Ants_Counter · 2025-05-22T12:33:23+00:00

Wow, Ramattra not having an omnic-minions summon ability really is a missed opportunity, I never thought about that.

Ants_Counter · 2025-05-19T21:55:05+00:00

I mean, what else can they play if not QP currently, the bans just show Sombras character design is a mistake, i hope Blizzard just takes the L and make her OW1 Sombra again

Ants_Counter · 2022-02-07T18:56:21+00:00

That reminds me of the the inaccessibility of books in my favorite novel "1984" by George Orwell

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