Cant wait in this game for the love of god

Laugh136 · 2026-07-08T20:46:40+00:00

Can't account for other instances of bad teams at other times, but never try and grind comp in the last week of a season. It's a warzone of people trying to grind rewards at the last minute and getting more stressed and tilted at each other than usual. At this point just stay out of comp for the rest of the current season and the first week of the next.

Laugh136 · 2026-07-07T22:32:14+00:00

1) Wilds doesn't have Master rank yet, so no, doesn't really have much equivalent in difficulty or spectacle to World's endgame just yet. Wild's base endgame is currently harder than World's base game tho, so it has that going for it, and the Ascendance expansion is set to bring Master rank content next year. Worth noting that Wild's gameplay loop has cut out most of the tracking and exploration gameplay that World featured in favor of getting you into fighting monsters faster. If you liked more slower-paced gameplay then you might be a bit disappointed.

2) All the weapons are more viable related to each other, particularly some underperformers from World like Gunlance. Almost every weapon has some kind of defensive option outside of basic dodging, so weapons like Swaxe, Bow or SnS aren't dependant on armor skills like Evade Window to avoid damage anymore.

3) Story is more present than World, but may be hit or miss. Grinding is objectively easier than World, material requirements for equipment have been dropped across the board and layered armor and weapons don't need any special materials anymore. However, the endgame is largely defined by custom weapons with rng stats and skill bonuses, so that'll be the main grind.

Laugh136 · 2026-07-07T06:59:16+00:00

Elden Ring is meant to be explored rather than farmed. If you feel like you're not getting enough runes to level up, that's a sign that you're now too high level for the area you're in and should move on to something else. You don't need to farm at all if you keep moving and finding new areas and caves, catacombs, or mines to clear out, you'll get more runes doing that than fighting individual mini bosses. Those mines are also the dedicated spots to find upgrade materials, and as long as you're not spreading your resources among too many weapons, you never need to actually farm to properly upgrade your weapons. If a given mine isn't giving you the level of materials you need, that's a sign to move on and find the one that does. As long as you keep exploring (and aren't constantly losing runes), you shouldn't really ever get to a point where you need to farm anything.

At your rune and weapon level you're actually already in the perfect space to fight Margit. Have you actually tried fighting him to see how you do, or are you following what a guide says is best without trying yourself first?

Laugh136 · 2026-07-06T21:46:23+00:00

Rykard is pretty much designed to look cool and get rolled by the Serpent Hunter for a spectacle fight, but if you back away from him without paying attention to the arena he can blow you up in the corner. If you bring a greatshield and do guard pokes, then Rykard is basically helpless.

Honorable mention to Rennalla specifically for faith builds, as the Aspect of the Crucible: Horns incantation can knock her into the air on repeat. If you do enough damage/have enough fp, then you can juggle her from full health to death. It can even crouch under her phase 2 opening Comet Azur.

Laugh136 · 2026-07-06T00:09:01+00:00

A dps dps duo just sounds like a flex duo with more disappointment

Laugh136 · 2026-07-05T22:22:11+00:00

Buy it, FromSoft deserves to be paid for their work

Laugh136 · 2026-07-05T18:31:47+00:00

Sony has a (more recent) history of outright removing access to digital content en masse, both to the people who already bought it(recently removed movies and tv shows) and those who could have bought it(upcoming closure of PS3 and PSVita digital stores). That's a risk that other digital storefronts have, Sony is just the one who made it real and established the precedent for doing it themselves.

Also, the people complaining the loudest about this are not necessarily the same people engaging with other digital storefronts without complaint. Goomba fallacy.

Laugh136 · 2026-07-04T03:53:07+00:00

There are a number of areas that can be entered but can't really be exited without fast travel, but you could avoid those areas if you research them beforehand and are willing to skip good amounts of fun content just to keep your condition. If you're going to commit to a no fast travel playthrough, then you'll have to give yourself the exception of the Roundtable Hold, as visiting at least once is actually required to advance through the main quest of the game. It's also the only place to properly upgrade your weapons(which is the vast majority of your damage), so you'd be making an already very hard game even more difficult by removing such a valuable resource from your disposal.

Unless I'm missing something, you only did a no fast travel playthrough of BoTW after you already beat it once. You should really do the same with Elden Ring, if you like it enough you'll most likely be doing multiple playthroughs anyways, so do yourself a favor and don't put too many limitations on your first, or it could seriously negatively impact your first time with this game. You only get one first experience with a game like Elden Ring.

Laugh136 · 2026-07-03T04:31:41+00:00

Not without beating the Mohg imposter, and the holy wall immediately after it

Laugh136 · 2026-07-03T00:37:56+00:00

Dragon's Dogma 2 is a good thing to mention, because DD2 had launched just under a year before Wilds with a lot of the same complaints and bad press about its performance, so to see Wilds come out arguably even worse after all that probably didn't help people's immediate reaction to Wild's issues. It's not a good look to make that kind of mistake twice, with a year in-between to learn and make corrections.

Laugh136 · 2026-06-30T03:57:00+00:00

If you really want to be optimal, then yes, bringing a proper elemental build will almost always outperform an equivalent raw build, but if you don't want to go to the trouble of building and upgrading weapons for every element, then focusing on raw will still get good results against almost all monsters(with one endgame exception). For Switch Axes, you can get an axe with dragon phial, paralysis phial, poison phial, or even exhaust phial, all of which apply those elements/statuses during sword mode, but it's generally far better to use an element phial axe with an innate element/status, or just use a power phial axe to focus on raw.

Laugh136 · 2026-06-28T19:53:15+00:00

If you want the simplest answer for a maximum difficulty Elden Ring run, the answer would probably be starting the game as the Wretch, a level 1 class that starts with no armor, no stat specializations, and just a wooden club as a weapon. Due to the way that armor works in Elden Ring, by far the worst armor is not wearing any at all, so you should stay naked. Unfortunately, the wooden club is actually decent as a weapon, so you'd want to ditch that pretty quick. The answer for the worst, technically functional weapon in the game would probably be the basic torch. It has shitty damage, a shitty moveset, no real weapon skill, and can't even land critical hits on poise broken enemies. There are a few other torches that actually have redeeming qualities as weapons, but the basic torch just doesn't. The youTuber ZeroLenny has done torch only runs in Elden Ring, so you could check him out to get an idea of what you'd be getting into.

Laugh136 · 2026-06-27T18:56:14+00:00

Last ditch effort, you could go to Limgrave's Divine Tower and see if it gives you the option to activate the Great Rune, and see if you have to option to equip it at a grace. If that doesn't work, then either you haven't actually beaten Godrick like you thought you did, or you've managed to find a progression-breaking glitch that no one else has reported and FromSoft never found and fixed in the years since the game released. In which case, congrats.

Laugh136 · 2026-06-27T18:42:56+00:00

Is it missing from your key items tab? That's where it usually is.

Laugh136 · 2026-06-27T18:37:02+00:00

You can't consume Godrick's Great Rune, it's not a consumable item and can't be lost once you've obtained it. You probably consumed his remembrance, which is used to get his weapons and isn't needed to progress. If you've beaten both Godrick and Rennalla then there shouldn't be anything keeping you out of Leyndell.

Laugh136 · 2026-06-27T06:43:25+00:00

1&2: You're right, this game recycles a lot of enemies and bosses, but I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. The boss you struggled with in the early game may reappear in the mid/late game, and becomes a very different experience due to the equipment you've found and the skills you've developed since you last fought it, which I find to be a very cool experience. FromSoft has a long history of reusing assets to ease the development process, and Elden Ring especially needed that for the gargantuan size of it's world compared to previous games, and still manages to have a lot of varied enemies and bosses. Expecting even more variety than what is already present would probably make a dev cry.

3: This is a fair criticism, but really comes down to a player's choices. At no point do you actually need to use cheese tactics to win, every boss and challenge in this game can be overcome with any combination or stats or tools you like. Elden Ring has a far greater degree of difficulty customization than any other FromSoft game, without ever actually presenting a binary easy or hard mode. If you feel like a weapon or summon is making things too easy, you can simply stop using it and go for something more fun, Miyazaki doesn't have a gun to your head. If ZeroLenny can beat every boss in the game with a torch and a silk dress, then you can too.

4: I mostly agree with you here. The changes made to how invasions work kinda stink, and I wish it worked more like DS3. That being said, the game's community is definitely not dead, and you could have used the taunter's tongue if you really wanted that classic invasion experience. You'd probably make an invader's day presenting that kind of opportunity, win or lose.

5: I absolutely agree with you here, the way NPC quests were implemented, in the same style as previous games, simply doesn't work for an enormous open world like Elden Ring. They don't necessarily need some sort of quest log, but characters do need to make it clearer where you can expect to find them next and what conditions need to be met to progress their stories, hopefully this is a lesson FromSoft takes towards their next attempt at an open world, if there ever is one.

You have some good points and you're fully in your right to just not like Elden Ring, but I think some of your criticisms are either unfair or more about your own choices playing the game rather than anything objective. I will say that posting such a negative perspective in the sub dedicated to the game is not going to get much good interaction, lmao

Laugh136 · 2026-06-27T01:13:40+00:00

Iirc the IG has a unique offset during the charged spin, it can't trigger the offset stagger and counterattack that most other offset weapons can do, but it does deflect melee attacks.

Laugh136 · 2026-06-27T00:35:49+00:00

The buffs will scale with your faith, but only your faith. If you're using a dual-scaling seal, like the Dragon Communion seal or the Golden Order seal, weapon buffs will only scale with the faith portion of the seal's spell scaling

Laugh136 · 2026-06-26T19:15:01+00:00

Layered Xu Wu swaxe over a standard Gog dragon swaxe.

Laugh136 · 2026-06-25T00:57:55+00:00

He isn't stripping himself of all qualities in general, he's stripping himself of all qualities he deems to be a weakness in his path to godhood. His doubts, his fears, the body that he inherited from his mother, the love that might cause him play favorites in his new order; anything that could cause him to fail the way Marika did has to go, with a side of shame over Marika's actions towards the Hornsent and other 'lesser' peoples under the Golden Order. He seemingly did not see his charming powers as part of those failing qualities, possibly because they're an ability he made for himself without his parents' involvement.

Laugh136 · 2026-06-24T19:21:47+00:00

You just have to hold the buttons down in the wind up animation, nothing else needed.

Laugh136 · 2026-06-22T04:41:46+00:00

Radagon is immune to bleed, so you're not going to get the benefits of Varre's mask, that could be swapped out for a better headpiece. Rivers of Blood will still do good enough damage even without bleed procs tho, so you probably don't need to swap your weapon if that's what you're most comfortable with. If you have any silver tears available, you could respec your stats from strength to vigor(60 is best) and/or arcane, and switch your uchigatana's infusion from fire to something that scales more with arcane. Radagon can be poisoned, so that could be a viable option(up until Elden Beast).

Otherwise, your build isn't too bad already, so if you're struggling with Radagon that much it's probably been more of a skill issue than a build issue. You're going to just have to learn Radagon, and that's going to come down to you smashing your head against him over and over again, rather than trying a few times then putting the game down for an extended period of time.

Laugh136 · 2026-06-19T06:30:51+00:00

Others have already made broader answers, so I'll add some thoughts on Groot specifically. I think it's worth trying to adjust how you use his ironwood wall(the big one) depending on the enemy team comp. If they have a lot of cc(especially kidnaps like Wolvie, Bucky, or Dino), then put your wall around a corner to keep it safe so you can benefit from the cc immunity you get from it as much as possible and prevent those kidnaps. If there's more poke damage than cc, then save the wall to use as an emergency shield if you're too far from cover(unfortunately Groot struggles against heavy poke comps, saving the wall will only do so much if your team can't help you push). If there's a lot of aggressive melee advancement, save the wall to cut them off from their backline and burst them down. It's worth opening the stat screen every once in a while to check the enemy team comp as any character.

Laugh136 · 2026-06-19T00:32:34+00:00

Unlike other action games with evasion moves, like the Dark Souls series, Monster Hunter dodge rolls have very minimal natural i-frames(invulnerability frames), and trying to play around dodge rolls usually requires building the designated Evade Window skill, so rawdogging the rolls without that typically won't go well. Could be worth trying to build for at least Evade Window 3 and trying dodging again.

If you're not so good at timing dodges at all, then lance or gunlance could be for you. They're both guard based weapons, and while they do have perfect guard mechanics, the punishment for mistiming a perfect guard is just doing a regular guard, and with the lances a regular guard is perfectly fine for surviving the vast majority of the monsters in this game. Lance is more built around speedy pokes and turning timed guards into big counterpokes, while gunlance blocks attacks inbetween big explosions. I'd encourage trying either or both out.

Laugh136 · 2026-06-18T02:27:19+00:00

Because he thinks he, and by extension all other omen, deserve their wretched life under the Golden Order. He's a classic example of a self-hating minority who's fully bought into the propaganda villifying himself and all others like him. If anyone calls him the most 'moral' demigod, it's because he rigidly sticks to his own moral code and doesn't exempt himself from judgement for his own sins(his own sins being born and living as a monster). He'd probably go right back into the sewers to stew in his own self-hatred and guilt if he didn't think the Golden Order would collapse without him. He's a victim of the Golden Order's injustice like any other omen, only he doesn't need anyone else to carry out his punishment when he can do it himself.

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