This has to be the most retarded thread I've ever seen Elden Ring is the first time in a while where shields feel great. Even medium shields comfortably block huge boss attacks and you can actually roll cancel out of your own shield stagger animation as a "get out of jail" card. If you manage your stamina well you can comfortably hit a great balance of blocking and attacking with the occasional roll for a hueg elemental attack, even on non-STR builds. And with guard counters you don't even need parry timing in order to punish enemies who attack on block, including bosses.
How bad are people at this game that they're trying to force an obviously untrue narrative?
Blocking depletes 70% of my stamina at every boss attack
Luke Turner
Get a better shield. Yes, 100 Physical block is great and all but sometimes it better to go for the shield that has higher Guard boost instead. There is also Shield skills you can get to give your shield the ability to Guard better.
Brass Shield or Eclipse Crest Heater shield are you friends. Brass has amazing stability for it's class although it has the weight to match it. Where as Eclipse heater has insane stability for its weight. Also learn to only hold block when you need it, if you get good at blocking you can regenerate a lot of stamina in between boss attacks.
Jackson Wright
Is it? Felt pretty ass to me.
Henry Butler
it guard breaks literally everything if all the blades hit.
I agree, there has literally never been a better game to be a shield user. It's better than even DS1 because guard counter makes shields FUN.
Isaiah King
How do I get out of caelid bros?
Kevin Brooks
As a sorcery? Not good. As an ash of war? Possibly top tier.
David Morales
You killed the tortoise you asshole
Anthony Hernandez
That's not the Jellyfish shield
Julian Kelly
you mean dog
Ryan Morris
>playing for 4 hours >still have no idea where I'm going or what I'm supposed to be doing
Maybe I'm being filtered but I don't think the open world suits a Souls style game. Dark Souls 1 style honeycombed interconnected world seems to work much better.
honestly the early game is pretty bad, it picks up past the castle
David King
Can you get those from turtles? I just found it lying around on the Morne Ramparts tower.
Jayden Wood
dark souls was better at everything, 2/3 and shitborne notwithstanding
the only good games from has produced are DS1 and sekiro
Eli Baker
Filtered
Landon Evans
Using shields is for faggots and women. > hrrrrrrrr I need protection from big scary monster Stop being a little bitch and ditch the shield cucksoiboy
Austin Turner
How can you not know? >grace literally points in the direction of your destination >first npc you meet after tutorial tells you where you need to go
Justin Wright
>t. shitposting faggot who has never played a Souls game
Joshua Baker
Dude shut up I'm a fucking retarded zoomer okay
Hudson James
Can i make the game play more like sekiro with an item?
Jeremiah Wright
exept for maybe ds1 shields have always been a bad player cruch that was always worse than two handing probably guard counter makes them more viable here but I've still been 2handing the greatsword for the past 20 hours and not missing it
Ian Long
>if u not play game with gear I like u bad! BAD! Faggot
Oliver Sullivan
I only used shields on my very first playthrough of DeS/DaS. Feels like a noob crutch so I can't bring myself to use one now.
Christopher Sanchez
>muh shield I bet you’re the same homo that plays horror games with the lights on and plays everything on easy mode.
Caleb Kelly
>goes off on some schizophrenic tangent about a bunch of unrelated shit Did a shieldchad bang your girlfriend or something?
Alexander Sanders
That’s because it IS a noob crutch. It’s the noob tube of DS. Only cucks and trannies use shields.
Mason Martinez
Shields aren't a crutch in this game because you can only block the last attack in a boss' string to avoid getting your stamina raped, and the game rewards you offensively for doing so with guard counter.
Holding up a shield trivializes 90% of the game. My biggest regret of my first playthrough
Even bullshit like fighting Radahn on foot, it lets you miss a roll on his combos and recover instead of just dying, as long as you have any ability to manage your stamina
