That was my reaction after defeating the

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Golden Hippo

boss fight this morning. FROM threw a boss that is almost as bad as the 1st major boss fight with the FPS dip and the camera where you can see the inside of its polygon body while you can hardly see your character in addition to obnoxiously huge hitboxes. Had 3 tries to visceral if after he got stagger daddy'd but FROM made the genius idea to only have 1 side of the head be the place to do it so 2/3 I was on the other side and it's so big I don't have enough time to do it so I ended up just whacking it to try and make it bleed/buff my attack up. The other time was highway robbery with the visceral, got it in the orange/glowing spot but the game registered it as a regular attack and it woke it up from the stagger, wasn't happy at all. What a mess of a boss, FROM is 0/2 in these giant beast fights, they are abysmally awful. Hope there aren't too many more of these in the game.

Another dragon done where the dumb enemies who are fighting this giant dragon are attacking me while I am trying to work together with them to down the fucking monster(Great AI) and I stagger daddy'd this knight dude in a fort where he got destroyed in like 2 minutes where he bled and got visceral'd like twice. The Sword of Milos still does not want to escape from me, this bad boy is just him. #MightMakesRight.

Day 2 evening was filled with optional dungeons and bosses, think I beat 4 in general. That includes a dumb death bird that can frostbite you that haunted me for the morning, and some dumb gimmick boss fight that can 1 hit ko you if you don't kill enough of it's clones, took me like 20 minutes to figure out what the hell was going on.

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{Spoiler}Fuck you, Miquella.

Kai Cenat.

Jun 29, 2024 16:00:56 GMT KING KID said:

Kai Cenat.

I only knew him from starting a riot in Union Square less than a year ago, had no idea he was a FROM Software guy and finished the entire DLC. Did it solo with no magic or cheese too, dude is legit good. 

Jun 29, 2024 16:38:18 GMT Blindy said:

Jun 29, 2024 16:00:56 GMT KING KID said:

Kai Cenat.

I only knew him from starting a riot in Union Square less than a year ago, had no idea he was a FROM Software guy and finished the entire DLC. Did it solo with no magic or cheese too, dude is legit good. 

In 99 hours too right? 

And the final boss of the Elden Ring DLC has been downed. So it's been a while since I last updated this thread with my character, I ended up respecing and caving into demolishing my character, having to take the strength build and put it mostly on Arcane....but what I ended up getting was instead of a stagger daddy, I became a stagger GOD. This was the build I ended up doing minus the mask which I didn't get since I beat Mohg before beating one of the invaders that you can only fight pre Mohg but still.....

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I already had much of this(The stamina turtle relic/blood increase attack) but the axe talisman basically made it that my charge R2 was the clutch here, the blade of mercy made such good sense on the visceral attacks too. The Sword of Milos is old news, the Bloodfiend Arm weapon that I read about is a killer. I +25 it with blood reaching over 220 which makes it basically 2 swings cause blood loss. I didn't use any buff either, this is pure read, roll and charge R2. My character doesn't apologize with what he does in killing you. It's simple but so effective. 

3 big bosses forced me to respec and it still is by no means a walk in the park but I was able to take down all 3 big bosses that haunted me(Literally my Sunday night went from worry about maybe not being good enough to Monday sleeping really, really good). Thus why I evolved from swagger daddy to an absolute stagger god. I had no idea Arcane would increase the blood loss damage/meter, that was a pure game changer.

People have caught onto this bad boy, seen a lot of videos now giving this stagger god a whirl. This probably means it/blood loss is getting nerfed to oblivion. I would rather see FROM Software tackle the fuckin' perfume attacks, you want to talk about broken?

(Leave my fuckin' blood build alone after you see this shit)

This is still not some win button either, you still have to get your dodges as big bosses can 2-3 shot you, especially the final boss. You also have to stay still for 2-3 seconds and get a swing off that has to hit the enemy which they can sometimes dodge out of but when it hits, it hits HARD. It felt so good rocking one of the bosses that haunted me that was mandatory to beat in the DLC, he is in the beginning of the spoiler video. Did this all as a 1 man show, the game is definitely hard but not impossible. Especially post nerf which helps the beginning game of the DLC. 

^^^^

Elden Ring as expected dropped a patch with some fixes including:

-Fixed a bug that caused the Lightning Perfume Bottle and Frenzyflame Perfume Bottle weapons to deal double damage under certain circumstances.

-Fixed a bug where the Arcane scaling of the Bloodfiend's Arm weapon was higher than intended when setting an affinity. The status buildup of the heavy attack was also reduced.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to the 2nd one. That is lame as heck.

Most of these patched due to pvp. Things like some of these things were one shoting most people. Watching the perfume thing in action is outright disgusting (in a good and bad way). Seeing people pretty much 3 shot the Fire Giant is curazy. No nerfs for me, at least not yet. I tested out the Bloodfiend's Arm and it seems to be viable still. Currently playing around with the Ancient Meteoric Ore Greatsword. Wish I had found this sooner.

Also, Blindy, not sure if you saw it in the patch notes. But rebuilding your PS5's database could help with those fps dips.

Jul 4, 2024 22:40:32 GMT G/B said:

Most of these patched due to pvp. Things like some of these things were one shoting most people. Watching the perfume thing in action is outright disgusting (in a good and bad way). Seeing people pretty much 3 shot the Fire Giant is curazy. No nerfs for me, at least not yet. I tested out the Bloodfiend's Arm and it seems to be viable still. Currently playing around with the Ancient Meteoric Ore Greatsword. Wish I had found this sooner.

Also, Blindy , not sure if you saw it in the patch notes. But rebuilding your PS5's database could help with those fps dips.

Good catch dude, I beat Elden Ring and said done pretty much. :lol: I have so many games to jump into and playing Lies of P/Elden Ring DLC back to back means my thumbs need a vacay so taking it easy with the games I am playing right now. 

Still sucks they kept so many of these tanky builds but we want to target the Bloodfiend Arm. It's still pretty good but it was always a high risk/high reward weapon with the reward now not being quite as good. 

G/B, Randy Orton is one of us.

Blindy , Randy uses the Blasphemous Blade!

Blindy Seems they nerfed our best friend, Radahn.  Just a little though.  We can tell our future kin the war stories of when we survived Prime Consort Radahn.  RIP bozo.

Sept 12, 2024 22:52:24 GMT G/B said:

Blindy Seems they nerfed our best friend, Radahn.  Just a little though.  We can tell our future kin the war stories of when we survived Prime Consort Radahn.  RIP bozo.

I hate whenever Soulsbourne games do this, makes it more prevalent to have to play these Day 1 or else you are going to fight gimped up versions of bosses that so many have tales to tell. 

It's why I messed up with Lies of P, I dropped it last year, and came back to it this year(And had a great time). However, some endgame bosses got nerfed in between so it was a bit of a tainted win for me. 


Radahn has been doubled nerfed, once in the main game and now this. Thank goodness I got him both times solo although this version I relied on a cheap bleed build and went stagger daddy on him. Took me like 45 minutes IIRC, he wasn't that bad doing it this way. 

Sucks FROM Software etc. have to play up to the casual audience with difficulty. Like you can summon or use NPCs if your having difficulty and there's no shame or shaming for that. But keep the bosses the way they are. Thankfully Radahn wasn't done dirty this time around like he was in the base game where they basically destroyed any challenge he held at one point. 

I mean to be fair Blindy, if souls diehards were the only fans in playing this game, it would be a much more niche game. The casuals are what make up those millions of sales. Gotta keep the masses happy. :lol: But still if you look at some of the level 1, 0 blessing runs of this game, you'll see even the veterans will agree that some of Radahn shit was kinda busted and needed a fix. Lobos took like 3 whole 10 hours or so streams because of some random bs from just Radahn himself. So to me, I dunno, I see this as somewhat of a fair and balance patch. I agree though with original Radahn. I think a nerf was needed but they brutally nerfed him to the point where he is pathetic. But I guess lorewise, he is dying from scarlet rot, so I guess it would make sense that he should be gimped somewhat.

Still, glad I got this at launch, so I can say I did beat him at his strongest. But I dunno, I'm happy that more people will get to finish the dlc with a little bit more ease. He still hits like a truck, so it's no walk in the park.