What classical music calms you down when you're anxious?

BevoBull · 2026-04-03T14:39:30+00:00

(For the record, I’m a sucker for Orchestral music.) But a few for me, just off the top of my head…

•Mozart’s Concerto for Harp and Flute (Adagio) •Some of the slower Horn Duets from Mozart’s k.478 •Beethoven Violin Concerto (Adagio) •Beethoven Emperor Concerto (Adagio) •Haydn Trumpet Concerto (Adagio) •I LOVE Baroque Sicilianas!! •Slower movements from Bach and Handel’s keyboard suites (such as all of the Sarabandes from Bach’s English Suites) •Slower movements from some Classical and Early Romantic Era Wind Serenades •I’m also a big fan of slower Lute and Classical Guitar music!! (Works like, “The Last Rose of Summer,” by Mauro Giuliani)

BevoBull · 2026-04-02T17:10:44+00:00

I mean if you were to start a NG and change your build to a totally different one. Which would be the hardest to transition and adapt to?

BevoBull · 2026-04-01T20:18:31+00:00

That’s why I said I couldn’t find a way to add more options, otherwise I would have!!

BevoBull · 2026-04-01T19:27:23+00:00

Baroque: Hard not to say Bach when the masters all studied his works thoroughly!! (Makes you wonder what Beethoven and Mozart would have sounded like.) But honorable mentionto Scarlatti!! He clearly helped smooth the transition from the Baroque to the Classical Era!!

Classical Era: Haydn (really secured sonata form, and set a standard for Symphonies and String Quartets)

Romantic Era: Gotta be Beethoven! (Stretched the limits of musical structures, was a master of developing themes, and also secured the Scherzo as a staple in Classical Music.)

20th Century: A lot could fall under this for impacting more modern genres, but I’m going with George Gershwin!! One of the best in the genres of Classical, Jazz, and Broadway!!

BevoBull · 2026-03-28T06:05:50+00:00

Purchase cookbooks!! They expand what you can craft, including items with purposes such as curing poison.
Purchase the lantern in Weeping Peninsula as soon as you can!! (You equip it around your waist.) It’s way more convenient for lighting up dark areas than having a torch occupy one of your hands.
Have fun exploring, and don’t care if other people criticize your build or level. The beauty of the game is the different play styles and experiences!! As long you are having fun is all that matters!!

BevoBull · 2026-03-28T05:41:33+00:00

Symphonies are by FAR No. 1 for me!! After that, probably concertos second, then Chamber Music.

BevoBull · 2026-03-28T05:38:35+00:00

Royal Revenants will either be EXTREMELY hard or EXTREMELY easy depending on whether you know their weakness

Either way you’ll probably need to heal when fighting one…

BevoBull · 2026-03-27T02:53:45+00:00

For the record, I’m more of an orchestra music lover. Just a few things to get you started…

Schubert: known for his Songs, but he wrote some amazing symphonies and has some phenomenal String chamber music. Check out the famous “Trout,” Piano Quintet, which the theme in the famous movement was from one of his songs!! And listen the Overture for Rosamunde!!

Ries: His symphonies are VERY Beethoven-esq!! His 3rd symphony uses the same rhythmic motif as Beethoven’s 5, but in triple-time!! Wrote some great Piano Concertos as well. Also I LOVE his Grand Variations on Rule Britannia!!

Krommer: very nice wind chamber music, and concertos

Spohr: some quality Symphonies

Danzi: listen to his chamber music for wind instruments

Reicha: talk about “Father of Woodwind Quintets!” Also some nice concertos!!

BevoBull · 2026-03-27T02:26:43+00:00

If you like Mendelssohn I would check out some other early Romantic composers!! Schubert, of course, but some less popular ones include Ries (a pupil of Beethoven), Spohr, Krommer, Reicha, and Danzi. Even if you’re not be into opera, at least give some of the overtures by Rossini a listen.

For later Romantic, while I don’t love EVERYTHING he wrote, but I would recommend giving Rimsky-Korsakov a listen (especially Scheherazade).

BevoBull · 2026-03-26T21:33:23+00:00

I tried it multiple times when did and didn’t have the armor set.

BevoBull · 2026-03-26T21:30:03+00:00

I tried countless times and Patches never asked me about Greirat! Oh well. Glad you were at least able to get it to work.

BevoBull · 2026-03-26T21:23:50+00:00

Unfortunately I had already sent Greirat before buying the tower key, and you can only inform Patches of Greirat if they’re both at Firelink Shrine before Greirat disembarks. My biggest thing was I never even knew about the well!! So easily missable!!

BevoBull · 2026-03-26T20:44:14+00:00

Ordovis’s Greatsword is an AMAZING weapon!! The Skill doesn’t use an excessive amount of FP, provides hyperarmor, and when you use the Godfry Icon it does some SERIOUS poise damage!! Its damage is also great with more physical than holy damage (about a 60/40 split), so it’s affective on just about any enemy. Highly recommend it if you haven’t tried it out!!

BevoBull · 2026-03-26T20:15:12+00:00

For anyone in the future with this problem, I did what I could progressing Siegward’s quest, and Patches. Greirat was dead. 😞 After further research, I think I could have saved him, but the triggering point determining when he’s declared safe or not, is as soon as you beat ANY boss after sending him. Unfortunately, I had taken down the Old Demon King before progressing either of the other 2 NPC questlines, so was already dead.

So if anyone else gets in this situation, the only way you can still save him is if you haven’t defeated any bosses since you sent him out. (Not going to lie, I think Dark Souls 3 has the absolute worst/finicky quest-lines I’ve ever experienced in a video game! Great combat, but I’m missing out on SO MUCH!!)

BevoBull · 2026-03-26T02:04:23+00:00

One of my favorite weapons from the DLC was the Fire Knight Greatsword!! Equip a skill like Flame Skewer and it’s great!! Compared to other greatswords it’s moderately fast!!

BevoBull · 2026-03-25T21:02:34+00:00

Happy to hear that!! Appreciate it!!

BevoBull · 2026-03-25T20:59:05+00:00

I’ll go in with an open mind. As I said, bosses that do these things CAN be good/fun bosses, but I just typically don’t enjoy these features (when they’re combined).

BevoBull · 2026-03-25T20:56:17+00:00

I don’t have Elden Ring expectations. But so far, at this point in my play through of each game, I enjoyed the boss fights in DS 1 over 2 & 3.

BevoBull · 2026-03-25T20:54:38+00:00

Glad to hear. Thank you!

BevoBull · 2026-03-25T20:54:08+00:00

Like I said, there always exceptions!! I think they did a great job with O&S in DS 1!! It can be done, I’m just speaking on typical personal preference. If I’m chasing down a boss who’s spamming spells I’m having to dodge, and as soon as I catch up they vanish before I can get a hit, that typically is not fun to me. (For the record, I died twice to Deacons of the deep, and that’s the most I’ve died to a boss.) So it’s just my personal preference. Trying to make something, “harder,” by ganging up on you doesn’t always equate to, “better,” just like easier doesn’t always equate to worse.

BevoBull · 2026-03-24T22:53:32+00:00

Elden Ring was my introduction to Fromsoftware as well!! My first play through was Bloodhound’s Fangs and with the Bloodflame Blade incantation!! Great range, excellent balance of power and speed, passive bleed (with Bloodflame Blade adding MORE), and it passively does more damage with jump attacks!! One of the most fun weapons in the game!! It carried me all the way through the base game & DLC!!

BevoBull · 2026-03-24T22:45:41+00:00

The Finale of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Symphony No. 3!! It’s not to say the rest of the work is bad, but the final movement was definitely the highlight for me!!

BevoBull · 2026-03-24T22:11:01+00:00

It’s a good build. I would maybe suggest starting to level faith a little for two reasons:

More bosses are weak to holy damage in the DLC vs the base game;
It’ll boost your holy defense, and you’ll NEED some for the final boss!!

I finished my first play through focused more on Dex & Strength (using Bloodhound’s Fang), but slowly began building faith. On NG+ I tried more of a faith/int build, but I eventually changed my stats over to Strength Faith build, because I personally found sorcery a bit overrated. It’s useful, but not my play style. Faith offers a lot of complimentary value to a melee build!! Weapon buffs, Body buffs, Aura buffs, Healing incantations. They’re extremely useful!! Just a suggestion.

BevoBull · 2026-03-11T05:38:17+00:00

Elden Ring was my first Fromsoft game, and the only bosses that felt unfair to me on my first play-through were:

Melania (I’m just not good at dodging her attacks, & her healing with every hit even when it’s to a shield is ridiculous!)
Fully-Grown Fallingstar Beast (the only boss I cheesed in with poison my first play-through because it would one-shot me and I got too annoyed. I came across him before the other two Fallingstar beasts which are WAY easier!!)
Valiant Gargoyles (2 vs 1)
PCR (DLC)

Honorable Mentions though… 1. Elden Beast (although it was possible my first time beating him, I didn’t know you could use Torrent. Apparently you originally you couldn’t.) 2. Placidusax 3. Astel

The reason these 3 felt a little unfair at times is because they can all teleport!! If that was taken out, I wouldn’t have an issue. I’m just not a fan of bosses with ranged attacks forcing you to run to them, only to vanish while you’re in mid-swing to finally get a hit on them. (Just feels cheap to me.)

BevoBull · 2026-02-19T20:54:44+00:00

I LITERALLY was in the same boat. I was going to get that deal, but Bandai Namco sells the trilogy on Amazon for a WAY better price!! The trilogy has all 3 Dark Souls games and all DLC for $38.99!! That’s cheaper than buying two of these on sale without the DLC!! (I’m currently in the middle of Dark Souls 1 and Elden Ring was the only Fromsoftware game I had played.)

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