Now that people finished the game and the dust has settled ... what went SO FUCKING, SHOCKINGLY right?

Anything that I can slap FTH scaling on to. Plenty of late game options but if you want easy mode at the start kill the Tree Sentinel at the very start and use its Golden Halberd.

the lack of a HUD gives you the real sense of adventure. not really knowing where to go. just going. unfortunately the game is only going to get easier with all the normies bitchin about it. enjoy it while it lasts, elden bros

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Stop being a drone.

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>A shitty aspect of the game means the whole game is shit
>If you manage to have fun and not a contrarian nor a blind drone that means you are still a drone.

Unironically kill yourself.

Miazaki has the george lucas effect where everyone is afraid to challenge him except all his crazy ideas are actually brilliant.

>"We can't wait to add the Hailgate tree as part of the main story."
>Lock it behind hitting a random pot in a totally missable town unrelated to progression."
>"Miazaki-san we spent so much time on this you can't jus-
>"Fire this man and remove the planned platforms in the lake of rot. The player must walk."

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Other thread closed. Wheres the retard user arguing with me about Rivers of Blood scaling, this shit isn't settled. I upgraded the weapon to +10, it clearly, blatantly shows E STR | B DEX | D ARC.
Yes, the weapon scales with arc, obviously, it's D ARC, but it's B DEX SO IT SCALES BETTER WITH DEX, IT'S IN THE FUCKING DESCRIPTION. SO WHY WOULD YOU 50/50 DEX/ARC, WHEN IT CLEARLY HAS B DEX SCALING. THE ONLY TIME YOU WOULD WANT MORE ARC, IS IF YOUR DEX IS 99, BECAUSE ITS B DEX SCALING. What are you trying to argue? It scales better with arc? Then why the fuck is ARC D and DEX B? Is the game lying? Did Fromsoft fuck up and it's actually A or S Arc scaling? Have I been misunderstanding Souls games since Demons Souls? Does B not scale better then D? Do I have braindamage? Anons please help me to understand whats going on.

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Schizo rant over.

It’s really fun. While the tedium of open world traversal is still there at times, it’s made up for with the shockingly gorgeous views and scale of the environment and structures. If it weren’t for the performance of the game and connection issues online, it’d be a 5/5 game for me. As a result of that though it’s 4/5. The absolute best 4/5 I’ve ever played.

Arcane > your cringe physical stats

Were talking pure damage here, not meme's of cringe. If a weapon is B scaling in one stat, and D scaling in another stat, does it not gain more damage per point from the B scale stat? I'm not talking about how dex does nothing else, but arcane adds item find, I'm talking purely from the perspective of damage dealt with the weapon. I need to know if I have been misunderstanding how weapon damage scale works with stats for a decade now.

yeah fuck that shit. radagahn of whatever tf his name was is the most fun ive had trying to figure out how to beat in a long time. i put every point in int and he one shot me every hit and just killed off the summons every time. felt good when i finally downed him.

Yep, this. It's also why I love BOTW so much too.

I used a Flamberge early game with sacred scaling. Godslayer's greatsword is good midgame and fun but requires diving into caelid tower.
Switched to Blasphemous blade ASAP for a better scaling weapon. Just don't abuse the weapon art or the game becomes easy mode.
Alternatively you can use any standard weapon with bloodflame blade/black flame enchant and melt anything

Best weapon imo is Inseparable Sword/BB power stance
Also don't forget to use flame, grant me strength + golden vow for massive dps buffs

Arcane is retarded and broken, it adds a fuckton of damage AND buildup, hence why there's a billion faggots running around with Rivers of Blood oneshotting people with the weapon art.

>Anything that I can slap FTH scaling on to.

Then what's the point of STR at all you can just pump all points into FTH

waifus

I think the whole point of arcane is to increase the bleed damage, not the little bit of physical scaling you get for it

Arcane works with Bleed buildup and bleed damage it adds way, WAY more damage overall.

Add that with Mohg's medalian and the whitemask and you're looking at one shot numbers.

So I have been completely misunderstanding a mechanic in the souls series for a decade? So on rivers of blood, a point in ARC will do more dmg then a point in Dex? Is the item description wrong? Is it A or S arcane? Is it the arcane stat itself? I don't understand. Help me.

Yeah the online is really, really janky. Lots of glitchy movement and moves on bosses

OK NOW I understand. Its specifically because of arcane's bleed buildup. I thought the user was arguing damage scaling, he was talking about the additions of bleed build up being broken. Thank you anons.

You're not taking into account a new mechanic.

Cross scaling and weapon requirements mainly. If you want to use some of the larger weapons you need the str, as well as some shields. I'm going for a paladin tier build so I need the STR, but you can easily substitute whatever you want with it.

118 hours in and I've just gone inside Volcano manor
I am going to be so sad when I finally finish it I've not had a game this good in a long while.

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With 50 ARC I instagibbed NG+ Mohg with 2 Scavenger swords. He lost so much health so quickly he went into a loop casting his gimmick rings back to back and then died before he could get off the third ring, never got a chance to nihil once.

Based, fromtroons are malding.

bros please, I don't understand anything in this game. How do I make my weapons strong? It's so fucking confusing and I'm level 37 still running around with a +4 Halberd (probably wasted my good stones on a fucking halberd). I want to learn so I can experiment and do all that.

You can find bell bearings that let you buy infinite smithing stones for runes.

Take your time user, I spent 170 hours on my first run. Make sweet love to it until the sun comes up.

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It's funny because I didn't even know this was currently a broken mechanic. The only reason I was using Rivers of Blood is as an offhand to Hand of Malenia. I know it's not that great of a weapon but I enjoy its weapon skill. Was just looking for a somberstone katana that scales good on Dex and rivers of blood fit the bill. Now I find out it's definitely next on the nerf list because of arcane, oh well.

It's not getting nerfed. Bleed is perfectly fine as is.

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