The Pig Pen Hangout

Excellent! Which ending did you go for? I had a brain fart moment and accidently locked myself into the frenzied flame, as I had to betray and kill my doppelganger for the Millicent Prosthesis… 😭

Also props for the lore accurate Shamshir. I did my Millicent playthrough with the Hand of Malenia for the Waterfowl, did try to look into weapon art swapping, but couldn't get it to work 😒

Also, nice tie... as they say... they all count xD

Edit: Oh! I thought you traded for the kill, I can see that sliver if I zoom right in 😩

Its done… around 12 attempts later, the fish is cooked….

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Millicent now sits on her throne. Waiting for the land of Shadow…

Ggz! Well played dude! You should buy Malenia's gloves from the crone in the Roundtable to give you a prosthetic arm! I'm curious if you fought her as Millicent, and how it went? 😁

I got extremely good at the game and learned a lot while using very little (literally just flame grant me strenght and the shamshir, which is a super good weapon btw.).

Awesome, you're hitting that satisfying point of Mastery. I find I enjoy all Soulsborne games much more on follow up playthroughs than the first playthrough 😁

I can also beat Radagon hitless now lol…

Its amazing how good of a boss Radagon is compared to Elden Beast.

I know exactly what you mean. Radagon has some BS attacks, like that lightning dash is pretty busted, but overall he's a great fight, and the BS can be forgiven as the final fight xD

Elden Beast though is just cack. I raged so hard when I best Radagon and this annoying cheap fight came up at the end. I was so mad that I lost all will to play for a month... a friend of mine talked me back into finishing it and joined as a summon...

It was then I took my hatred of this fight and decided to help other people... for all of my characters I get to the end and just throw down my summon sign to help anyone who needs it beat Elden Beast.

I must have killed it like 100 times now, with like 800 attempts... newbies struggle to survive long enough to kill... 😅

Now I know Elden Beast like the back of my hand, it's not that bad... I can beat this fight solo almost every time unless I get really cocky... but if he decides to be a stain and refuses to use his normal attack loop, it gets very annoying 😑

P.S. I also noticed you have Baldachins Blessing on your status effects (the red square with a down arrow). This means you have accepted the Blessing from Fia the Deathbed companion, and it means you've got a 5% health debuff... so you've been playing the game on a mini hard mode 😅

To get rid of it, use the Baldachins Blessing in your inventory. Should be half way down the first page or so. It's the grey shield thing with a glowing centre:

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Baldachin%27s%2BBlessing

Hehehe, I love Malenia's fight, mostly cause almost every single attack can be countered.

When I fought her first time, I used a shield to block Waterfowl whenever she threw it, and I eventually figured out she does it at approximately every 1/3 health loss. I now can roll through it, and usually use some kind of throwable or ranged attack when I get her that low to bait her into using it.

The Valkyries is a run for your life attack admittedly with the same 1/3rd health logic in phase 2. If you run, the only one to really watch out for is the 4th (i think) Valkyrie cause that one dives right on you... then its just avoiding Malenia herself.

I actually get quite annoyed at Godfrey myself... but the funny thing is though, the split between Malenia and Godfrey as best fight tends to revolve around what kind of player you are.

I've got a mate who prefers Godfrey, and I prefer Malenia, and the thing is our builds are always very similar... we both run dex/dodge builds. However I noticed this when we started a Malenia/Radahn duo run...

The difference between us is he tends to hug close and dive forward into attacks, trying to stay in under the enemy and keep swinging between attacks. I on the other hand prefer to roll away, bait out attacks and counter punch. Kinda like the difference between Joe Frasier and Muhammed Ali.

As you describe Malenia's waterfowl and Valkyrie attacks punish a go forward style a lot, as you get caught underneath her and eat a lot of near unavoidable hits. For a counter punch playstyle however both these attacks are quite manageable, and fshe gets staggered on a lot of hits, so I can counter hit and break her combos a lot of the time, so it fits me like a glove.

Conversely Godfrey has his arena wide stomps, with strong fast attacks that keep the pressure on you. For a counter hit playstyle, his dashes up to you coupled with both the ground shatter and arena wide stomps are annoying to deal with, as his fast recovery doesn't give up much time to move back into range of him to land a few hits before another attack comes. In this case hugging close to him and taking odd hits in between his attacks avoids this problem, so keeping under him and punishing him between attacks works far better...

It's this difference of these 2 fighting styles succeeding to very different degrees on these 2 bosses, on more or less identical builds that is so awesome to me, and why I tend to nerd gush about ER 😅

Hehehe, are you one of those chads who rolls close to him when he does that triple hammer smash attack? The one that blows up a huge wave actoss floor in front of him and paints the Elden sign on the ground?

I've seen a few people do that, and I'm just like "nah"... I move to about mid range and dodge through the shock wave xD

Sounds like playimg with you would be a blast... shame there is no crossplay support 😭