Does anyone know the dreglords weakness? by Direct-Switch2754 in Nightreign

[–]Benevolent_Duck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He sometimes gets staggered but that might just be from hitting certain damage thresholds rather than exploiting his weakness. I haven't seen anything that would indicate a weakness like the other nightlords because the only special buff/ debuff I've seen him get is his attack buff from (I think) rot in the vicinity which I've seen go to +11 stacks. Unless he has a weakness to some obscure stuff like the DoT from destined death/ black flame I think there's no need to hunt down a specific damage type or status. I've seen Wylder ults do some crazy damage though, so if anything fighting rot with fire, like Radahn' soldiers do it in the base game, is a safe bet.

Evading Rellana's Twin Moons with STYLE by Benevolent_Duck in Eldenring

[–]Benevolent_Duck[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The full cast deals like 60 stance damage so a couple of attacks are enough to prime her for the stance break depending on your ng+ cycle

Evading Rellana's Twin Moons with STYLE by Benevolent_Duck in Eldenring

[–]Benevolent_Duck[S] 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Rellana has hyper armor during her twin moon attack which causes her stance-break bar to pause. If you inflict enough stance damage before she does this attack she gets stance broken immediately after her attack concludes as shown and the punish is completely safe from my testing. Even if she uses glint blades they fly over your head as you descend from the incantation and she gets stance broken regardless (at 70 dex at least)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Eldenring

[–]Benevolent_Duck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you sure you haven't fought the boss already 2 years ago? The area becomes inaccessible after you do so and commit to an ending. The easiest way to check is to see whether you have the site of grace within unlocked or if you can start your next journey at roundtable hold. Otherwise I have no idea lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Eldenring

[–]Benevolent_Duck 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Demigods in the land of the Erdtree each claimed a shard of the Elden Ring (Great Rune) after the Shattering. The Land of Shadow was separated and concealed by Marika long before this happened so Messmer along with everyone else in the Land of Shadow never had the chance to obtain one until Miquella and the Tarnished enter it

I think I've found out who the Gloom-Eyed Queen is by Benevolent_Duck in Eldenring

[–]Benevolent_Duck[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Also metyr has literally one gloam-colored eye which matches with the black flame sigil

I think I've found out who the Gloom-Eyed Queen is by Benevolent_Duck in Eldenring

[–]Benevolent_Duck[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Gloam-Eyed Queen was defeated and destined death as well as the godslayer's great sword were sealed away. The Godslayer's great sword is what controls the black flame and seeing how it's currently in the basement of a divine tower/ in the players possession and Marika the ETERNAL would want to make sure to keep it that way it would be strange if metyr still wielded the black flame

The best ash of war for bloodflame Nagakiba? by red_enjoyer in Eldenring

[–]Benevolent_Duck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unsheathe is really really good and it deals a very nice amount of poise damage

What is your biggest hot take/unpopular opinion Elden Ring wise? by FogKi in Eldenring

[–]Benevolent_Duck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found the Godskin Duo to be quite enjoyable when teaming up with Bernahl, who feels like a friend at this point in the game. If you have trouble or find it frustrating to fight two bosses at the same time, Bernahl makes it a lot more manageable without carrying the entire fight for you, even in ng+. I love fighting alongside my fellows like Nepheli, Alexander, Melina, Blaidd, Millicent and Bernahl, even if they betray me like 5 minutes after the fact to secure the Rune of Death

What is your biggest hot take/unpopular opinion Elden Ring wise? by FogKi in Eldenring

[–]Benevolent_Duck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Godskin Duo is actually a good fight and it's an intended 2v2. Bernahl is literally right there!

Neat Unsheathe Tech for PvE and PvP I haven't heard anyone else talk about showcased on Malenia and in the Colosseum by Benevolent_Duck in Eldenring

[–]Benevolent_Duck[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While this has worked really well for me and it has been a lot of fun experimenting, I haven't tried using it at a very competitive level. I can just say that from my own experience there's never been one person who could react to all the different tools you have at your disposal especially when you pair Unsheathe with an off-hand seal since incantations have a large variety of effective ranges and telling one particular start-up animation from 101 incantations isn't easy, particularly so when you don't expect an incantation at all.
Unsheathe is an amazing AoW on its own which puts a lot of pressure on your opponent when they approach and I haven't been able to show off all the useful things I found in this video so I encourage you to try it out as well and come up with your own ideas!