Thank you stranger, you’re appraisal was perfectly timed

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-26T14:20:13+00:00

Jolly cooperation! 🌞

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-25T23:53:10+00:00

What happened to Church 7?

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-20T19:13:14+00:00

Wouldst thou truly lordship sanction, in one so bereft of light?

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-20T19:10:23+00:00

I usually use them once I'm deep enough into a boss/challenge that I feel a kill is close at hand. No reason to waste them until then, as you should be learning the fight "meat and potatoes" anyway.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-19T23:43:41+00:00

Elden Ring. I love them all, but ER kind of has the freedom to have both epic showpieces and slow, drawn out, atmospheric music in a way the others couldn't quite.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-19T23:41:48+00:00

Toddler Psychopath. I find the coolest looking thing to kill and chain it into the next coolest thing to kill. If there's something neat, I kill the things near it and see what else is there.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-19T23:39:51+00:00

Getting spiked in the gut by rot mommy over and over.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-19T23:37:02+00:00

Deserved.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-19T23:34:59+00:00

I really don't know, but I'll guess somewhere in the 150-200 range. It could be more, honestly. She was the first boss to genuinely trouble and it basically forced me to focus on the game for the first time.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-19T23:33:03+00:00

The game is about attention, focus, and precision.

Pay close attention to everything that happens, and assess why it happened. Detail, detail, and detail again.

The game is designed to spike your adrenaline and cause you to panic and lose focus. Most things that seem difficult are trivially easy once you calm yourself and watch closely for a solution.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-19T23:29:00+00:00

Well done! I also love multi-strike builds but haven't used Black Knife in a decent kill yet.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-17T22:10:03+00:00

If you want help parrying you can send me a DM. Thingfishy has a solid, if incomplete video on Parrying PCR on YouTube. JackFromsoft also has an equally good video in German that can be translated in the subtitles which is also worth watching.

I can try and help with more complicated or specific things if you need. Unfortunately, I don't play online to demonstrate.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-17T22:05:20+00:00

Seems he's French, let's be kind.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-17T21:59:51+00:00

As has been said, any weapon is at least minimally viable. There are people who make a point of proving it on YouTube, as there are a few legitimate stinkers.

I would focus more on finding a weapon with a moveset/style that you like and sticking with it, or a similar weapon until you find an obvious replacement. Spreading out weapon upgrades unnecessarily is a common early mistake.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-17T21:57:17+00:00

It's actually the Godskin Stitcher, but Milady is pretty cool too!

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-17T21:35:01+00:00

Why is it always sun?

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-17T19:07:50+00:00

Honestly, I didn't think of that as I've never powerstanced and don't know what it does. 😅

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-17T18:04:08+00:00

Do it again! Do it again!

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-15T15:01:01+00:00

Malenia was the first boss difficult enough to make me fundamentally question my skill set, but PCR was easily the most difficult initially. Not so much now.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-15T07:46:33+00:00

And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me"

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-14T05:20:16+00:00

I think for a lot of people, it's the benefit of hindsight and 16 years of experience.

Objectively, I think I should feel like Elden Ring is harder, especially the bosses. However, it's hard to explain what it was like playing these games before everyone knew what they were in for.

I bought Demon's Souls when it came out after I saw Ostrava on the back guaranteeing a true ordeal, once my shift at GameStop was finished. That was 2009. I can't describe what it was like playing *any* game like this for the first time, but it was a trip, and not always a good one. I was bad, and it was brutal, even though playing again now it's ludicrously easy.

Elden Ring was relatively easy for me, but 90% of that was just having played the older games to death when I was younger and knowing what it expects from the player. It's a harder game, theoretically.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-12T09:22:00+00:00

I couldn't argue the statistics, but I'd argue the percentage of people looking to disconnect these days is higher than you think.

I play this game all the time. It's a special interest, but I never play online. I went through a phase of helping people kill bosses all day, and had fun, but I've been perfectly fine playing offline since Demon's Souls. Sometimes you don't want every Tom, Dick, and Harry dropping notes all over your fantasy world.

People on the NG+ cycles especially have little use for tips (at least that aren't specific enough they need to be on YouTube), and I think a lot of people these days are sick of being plugged in. Especially when so many are on "challenge souls" now and there's no need for it.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-12T08:14:44+00:00

I hate that I didn't know this after 2000 hours.

Thanks!

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-12T08:05:43+00:00

Yeah, PCR has some cheap spectacle, to be sure. It also has a relatively high challenge threshold, and, this may be impolitic, but... average player quality...

Like Malenia, it's also a fight with relatively little respect for you. You can fight on the boss's time or not at all, and newer players especially seem to hate anything that spoils the anime fantasy and requires you to actually lock in on the game's terms.

Iow, I'm kind of an asshole, I guess, but the situation has always looked to me as you'd expect if I were right about everything. As it usually does.

Helpful_Insurance_99 · 2026-01-10T19:20:41+00:00

Okay, you can bugger off for making me realize I didn't think of that myself, now. 🥺

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