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Yes, I know im using Soreseal for a couple of bosses. I get it, im bad, so laugh at my pain, that's the point :)
Hope everyone enjoys and PLEASE watch the video if you disagree with me and take in the message of what im saying. Like fr, im sure you don't disagree with me as much as you think.
This is the worst review for Devil May Cry I have ever watched.
LMAOOO
Yeah he doesn't even talk about the combat of dante and vergil and how both of their bosses are top teir in dmc 5
@@RPT111 true and real and TRUE. Say it louder for the people in the back!
Another thing I'll add about the sacdutree fragments is that there are a fixed amount to what you need for the maximum level amount so that there are no extra fragments making back tracking more tedious then it should
The same was true for Sacred Tears needed to upgrade the amount of health/mana recovery provided by the flask.
Yes, there are only exactly 50 Shadetree Fragments. Even before FromSoft adjusted the upgrade curve, however, you never needed ALL of them. The difference between a 2x damage multiplier and a 1.9x multiplier just isn't that extreme.
Furthermore, acquired blessings carry over into NG+, so even if a player can't find them all on the first visit to the DLC, they can still finish maxing out all the upgrades easily enough on repeat trips.
You dont NEED lv20 to beat the dlc. If you go after all remembrances, you get lv13 naturally.
@@EmeralBookwisewait they carry over?
@@aestheticleviathan7028no
@@aestheticleviathan7028 Yes, on Ng+3 now haven’t collected Scadutree fragments since first playthrough. I think the second playthrough with 20+ blessings is the best since you don’t have to worry about the blessings so early bosses like Rellana and the Dancing Lion aren’t stat checking you.
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I once heard someone refer to Rellana's Twin Moons as "Miyazaki's Ballsack," and I have never called it anything else since. The fact that you automatically associated it with testicles as well definitely earned my like.
i read this comment as soon as it happened in the video, LMAO
One of the biggest gripes i have with radahn is miquella feels boring? Like bro is just a passive buff at this point like do something? Just feels odd imo.
I just would rather fight miquella lmao
Literally something similar to the radagon/elden beast wouldve honestly been so cool.
Also just got to the friede part i feel like black flame friede wouldve maybe been a better addition as a optional hidden memory boss? like sir alonne minus the horrible runback lol. Still like her last stand but yea 3 phases is kinda flawed id say :))
Honestly the community is bs, "you didn't really beat the game because you didn't beat the game with a toothpick" is ridiculous 🙄 lol
A toothpick is crazy 😂😂
They also just don't like open worlds and think that if you do you're wrong, I like open space, I like having downtime to ride the horse and look at the landscape, I like scrubbing every inch of the map knowing that if I go to the trees there will always be an Avatar there.
As a diehard souls fan, thats just the purists. We hate them as well.
Nah bro the toothpick is busted try beating it with a yarn spool, that’s how you really play the game.
@@josephcoffey2175
Is ironic because generally in this game a toothpick would be a better weapon than a cool looking weapon
I nuked Rellana, with the +25 rusted anchor with bleed damage. It stopped her cold.
That's pretty sick. I love that thing. It's what she deserves ngl
@@KinzieK Yes! 😊
Most of the enemies and bosses are parry le and I'm fine with that. But learning the timings on mini boss tier elites is annoying. It's really either that, deflecting hardtear or dodge for 2-3 business days.
Especially against the fire Knights. If you can't stun lock them with jumping r2 from a heavy weapon, you're cooked.
I'll keep it a stack, I only parry in DS1. That's the only one where the timing makes sense to me lol. As a heavy jump attack oonga boonga enjoyer, I was getting cleared LOL
I realised that being in ng+ is like making the difficulty like 2 times worse than if you did it on your first run. If you were to get 3 shot on the first run, you will prob get like 1 shot on ng+ (this is what I think)
You are correct. I was too deep into the DLC (or I thought I was) when I realized I was NG+. The two year wait made me forget most of everything. Even at near max scat fragments, enemies were redecorating the areas with my bodies. I think most bosses were 3 shotting at my best, on average I was getting 2 shotted so I had to scour so much before feeling just strong enough. It was painful.
God forbid you do the DLC in ng+4
Correct. I'm on ng+ 3 or 4 and I just can't find it fun. Hardstuck on mesmer. It's doable but even a slight scratch almost instakills me so I either play sweaty perfectly or I insta die and I'm not that good
I'm on NG+7 with a level 125 build. Once I got enough scadutree fragments it became honestly fine, the usual four and threeshots to the point base game's end areas hit harder. My gripe is more of with how damn high enemy healths are rather than the damage they deal.
@@chano7688 my uncle somehow pulled it off at ng7 I’m at base ng and struggling with way more hours than him he threw himself at the bosses for hours and I work too much for that
ngl, because I kinda suck at games, it was so satisfying seeing people who were worried about being "over-levelled" for the DLC getting their shid pushed in just as badly as I did. I did find that it's really *not* a good idea to start the DLC on NG+.
You all have filled my heart with joy. Thank you for your kind words!
The biggest issue I have with Eldon Rings specifically is the damage problem I can get over the fact that bosses tend to overuse their special abilities and that every enemy is ferociously agile bloodborne enemy on crack, but I have played 400 plus hours of the base game and have completed 25% of the DLC and I'm still currently stuck on malekith the Black Blade after I have already completed the game once.
I can deal with aggressive enemies and wacky movesets as long as there's room to experiment and play my own way.
The other games are so well received by almost everyone because they were fair and difficult at the same time but they also allowed a lot more freedom and expression from players with their builds and variety.
Elden ring has those builds and I have tried to do PVE with some of them but every time I try different setup the game punishes me for doing so. That damage is way too high in my opinion to allow full freedom of expression without having some form of cheese in your build.
I want to love Elden ring and I do like it as a game but not as a Souls game. If it wasn't a Souls game and didn't trust so hard to punish the player for one mistake all the time I could easily say this game is a masterpiece.
You never realized just how balanced the other games in their lineup are until you have played 400 hours of Elden ring.
If they were to tweak the damage down just a little bit I would be fine with everything else- the overly aggressive enemies, bosses over using the special abilities, and the ridiculously punishing atmosphere of the game.
But there are so many flaws in Elden ring that almost no one points out that make this game just way too stressful for anyone who is not a from soft fan, which I am from soft fan and even I think it's a little bit too much.
Elden ring is the only game I've ever over leveled in just to complete it once and I'm going for a second completion because I want to see if I can play my own build without cheesing the game and let me tell you that's one task that is well worth not trying.
Also for anyone wondering if my complaints are invalid, the fact that several of the bosses have been nerfed and there are so many cheese guides on how to kill so many bosses kind of proves my point at this game is a little bit too extreme.
However there is a 20 hour long video from a destiny TH-camr that showcases how to kill every single boss in every single Souls game. I highly suggest watching that just so you can see what exactly you need to do to beat some of the Elden ring bosses just learn how to avoid some of their most toxic attacks😊
I’d would prefer if Fromsoft stopping trying to make every Souls game like Bloodborne, I’m so sick of that game poisoning the series. It’s the Resident Evil 4 of the Souls Series and I don’t mean that in a good way.
@@paladinslash4721 the problem is they perfected the fast combat in bloodborne, it was so refined that it pretty much made that game perfect. Bloodborne how to development time longer than most of the other Souls that production even started during Dark Souls 2 development.
So they had time to perfect how fast enemies needed to be in conjunction with how fast you were going to be, I didn't mind fast enemies in bloodborne because I was as fast as them or faster than them by default. And typically the fast enemies didn't do loads of damage, it was the big hulking enemies that did the biggest amounts of damage so I could plan ahead when fighting large groups of what enemies should I prioritize.
That in conjunction with the limited amount of weapons meaning that it was a lot easier to learn a weapon and how to punish it with the game also being relatively short to complete with an average playthrough of about 23 hours to 100% or about 4 to 5 hours if you're just doing story.
But yeah bloodborne was perfect but infusing that Perfection with games that were mostly slower-paced methodical adventure games really killed the Dark Souls franchise. Dark Souls 3 was the beginning where the slow methodical pacing of the Dark Souls games ended and every from self game now has to be this really fast and aggressive system.
Which I don't mind if it's done right but while I adore Elden Rings combat at this point I still cannot get over how much damage enemies do versus how fast they are. Enemies are both tanky and aggressive while also hitting like a truck for almost every single enemy in Elden ring. Even some of the giant enemies are super fast.
But yeah I wish they would make another slow placed methodical Adventure game like Dark Souls 1 or Demon's Souls to freshen up the soulsborne series again. Elden ring pushed the difficulty a bit too hard at some points and the difficulty is the reason I don't new game plus the game because there's certain areas and certain bosses that just were not fun to fight regardless if they were designed well or not. Elden ring is a great game but a poor souls game.
@@SoloGamer42
Oh, you're right about much of that.
The best enemies are one's that match the description you gave.
Compromise is how you build _good_ bosses.
Boss has to be fast to fit his lore?
He cannot either;
A) be tanky
Or
B) hit hard
It should be a triangle where you pick only two.
The best fitting of this is embodied by many base game bosses.
One being maliketh.
He's fast and he _can_ hit hard, but he has no health(for a boss).
There's multitudes like this in the base game, it's why their so good.
With the exception of the gimmick bosses(looking at you rykard and malenia) you can beat any boss in the base game without much change in a build a long as you account for vigor so you can take a hit.
Unfortunately most bosses in the dlc have no comprehension of compromise and have a massive health pool on top of hitting multiple times AND having tons of damage, unless you interact with a system that isn't built so you can find them easily or are told where they are beforehand.
There's so much more i can list, but I'm not going to as the commenter's in this section know what criticism is, and I've outlined my base gripes.
Gripe is boiled down to;
Game DLC has bloodborne bosses without the bloodborne character mechanics.
@@kairu_aname yeah exactly, but at this time I've already put in over 500 hours in the base game and 100% of it. Finally got my Platinum a week ago and started a new run after I did everything in the DLC that I wanted to do. And I have to say the DLC was my favorite part about Elden ring, another reason to go exploring aside from getting good equipment and fighting unique bosses was the fragments and after you get a certain amount of fragments the bosses become very balanced and really fun. The only one I found to be a little bit Overkill was the final boss but again you can Parry him quite easily.
Even the so-called Commander Gauss was a cakewalk for me and I'm surprised people have trouble with him because their shields in the game. I would say your first playthrough is going to be hell and quite frankly at times is not fun but New Game Plus has been a blast for me after completing the game due to how overpowered I am. I'm sad that I played for so long on one save file without ever going on to New Game Plus unless I started a new save. Maybe my opinions will change once I get to the fire giant again but it is nice to be able to finally kill things again after 100% in the game. Because enemies aren't annihilating me in one hit anymore I'm more willing to experiment with bosses and learn their attack patterns instead of relying on cheese anymore. I do suggest anyone play the DLC and I also suggest don't worry about how you complete the game your first run because I still think that first playthrough is abysmal. If anyone enjoys a strategy let them enjoy it especially in Elden ring.
I kind of have a love-hate relationship with this game. And malekith Black Blade definitely is the best hard-hitting boss because he doesn't have HP at all. I was just falling for that gimmick trap of using the Blasphemous claw instead I should have just been dodging and not rely on that gimmick. A lot of the DLC bosses feel this way where when you actually get enough fragments you realize just how balanced they are with the only exception being Messmer and everyone's favorite redhead. But a lot of the DLC bosses don't have nearly as many gimmicks as the main bosses do. And none of them have been as quite as hard as dealing with Melania. Overall I can't really say Elden ring is for everyone and it definitely isn't the best souls to start out with. Just a lot of its design flaws are really hard to ignore regardless if it is a good game or not.
@SoloGamer42 it's all in the buffs u could have the shortest health bar but if you know how to stack ridiculous buffs along with weapon most enemies melt. Example tree spear buff left hand, then golden vow, then use golden epitaph death rite birds are dead in like 3 hits.
They nerfed Impenetrable thorns today lmao.
Thank God for that.
And it was actually the good kind of a nerf because it's still usable and good.. Unlike some other thorn sorceries..
As a person who mainly builds PVP with 55 to 60 vigor while also using lobster defense buff and golden vow, which I changed to the new lightning defense dragon buff. These bosses still completely destroyed me. In fact, I had to summon a shield poke boy just to kill the last boss. While I stood there like an idiot, healing my phantom. I mean, I can’t be that bad because I have 10,000 hours plus in souls games. And I even managed to bring my level 30 into the DLC and have killed half the bosses. But the other half are quite difficult.
I mean, I could’ve just changed my build, but I didn’t need to do that for the base game. And I didn’t want to make a shield poke build. Even though the game seems to want to push you to make one in the DLC.
Yea, the amount of "lol just change your build 5head" that I've attracted is kinda concerning, like dude, maybe I don't WANT to do that? (and I did do that just to beat the DLC for this video lmao)
P.S. Shield poking is fun hehe
Yeah honestly I think Fromsoft messed up somewhere with the NPC quests and this is what we got. Hear me out now.
The Radahn fight is very similar to a MMO fight. And we get two DPS for it. Which is why the Poke Build is so great. You need a Tank for the fight.
Now I think originally finishing character quests would recruit people away from Leda and onto your team. Instead of ending up with just Thollier and Ansbach you could have ended up with Freya and Moore and Hornsent too. This would make it a nice parallel to the Radahn festival in Caelid too. Needing a whole ass army to take down Radahn.
Well, Freya and Moore could both fill that Tank role for you. But either that made the fight too easy for Fromsofts likeing, or they didn't have time to finish the quests the way they wanted or whatever.
That's my take. That's why poke builds are so great. The fight was meant to have a Tank in it. So making us the Tank is the best way to fight it.
Honestly? Just dodge forward-left for all his attacks except for meteors and gravity pull. Works for both phase 1 and 2. For meteors, phase 1 you can sprint left or right, then jump just before the meteors get to you, for phase 2, run away from him to avoid the multi-hit follow-up, just jump to the right just before the meteors hit, then dodge backwards to avoid his phantoms, then dodge forward-left twice to avoid his main attack.
Gravity pull doesn't have a follow-up if you can avoid getting pulled, whether that is phase 1 or 2.
Edit: This has worked for me for 6 different builds so far, I've been able to kill him consistently, I only used summons for my Lusat + Milady mage run because RP:
Claymore
Great Katana + Ancient Dragon Great Katana
Vyke's Spear + incantations
Lusat's + Milady
Crescent Moon Axe
Fingerprint Shield + Serpent Hunter.
@@darkhobo The shield poke is overtuned, that's why it's so powerful. It makes you overpowered against every single boss in the game. You're literally invincible while attacking at the same time. It comes fairly close to using an invicibility cheat, and I'm not exaggerating one bit.
I strongly suspect Fromsoft is going to nerf the shield poke. They just don't want to mess up other builds in the process, that's why it's taking them extra time to release a patch for it.
@@ETBrooD You're still vulnerable to attacks coming from above and from behind, so the shield poke strat can't just ignore some of Radahn's AoE's. But I don't think it's particularly likely that they'll "fix" it. Greatshields (and even upgraded medium shields) were very strong in DS1, they were weaker in DS3 but could become outright broken if buffed with Great Magical Shield (with the right set up you can block Midir's attacks with no stamina cost). It's the same thing in ER with a Greatshield + Barricade Shield.
Revisiting this great video after finishing the dlc for the third time (and soloing prime pervert radahn without eny cheeses or exploits in any of my attempts) and I still agree with you that the difficulty is too much and poorly executed in general, it feels like even if you are properly levelling your scooby fragments the game is constantly begging you to use meta strats/builds like jumping attack powerstanced bleed infused twinblades and shit like that due to how much damage, health and combo chains bosses (and even some regular enemies) in general have.
And my friends' experiences werent much better than mine either, half of them completely changed builds to better deal with the dlc (and Im not talking abt just switching gear and optimally allocating attributes, one of my friends who was playing as a sorcerer completely gave up and switched to an STR unga bunga build cause according to him he didnt have time to cast spells and everything got instant gap closers or giant reaches that made magic's range advantage useless). Another half of my friends just completely list interest in the game and stopped playing, one of them got so fucking pissed that after trying to beat radahn with me on co op for half an hour he just gave up, closed the game, uninstalled and started playing fucking warthunder of all things. The dlc was so unfun to him that he uninstalled to go play warthunder, and this motherfucker was my friend who had the patience to grind for the ds3's proof of a concord kept by killing silver knights for days to get all achievements.
So yeah, despite me actually liking the dlc a little (although being overall disappointed by it) I gotta say from fucked up this time.
And before any "get gud" piece of shit start dogpilling on me and wanting to invalidate my arguments for sayin that I "lack skill": again I soloed prime radahn with 3 of my characters, one dex+arc level 150 build with a bleed milady and a buckler to parry; one pure faith level 150 caster build with a sacred milady and a generic medium shield to parry too (I didnt use spells with this character despite being a caster cause guess what? If you are solo you dont have good openings to SAFELY cast spells on radahn that arent fast like catchflame and he is always on top of you so no ranged pokes either); and lastly a quality build at also level 150 with a godskin sticher and a buckler on NG+. I didnt use any ash of war on my attempts to not put away my parrying shield. Parry makes radahn more bearable on the second phase but it still is a garbage designed boss
"Dancer of the boreal valley is the first enemy" ah that made me smile, it's so true 😊
I know right?? 😂😂
@KinzieK lol, Oh you bet I also agree with Radahn, I don't get why people liked him, his original battle was just an awful experience for me first time at release pre nerf. And the fact my friend said "omg imagine if we get to fight young Radahn" I hate this shit, that we get this awful final boss in the dlc, even after ds3 had the best final boss, being slave knight gale, who had such a great three phase fight, and it felt so awesome! 😊🦊
Skimidi fragments are pieces of the tree that miquela broke off while breaking apart his person into simplifying his WILL to be a god. It is a way for tarnished as an outsider to not be strong in a land not in the lands between but a different realm makes sense why it isn’t a linear level difficulty like you suggested
I've been told this during stream a few times. The mechanic itself doesn't sit right with me, the story reason is fine and makes sense to me 👌🏽
The Scadutree system has such an easy fix, either they can:
A) Decrease the amount of fragments needed for max level from the amount available currently (say requiring 35 out of 50 for level 20 instead of all 50)
B) Patching in extra fragments to account for players not being required to find all of the fragments (adding an extra 15 would allow for much needed leeway)
As it stands if you play without a guide it forces you to waste time needlessly exploring just to withstand the bosses, when in reality most of the game's locations are barren without any fragments to find
That, or just use a guide to save yourself the time; Which if you have to use a guide just to find a required item for withstanding the DLC that in itself is a problem with the game not teaching the player properly
"This exploration game wants you to explore."
😂
The difference between 32 fragments and 50 fragments is only 0.13x over base damage and taking 1.032x more
Bear in mind these percentages are based on the base damage, the comparative increase is even less than that cause you're already taking slightly over half and dealing slightly less than double, at scadu level 14
If you can miss 18 whole fragments and still have stats like those, I think its fine to have to be a bit dedicated for the glamour of scadu 20
Yo that dancing lion was insane hard because of the camera angles and how close and fast it is. I needed scadu at (7) to just handle the hits when i cant see
I gotta say I disagree with your take on Rellana and her "never-ending" combo's. She has lots of pauses and her moveset, while fast, isn't hard to memorize or dodge with practice.
I agree that the first boss, The Lion Dancer...thing, was annoying. His moves were hard to figure out for me.
I haven't really understood the discourse against the DLC. It's difficult but not anymore difficult than other FromSoft DLC's...
But, to be fair, I may have beaten all the FromSoft games, but I'm terrible at them. Practically every boss feels impossible to me for a long time so maybe that's why I didn't get bothered by the difficulty. I'm used to failing 20+ times to most bosses already xD
No hate at all on that first point. I figured at least one person would disagree with me on the Rellana fight, even a few people did while I was doing it live. I can see it.
@@KinzieK That's not to say I didn't find her difficult, I've died on her the most so far. I just never considered her moveset unfair or too aggressive.
BUT, I had a decent amount of Scadutree fragments also. I never interacted with that system without guides. I don't have time for that. If anything, the guides for scadutree fragments are basically just allowing me to experience the whole game, which I appreciate
100% on my next 2 simultaneous dlc playthroughs (I'm hopelessly addicted) the guide is pulled UP. never getting caught lacking again. 😂
I had to learn to parry her to beat her 😢
I think that depends on the person.
To me Lion Dancer was ok, Rellana was hell... Messmer is easy, midra is easy, The finger mother is hard, Radahn is hard, Bayle is mid... The Trina Horse man... Is hell
The only DLC review with genuine commentary over the game to actually show what you see as the problem AND you did it cohesively? Idc if i even agree sub earned
BASED OPINION TBH
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Highlights of the video for me where the moments of sassy ebonics used in the boss rage's on Relanna and Radahn, thirsty homoeroticism incorporated into the rage in the Mesmer fight was a flex i never thought i would see in a Boss Run but you beat him so you earned the pop off. Also Mahvel vs Capcom 2 music was top tier. Gameplay was clean and the commentary was insightful and intelligent, 10 out of 10 ancient dragon Men super entertaining video
Absolutely beautiful comment. Thank you so much for watching!!! these types of comments have me geekin fr. You literally watched this video EXACTLY as was intended. Catch this pin.
Yeah subbed and I 100% think your right about the scadutree fragments, I'm not sure why they felt they were necessary at all, my guess is too many hardcore fans overleveled themselves and complained ahead of time so they added this in. In my opinion From Soft games are always as hard as you want to make them, so for elden ring I typically limit my builds to roughly lvl125 but if someone wants to go higher that's their choice. I don't think we needed a special system because some players decided to go up to like level 500+ or something, that was on them, if it's too easy roll another character I don't know what to tell you.
The new weapons, spells/incantations, gear, content and bosses should be enough of a reason to encourage exploration.
I personally can't speak on why they're here, but I agree with everything else. Very unnecessary to include.
I didn't mind a whole lot to the DLC except a few minor topics. Base game gives extras for your upgrade path, but the DLC does not, so you have to genuinely check off a list to figure out which you've gotten for full effect. Besides that, I've appreciated one boss room more than any other in the base game which is Starscourge Radahn. Giant enemies that move all over the place isn't a bad thing, but if you're fighting your camera on the map geometry to keep track of them then things are being difficult for the wrong reasons at the time. And for that the three big bosses that I never experienced this with was Romina, Putrescence Knight, and Bayle (after I make it to the middle of the arena). Messmer has no camera conflicts because his room is just open space with invisible walls. If there's just 1 policy I'd like though in general is that the boss isn't allowed to roll over in bed and reach the other side of the room. If it's shooting fish in a barrel, it's not a thrilling fight, but an inevitable demise regardless of performance.
But let's talk about what's wrong with the real worst experience in the DLC (The rest are literally just minor, but are enough to irk many). Promised Consort Radahn. They took the hardest attack to dodge in all of Dark Souls 3, and made that every attack in the final boss fight of Elden Ring DLC. What made it work in DS3 was how more scarce it was used by Lorian. What made it not work in Elden Ring DLC is that it was EVERY ATTACK in phase 2, and it got more intricate. Then they spammed Nameless King animation check glitches at you after making you dodge for your life followed by the Lorianism and called it a day. I do think the hug was a genuine good idea though and sorta comical irony with the continued trend of hugs = bad things in Elden Ring. The lore we got from this encounter wasn't much to go off of at all, the end of the DLC didn't achieve anything besides swatting Miquella like a fly and make us like a side of people we thought were something more sinister yet. Despite this disappointment, I will say the weapons are a dope reward for the trouble to inflict upon other human beings without remorse. I do wish we got a more unique set of fashion from the last battle though instead of vibrant Radahn armor.
I honestly thought the dlc was great, but I cannot stress enough how stupid the scadutree fragments mechanic is, I also don't really understand the obsession with enemies not giving you a single fucking second to breathe. I find that so many of the bosses in this DLC throw out way too much visual diahorea that it's almost impossible to even see whats hitting you at most times. I actually felt like I could breathe for once while fighting Messmer, hell, I could even see his damn weapon, see what I was dodging. I don't even wanna comment on the Radahn fight, he's just over agressive, it borderlines unlearnable and it's just not enjoyable.
Great Video, you have a knack for making 40 minutes feel alot shorter than they are. Keep it up.
You pretty much echo my sentiments exactly. And THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT I was worried it would be too long for people 😂
What exactly is the argument against the Scadutree fragments?
@@ETBrooD
They're unnecessary and take away from your characters progression and put it entirely into this mechanic.
In other words you're fighting against a slider just trying to make back to neutral for no reason other than playtime or forced exploration.
the scadu fragment nonsense sounds like vaguely nice on paper, it was likely added to encourage exploring right? there's just the issue that some are so fucking nonsensical and it's tied to progression it's fucking AWFUL, I truly hope they don't do this again, a similar system worked in sekiro cuz it was just tied to killing minibosses maybe they could've done that here but it's so bad the entire idea just grosses me out
Some of these fights are just you against the camera, sadly the cameras in some of these bosses are the real boss.
“Cause she stacked vigor early on in the game” 🤣
Literally *the* answer 4 “TOO hard!”
+ the way he said “Malenia’s” name w/such hatred (but see? VIGOR)
Immediately love the humor-think I’m subbed!
Personally liked DLC, though absolutely agree the “scadussy” wasn’t necessary
-Hell lore even becomes more convoluted in DLC.
-I’d say I enjoyed The Ringed City,
The Old Hunters a good bit more (ofc Artorias of the Abyss)
loved vid all the way through; appreciate it man. Subbed👍✌️
Ty for watching!! ❤️❤️ I appreciate it!
@@KinzieK hells yeah man
-the scadussy (it will always be that now-thank you 😂)
-truly was unnecessary. The one thing that bothered me; & not insignificantly
I uh, did not expect that level of homoeroticism when you fought Messmer. Not that its a bad thing, it just seriously caught me off guard.
Hey, while we're on that subject, here's a meme: When Bandcai Namco advertised the Collecter's Edition of SoTE, it included an 18-inch tall figure of Messmer, and the official video's description said (and this isn't a joke) "Treat yourself to 18 inches of Messmer the Impaler."
Naturally, this has done spawned an absolute boatload of "Messmer's 18 inches" jokes, so after watching that whole debacle just now, I have to ask: "How'd you handle Messmer's 18 inches?"
It was pretty much my favorite fight in the entire dlc so take that however you please 😂
@KinzieK lol. Midra was my favorite DLC boss, because that soundtrack absolutely slaps, and the leitmotif of the merchant's song in the Frenzied Flame Proscritpion in the phase 2 OST was just the cherry on top.
Here's a little funfact: Midra actually has the most health out of any boss in the DLC, even topping out Bayle, or Radahn and the little asshole femboy that's mind-controlling him (that's not a joke, that's actually lore, btw)
I think something like Promised Consort Radahn would've been received better if he was optional or something because I love learning hard bosses like this, but I can see how he can ruin the experience for people. He's nothing like any other bosses and just simply invalidates many builds and play styles. I appreciated him though since Gael seemed pretty underwhelming. The scadurtree fragment system is pretty ass though. I won't feel bad about cheating in frags whenever I start a new character.
I absolutely agree about the Promised Consort.
Personally, I still find Melania way harder than anything in the DLC. She is the only FromSoft boss I have never been able to beat on my own in single player and had to rely on co-op "cheese", but I didn't mind that because she's an entirely optional boss located in an equally optional hidden area of the game.
@@EmeralBookwise
Maybe you'll feel a bit better about malenia if i told you she's a gimmick boss. I hate gimmick bosses.
Either you know and can execute the gimmick or you die.
For her it's two parts.
Number 1) she can heal on hit.
Number 2) waterfowl invalidates many builds.
IF you take away either she ceases to be a gimmick fight in the same way rykard does if you remove the lava under him.
The thing I've done to mitigate that for me is get ice pots.
If she goes up, she gets an ice pot to the face and i use fire attuned weapons to clear the frostbite.
I do this because on console i can't;
Recognize the attack in time,
Unlock the camera,
Run around her to disoriented her tracking,
Time multiple dodges to avoid damage without being able to see her for the first.
@@kairu_aname: I appreciate the gesture, but like I said, not being able to beat her on my own doesn't bother me. I shamelessly summon cheesed her.
I'm also well aware that it's those two gimmicks which are the problem and that removing even one of them would probably make her beatable for me. I've tried frost pots though, but I can never get the timing right.
@@EmeralBookwise
My only suggestion for frost pots is as soon as she goes up.
Doesn't matter what she's doing, chuck a pot
@@kairu_aname I dont think she qualifies as a gimmick boss since you dont really need to do anything beyond the regular means which is dodge and memorize openings you can punish. The only thing you really need to do is to avoid trading with her because you will lose every time. She's really not that different from every other boss. A gimmick boss would be something like Rykard where you are heavily encouraged to use a specific weapon (serpent hunter) to beat him.
They developers assume youll be summoning in these fights. They are built for it. I also fight the games solo for the first victory but i understand im adding extra challenges for my self.
Coulda been worse, coulda been running a build that incorporated any kind of ranged shit that wasn't a two-shot. That'd be very silly to do in this DLC, I love making entire categories of builds non viable!
They would NEVER do that - this post made by Str/DEX gang
Always think its interesting when people don't like scadu fragments. They are just giving you more effective health and damage which is the same thing levels do. They could have exchanged the fragments with a free 10 levels or something and it would have basically been the same. (or weapon upgrades to +11 or anything really. If anything a smithing stone works better as a comparison because the +10s are harder to come by and spread through out the world) It gives similar vibes as someone reaching margit with in the first hour or two of the game cus the just went forward and then getting salty because they need to go explore limgrave to get levels so that the boss seems fair. If cant kill boss then go explore is the entire vibe of elden ring. Glad you enjoyed the dlc though.
DLC exclusive weapon upgrade stones is sorta exactly what Scadutree fragments are, only better. Unlike with weapons, where anytime you find a new one you can't even use it right away without going back to the blacksmith and need up to 49 different stones of varying grades, Scadutree blessings are innate to the character.
As for finding them, all I can say is I found 49/50 on my own without a guide, but then again exploration is my favorite thing about this game.
Saying that souls has "never" been about upgrade materials, is literally false. When every previous game has had weapon upgrades, and DS1&2 even had armor upgrades as well making them even more directly comparable Scadutree Fragments. The only difference is that now those upgrades are discovered through exploration in fixed locations rather than as random enemy drops that might require additional grinding if a player isn't lucky... or heaven forbid, they want to switch to a new weapon and have to start the entire upgrade process all over again.
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All that said, I do otherwise agree that I prefer the slower more methodical pace of previous games, whereas Elden Ring, and to a lesser extent even DS3, feel a bit too fast, with too many enemies that throw out wild flailing combo. It feels less like a back forth, dodge and counter punish, but more like dodge, dodge, dodge, maybe sneak in a hit of your own if the boss feels like letting you, and then back to dodge, dodge, dodge.
Admittedly, this kind of hyper aggressive AI is a sort of a carryover that started even further back in Bloodborne, but that game also gave the player similarly fast mobility to match, not to mention the entire rally system which helped to reward aggressive play while offsetting the need to chug a flask after every trade.
While I can agree that scadutree blessings are similar to upgrade materials for weapons, the application is different in my opinion. Weapons being able to be upgraded is more of something that I enjoy than the direct stats of my characters being affected because you get so many levels in the dlc anyway. I feel like adding another layer onto that established system is unnecessary and would fit better as weapon upgrades, but like I said, that's just me. It's purely hypothetical anyway lol.
When I say that isn't what souls is about in my opinion, I don't mean upgrade materials, I mean having to overcome artificial limits on your character. Upgrading weapons and building from level 1 is typical, but an inherent nerf on a pre-established character just isn't what I expected. I expanded on this a tad more when I go over the other games. The DLC for the other games didn't need artificial limits (in DS2 this was limited to one boss you don't have to fight but that's whatever), you just went in and your character was your character. If that makes more sense, I'm glad, but I don't aim to get you to agree or anything, I'm just trying to get my point across more clearly.
*I agree on your last halves of your comment. Ty so much for watching, sincerely.
@@KinzieK: It's really no more "artificial" than weapon/armor upgrades are in the first place. If it feels that way, it's probably just because it's a new system you aren't used to.
You are right that none of the previous game's DLCs featured an upgrade system separate from the main game, but they were all also more linear games, especially in their DLCs.
Because it is an open world exploration game, however, Elden Ring is a very different experience. The devs have been clear that the reason they implemented the Scadutree system was because they wanted the DLC to reflect that same ability, where if a player was struggling against a boss, they could ride off in a different direction to find new stuff and come back stronger later.
I'll just chalk it up to the system not being for me then, because I don't think frags are hard to get used to or anything, I just think they aren't needed at all and creates a level of difficulty that is, no matter how small or large, not 100% based on your character until you find some, not all, but some frags. Like if I had to compare my feeling to anything, I say it's like handicap sliders in fighting games, and you're just pushing the slider more and more back to neutral with each blessing. And I understand the intention by fromsoft, but I genuinely think it is unnecessary, and I believe I mentioned this at length in the video as well.
I still think weapon and armor upgrades are more intentional than you're saying, but I can just agree to disagree on that. I do appreciate this back and forth though, I see your points and I don't really even disagree on most of it, but some of this is just opinions at the end of the day.
Also, if you liked the video, then that is mostly what I care about tbh 😂
@@KinzieK: Admittedly another thing that might color our divergent experiences with the Sacdutree system is that I played the DLC in base NG, whereas if the twin Maliketh Black Blades at the start of the video were anything to go by, you seemed to be in at least NG+ if not NG+2. That's going to make a huge difference on how much heath and damage output the enemies have even before factoring in blessings.
Anyway, I appreciate the back and forth as well.
I try never to make conversation on the internet be about wining/losing, proving who is right/wrong, just an open exchange of ideas. Even if no one walks away with their opinion changed, we can maybe all at least be more understanding of other people's differing opinions.
Nah, I only play base NG because, as is probably obvious by this point, I like the base experience and learning that version of the difficulty with all "soulsbornkiroring" games because I see that as the most intended difficulty.
And trust me, this was probably one of the most healthy discussions about a video that I've had in a LONG time 🙏🏽 once again, ty for watching and engaging.
I wish godwyn was the final boss instead of radahn and yes ik what your going to say “WElL HeS SuPPosed to BE dead”
Well he’s dead spiritually and not physically so miquella could’ve used his physical soul to revive him well technically revive him
So godwyn could’ve been the final boss am I right?
As one who could care less about story, I definitely think it could happen. It's a game. You can go nuts
OMG the shop music from PSO around 18 min. Love this!!!!
Words carved coalesce
I abandon here my life
- Me dying to daddy radahn for the 1000th time
😂😂😂😂
Yu-Gi-Oh! mentioned and Cimooo quoted? Thou'rt a man of culture, I see.
😎 Appreciate that
3:43 This was me too 😂
I feel your pain fr 😂
It’s the fact that I see the frames physically drop in the consort raddahn fight still loved phase one
As someone who had 85 vigor, plus the maxed out physical and holy damage resistance talismans, with a maxed out scadu blessing.
Blessed asswipe Radhan was still three tapping my ass in new game. So I swallowed my soloing pride and summoned.
i really wish the perfumer starting class got the perfume weapons
Wtf are u talking about lol
Huh?
Imo; For those wondering, he's speaking from a point of a channel called "tulok and mango" iirc.
They occasionally build "secret starting classes" to get a fun video going.
I do like the scadutree system. Now before I liked it i didn't care about it because I play a mage and my lvl 180 charter with 80 int Darkmoon, 2 staffs of loss, terra magicka, night comet goes burr with or without them. It wasn't until a friend and I started a playthrough together that i appreciate it. We haven't beat morgott yet ( not that he will be an issue when we get back to him) but we've already taken down rellana's combo hell. And we are getting stronger so when we are back in the base game the mountain top won't be as shocking. But we are able to adjust to because we found scadutree blessings early to make the dlc easier for our sub lvl 100 characters to start without taking back shots from everything in the dlc now we are around 150 just chilling and i think we will continue to hop back and forth between dlc and base game without to much difference in difficulty
I completely agree with the Radahn sentiment and sister Friede I appreciate the vision, but the 3 health bars is a slog especially in NG+
The later levels of the scadutree fragments don't affect you much, so it probably wouldn't help you much against Radhan
15 or 16 scardu fragment level is enough to fight the final boss basically. Just enough exploring to get to that level and not have to look in Every corner for level like 23 I think?
The Scadu Tree Feagments are awesome because they make the DLC doable at almost any level instead of needing to meet a theeshold. Yoy dont even need all 50 of them either, Blessing 12 to 15 is plenty enough.
The Scadu Tree Belssings are a fantasric mechanic that peoppe arent sering the full benefits of from a mwchanical Standpoint.
Same with the DLC being littered with stones, it creates extreme flexibility in when yoy can enter and complete the DLC content, yoylu dont have to go to end base game to get full power weapons and the like you can get them in the dlc.
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Remember when Artorias was considered a fast and unrelenting boss? He’s be joke compared to today’s bosses. In fact, Messmer and Radahn embody all the worst excesses of the post Bloodborne era. Fromsoft needs to stop making the Souls series a wannabe action game and go back to its slow and methodical dungeon crawler roots.
And for godsake Fromsoft get your damage values under control. 80%+ damage reduction should do more than be able to take two hits before chugging.
The DLC feels like a mod fr
I agree with a lot of the points you made in the video. ds2 is my favorite of the trilogy too so that should say something. That being said i enjoyed the Leda fight but i also summoned Ansbach and Thioller which made it feel like an old school ds3 3v3.
Fair enough, I have heard from a few people that Leda is better with summons. I don't think that's invalid ❤️
The thing I hate about the DLC is how many bosses are basically overpowered Elden Beast fights with no Torrent.
I can count 3 bosses that don’t involve you spending 75% of the fight running across the arena to score one hit before the boss sneezes out 5 different field wide 2 shot aoes while jumping to the other end of the screen AGAIN AND AGAIN!
Literally only:
Midra
Rellana
Consort Radahn
They are the only ones who don’t spend the entire fight in the air or jumping clear accross the arena over and over.
Maddening!🤯
The Leda fight… you can have Ansbach and Thiolillieh(spelling) help to even the odds of you finished their questlines.
I miss my perfume bottles and impenetrable thorns😢
NEW KENZIE BANGER
Ty for being here for most of this booboo ❤️
@@KinzieK always pookie🫶🫶
30:45 Radahn really said, “Yeah imma jump up then send like 50 shadow clones at his ass” & him & Myazaki promptly chuckled & went out of drinks🤦🏿♀️
I actually liked scadutree fragments they felt like a very good reward from exploring the world (which is a reward in itself) and I also really liked rellana. Heck even radahn felt sick to fight the second time.
I think that's a great thing If you like them, that means that you ate spectacularly good with this one 👌🏽
@@KinzieK oh that I did for sure. Also keep it up this was a great video I watched the whole thing
I don't get the rellana hate personally. I went in with a big ass hammer main hand and godfreys axe on the off hand, tried to exploit tf out of her poise and she was p much the most fun i had with a boss in elden ring. You can cash in so many small windows to attack her it's crazy. And a lot of her attacks that seem impossible to dodge are very viable with proper timing and a lil bit of dedication. Genuinely a very fun boss fight imo. Every time I got damaged it was either me gambling a trade to keep her poise health on the decline or because i was being dumb. Never had a situation where it felt unfair or unforgiving. She went down in less than an hour. And I'm saying this as someone who was stuck on malenia for 8h that were split in sessions and some looking up on her waterfowl dance.
I'd say the biggest grievances of the dlc are the furnace goldems which have really good and really bad crystal tears which means you gotta spend a bit trying to fight these unbalanced enemies with over 100K health just to get them and there are some issues with some of the bosses in the dlc with their unending combo line when you're just trying to heal or punish
it feels a bit unfair sometimes
I didn't engage with the golems at all. Just didn't want to lol.
@@KinzieK I feel the same way but I had to because the completionist in me keeps nagging in my head
“Point blank and maybe even… period!”
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Honestly what rubs salt in the wounds the most about that Radahn fight isn't the shitty cutscene you get after beating it. It's the reskinned boss weapons and the shitty light ray spell that is only really effective on stationary enemies which in this game is basically just telling the player to "Yeah, go fuck yourself."
Hell that rubbed me badly too, most if not all dlc remembrance items are trash. You do all that work for nothing.
@@steppman2 in retrospect one good weapon was Gaius lance blade but it still wasnt anything insane just a solid weapon, if anything the ash of war was the best aspect cause you could put it on Guts sword.
I solo first tried Rellana, while Malenia took 15 tries with the same build
Rellana definitely took me less tries overall (Malenia still serves me up on a platter to this day) I just prefer the process of learning Malenia personally.
On my 3rd play through, after the fire giant I was like, “ah man, I don’t wanna go through these areas.. ahhh” lol still did it to get the Platinum.
Congratulations. I still have yet to get it but maybe one day 🙏🏽
I dont love having yet another upgrade system to deal with, but its not like its confusing to understand. I’m very much the unga bunga git gud bash my head against the wall till i kill it type, and even I was able to recognize “oh if i get like 2 more scadutrees and come back this fucking lion will be doable.” I’d be criticizing the dlc if it didn’t kick me in the nuts🤷♀️
6:22 this boss is weirdly easy for me... I played the DLC 3 times and first tried him 2 of these runs. I first tried him the first time I fought him in fact
7:50 one of the hardest bosses that exist with a colossal build... one of the easiest ones with a lightning or shield-poke build. I died most to get twin moon attack because it causes a lag spike making it near impossible to doge and it one-shots
From what I saw in the ending, if you haven't you should definitely try the ringed city in dark souls 3
I'd honestly say that it isn't really ONLY Vigor as it is getting levels in general since defense is extremely powerful and also separate from negations.
I can agree with that, yea. In my experience, I definitely pump vigor at a baseline then do damage negation and defense boosting after.
Yes defence I find is actually the most important. I use Tree Sentinel armor, Greatshield Talisman, Golden Vow, Black Flame Protection, and if needed the elemental talismans & elemental defence Incantations. Using all of those and even not being max Scadu Fragments I can tank a lot of damage but for some enemies even a great shield may be needed because I am terrible at timing my dodges lol.
Nahhh that rage montage was funny asl lmaooo
I play the game and dlc how i like and not what some parts of community say, like " you used spirit ashes ?" Use the tools the game is giving you guys -
This was a good video. My issues with the dlc stem from that the balance was the fragments. I looked up a guide and got all of them which made the dlc too easy for what is was suppose to be. But then you get to radhan and even with maxed out fragments he is still way overpowered.
You used a guide on how to make the game easier and you have a problem that you made the game easier? Insane take.
@flugal_rere I'm not complaining that I made the game easier, what I'm trying to say was the fragments were suppose to make it easier which is why they encourage you to get them, but because everyone expects souls to be crazy hard, they made the final boss way overpowered. I don't mind the difficulty because I'm used to it from spending 1000s of hours play souls games, but people who are trying elden ring for the 1st time... yea it's ridiculous.
@@willhouston2680 skill issue. Got it
The real skill issue is that you refuse to engage with the actual point of it, which is that the balance isn't as good as it could be with the fragment system, and Radahn is an example of it, you just so happen to like that part of it. Some people don't. Stop being annoying.
I can type out a lengthy and well thought out critique of why I think your take is silly and how you're wrong in assuming what I do and don't like, but would you even read it or care?
Prolly not.
I'm not disparaging your video or critique, I found it entertaining and you had some good points. But you also had bad takes (in my opinion) because your ideas were very surface level by assuming that everyone enters the dlc as "post game" content when that's not the case. I made a new character and didn't do much more than the bare minimum to enter the dlc and got there at level 88 with 8 flasks at only +5.
Haven't finished the video but my literal only issue with the dlc is the final boss
Edit: watched the first few mins and completely agree. They do too much damage. Idc if they do 1 million attacks in a row but gawd damn do they need to one shot me at 50 vigor?
Bro u Had me dying so bad....I love that ur brutally straight up about how every gamer feels....ha ha ha ur great..
Big ups my dude 🤙🏽
Even LMSH was having a tough time playing the DLC so its definitely not a skill issue. They are just insanely difficult. Honestly the DLC was a little boring and not that kind of boring when I first started ER but like having hundreds of hours optimizing builds and stats only for it to be meaningless because of the scadu fragments. It felt like a chore to locate them to stand a chance against these one shotters. It was so bad that fighting malenia felt like a break. I killed her on the second try, it was ridiculous!
the exploring required to find many of the fragments is no different than the exploring for items you do in the base game and often (at least for me) lead me to a side area I may have missed. you in no way need max scadutree fragments to beat the dlc meaning it’s not the end of the world if you don’t find them all or even a decent portion (I beat it the first time at +15 when the max is 20 meaning I missed quite a few). Fromsoft even came out and said they did this so people weren’t walking into the dlc being absurdly OP. A lot of people’s problems stem from the fact that they absolutely REFUSE to adapt beyond learning a move set, Elden ring offers Soooooooooo many different pieces of gear to help supplement every possible play-style, I do not want to hear anyone say “oh I can’t deal damage because they move too fast, they create too much space, there’s no windows to attack” I guarantee that there are things you can use that fit within the bounds of your build that will alleviate some of those issues, the issue is being UNWILLING to interact with those pieces of gear and I’m not talking about spirit summons at all. You as a player are given more than enough upgrade and crafting materials in the game, you can have multiple fully upgraded weapons along with a full suite of throwables (which are usually wildly unnecessary). People don’t realize that it’s not the game failing them, it gives everyone a ridiculous amount of resources to use. They are failing themselves by refusing to interact with them, and once again I’m not talking about spirit summons (although they definitely fit into this convo quite well). When your job tells you “hey what you’re doing right now isn’t working” do you just ignore them and keep working the same way you always have? No. When your partner comes to you and says something isn’t working in your relationship do you keep doing all the same things? No. Bashing your head against a wall because you’re unwilling to change is not admirable, it’s idiotic and a lot of yall are gonna be butthurt that I said that.
I will say however, fuck them chakram bois. No reason for them to have the amount of health they have
I will say that while everything you're saying about scadutree is true to an extent, i think it's completely unnecessary. I've told someone else this, but theoretically we all go into the dlc with whatever insane shit we have, right? I switched my entire build to improve my experience, and I think that's enough. The dlc was challenging already, scadutree only made that worse. The scad nerf isn't making me dodge differently or anything, it's just a straight nerf. Plenty of people told me my build and talismans were shit. I think that is all part of the experience of getting better and improving, and that's why I show off my terrible build and the replacement of it, because that's why I play, not to recover my nerfed stats. But I do appreciate you watching. Yea, the chakram dudes ain't shit 😂
Meh. I havent beat it yet but i havent had nearly as much trouble with the bosses or the mobs. Might be the level 400 though. Yea i cheated! So what!
LMAO what happens in single player stays in single player. That's how I see it 😂
I use the great sword and rightfully got messed up lol
I just didn't like the dlc. But I don't really understand why as I liked the base game and it's more or the same. But I just felt every element of it was frustrating and lazy. But I've felt that fromsoft have been losing their touch with what made the games great in the first place
I've been seeing a lot of things lately where people boil this down to "you don't wanna learn elden ring and you're stuck on old souls gameplay" but like... I think it's a bit deeper than that but I can only speak for myself. Elden Ring IS different, but in many ways, it echos the other games in soulsbornekiro.
"OK, as it's written in the lore: Let's avoid that and try this shit again" yea that's mine now lol
we rage the same it's so funny dude
You know, the Scadutree shenanigans and looking at the "Area difficulty multiplier" for the DLC area, I didn't even bother getting the DLC.
Catching up on your vods just made me feel like I didn't need that forced stress in my gameplay. Im sure a mod will come around that balances the DLC out, and I'll probably get it then.
And poor Radahn, he didn't manage to steal your heart!
Radahn needs to stay 50ft away from me at ALL times 😂😂 and as much as I ended up liking the overall package, I don't blame you. It's truly a beautiful place to explore, just filled with unnecessary stuff lol
The Scadutree blessings are a nearly perfect system, the DLC would've been a complete mess without them.
Also, what "area difficulty multiplier"? The numbers in the DLC are all fixed, there's no difficulty scaling.
@@ETBrooD Wasn't it considered at least Tier 21 and has a special interaction with NG+ having beaten the DLC on top of it as well?
Journey 1 DLC vs Journey 2 DLC area changes is like way over double the base damage, at 0 fragments. It just seems like a awkward system.
What’s your intro from
Its a small snippet from "The Town Inside Me" from GG Strive 👌🏽
I lost it at Painted World Of Ariana Grande 😂
if you jump / strafe a lot of rellana's attacks, the amount of punish windows you get is basically tripled. this goes for most combo-heavy bosses. i dont see the complaints at all
Just to clarify, you did hear me say that she's not unfair or anything, I just didn't like fighting her at the time. And I called her learnable?
@@KinzieK well i made this comment regarding your statements that sometimes shes 'too much' and that she punishes slower movesets. its just a tip, maybe next time you'll enjoy the fight more
Well I appreciate it. Thank you ❤️
Duel links soundtrack at 8.19
My issue is that Rellana has way too much damn poise
agree bro Radan is overtuned, he literally almost don't give you time to breath, but messmer was godlike
I get it. I beat rellana with an 80 arcane bleed build
The rest of the dlc bosses other than gaius and radahn is really good. Gaius could've been good if it weren't for his janky hitbox during his boar charge which will either one shot you or you dodge and take damage from it anyway.
radahn on the other hand, phase 1 is manageable phase 2 on the other hand is unfair because you spend 80% of the fight flashbanged and Miquella's hair also obscures whatever attack radahn is doing this can be a problematic for me since I have bad eyesight.
Not to mention if you looked at the hitbox visualizer from radahn then you'll know why his attacks feels off basically they "nerfed" base Radahn's hitbox and then added it to Radahn 2.0 which is really confusing? Base radahn became piss easy when he was really challenging but not really frustrating to fight when you put him side by side with the likes of melania in the base game but even then i never had issues with most of the bosses except for consort radahn.
And no don't give me the argument "one day we'll look back on radahn and realise he's not that bad. Much like gael, manus, artorias." Yes ds3 and ds1 dlc bosses did push the limit of what you can do at the time but not to the extent of radahn. The other games made it very difficult but fun idk but gael and orphan raised my standards where they are very difficult but fun to learn. And was expecting that for the dlc at least on the final boss safe to say i will always dread the times i fight radahn in subsequent playthroughs i'll learn him gradually after several ng+ runs but wouldn't feel any satisfaction from it.
Honestly the camera is probably the biggest problem in this game
My wife fucking hated it when I played Elden Ring. I had her watch this video and now she begs me to play it so she can watch me. She's obsessed with the sparkly pot ghosts lmao
That's amazing!!! I genuinely hope she has a ton of fun watching you! ❤️
What song at 10:46?
Joey/Mai theme from Yugioh duel links 👌🏽
@@KinzieK massive thanks!
Why am I having flashbacks to dark souls two blizzard 😂😂😂
They are lowkey similar, huh 🤭
Elden Ring is truly Dark Souls 2 2
This is great 😂 i love personality and humor
Much MUCH appreciated!! ❤️
Great video fam, and I TOTALLY agree, the fragments element really just annoyed me more than anything. I already explore, adding these collectibles as requirements to not get totally REKT at every fight was just dumb. I love the designs and new stuff being added, but I didn’t get too far in it before I just put it down. It felt like a lot of unnecessary artificial difficulty
✨And not one lie was told this day✨
am i the only one who enjoys radahn
Yes
Yes
No. I loved that boss fight too.
I enjoy how mad its making the gatekeepers more than I enjoy that i get to put him in the dirt a second time :)
Oh ho ho oh boy, have you heard about a game called Noita perchance?
Can't say I have but after a Google search, I don't think I would be into it 😂
My dude... amazing video. I laughed, I agreed, loved the sass and the fanboy moments. And fuck Radham, Black Thornes were the trick for me. Commander Gaious is absolutely broken, even more than Radham. Anyway, I loved this DLC
Ayyyyyy thank you so much!! And I didn't fight commander gaius but considering I hear nothing but bad things about him, I'm glad I didn't lol.
@@KinzieKThat nonsense is only worth 5 Escadutree fragments... iiiish... Fuck that mounted swine bastar!!
A mage and a faith build the discord mods must have blown a blood vessel
Dude I totally agree I hate the scadutree fragments and the endless combos of some bosses, in ng+7 the dlc seems totally impossible compared to any other difficulty. I don’t think the issue is the dlc I think it’s Elden ring in general. Torrent is an a cheeky little guy but I can’t help but not like him for some reason, and each bossfight in the main Elden ring game is so weird and easy but also insanely difficult depending on what build u use unlike other souls where u can use anything u want, this is my experience and my opinion
Yea, I really do think the difficulty of the game fluctuates wildly depending on your build but also what they decide the bosses do whenever 😂
Anyone else beat dancing lion first try?
Summons or not. Don’t matter, the creator uses them. Play how you want. Be nice.
@@jamiehoneycutt4865 I beat it first try no summons, think I was at plus 3? I basically found myself straight there without a lot of exploring. I had 0 flasks left and 11/1900 hp to my name. Used a memey 99 dex keen build with double bandits curved swords, rellana made me swap my build a bit, went 80 dex with some in faith to use buffs and more mind to use the sweet weapon art the back hand blades get
@@jamiehoneycutt4865 I beat the lion, rellana, Leda, and the hippo first try, I used wandering noble ashes for a boss health buff
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ngl scadutree fragments are the worst idea fromsoft has had since adaptability
SPITTIN
Why exactly?
@@ETBrooD it ruins the progression, the previous fromsoft dlcs have been balanced with a specific endgame power level in game, scadutree fragments ruin this as they now do not know the power level of the player and have to balance the bosses around scadutree fragments
@@poacherthenn I don't understand how this ruins the progression. There are countless different builds and Fromsoft doesn't know which one you're choosing. How are they supposed to balance the DLC for each and every build without giving people a way to increase their power level?
@@ETBrooD and the scadutree fragment system introduces even more of a power gap between players, making it even harder to balance
Is that mfn Joey's theme from duel links?
Sure is 👌🏽