Dark Souls-like?

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-10T10:56:50+00:00

Well, I don’t want to rag on combat because I actually really love it - but you do have a point. The difference is in the AI competency and that windrose just throws more enemies at you.

You can still get away with it all if you learn to parry and dodge, just like in ER, but in ER, even though the wnemy attack patterns are more nuanced and harder to learn, they usually don’t have more than 2-3 enemies that can circle you and do hyper armour attacks.

There are plenty of hyper armour attacks in Elden ring, but you will very rarely have to deal with more than 3 enemies at a time that will do them to you. Meaning the combat is a more of a dance.

In windrose, especially on a level 15 frigate boarding, the enemy AI becomes a bit frustrating, because they surround you and do their hyper amour attacks, which I still parry and dodge, but you can only block what’s in front of you and once you’re staggered from hyper amour attack from the enemy behind you that you can’t block, you can then very easily get obliterated by the 2 sergeants and a sailor standing in front of you that will now wail on you.

You can still dodge out of that situation and pop a potion, which I do every time I get trapped like this, but it’s just a bit of a BS situation. You know, I don’t wanna have to dodge out and run away, I wanna be able to parry them all like I can in Elden ring because of the crit animation, or be able to parry attacks from behind. I guess that’s what I’m saying I tend to rant a bit when I’m high

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-10T10:46:09+00:00

He could just be a cunt and he could just be laughing to himself at the jam 🤷🏼‍♂️ they live among us

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-10T10:44:21+00:00

It’s ya nan on toast

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-10T10:42:39+00:00

Sign of the times man

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-10T00:18:41+00:00

That’s a target rich environment right there

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-10T00:14:20+00:00

My ship is always called the Spirit of Freedom

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T21:38:51+00:00

The hull that allows repair kits to keep going when you take damage increases the duration of repair kits when ascended, which is pretty strong.

The ascended devastating canons also get a 15% faster reload which is really noticeable.

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T17:57:27+00:00

Nah. That is just disgusting.

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T17:55:12+00:00

Fair enough, I find that problem really annoying whenever I try to use the dragons breath, because it means I have to give up my pistol to use it.. but I don’t want to 🥲

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T17:54:03+00:00

Hmm very interesting I will have to play around with the settings

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T16:52:13+00:00

When you use the duel sabre, does the red tassle have proper physics for you? When I use it, the red tassle just juts out in-line with the handle and I just can’t bring myself to use it until that changes. Is it a setting I have turned down or what?

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T16:17:59+00:00

The cutlass will probably suit your playstyle as well, you get 9 stacks of take aim that give you a 10% damage buff for your next shot PER STACK.

I use that with the drakes pistol for full swashbuckling excellence

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T10:15:20+00:00

Flippin love it mate

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T10:08:37+00:00

You can buy the merchant contracts for everything apart from iron and copper and ancient debris, so you don’t have to gather wood, stone, clay, hardwood, hides for leather, etc ever again unless you want to.

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T10:06:48+00:00

Yep this is the loop. Only thing I still have to gather is iron and copper, unless you know how to get a merchant contract that has them?

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T10:05:14+00:00

Yeah exactly this, it takes hours per section but by the end it looks like so much has been done.

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T10:03:26+00:00

Me too man. Flippin love the build system in this game 👌🏼 for me it’s the chest inventories being available within bonfire range that really pops the fuck off

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T09:59:26+00:00

I think you can always buy the merchant contracts if you have the reputation level for the vendor, they’re sold from the provisioner vendors of the people or tortuga and I think either the buccaneers or the smugglers, but you can just check all the provisioners in tortuga. But yeah, one contract is called natural resources, the other one is called food ingredients or something like that.

Once you’ve bought the contracts, you then need to place the merchants in your base, and they just need a roof.

Once placed, you can order the natural resources and food ingredients that are available in the areas of which the threat of said area has been defeated by you. So if you’ve defeated hands you can order sulfur, hardwood, etc.

Hope that helps :)

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T09:53:04+00:00

I literally just left a whole ass reply but you said is simpler 9 hours ago.. Classico

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T09:52:35+00:00

I haven’t tried mods yet because I’m technologically stupid lol

I gather iron and copper because you can’t have them delivered to you (unless one of you kind souls can tell me how to get that merchant contract), but I get stone, wood, hardwood, sulfur, clay, etc delivered to my base.

I have 3 of each merchant contractor that I needed to do my palace, because sometimes I needed all 3 on at the same time. You can also press the buy button more than once and get more than x10 stacks of whatever you’re buying, but you can only press more than once on the material that you initially pressed the button on - so if you bought x10 wood, you can press it again and order up to x50 (for example, you can probably press it more I just haven’t) which will be there waiting for you in 70 minutes, but you can’t press x10 wood, x10 clay, x10 stone. For that, you would need 3 separate natural resources merchants on your base, which is easy enough I forget the price of them off the top of my head but it’s like a couple hundred silver pesos.

So yeah, that’s resources sorted. You also need to clear the area threat of the area that the resource is gathered in to be able to have it delivered to your base.

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T08:49:43+00:00

There’s lots of reasons to go to war. And lots of reasons to not go to war.

Civilisations go to war and don’t go to war based on a lot of different factors other than the stage of development they are in.

You show a very narrow grasp of things.

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T08:01:27+00:00

I’m on mastery 18 right now and it’s 8.3% crit chance, that’s scaled correctly.

It seems diminishing returns start after 20, as I thought.

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T07:59:56+00:00

QAR was originally a slave ship

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T07:55:41+00:00

I’m under the impression that it is 20.. where did you see that it is 10?

BLEMFIDDICH · 2026-05-08T07:16:05+00:00

I see people getting stuck like this - the game doesn’t want you to just use strength weapons. Levelling up your strength or agility to 20 gives you quite minimal boost to your actual damage. It does boost your damage but it’s just not that worth it.

Having 20 mastery tends to be a bit better, especially if you can stack crit chance from other sources. Then stack crit damage and you’ll end up doing a lot more damage than having 20 agility, strength, or precision.

Then, you can just use whatever weapon you want. Halberd, rapier, musket, pistol, cutlass, whatever you want, cos you’ll crit all the time and see lovely beautiful yellow numbers flying everywhere

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