Im currently playing through the game again and since I enjoy some pvp now and then I have taunters tongue active while going through some of the areas. Now I noticed that aside from the usual pranksters, some reds are summoned and immediately use the finger severer, usually before even seeing me, to leave. I'm not doing any intentional griefing. Im just going through the area normally and waiting around in some cool areas to fight in. Does anyone know the reason for this? Could they for some reason think that I'm doing some ill-legit business? Would like to hear your opinions on this...

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/41971183

It took them ages but they finally made the DLC boss more fair. After everyone beat him.

The following adjustments have been made to the final boss of “SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE”

• Changed the action pattern when the battle starts.
• Adjusted some attack moves.
• Decreased the damage of some attacks.
• Decreased stamina damage of some attacks.
• Decreased the attack range of some non-weapon-based attacks.
• Improved the visibility of some attack effects.

PvP-exclusive balance adjustments

Equipment

• Decreased the damage of Backhand Blades against other players. (The Smithscript Cirque's throwing attacks are not affected by this change)
• Decreased the damage of Spears’ dual wield attacks against other players.
• Decreased the damage of the Pata weapon against other players.
• The “Spread Crossbow” weapon will no longer cause the headshot damage motion when hitting another player.

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Not really sure what the fuck to do at this point. I'm not having any fun at all with this expansion. I just dont see whats "fun" here. I've beaten the base game many, many times. Ive beaten every souls game many, many times, but this shit? Its bad. If this entire expansion is like this, I think im done and i wasted my money. Im incredibly angry right now, and my mind may change, but this is some straight up bullshit.

I got summoned by some person, they drop 99x Marika runes (80K each), then a bunch of starlight. Then the person eats poison and dies and I return to my world. WTF?

I didn't even know there were 99x of these runes, unless this person beat the game repeatedly, got board, and was doing a giveaway. Or hax. lol.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/37321532

Source: https://iseananphada.com/?itemId=ikjgltjxskwhc5tx7npjihsp25bd7o

After what feels like 100 tries Rellana is down. With 1hp to spare 😳

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/15042254

I have been playing the Souls games since Dark Souls, back in the day on the XBox 360. The Invader mechanic was always a nice touch to the game, most of the people tried to have a fair fight or at least they tried to fight you.

But now, since the DLC, all invaders we get are people trying to lure you to dragons or in a boss room or into another group of enemies because they only understand their L2 button smashing build and can't figure out how to fight properly without abusing some mechanic. Yesterday three people tried to one-shot me with the (thankfully now fixed) Perfumer Bottle Ash of war. Today someone started to shoot at me from afar with a canon and just ran away until he had enough help to finally kill me and my friend. It is just so damn boring going against one trick ponys... Where are the fair fights? Where are the manners? Where are the skillfull invaders that show me how a weapon is used beyond its ash of war?

It is so frustrating, i loved getting invaded in base Elden

I somehow,barely managed to get to here, i probably lost to that stupid >!hippo!< like 30 times, if it was not for summons, i would have gave up.

I get wrecked by those black knights. Either with colossal mace or twinblade, and twinblade is worse. By the time i rolled out of his 10 attack combo, im out of stamina for carian slicer ( which does meager dmg at scadutree 10 ) and he starts again. WTF

I have like 45 vit 70 int, and im doing less dmg so that its really a chore to even try to break through shadow keep.

Is it a lore reference to a toilet? Hinting at some of the late game of elden ring being shit?

I'm not the best in soulslikes, and I'm wondering if I'm fubar because NG makes stuff harder. Should I just do a replay of the main game on a fresh character?

I literally hadn't even started the NG+ playthrough, I'm at the first Grace 😅

The website went down as I'm posting this. Sounds like a fun idea, I wanted to flex my lore knowledge.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10708092

All my links https://linktr.ee/arya481

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/33793909

Previews for the Elden Ring DLC have just been released! Lots of journalists and popular Souls players have been to an event where they played the DLC for a few hours, giving us way more info on what to expect and things such as new weapon types and upgrade materials. This isn't a comprehensive list, just the few that I found quickly.

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Videos

• Iron Pineapple: https://youtu.be/ocfTNBUIyCg
• VaatiVidya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP9EOmSFbvk

Articles

• RockPaperShotgun: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree-hollows-out-everything-you-loved-about-elden-ring-and-its-brilliant
• VG247: https://www.vg247.com/elden-ring-shadow-of-the-erdtree-hands-on-preview
• Polygon: https://www.polygon.com/24170532/elden-ring-dlc-shadow-of-the-erdtree-preview-release-date