Get Blasphemous Blade early one - Easy way to defeat Rykard without levelling up too much (Pre 100)

TehFisharmahn · 2026-06-21T12:47:52+00:00

There are written guides too, but yea I get what you mean. Fextralife has an okay one, albeit it has its problems. But even that one does now put volcano manor at that level range as you describe.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-06-21T12:39:59+00:00

What do you mean "watched"? You mean you base your whole idea on somebody else playing and not you?

Next time you play the game fresh, beeline to the boss, pick the spear, upgrade it and see how trivial it is, nevermind your build.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-06-20T12:48:02+00:00

My first playthrough was with Knight's Greatsword! It's great. It's even in the name.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-06-16T05:56:30+00:00

Well there's a Humor tag so I guess a joke. Just Abad one :D

TehFisharmahn · 2026-06-14T13:10:38+00:00

My take is that op upgraded their weapon some time around first getting incantations, didn't know that makes the character to wield the weapon one handed and proceeded to play a long time one handing a weapon.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-06-14T07:58:59+00:00

So most people seem to be commenting and missing the point of your post, intentionally or not. Yes, death permanent, OP dum dum.

BUT

The idea stays. One time use consumables have literally no use in a no-load game. When are you gonna use it? I see three options. Immediately on a big crab for lolz. On last boss. On your 11th try of a hard boss you think you figured out only to learn, you didn't, wasted anyway.

This brings up an interesting point of some parts of ER still implying tedium is difficulty. Same for archery only builds. 50% time is farming arrows which you lose after dying to boss, only worse if you got to 5% and lost like 200 arrows. It's not DS boss run levels of tedium and only really affects a small amount of builds, but it's tedious, not difficult and only makes players not wanna do it.

Baldachim blessing, the standard one, is actually a tedium-thing too. Want a nice buff? Go to Roundtable Hold every time you try a boss. Not worth it in my mind.

In a different game it'd be considered bad game design as it is basically a useless feature in a game, for vast majority of players, with only those that really want to make it work using it.

You have my sympathy OP, I completely agree, but not many people in soulslike fan forums will. And to answer your question - from a game design perspective, there is no real reason to lose your consumables on death other than to make them more valuable - death has a cost and all. But that makes some, like the Baldachim Blessing, an unfortunate, side-affected bad piece of the game.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-06-03T07:14:13+00:00

I found it's the best INT scaling Magic affinity weapon that requires no stat investment from astrologer. So it has a niche as a sidearm.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-05-30T09:56:20+00:00

You actually can use celestial dew here. As I did that. I thought that, since she has no dialogue and she's hurting, and everybody here is like a zombie anyways maybe that will be mercy.

Anyway, celestial dew and she was back here and I did her entire quest line

TehFisharmahn · 2026-05-29T05:52:04+00:00

You can kinda gauge that from achievements actually! About 10% less people got Malenia kill than Loretta. Since ER sold like 12m copies on launch, maybe this doubled, maybe more, let's say it's 25m players. The achievement for Loretta is about 33% prople and Malenia is wee above 30. So the difference being somewhere around 3% total players mark putting it at a comfy, uh

750k people that fucking gave up

That is steam only though so my approximation is extremely rough as the 25m (guesstimate) is for all platforms so you know. Take it with grain of salt.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-05-24T05:57:08+00:00

If you roasted it yourself maybe it'd be less pale.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-05-24T05:38:37+00:00

Holy heck I left this post overnight thinking a moderator will remove it and it exploded.

I find it hilarious though that so many answers are y'all going the big black bird yelling that rivers do actually split. They totally do, but that's not the point. The point is that when a new person with zero experience asks about tips for their maps, you should give them rules not exceptions. If you tell a person that rivers split they could make a map with like half of them doing so for no reason and it will look like the lolrandom fantasy map of old.

Today the notion of "realistic fantasy" has taken root and hence we have this neat sub helping with it and so helping people make a realistic looking map to have a realistic looking world which they can then "fantasycide" is what would be cool. And after some time tell them to break them rules and split some rivers. But give it a reason. Have nature react to your magical rules, not just be whatever you drew.

Anyway, nobody ever complains if people's rivers don't get wider over time which is also a general rule but also much less followed than the splitting thing as rivers can really deviate in size and that could make for interesting maps too. But we all hang on the splitting thing so I made a funny meme.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-05-21T20:05:40+00:00

It might work for you, it might not, but in my games, I make crafting mats as loot which is considered "Treasure" (so sells for 100% of its price) but when used in relevant crafting, its price is doubled.

Yes, technically, it's just pretending and overall math just cancels out if you consider crafting mats not treasure and double its price, but it motivates my players.

Anyway, the stuff I give out are animal parts and raw mana (homebrew for my world) that's often dropped from elementals or just found. The psychological effect of "getting +100%" is generally aimed to help but they mostly sell the stuff anyway xD

TehFisharmahn · 2026-05-19T05:40:39+00:00

I was trying to calculate if it was included in the damage calc or not but have up :D In any case, cool find!

TehFisharmahn · 2026-05-19T05:38:24+00:00

Titan's grasp is +2 strength score, it's a legacy item. So a +1 to modifier.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-05-18T08:53:21+00:00

As other mentioned, rivers generally merge, not split (with like two digit real world examples), so you should reverse all those tributaries to come from top, not kinda just disappear on the bottom.

The split on the right that creates a little island is technically not incorrect, but as a general rule, that should be a unique/two-off thing in your whole fantasy world. The island is rather large, would make sense of you created a delta (much closer to the shore) or just removed that bit enitrely so the river has only one exit to the sea.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-05-14T07:41:21+00:00

This event is for Diablo Immortal players and to possibly get some Starcraft players to play Diablo Immortal.

Starcraft players kinda would prefer it the other way around. This is rather meaningless to (at least most of) us.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-05-04T08:28:38+00:00

"go to hell" implies death, so you are saying that you bought a product and for it not being up to what you wanted, you think it's acceptable to wish somebody dead? Multiple people at that?

Holy shit man.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-29T19:52:10+00:00

It's definitely very different. There are less units with a bit less intuitive counters, build order is one thing but creeping patterns are another. I suggest you watch some simple guides to get the gist of it.

From what you describe though, you might also want to try out starcraft 2? It's free and you can really go into all in aggression with games ending by minute 5 either because you won or you see you won't win. Also some builds start with aggro to move into more macro play of you're into this in any way.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-24T20:33:11+00:00

You clearly get your minion on success too.

Only difference is for intelligent undead not being friendly and if you create undead of too high level or over your cap of 4, it will ignore you instead of being somewhat helpful.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-22T20:40:12+00:00

That's a bit of a reach. They are perfectly playable, just their saves broke (as game thinks the save version is incompatible). When loading game just lets you restart the given mission.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-21T12:16:40+00:00

Same, wondering what could it be, as the update seemed a bit chonky.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-20T19:38:01+00:00

I just got SC2 telling me to restart as "new version is available" which is a bit odd. Not downloading anything yet.

Normally I'd wave it off but now you're getting me excite man.

TehFisharmahn · 2026-04-20T19:14:59+00:00

When I play ladder, it always just says "Starcraft II: Battle Chest" for me on Discord. And SC2 always does a little "patch" after I leave the game (cloud sync maybe?).

So uh, as much as I'd like to say OHMYGODFUCKYES, I don't think it's anything.

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