ColonelKillaBee Posted Tuesday at 03:50 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:50 PM Just now, The Good Doctor said: Maxed out for where you’re currently at in the DLC, I mean. Oh I see, then yea I hate having to leave fights but it’s necessary "Even the hardest dick must go flaccid." -Colonelkillabee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelKillaBee Posted Tuesday at 03:51 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:51 PM She yells in my ear all goddamn day especially when driving and I yell for legitimate reasons, gaming of course and I’m the fucking bad guy. I never yell otherwise "Even the hardest dick must go flaccid." -Colonelkillabee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelKillaBee Posted Tuesday at 03:52 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:52 PM My graphics card very rarely crashes too so you know it was a rough time. Mesmer flames too hot 1 "Even the hardest dick must go flaccid." -Colonelkillabee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Good Doctor Posted Tuesday at 03:52 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 03:52 PM You’re the man. You’ll always be the bad guy. 1 * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelKillaBee Posted Tuesday at 03:53 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:53 PM “You’re never happy when you play that game.” -_-* she just doesn’t get it 2 "Even the hardest dick must go flaccid." -Colonelkillabee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Good Doctor Posted Tuesday at 03:54 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 03:54 PM We do it for the rage. 1 * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelKillaBee Posted Tuesday at 03:58 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:58 PM I’m mad too cause when I started consistently getting to phase two and realized I could win, that’s when the adrenaline kicked in and started making me fuck up more. Was totally calm otherwise "Even the hardest dick must go flaccid." -Colonelkillabee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Good Doctor Posted Tuesday at 04:01 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 04:01 PM Just now, ColonelKillaBee said: I’m mad too cause when I started consistently getting to phase two and realized I could win, that’s when the adrenaline kicked in and started making me fuck up more. Was totally calm otherwise Crazy what a difference that makes. My day 1 attempts at Rellana were pathetic. Came back the following day in a much calmer state and whipped her butt like it was nothing. * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelKillaBee Posted Tuesday at 04:08 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:08 PM I think the first time I fought him I was like, 9. One level up was the difference of it took my all just to see phase two, to getting there consistently. So I hope another level or two will get me there. "Even the hardest dick must go flaccid." -Colonelkillabee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBossBalrog Posted Tuesday at 04:38 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:38 PM 3 hours ago, The Good Doctor said: Also, on Ymir's questline… (Plus lore talk down below) Hide contents This might be the biggest amount of high-level lore any questline in this game has ever delivered. Definitely this plainly. Ymir is a creepy old fart, but the fact that he enjoys discussing the nature of the world and answers your questions straightforwardly, already boosts him up as one of my favorite NPCs. I’m sure he’ll betray us or something eventually (his room is full of bloodstains ), but for now I really appreciate having a character with so much insight who is actually willing to share in his knowledge… Though his comment about not stepping on "the little boy" on my way out was very unnerving… what little boy, Ymir? Also, his friend might be the biggest edgelord in all of Elden Ring. She dresses like a female Sauron, wields a katana whose blade is made of shadows, and all of her lines are something to the effect of "I’ll help you, but we’re not friends" *flips back hair* "Leave me." Come on Fromsoft, just have her say "Nothing Personnel, Kid" so we know you’re in on the joke. It seems like Ymir has determined that the Greater Will is not just some cosmic entity but indeed the creator of the entire universe, or at least all life. Which I already speculated was true from the dichotomy between it and the Frenzied Flame. Humanity (or all species of living things?) are not native to the Lands Between, but were "born of Stardust" long ago by the workings of the Greater Will, and eventually arrived or got delivered here. The Fingers are servants, but like humanity and the "gods", they are imperfect and fickle, and so too was the Order they imposed (using Marika) in service to the Greater Will. Once again strikes me as Biblical. They live in a "fallen world" which Ymir and Miquella both concluded has no hope. Even institutions like the Golden Order/the church which attempt to honor the perfection of their creator are doomed to fall very, very short because everyone within them, even Marika and the Fingers, are rife with mortal shortcomings. I think one such fatal flaw is Marika’s wrath for those who killed her people. She carried it with her when she helped shape the Elden Ring into its current state, imprinting her vengeful prejudice into the natural order of the world. That’s what much of this DLC seems to revolve around, the "secret horror" of Marika’s past that carried forward into the modern era. I suspect the reasons she never called off Messmer are because 1) she hasn’t, can’t, let go of her hatred for the Hornsent, even though it shames her, and 2) her guilt makes her wish to keep it all buried and hidden away. Because this sin is an intrinsic part of her, who she is, Marika is physically unable to mend the Elden Ring in such a way that would fix the flaws that she cooked into it. The creation of new runes requires utter conviction, as seen with Fia, Dung Eater, and Golden Mask. (Side note: This is likely why Miquella "discards" every part of himself in pursuit of godhood; he is attempting to avoid repeating his mother’s mistakes by removing any possibility of flaw or sin within himself, but in doing so he is also removing any semblance of will). By later in life, Marika regrets much, and feels that her flawed Order is so off the mark from the Greater Will that she is better off shattering the Elden Ring and using grace to aid the Tarnished in restoring it to a better state without her hate and guilt-ridden fingerprints on it. She believes this is possible because, as Ymir’s questline reveals, we too are children of the Greater Will. She sent the Tarnished away from the Lands Between, away from her flawed Order, in the hopes that we would become stronger and wiser without her influence. I knew you'd like the quest (And it isn't over) Rarely do you get a discussion on meta-physics and celestial bodies; and TES super seldom does it now, so I found it awesome, they added an NPC whose sole purpose is illuminating it to the player, directly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBossBalrog Posted Tuesday at 04:42 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:42 PM 55 minutes ago, ColonelKillaBee said: If I were at max that’s not good news. He’s incredibly hard. I found that counting the tempo to his moves helped dodge them. That second phase tho is evil. There's a secret back entrance to the Shadow Keep. I believe you find it by exploring the Church District (which also has ANOTHER secret mini-area), which leads to a tough (but managaeable) boss. If you beat the boss and go on your way in the area, it leads to a giant stone offering bowl that has like six Scandu tree fragements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelKillaBee Posted Tuesday at 04:45 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:45 PM 1 minute ago, BigBossBalrog said: Hide contents There's a secret back entrance to the Shadow Keep. I believe you find it by exploring the Church District (which also has ANOTHER secret mini-area), which leads to a tough (but managaeable) boss. If you beat the boss and go on your way in the area, it leads to a giant stone offering bowl that has like six Scandu tree fragements. Oh god i went through that back area and got in but don’t think I encountered any secret boss. I did find two things tho, one that leads you to the next area to the north west, and another that leads to the finger peninsula I believe. "Even the hardest dick must go flaccid." -Colonelkillabee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBossBalrog Posted Tuesday at 04:49 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:49 PM 5 minutes ago, ColonelKillaBee said: Oh god Hide contents i went through that back area and got in but don’t think I encountered any secret boss. I did find two things tho, one that leads you to the next area to the north west, and another that leads to the finger peninsula I believe. That one that leads to the finger peninsula is the one, I think it's called "back door site of grace". You can only access it through the statue by the side room connected to the grace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelKillaBee Posted Tuesday at 04:51 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:51 PM 1 minute ago, BigBossBalrog said: Hide contents That one that leads to the finger peninsula is the one, I think it's called "back door site of grace". You can only access it through the statue by the side room connected to the grace Ohh I see so I was gonna run into that anyway. I was spoiled a bit about the boss then. Gonna rage lol "Even the hardest dick must go flaccid." -Colonelkillabee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelKillaBee Posted Tuesday at 04:51 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:51 PM I heard it’s satanically tough "Even the hardest dick must go flaccid." -Colonelkillabee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Good Doctor Posted Tuesday at 04:51 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 04:51 PM 16 minutes ago, BigBossBalrog said: I knew you'd like the quest (And it isn't over) Hide contents Rarely do you get a discussion on meta-physics and celestial bodies; and TES super seldom does it now, so I found it awesome, they added an NPC whose sole purpose is illuminating it to the player, directly. I’m loving it so far. It’s got me thinking about and digging into the metaphysics of this series more than anything else so far. I have a completely unsubstantiated theory regarding the Fingers. That the gigantic "Fingerprint Ruins" in the Land of Shadows are the spots where the Greater Will literally reached down with his finger and "touched" the earth, and brought life to it in the form of the stardust that would be shaped into mortal kind. Because "creation" mimics or reflects the creator, these spots the Greater Will touched morphed to resemble literal fingers because that is the part of him that made contact with the world. And so the first beings to emerge, the ones "closest" in gradient to the Greater Will, are the Fingers. Or perhaps the first primordial beings merely "sensed" or "saw" the GW’s fingers as they retracted into the heavens, and formed themselves into that shape in mimicry of their creator. * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBossBalrog Posted Tuesday at 04:53 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 04:53 PM 4 minutes ago, ColonelKillaBee said: I heard it’s satanically tough He was one of the easiest for me; but I didn't fight him mounted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Good Doctor Posted Tuesday at 04:53 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 04:53 PM Quick question. Is it possible to go through the Shadow Keep and explore the second set of Fingerprint ruins without killing Messmer? I kinda want to just continue this questline. * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBossBalrog Posted Tuesday at 05:10 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 05:10 PM 20 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said: Quick question. Is it possible to go through the Shadow Keep and explore the second set of Fingerprint ruins without killing Messmer? I kinda want to just continue this questline. Yes. And there's ALOT to explore. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBossBalrog Posted Tuesday at 05:28 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 05:28 PM Eight Rembrance bosses down, no summons. I think their quality is higher then the base game for sure. That being said, they seemed to adhere (barring some examples like Messmer and his moon princess) to the vanilla's game design (make them spammy and clearly meant to fight with Ashes)...which I overall feel is inferior to the past boss design (even if it's still better then 99 percent of the industry.) That being said, the ones who standout really standout. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Good Doctor Posted Tuesday at 05:33 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 05:33 PM Putrescent Knight is a dickbag. That is all. 1 * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBossBalrog Posted Tuesday at 05:38 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 05:38 PM 7 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said: Putrescent Knight is a dickbag. That is all. Once you get the timing down, he's not too hard. He takes a ton of damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Good Doctor Posted Tuesday at 05:39 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 05:39 PM Just now, BigBossBalrog said: Once you get the timing down, he's not too hard. He takes a ton of damage. Him taking damage isn’t the issue. I actually hit him pretty hard with this greatsword. It’s his damn frostbite waves that are the pain. Specifically the one that makes a circle around you that closes in. * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBossBalrog Posted Tuesday at 05:41 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 05:41 PM 4 minutes ago, The Good Doctor said: Him taking damage isn’t the issue. I actually hit him pretty hard with this greatsword. It’s his damn frostbite waves that are the pain. Specifically the one that makes a circle around you that closes in. Just jump! Mario style Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Good Doctor Posted Tuesday at 05:46 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 05:46 PM 4 minutes ago, BigBossBalrog said: Just jump! Mario style I do, but it only works half the time because he also does his crazy attacks while I’m jumping and defenseless. His attack where he gets off the horse and they attack simultaneously from the front and behind is insane. * Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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