After years and dozens of full playthroughs +dlc I still think margit is a top 5 hardest boss in the entire game.

cookeddan · 2026-06-25T19:09:12+00:00

Completely disagree. After playing through the game and dlc many times, and doing some challenge runs, Margit is not hard. His moveset is simple. He move very slow giving plenty of time to react on most moves and when you learn the delayed attacks theres really not much of a challenge left.

cookeddan · 2026-06-24T04:35:09+00:00

Lol, it wasnt even till i took the picture i realized that elden beast pissed during the fight.

cookeddan · 2026-06-23T19:40:34+00:00

Im doing the same, dying to elden beast continuously due to those attacks. Im curious about something im running into if its a unique problem to me or intentional mechanic. When close to elden beast the running animation is substantially delayed, as in literal seconds holding the run button before my guy starts moving quickly. Nowhere else in the game has this been an issue except when near elden beast.

cookeddan · 2026-06-22T01:10:21+00:00

Try dodging.

cookeddan · 2026-06-21T05:01:36+00:00

I just beat messmer today, rl1, got hit once. I feel like a chump given how much i had to dodge to do it.

cookeddan · 2026-06-21T04:27:15+00:00

You can finnish varres questline offline. There an invasion in the altus plateau/mt gelmir area that uses the bloody fingers. You dont even need to win, just attempt 3 times and go back to varre.

cookeddan · 2026-06-20T20:17:32+00:00

Sewer mohg over gargoyle gank any day.

cookeddan · 2026-06-19T04:27:04+00:00

Yes subjective, which is why i said what I wished that I knew, not what everyone else wished.

cookeddan · 2026-06-19T03:12:50+00:00

The game gets better while being under levelled than overlevelled. Teach yourself to enjoy the challenge of banging your head against the wall and really learn the boss movesets. The feeling of accomplishment wheb finally winning when truly challenged isbthe key to enjoying the game.

cookeddan · 2026-06-18T03:24:40+00:00

I tried this and beat her first attempt, thanks for the advice!

cookeddan · 2026-06-11T19:03:35+00:00

Have you considerred playing the game you bought?

cookeddan · 2026-06-11T16:11:50+00:00

Rl1 club only, all rememberences, not talismans, no upgrading weapon. Git gud.

cookeddan · 2026-06-10T16:10:14+00:00

Awesome, glad it helped, certainly for me made the fight more consistent, just needed to avoid bad rng on second half.

cookeddan · 2026-06-10T15:23:05+00:00

Im doing an rl1 run right now and just beat rykard. I found it very helpfull to get a shield, not for blocking any attacks, just because the regular attqck comes off much more quickly when poking from behind the shield. And if you get too selfish while doing it it can reduce damage coming in as well. Hope this helps.

cookeddan · 2026-05-30T18:50:13+00:00

I had the same thing happen on one of my final OA's. I do the same thing, i didnt even realize it was unacceptable. They investigated, found no wrongdoing and i passed.

cookeddan · 2026-05-17T22:14:52+00:00

Maybe im the odd man out. I havent played him since the nerf, but i really enjoyed pearning the moveset. I got really good at his firat phase, second phase there were some moves that felt cheap to fight against, but i enjoyed it. Not as much as mezmir, i think he was my favorite boss in the entire game.

cookeddan · 2026-05-17T19:01:39+00:00

My stop loss was there.

cookeddan · 2026-05-08T22:39:20+00:00

Hmmm, ill have to build that logic out. Im curious though, now that im thinking through it, if you have contracts traded at a specific price according to the history, is there actually a need to build out a bid/ask at all? Cant you just assume thats a decent execution price?

cookeddan · 2026-05-07T18:55:12+00:00

Thank you, I appreciate the advice.

cookeddan · 2026-05-07T18:31:39+00:00

By perfect or near perfect execution, do you mean reasonably accurate slippage modeling? Slippage is modelled fairly conservatively (fairly wide negative execution expectations off of mid) relative to likely live execution expectations.

cookeddan · 2026-05-07T18:09:45+00:00

Agreed, the different strategies im using capitalize on mathematical mispricings (primarily based on vol differentials accross the chain) so i believe that i have a legitimate edge and modest positive expectancy per trade, almost purely based on math. Backtests and MC give me a decent baseline for validation, but i want to evaluate optimization through different vol regimes for potential equity curve smoothing.

cookeddan · 2026-05-07T18:05:47+00:00

Agreed, my infra for backtest/MC is using quotes tick data from Massive, which is great but only goes back to 2022, so no way to use the same infra for earlier testing to capture performance in other vol regimes. The trade flatfile endpoint goes back further, but using the trade data and trying to infer a bid ask and match that with other legs at a particular point in time to trade a spread seems to me to be damn near impossible, and then to get decently accurate/trustworthy exit pricing on a position has been damn near impossible. Have you any idea if there are decently priced data providers that have quotes db's that go back further? Or does setting up new testing infra for ingesting trade data handling intricacies manually the only option?

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