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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:10, 19 November 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;However, the Moonveil was shadow nerfed in Elden Ring ’s 1.03 update. The health damage, poise damage, and range of Transient Moonlight were all decreased, with the poise damage being significantly nerfed. This change forced players into situation where if they wanted to break someone’s poise, they would have to hit with both the katana and moonbeam with Transient Moonlight. This practically made the sword a slightly better katana with Unsheathe - a far less attractive option. And because patch 1.03 was the same patch that fixed Arcane scaling in Elden Ring and thus made Rivers of Blood overpowered, the Moonveil largely fell out of favor despite not being the worst kat&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While this is quite </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">task</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">many players make it their intention when beginning these games to achieve 100% completion. They want </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">extra challenge that comes with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">difficulty </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these games and to get their money's worth and full enjoym</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Both luckily and unluckily for players, </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s patches have largely served to buff rather than nerf</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This protects </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">health </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game by allowing new strategies to arise while avoiding taking away anything from </del>the Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that players may have enjoyed</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However</del>, in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">practice</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this has resulted to </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rise </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rivers </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Blood katana meta in </del>Elden <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ring </del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which has left other approaches </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the game in the d</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**</del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** centers around </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greater Will</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which spreads its Grace to the Lands Between through the Erdtree</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Erdtree might be the most famous plant in the Lands Between</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but Miquella seeks to create a new great tree as a source </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">power </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bless the people without the influence of the Greater Will, despite having been chosen by the Greater Will </del>as an <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Empyrean</del>. However, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">both of these great trees might have some parasitic qualities depending upon </del>how <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they're viewed </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">what acts as their source </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">power</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Yet only </del>one of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">them is a true parasite upon further investigat</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The description for </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sun Realm Shield reads: " Shield </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">honor depicting a city crowned by the sun</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It has seen better days. Much like </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wear upon the shield</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Seat of the Sun </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">long faded away</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" This is possibly a nod to Anor Londo, the capital city </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lordran from the first Dark Souls . In the lore</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Anor Londo was </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">seat </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gwyn</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lord of Sunlight, for ages after he and </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other Lords discovered the Lord Souls during the advent of f</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The logic of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Painted Worlds isn’t fully explained, so much </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">how they work is merely speculation. One theory is used to suggest how </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">connects to Dark Souls and FromSoftware</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other games</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">At the end of Ashes of Ariandel </del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the player finds someone called the Painter. She sits in front of a blank canvas awaiting the return of Gael, who will bring the paint she’ll use. After completing The Ringed City , the player acquires </del>this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">paint, which </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">actually an item called Blood of the Dark Soul</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the description </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which says it is " used as pigment [...] to depict a painted world ." When </del>the player <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gives this </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Painter</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">she says, " I will assuredly finish the painting. Of </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cold, dark, and very gentle place. One day, it will make someone a goodly home. " The player never sees the completed painting, but it </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">theorized that it could be the world of Elden Ring or Bloodbor</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring , several months out </del>from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its release, </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">still </del>one of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2022</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s biggest games</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The world of the Tarnished brought </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so many new </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">veteran gamers alike. Part of </del>this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was due </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the world, and the influence of George R.R. Martin was clear in the setting's bleak nat</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;It <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">took many players </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">long time </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">formulate </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">best strategy when fighting her. Some use specific tactics to help defeat Malenia like ashes</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">others summoned other players, and yet other players decided to master all </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">her movements. Many players so far </del>have <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">found that the best tactic is using the bleed-out strategy as Malenia is extremely susceptible to</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One other small but interesting detail regarding these characters highlights another parallel between </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">worlds </del>of Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and Bloodborne . Eileen’s armor  [https://WWW.Eldenringfans.com/articles/my-heart-pounding-dance-</del>with<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-nightreign-s-everdark-sovereigns</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">html everdark Sovereigns] mentions </del>that the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first Hunter </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hunters came from </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">foreign land. Coincidently</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Yura originates from the Land of Reeds</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">making him </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">foreigner </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Lands Between</del>, like <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring 's Numen . Such details</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">along with the heavy focus on cosmic, extraterrestrial beings in both games, fuels speculation that the games could take place on different planets </del>in the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">same unive</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">To obtain this trophy</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">players must traverse through every major dungeon fighting against some of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">scariest enemies </del>in the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dark Souls franchise , and eventually fight its final boss, Yharnam</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">She is incredibly difficult</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">though </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dungeons will certainly give players </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">necessary extra levels to conquer this b</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;Elden Ring has an outstanding visual appearance</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and many </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the players who had already conquered the Dark Souls franchise likely made the Elden Ring gameplay look easy </del>on <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">streams and videos. But when </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">average </del>player <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">downloaded </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game, it was a bit of a different st</del>&lt;br&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;However, the Moonveil was shadow nerfed in Elden Ring ’s 1.03 update. The health damage, poise damage, and range of Transient Moonlight were all decreased, with the poise damage being significantly nerfed. This change forced players into situation where if they wanted to break someone’s poise, they would have to hit with both the katana and moonbeam with Transient Moonlight. This practically made the sword a slightly better katana with Unsheathe - a far less attractive option. And because patch 1.03 was the same patch that fixed Arcane scaling in Elden Ring and thus made Rivers of Blood overpowered, the Moonveil largely fell out of favor despite not being the worst kat&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Many of these players ended up spending hours on early game bosses, or even prepping to kill them, and likely never made serious progress through </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">often resembling </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">girl in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">second half </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the m</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Moonveil was once considered the most broken weapon in </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and it wasn’t even close</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The katana comes with the Ash of War "Transient Moonlight," which essentially is </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Unsheathe" Ash of War with an extended area </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">effect because of a moon beam that shoots out of the katana after unsheathing. So much about </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Moonveil made it incredibly broken at launch: It scales with Dexterity and Intelligence, playing into </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meta; it's available soon after choosing a class and starting of </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, being just northeast of the Third Church of Marika; and most importantly, it deals tons of damage to poise</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In PvP, poise is incredibly broken</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PvE</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">poise </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bosses can feel infinite. But players like </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">YouTuber Varsona Vyzelta show how Moonveil could cut through poise like butter; a few swings </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Transient Moonlight could send even Godfrey, the First </ins>Elden <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lord</ins>, to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his kn</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It's possible fans could see the rise of more Souls -like games that are more linear like the past games. </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has proved to be a revolutionary title for </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">franchise</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">boosting their overall popularity</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">These games are known for their rigorous difficulty</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and because </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that, many fans work </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">reach 100% achievements </ins>as an <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">extra challe&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Minecraft is also a game about exploring a desolate wasteland</ins>. However, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Minecraft Diamond Sword mod really shows </ins>how <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">different the art styles are </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the blocky blue weapon looks so out </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">place that one can't help but laugh</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It's still powerful to wield though, making it </ins>one of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the funniest mods in the g</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Chariots are very tank-like opponents and require </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">usage </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">several FP and HP flasks to safely conquer them</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">But once </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Chariot is destroyed</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sticking around </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">not recommended</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As their last line </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">defense crumbles</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Chariots explode </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">zone around them and deal crazy amounts </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">damage</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">making fleeing </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">area briefly a m</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Of course, the mod has a lot more utility than just that and changes </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">properties </ins>of Elden Ring 's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mimic spirit summon </ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Usually</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">when </ins>this <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">item </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">used</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it only summons one duplicate </ins>of the player<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. This modification allows for up </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">25 duplicates</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which results in </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ton of chaos that </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fun to beh</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">King </ins>from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tekken </ins>is one of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the most iconic fighting game characters . His counterpart, Armor King, isn</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">t as famous but is still beloved</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">They're both funny characters, being wrestlers with cat masks that only speak </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">growling sounds </ins>and this <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mod allows players to bring that hilarity </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ri</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The player-left messages around Elden Ring quickly became one of the most meme-filled aspects of the game, as gamers were leaving all kinds of fruitful info around the game. </ins>It <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">provided </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">way </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">create a community feeling in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">single-player experience</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but the messages have been some </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the funniest things people </ins>have <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">done in Elden Ri</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The most substantial nerf Bandai Namco levied on Elden Ring was the alteration to the effect of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ash </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">War Royal Knight’s Resolve. The way Royal Knight’s Resolve used to function in </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was that it would allow the Tarnished to deal 80% more damage with the next hit they threw </ins>with <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">any of their weapons</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This meant </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a player could have a disposable weapon with </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ash </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">War, use it, and then shift to any other armament (be it </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sword</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">staff</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or finger seal) and deal </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tremendous amount of damage. This made Royal Knight’s Resolve essential </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">any PvP or speed running PvE build</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as when used in conjunction with a spell </ins>like <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Comet Azure</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">every boss became a one-hit kill just like YouTuber Nipthemad shows </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">video ab</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sometimes they're in a difficult place to gather them from</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and starting a boss fight traps </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">encounter</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Accidentally stumbling into one leaves the player with only two options if they want their runes back</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to either defeat </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">boss or scream "Let me out" at </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">door like Eric An</ins>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Some Putrid Corpses are noxious from polluted bodies of water</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">while others are full </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Scarlet Rot, each type having a different effect </ins>on the player<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Though most of them tend not to be lethal, fighting them in large groups can be tedious,  [https://Www.eldenringfans.com/articles/defeating-caligo-ultimate-frost-dragon-strategy-guide-for-elden-ring-nightreign.html Caligo Nightreign] specifically </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hazardous Blistered Putrid Corpses and Rotten Putrid Corpses that cause status effe</ins>&lt;br&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

JulietWarrick6 https://wiki.wolfgang.us.to/index.php?title=Elden_Ring_s_Biggest_Nerfs_Since_Launch&diff=5722&oldid=prev 2025-11-19T15:09:44Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 15:09, 19 November 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Between the two trees</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Erdtree is the true parasite. This fits the ongoing theme </del>in Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that the Greater Will</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">despite being presented as a benevolent Outer God at first</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is more vicious </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">controlling than it tries to make others believe. Because </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Greater Will's true nature</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it isn't a surprise that Elden Ring's Age of Stars ending is </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">favorite among </del>players <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">since Ranni begins a new order of her own that won't directly interfere </del>with the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lives of those in the Lands Between in the way the Golden Order does</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While there's enough information to deem </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Erdtree as </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">parasite, </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lack </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">information about </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greater Will makes its intentions unclear. The purpose </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">creating a parasitic tree that uses </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">power of the Crucible and the dead will only be revealed if FromSoftware adds DLC or creates other future content through an expansion or sequel for **Elden Ring </del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Sword of Night and Flame once stood next to </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Moonveil as the best weapon in the game. It’s dual ability in the form of the Night-and-Flame Stance allowed the Tarnished </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">use either a powerful Faith-based or Intelligence-based spell</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While both moves were strong, </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Intelligence Night spell was especially noteworthy in PvE because of its resemblance to Comet Azure. Combined </del>with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Royal Knight’s Resolve, </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sword </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Flame allowed players </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">easily kill bosses from a distance as shown by Schlechtelaunetyp above, </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">if an opponent closed in at all, they could then use the Flame ability to wipe out any remaining hea</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One of </del>Elden Ring 's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">best summons, Latenna </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Albinauric is most notable for </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">long range she has with her magical bows</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It makes her incredibly effective </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">combat</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and that's no doubt why Nota7andomguy summoned her </del>in the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first place. But </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this case, she rendered </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player completely unnecess</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Like many of his half-siblings, Miquella has strayed away from following </del>the Greater Will <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">despite being chosen by it as a possible successor of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Therefore</del>, Miquella <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">decides </del>to create a great tree <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on his own in an attempt </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">replace </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Erdtree and make it so that </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">citizens </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lands Between don't need the Grace of </del>the Greater Will. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Miquella uses his own power to nurture the Haligtree</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">becoming its core in hopes that it will grow into a </del>great <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tree that can rival the Erdtree, break his curse </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">eternal childhood, and free his twin sister Malenia from the curse </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Scarlet Rot that eats away at her b</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In reality, Boc is secretly hoping to receive affirmation from </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Offering him </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Golden Needle</del>, a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">piece of demigod armor </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">alter</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and using </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"you're beautiful" Prattling Pete in front </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">him affords him </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">praise he's so long desired</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While he's not among </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most useful characters in Elden Ring </del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he's one </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a very small number </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring NPCs who aren't predestined </del>for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a terrible </del>f&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Though it </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">never actually encountered in-game, The Greater Will </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">perhaps the most important character in </del>Elden Ring . <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Of course</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">calling it </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"character" </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a bit </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a stretch</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as The Greater Will </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">more accurately described </del>as a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">force of nature</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">An outer god at </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">center of all of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game's events</del>, it<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s hard to tell what </del>The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greater Will's goals may be</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>it<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s hinted several times throughout Elden Ring </del>that it <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">may not </del>be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as benevolent as it seems</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">From Software are known for including Lovecraftian concepts </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their games</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Greater Will is a perfect example </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cosmicism adding an incredible amount of depth to a game</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">l</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Despite not being seen as </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">competition-focused game</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**Elden Ring ** has seen some major changes </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its meta from nerfs</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Whether </del>players <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">focus on </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tarnished's journey in PvE or prefer </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">take </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">path </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Bloody Fingers </del>and [https://<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">www</del>.Eldenringfans.com/articles/my-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">battle</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">maris</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in-elden-ring</del>-nightreign-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tips-from-a</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pro</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player</del>.html <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Maris Boss fight Guide</del>] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">others in PvP</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they have </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">watch out for what Bandai Namco and FromSoftware have planned up their sleeves</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The updates they have brought to </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game have already dramatically influenced how it is pla</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However</del>, some <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">people have pointed out issues with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">logos on </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">games supposedly set to release next year</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For example</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tekken 8 logo has been revealed to be a fan edit, and </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dragonball Fighter Z Super logo __ is a combination of Dragon Ball Fighter Z and Dragon Ball Super . When it comes </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Barbarians of the Badlands , some fans are saying that it does not seem like a name for a FromSoftware </del>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hoarfrost Stomp was </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">’s second most effective gimmick </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the best tool for speed runners. The Ash </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">War, which enables players to stomp on </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ground and send a wave of ice damage in front of them, could be used by low-level </del>players <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to eliminate bosses with ease. This is because Hoarfrost Stomp dealt significant damage, cost little FP, </del>had <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a huge area of effect, was very fast, </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">staggered opponents</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This last facet of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ash of War </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">perhaps its best quality, as the stagger allowed speed runners to keep bosses from hitting them while they could just spam Hoarfrost Stomp. YouTuber Schlechtelaunetyp shows just how strong this is even at the beginning </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the g</del>&lt;br&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Moonveil was shadow nerfed </ins>in Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">’s 1.03 update. The health damage</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">poise damage</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">range </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Transient Moonlight were all decreased</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">poise damage being significantly nerfed. This change forced </ins>players <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">into situation where if they wanted to break someone’s poise, they would have to hit </ins>with <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">both </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">katana and moonbeam with Transient Moonlight</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This practically made </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sword a slightly better katana with Unsheathe - </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">far less attractive option. And because patch 1.03 was </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">same patch that fixed Arcane scaling in Elden Ring and thus made Rivers </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Blood overpowered, </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Moonveil largely fell out </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">favor despite not being </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">worst kat</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While this is quite </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">task, many players make it their intention when beginning these games </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">achieve 100% completion</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">They want </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">extra challenge that comes </ins>with the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">difficulty </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these games </ins>and to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">get their money's worth </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">full enjoym</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Both luckily and unluckily for players, </ins>Elden Ring 's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">patches have largely served to buff rather than nerf. This protects the health of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game by allowing new strategies to arise while avoiding taking away anything from </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring that players may have enjoyed</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">practice</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this has resulted to the rise of the Rivers of Blood katana meta </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring , which has left other approaches to </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">d</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**Elden Ring ** centers around </ins>the Greater Will<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, which spreads its Grace to the Lands Between through </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Erdtree</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Erdtree might be the most famous plant in the Lands Between</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but </ins>Miquella <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">seeks </ins>to create a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new </ins>great tree <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as a source of power </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bless </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">people without </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">influence </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greater Will, despite having been chosen by </ins>the Greater Will <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as an Empyrean</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">both of these </ins>great <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">trees might have some parasitic qualities depending upon how they're viewed and what acts as their source </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">power. Yet only one </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">them is a true parasite upon further investigat</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The description for the Sun Realm Shield reads: " Shield of honor depicting a city crowned by </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sun. It has seen better days</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Much like the wear upon </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shield</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Seat of the Sun is long faded away. " This is possibly </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nod </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Anor Londo</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">capital city </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lordran from </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first Dark Souls </ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lore</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Anor Londo was the seat </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gwyn, Lord </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sunlight, </ins>for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ages after he and the other Lords discovered the Lord Souls during the advent of </ins>f&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The logic of the Painted Worlds isn’t fully explained, so much of how they work </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">merely speculation. One theory </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">used to suggest how </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">connects to Dark Souls and FromSoftware's other games</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">At the end of Ashes of Ariandel </ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the player finds someone called the Painter. She sits in front of </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">blank canvas awaiting the return of Gael, who will bring the paint she’ll use. After completing The Ringed City , the player acquires this paint, which </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">actually an item called Blood </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Dark Soul</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the description of which says it </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" used </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pigment [...] to depict </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">painted world </ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" When </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player gives this to the Painter, she says, " I will assuredly finish </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">painting. Of a cold, dark, and very gentle place. One day</ins>, it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">will make someone a goodly home. " </ins>The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player never sees the completed painting</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but </ins>it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is theorized </ins>that it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">could </ins>be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the world of Elden Ring or Bloodbor&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Elden Ring , several months out from its release, is still one of 2022's biggest games</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The world of the Tarnished brought </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so many new and veteran gamers alike. Part of this was due to the world</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the influence </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">George R.R. Martin was clear in the setting</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bleak nat</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It took many players </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">long time to formulate the best strategy when fighting her. Some use specific tactics to help defeat Malenia like ashes, others summoned other players</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and yet other players decided </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">master all of her movements</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Many </ins>players <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so far have found that the best tactic is using </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bleed-out strategy as Malenia is extremely susceptible </ins>to<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;One other small but interesting detail regarding these characters highlights another parallel between </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">worlds </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bloodborne . Eileen’s armor  </ins>[https://<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">WWW</ins>.Eldenringfans.com/articles/my-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">heart</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pounding</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dance</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with</ins>-nightreign-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">everdark</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sovereigns</ins>.html <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">everdark Sovereigns</ins>] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mentions that the first Hunter of Hunters came from a foreign land. Coincidently, Yura originates from the Land of Reeds</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">making him a foreigner </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Lands Between, like Elden Ring 's Numen </ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Such details, along with the heavy focus on cosmic, extraterrestrial beings in both games, fuels speculation that the games could take place on different planets in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">same unive</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">To obtain this trophy</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">players must traverse through every major dungeon fighting against </ins>some <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">scariest enemies in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dark Souls franchise , and eventually fight its final boss, Yharnam</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">She is incredibly difficult</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">though </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dungeons will certainly give players </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">necessary extra levels </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">conquer this b&lt;br&gt;</ins>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has an outstanding visual appearance, </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">many </ins>of the players <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who </ins>had <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">already conquered the Dark Souls franchise likely made the Elden Ring gameplay look easy on streams </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">videos</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">But when the average player downloaded </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game, it </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a bit </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a different st</ins>&lt;br&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 14:23, 19 November 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In Soulslike RPGs ranging from Demon's Souls to Dark Souls 3 </del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">total weight </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a player character</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">equipment affects how quickly they can roll</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>Elden Ring's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">armor and poise rules are no different</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Heavy armor and weapons coupled with low Stamina will cause players </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">roll slowly and awkwardly</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">while lighter armor </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weapons gives players access to swifter "medium" </del>or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"light" rolls with longer periods of invincibil</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hoarfrost Stomp was Elden Ring ’s second most effective gimmick </del>and the best <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tool for speed runners</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Ash </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">War, which enables players to stomp on </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ground </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">send </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wave of ice damage in front of them, could be used by low</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">level players to eliminate bosses with ease</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This is because Hoarfrost Stomp dealt significant damage, cost little FP, had a huge area of effect</del>, was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">very fast, and staggered opponents. This last facet of the Ash </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">War was perhaps </del>its <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">best quality</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stagger </del>allowed <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">speed runners </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">keep </del>bosses from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hitting them while </del>they could <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">just spam Hoarfrost Stomp. YouTuber Schlechtelaunetyp shows just how strong this is even at </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">beginning of the g</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">’s 1.03 patch changed everything for Royal Knight’s Resolve. Post-patch</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ash of War can only enhance </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weapon it is on or any equipped shields, leaving its effect largely negligible</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">What </del>makes <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this nerf even more </del>effective <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a lot of Elden Ring ’s best weapons come with their own Ash of War that cannot be removed or magically enhanced</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meaning Royal Knight’s Resolve cannot be used with most meta weap</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The months </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">February and March likely saw a global drought in individual productivity</del>, as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">millions </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gamers saw minutes turn </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hours </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">days playing </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">forsaking all sorts </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">responsibilit</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Previous versions </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring had already revolutionized co-op gameplay mechanics first introduced </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">FromSoftware</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">earlier Demon's Souls and Dark Souls RPGs </del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Easily accessed items such as the Furlcalling Finger Remedy and the Tarnished</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Furled Finger let players quickly lay down and access summon signs right from </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">start of an </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">playthrough</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">while the Small Golden Effigy item lets players send their summon signs to Stakes </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Marika located outside nearby boss arenas. The 1.06 patch for Elden Ring expanded the utility of the Small Golden Effigy, adding </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new menu where players can choose between sending their summon signs to Stakes in their current region or to distant regions entirely; this new quality-of-life feature will make it easier for players </del>of Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to seamlessly summon co-op partners outside of peak playtimes while letting other players avoid spoilers by being summoned into places they haven</del>'t <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">visited </del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Some players spent over thirty hours of gameplay just exploring Limgrave and collecting runes while familiarizing themselves with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game and its mechanics</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Some found </del>it <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to be challenging</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Those who managed to work their way through to </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">later zones knew bet&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;This mod affects the Tree Sentinel, an optional boss early in </del>the game<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Usually</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this fearsome knight has a mighty horse he rides on</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but this mod makes </del>it <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Thomas instead. It</del>'s not as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">extensive </del>as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other Thomas mods</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but it</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">still fu</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ever since Demon's Souls , FromSoftware developers of Soulslike RPGs have been trying to balance out the perks and downsides of wielding light and fast weapons vs. heavy but hard</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hitting weapons. 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The speed </del>[https://<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">eldenringfans</del>.com/articles/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">elden</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ring</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shadow</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">erdtree</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">unmasking</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nightmares</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">massive</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dlc</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">adventures</del>.html <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shadow Of The erdtree</del>] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Guard Counters has been increased as well for heavy weapons</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">making it easier </del>for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring players </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">use this proto-parry ability against boss enemies and fellow play</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Players in Elden Ring quickly noticed the turtles in the game</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and surrounded them with messages </del>with the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">word "Dog</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" The meme spread and took a life of its own</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with countless jokes being made calling animals in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game d&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Many of these players ended up spending hours on early game bosses, or even prepping </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">kill them</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">likely never made serious progress through </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game, often resembling the girl in the second half </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">m</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;FromSoftware has recently released a new patch for </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">_ , their latest RPG, but while some gameplay updates in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">patch are extremely obvious, others are less so</del>. The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nerfs </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">extremely powerful weapon skills such as Bloodhound Step </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Corpse Piler</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for instance, were long awaited </del>by players, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but other updates in _Elden Ring 's 1.06 patch are far more subtle </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hard to notice if players aren't actively looking for them</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">These include small buffs to certain weapon move-sets</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">elimination of sequence-breaking glitches used by </del>speed<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-</del>runners<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and </del>even <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a new option for progressing a certain questl</del>&lt;br&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Between the two trees</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Erdtree is the true parasite. This fits the ongoing theme in Elden Ring that the Greater Will, despite being presented as a benevolent Outer God at first, is more vicious and controlling than it tries to make others believe. Because </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Greater Will</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">true nature</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it isn't a surprise that </ins>Elden Ring's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Age of Stars ending is the favorite among players since Ranni begins a new order of her own that won't directly interfere with the lives of those in the Lands Between in the way the Golden Order does</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While there's enough information </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">deem the Erdtree as a parasite</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the lack of information about the Greater Will makes its intentions unclear. The purpose of creating a parasitic tree that uses the power of the Crucible </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the dead will only be revealed if FromSoftware adds DLC or creates other future content through an expansion </ins>or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sequel for **Elden Ring </ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Sword of Night </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Flame once stood next to the Moonveil as </ins>the best <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weapon in the game</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It’s dual ability in the form </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night-</ins>and<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-Flame Stance allowed the Tarnished to use either </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">powerful Faith-based or Intelligence</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">based spell</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While both moves were strong</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Intelligence Night spell </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">especially noteworthy in PvE because </ins>of its <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">resemblance to Comet Azure. Combined with Royal Knight’s Resolve</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sword of Night and Flame </ins>allowed <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">players </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">easily kill </ins>bosses from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a distance as shown by Schlechtelaunetyp above, and if an opponent closed in at all, </ins>they could <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then use </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Flame ability to wipe out any remaining hea</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One of </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s best summons</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Latenna </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Albinauric is most notable for </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">long range she has with her magical bows</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It </ins>makes <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">her incredibly </ins>effective <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in combat, and </ins>that<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s no doubt why Nota7andomguy summoned her in the first place. But in this case</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">she rendered the player completely unnecess</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Like many </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his half-siblings</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Miquella has strayed away from following the Greater Will despite being chosen by it </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a possible successor </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Elden Ring. Therefore, Miquella decides to create a great tree on his own in an attempt </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">replace the Erdtree </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">make it so that the citizens of the Lands Between don't need the Grace of the Greater Will. Miquella uses his own power </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nurture </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Haligtree, becoming its core in hopes that it will grow into a great tree that can rival the Erdtree, break his curse of eternal childhood</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and free his twin sister Malenia from the curse </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Scarlet Rot that eats away at her b</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In reality, Boc is secretly hoping to receive affirmation from the player. Offering him the Golden Needle, a piece </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">demigod armor to alter, and using the "you're beautiful" Prattling Pete </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">front of him affords him the praise he</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so long desired</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While he</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">not among </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most useful characters in </ins>Elden Ring , <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he's one </ins>of a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">very small number </ins>of Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NPCs who aren</ins>'t <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">predestined for a terrible f</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Though it is never actually encountered in-game, The Greater Will is perhaps </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most important character in Elden Ring </ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Of course, calling </ins>it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a "character" is a bit of a stretch, as The Greater Will is more accurately described as a force of nature</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">An outer god at </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">center of all of </ins>the game<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s events</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it's hard to tell what The Greater Will's goals may be</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>it's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hinted several times throughout Elden Ring that it may </ins>not <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">benevolent </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it seems. From Software are known for including Lovecraftian concepts in their games</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and The Greater Will is a perfect example of cosmicism adding an incredible amount of depth to a game</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">l</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Despite not being seen as a competition</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">focused game</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**</ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** </ins>has <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">seen some major changes </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its meta from nerfs. Whether </ins>players <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">focus on the Tarnished's journey </ins>in PvE <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or prefer to take </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">path </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bloody Fingers and </ins>[https://<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">www.Eldenringfans</ins>.com/articles/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">my-battle</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">maris</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">elden</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ring</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nightreign</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tips</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pro</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player</ins>.html <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Maris Boss fight Guide</ins>] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">others in PvP</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they have to watch out </ins>for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">what Bandai Namco and FromSoftware have planned up their sleeves. The updates they have brought </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the game have already dramatically influenced how it is pla</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">some people have pointed out issues </ins>with the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">logos on the games supposedly set to release next year</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">For example</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tekken 8 logo has been revealed </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be a fan edit</ins>, and the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dragonball Fighter Z Super logo __ is a combination of Dragon Ball Fighter Z and Dragon Ball Super . When it comes to Barbarians </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Badlands , some fans are saying that it does not seem like a name for a FromSoftware </ins>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hoarfrost Stomp was </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">’s second most effective gimmick and </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">best tool for speed runners</ins>. The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ash </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">War, which enables players to stomp on the ground </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">send a wave of ice damage in front of them</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">could be used </ins>by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">low-level </ins>players <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to eliminate bosses with ease. This is because Hoarfrost Stomp dealt significant damage, cost little FP, had a huge area of effect, was very fast</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">staggered opponents</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This last facet of the Ash of War was perhaps its best quality</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stagger allowed </ins>speed runners <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to keep bosses from hitting them while they could just spam Hoarfrost Stomp. YouTuber Schlechtelaunetyp shows just how strong this is </ins>even <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at the beginning of the g</ins>&lt;br&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 11:06, 19 November 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring is an open-world RPG created with help </del>from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">author George R.R. Martin that is set in the Lands Between,  [https://WWW.Eldenringfans.com/articles/defeating-caligo-ultimate-frost-dragon-strategy-guide-for-elden-ring-nightreign.html Caligo nightreign] where the Greater Will</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">influence is the most dominant amongst the Outer Gods that have come in search of power. It is the Greater Will that sends the Elden Ring to the Lands Between, and it raises Marika </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">godhood so she can contain the Elden Ring as its vessel. However</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">life under the influence of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greater Will isn't what all residents </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Lands Between desire, and many of them begin to grow disillusioned with the Greater Will and its Golden Order. The demigods, in particular, stray away from the Greater Will and seek their own paths and power in Elden Ri&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;A Breaking Bad meme is always funny, as it's so easy to dramatize </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">situation by imagining Walter White</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">voice in it. Hopefully Sorcerer Rogier </del>can <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">find himself some more mutual partnerships in the future. And funnily enough</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Margit isn't even one of the hardest bosses in Elden Ri&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Despite not being seen as a competition-focused game, **</del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** has seen some major changes to its meta from nerfs. Whether players focus on the Tarnished</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">journey in PvE or prefer to take the path of the Bloody Fingers </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fight others in PvP, they have to watch out for what Bandai Namco </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">FromSoftware have planned up their sleeves. The updates they have brought to the game have already dramatically influenced how it is pla&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Elden Ring is a big game </del>with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a sprawling cast of mysterious characters. Many of them received little </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">no screen time or have unresolved plot threads. The DLC is a perfect opportunity to elaborate on these characters </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">expand the lore. This is an enticing thought</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as Elden Ring ’s lore is already rich </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">expansive. So any additions may prompt the community </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">re-contextualize what is known about the history </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring or even devise new theories to resolve any questions that have been left unanswe</del>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Hoarfrost Stomp was Elden Ring ’s second most effective gimmick and the best tool for speed runners. The Ash of War, which enables players to stomp on the ground and send a wave of ice damage in front of them, could be used by low-level players to eliminate bosses with ease. This is because Hoarfrost Stomp dealt significant damage, cost little FP, had a huge area of effect, was very fast, and staggered opponents. This last facet of the Ash of War was perhaps its best quality, as the stagger allowed speed runners to keep bosses from hitting them while they could just spam Hoarfrost Stomp. YouTuber Schlechtelaunetyp shows just how strong this is even at the beginning of the g&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Understanding </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Erdtree requires knowledge </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lands Between before the Outer Gods</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">particularly the Greater Will, take an interest in it</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Outer Gods </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are seeking power would need to have </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">reason to choose the Lands Between as the place they seek to spread </del>their <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">influence. </del>The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greater Will wouldn't put </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the effort </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">send </del>the Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to a land if it doesn</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">t gain anything from controlling that land</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">What </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greater Will is likely after goes back to a point on </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">timeline before </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">begins </del>. The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first hint at what the Greater Will wants is in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Aspects </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Crucible description</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which says, " This is </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">manifestation </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Erdtree</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s primal vital energies - an aspect </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">primordial crucible</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">where all life was once blended together</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" Any object or being capable of holding all life blended together would certainly be </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">target for the power-hungry Outer G</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However</del>, Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">’s </del>1.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">03 </del>patch <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">drastically diminished </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">quality </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sword of Night and Flame. Without "Royal Knight’s Resolve" available</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">both Night </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Flame abilities dealt 80% less damage than they used </del>to. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On top </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">both abilities received </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nerf to their baseline damage</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night ability received a </del>shadow <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nerf to its range</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This latter impact was probably the most detrimental to the sword</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as the Night ability became too risky </del>to use <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in fights since it could no longer be used at a great dista</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Moonveil was once considered the most broken weapon </del>in Elden Ring , and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it wasn’t even close. The katana comes </del>with the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ash of War </del>"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Transient Moonlight,</del>" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which essentially is the "Unsheathe" Ash of War with an extended area of effect because of a moon beam that shoots out of the katana after unsheathing. So much about the Moonveil made it incredibly broken at launch: It scales with Dexterity </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Intelligence, playing into the meta; it's available soon after choosing </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">class and starting </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring </del>, being <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">just northeast of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Third Church </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Marika; and most importantly</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it deals tons of damage </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">poise. In PvP, poise is incredibly broken</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in PvE</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">poise of bosses can feel infinite. But players like </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">YouTuber Varsona Vyzelta show how Moonveil could cut through poise like butter; a few swings </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Transient Moonlight could send even Godfrey, </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">First Elden Lord, to his kn</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Caelid became </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">source </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a number of memes</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as its Mordor-like style certified it as a zone no one would want </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">walk into</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">If Limgrave is </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game's version </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Sound of Music or </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">field of cute lambs, then the idea of </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">far more frightening zone is terrify</del>&lt;br&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In Soulslike RPGs ranging </ins>from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Demon</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Souls </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dark Souls 3 </ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">total weight </ins>of a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player character</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">equipment affects how quickly they </ins>can <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">roll</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>Elden Ring's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">armor </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">poise rules are no different. Heavy armor </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weapons coupled </ins>with <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">low Stamina will cause players </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">roll slowly </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">awkwardly</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">while lighter armor </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weapons gives players access </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swifter "medium" or "light" rolls with longer periods </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">invincibil&lt;br&gt;</ins>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Hoarfrost Stomp was Elden Ring ’s second most effective gimmick and the best tool for speed runners. The Ash of War, which enables players to stomp on the ground and send a wave of ice damage in front of them, could be used by low-level players to eliminate bosses with ease. This is because Hoarfrost Stomp dealt significant damage, cost little FP, had a huge area of effect, was very fast, and staggered opponents. This last facet of the Ash of War was perhaps its best quality, as the stagger allowed speed runners to keep bosses from hitting them while they could just spam Hoarfrost Stomp. YouTuber Schlechtelaunetyp shows just how strong this is even at the beginning of the g&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, Elden Ring ’s 1.03 patch changed everything for Royal Knight’s Resolve. Post-patch, </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ash </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">War can only enhance </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weapon it is on or any equipped shields</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">leaving its effect largely negligible</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">What makes this nerf even more effective is </ins>that a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lot of Elden Ring ’s best weapons come with </ins>their <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">own Ash of War that cannot be removed or magically enhanced, meaning Royal Knight’s Resolve cannot be used with most meta weap&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;</ins>The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">months of February and March likely saw a global drought </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">individual productivity, as millions of gamers saw minutes turn to hours </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then to days playing </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game, forsaking all sorts of responsibilit&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Previous versions of </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had already revolutionized co-op gameplay mechanics first introduced in FromSoftware's earlier Demon</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s Souls and Dark Souls RPGs </ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Easily accessed items such as the Furlcalling Finger Remedy and </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tarnished's Furled Finger let players quickly lay down and access summon signs right from </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">start of an </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">playthrough, while the Small Golden Effigy item lets players send their summon signs to Stakes of Marika located outside nearby boss arenas</ins>. The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1.06 patch for Elden Ring expanded </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">utility </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Small Golden Effigy</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">adding </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new menu where players can choose between sending their summon signs to Stakes in their current region or to distant regions entirely; this new quality-</ins>of<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-life feature will make it easier for players of Elden Ring to seamlessly summon co-op partners outside of peak playtimes while letting other players avoid spoilers by being summoned into places they haven</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">t visited &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Some players spent over thirty hours </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gameplay just exploring Limgrave and collecting runes while familiarizing themselves with the game and its mechanics. Some found it to be challenging. Those who managed to work their way through to </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">later zones knew bet&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;This mod affects the Tree Sentinel</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an optional boss early in the game</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Usually, this fearsome knight has </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mighty horse he rides on, but this mod makes it Thomas instead. It's not as extensive as other Thomas mods, but it's still fu</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ever since Demon's Souls , FromSoftware developers of Soulslike RPGs have been trying to balance out the perks and downsides of wielding light and fast weapons vs. heavy but hard-hitting weapons. To this end</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the recent </ins>Elden Ring 1.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">06 </ins>patch <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has adjusted </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">move-sets </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weapons in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greatsword, Curved Greatsword</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Great Hammer categories in order </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">make them more viable for players in PvP and PvE</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The speed </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">heavy attacks and certain light attacks for these cool Elden Ring weapons has been increased and the recovery time for attack movements has been shortened</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">making it generally easier for players to strike </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">foe</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then roll out of the way before </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">enemy can strike back. The speed [https://eldenringfans.com/articles/elden-ring-s-</ins>shadow<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-of-the-erdtree-unmasking-nightmares-massive-dlc-adventures</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">html shadow Of The erdtree] Guard Counters has been increased as well for heavy weapons</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">making it easier for Elden Ring players </ins>to use <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this proto-parry ability against boss enemies and fellow play</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Players </ins>in Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">quickly noticed the turtles in the game</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">surrounded them with messages </ins>with the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">word </ins>"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dog.</ins>" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The meme spread </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">took </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">life </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its own</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with countless jokes </ins>being <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">made calling animals in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game d&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Many </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these players ended up spending hours on early game bosses</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or even prepping </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">kill them</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">likely never made serious progress through the game</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">often resembling </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">girl in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">second half </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">m</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">FromSoftware has recently released </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new patch for Elden Ring _ , their latest RPG, but while some gameplay updates in the patch are extremely obvious, others are less so. The nerfs </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">extremely powerful weapon skills such as Bloodhound Step and Corpse Piler, for instance, were long awaited by players</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but other updates in _Elden Ring 's 1.06 patch are far more subtle and hard </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">notice if players aren't actively looking for them</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">These include small buffs to certain weapon move-sets, </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">elimination </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sequence-breaking glitches used by speed-runners, and even </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new option for progressing </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">certain questl</ins>&lt;br&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 07:24, 19 November 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;Elden Ring 's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1.03 patch thought bosses should </del>have <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">more </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a chance</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">though</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and drastically reduced </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">effectiveness </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hoarfrost Stomp. The patch notes share that </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">move</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s casting time </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">FP cost were increase while </del>its <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">area of effect was decreased</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This rendered its staggering effect useless</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as bosses </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">players alike could close in on a Hoarfrost Stomp user </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">attack </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">between the usages of the no-longer-spammable Ash of </del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Anor Londo</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name is likely an adoption of </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">language created </del>by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">J</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">R.R. Tolkien in Lord of the Rings , and </del>can <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">roughly be translated as " Land of the Sun ." If Elden Ring and Dark Souls were connected, the Sun Realm Shield could be an artifact from when Anor Londo basked </del>in the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sunlight</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Though this is likely just an obscure Easter egg for fans</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it does present the interesting idea that the events </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dark Souls series could have happened long ago </del>in Elden <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ring ’s timel</del>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ever since the </del>game<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s release back in late February 2022</del>, Elden Ring 's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">convention-breaking developers at FromSoftware have been responding </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player feedback </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">compiling regular updates </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fix perceived gameplay issues </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">improve the accessibility of the RPG as a whole</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One major example of this is an update applied </del>to the game <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">menu that appears when </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player </del>characters <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rest at a Sight </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lost Grace checkpoint; if players possess the materials needs </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">upgrade the number of charges </del>or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the restorative powers of their healing/magical energy flasks, </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">golden dot will appear next </del>to the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Flasks" menu option</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Updates like these aren't quite as exciting </del>as the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">buffing/nerfing </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fantasy weapons/magic, but do massively improve </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s gameplay and story by ensuring players won't lose track of when/if they can upgrade their primary restorative resour</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;The Raptor’s Black Feathers armor in </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nods to a beloved Bloodborne character, Eileen </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Crow</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It features a cape crafted with bird feathers</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">intended </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">imitate </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring 's Deathbirds</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and is worn </del>by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an assassin called Ravenmount</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Eileen’s armor has much in common with this set</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">being adorned with </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cape made from crow feathers</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">similarly invoking worship </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">birds </del>as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">figures </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">de</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring’s ties to Bloodborne 's Eileen </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Crow run deeper than aesthetic</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">however</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Eileen is known </del>as a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hunter of Hunters, eliminating those who have gone mad and blood drunk </del>from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Beast Hunting</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Her story has fascinating parallels </del>to a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">character in </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">named Yura, the Bloody Finger Hunter</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He hunts those who have been enthralled by Mohg,  [https://www.eldenringfans.com/articles/my-heart-pounding-dance-with-nightreign-s-everdark-sovereigns.html Limveld Expansions] </del>The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lord </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Blood</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and his blood magic. The Bloody Fingers invade the worlds </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other Tarnished to defeat them. During his quest line, </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tarnished helps Yura defeat several members </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bloody Fingers</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">including </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">assassin Ravenmo</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;However, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">right tactic can be employed for players with </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">strong enough attack that can one-shot </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">boss with </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">single hit</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One way this works well is by using </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">anti-magic field </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">keep her from attacking letting you charge up </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">powerful b</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The Moonveil was once considered the most broken weapon in Elden Ring , and it wasn’t even close. The katana comes with the Ash of War "Transient Moonlight," which essentially is the "Unsheathe" Ash of War with an extended area of effect because of a moon beam that shoots out of the katana after unsheathing. So much about the Moonveil made it incredibly broken at launch: It scales with Dexterity and Intelligence, playing into the meta; it's available soon after choosing a class and starting of Elden Ring , being just northeast of the Third Church of Marika; and most importantly, it deals tons of damage to poise. In PvP, poise is incredibly broken, and in PvE, the poise of bosses can feel infinite. But players like the YouTuber Varsona Vyzelta show how Moonveil could cut through poise like butter; a few swings of Transient Moonlight could send even Godfrey, the First Elden Lord, to his kn&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Each game's final trophy can only be obtained when every other trophy is first obtained in the game. This is </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">remarkably difficult task as there are always quite </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">few different trophies in the games that are much more difficult to get than oth&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Minecraft is also a game about exploring a desolate wasteland. However, the Minecraft Diamond Sword mod really shows how different the art styles are and the blocky blue weapon looks so out </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">place that one can't help but laugh. It's still powerful to wield though</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">making </del>it one <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of the funniest mods in the g&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The logic of the Painted Worlds isn’t fully explained, so much of how they work is merely speculation</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One theory </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">used to suggest how Elden Ring connects to Dark Souls and FromSoftware</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other games. At the end </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ashes of Ariandel , the player finds someone called the Painter. She sits in front </del>of a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">blank canvas awaiting the return </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gael</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who will bring </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">paint she’ll use. After completing The Ringed City , the player acquires this paint, which is actually an item called Blood of the Dark Soul, the description </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which says it is " used as pigment [...] to depict </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">painted world ." When the player gives this to the Painter, she says, " I will assuredly finish the painting. Of a cold, dark, and very gentle place. One day, it will make someone a goodly home. " The player never sees the completed painting, but it </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">theorized that it could be the world of Elden Ring or Bloodbor</del>&lt;br&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is an open-world RPG created with help from author George R.R. Martin that is set in the Lands Between,  [https://WWW.Eldenringfans.com/articles/defeating-caligo-ultimate-frost-dragon-strategy-guide-for-elden-ring-nightreign.html Caligo nightreign] where the Greater Will</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">influence is the most dominant amongst the Outer Gods that </ins>have <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">come in search </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">power. It is the Greater Will that sends the Elden Ring to the Lands Between</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and it raises Marika to godhood so she can contain the Elden Ring as its vessel. However</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">life under </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">influence </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greater Will isn</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">t what all residents of the Lands Between desire, and many of them begin to grow disillusioned with the Greater Will </ins>and its <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Golden Order</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The demigods, in particular</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stray away from the Greater Will </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">seek their own paths </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">power </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ri</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A Breaking Bad meme is always funny, as it</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so easy to dramatize </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">situation </ins>by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">imagining Walter White's voice in it</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hopefully Sorcerer Rogier </ins>can <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">find himself some more mutual partnerships </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">future</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">And funnily enough</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Margit isn't even one </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hardest bosses </ins>in Elden <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ri&lt;br&gt;</ins>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Despite not being seen as a competition-focused </ins>game, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**</ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** has seen some major changes to its meta from nerfs. Whether players focus on the Tarnished</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">journey in PvE or prefer </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">take the path of the Bloody Fingers </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fight others in PvP, they have </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">watch out for what Bandai Namco </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">FromSoftware have planned up their sleeves</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The updates they have brought </ins>to the game <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have already dramatically influenced how it is pla&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;</ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is a big game with a sprawling cast of mysterious </ins>characters<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Many </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">them received little </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">no screen time </ins>or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have unresolved plot threads. The DLC is </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">perfect opportunity </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">elaborate on these characters and expand </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lore</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This is an enticing thought, </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring ’s lore is already rich and expansive. So any additions may prompt the community to re-contextualize what is known about </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">history </ins>of Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or even devise new theories to resolve any questions that have been left unanswe</ins>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hoarfrost Stomp was </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">’s second most effective gimmick and </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">best tool for speed runners</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Ash of War</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which enables players </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stomp on </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ground and send a wave of ice damage in front of them</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">could be used </ins>by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">low-level players to eliminate bosses with ease</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This is because Hoarfrost Stomp dealt significant damage, cost little FP</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">had </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">huge area of effect, was very fast</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and staggered opponents. This last facet </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Ash of War was perhaps its best quality, </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the stagger allowed speed runners to keep bosses from hitting them while they could just spam Hoarfrost Stomp. YouTuber Schlechtelaunetyp shows just how strong this is even at the beginning </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the g</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Understanding the Erdtree requires knowledge of the Lands Between before the Outer Gods, particularly </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greater Will</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">take an interest in it</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Outer Gods that are seeking power would need to have a reason to choose the Lands Between </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the place they seek to spread their influence. The Greater Will wouldn't put in the effort and send the Elden Ring to </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">land if it doesn't gain anything </ins>from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">controlling that land</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">What the Greater Will is likely after goes back </ins>to a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">point on the timeline before </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">begins </ins>. The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first hint at what the Greater Will wants is in the Aspects </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Crucible description</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which says, " This is a manifestation </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Erdtree's primal vital energies - an aspect </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">primordial crucible</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">where all life was once blended together." Any object or being capable of holding all life blended together would certainly be a target for </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">power-hungry Outer G</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;However, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring ’s 1.03 patch drastically diminished </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">quality of the Sword of Night and Flame. Without "Royal Knight’s Resolve" available, both Night and Flame abilities dealt 80% less damage than they used to. On top of this, both abilities received </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nerf to their baseline damage, and </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night ability received </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shadow nerf to its range</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This latter impact was probably the most detrimental to the sword, as </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night ability became too risky </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">use in fights since it could no longer be used at </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">great dista</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The Moonveil was once considered the most broken weapon in Elden Ring , and it wasn’t even close. The katana comes with the Ash of War "Transient Moonlight," which essentially is the "Unsheathe" Ash of War with an extended area of effect because of a moon beam that shoots out of the katana after unsheathing. So much about the Moonveil made it incredibly broken at launch: It scales with Dexterity and Intelligence, playing into the meta; it's available soon after choosing a class and starting of Elden Ring , being just northeast of the Third Church of Marika; and most importantly, it deals tons of damage to poise. In PvP, poise is incredibly broken, and in PvE, the poise of bosses can feel infinite. But players like the YouTuber Varsona Vyzelta show how Moonveil could cut through poise like butter; a few swings of Transient Moonlight could send even Godfrey, the First Elden Lord, to his kn&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Caelid became </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">source of </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">number </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">memes</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as its Mordor-like style certified </ins>it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as a zone no </ins>one <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">would want to walk into</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">If Limgrave </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the game</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">version </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Sound </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Music or </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">field </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cute lambs</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">idea </ins>of a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">far more frightening zone </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">terrify</ins>&lt;br&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 05:15, 19 November 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Boss fights are a staple in every Soulsborne game</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Some </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these bosses may be considered optional</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so defeating them rewards players with cool items or runes/souls</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, there are other bosses </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">players must defeat if they want to progress through </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">But in every Soulsborne game</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there are boss fights that many </del>players <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can agree </del>on <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">being annoying, even if they aren't as difficult as some of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">franchise's more punishing fights. And out </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">many bosses that Elden Ring has , several </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">them fall into this categ</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Daxter999 embodied the ultimate duality </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring players </del>by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">posting </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">following meme: </del>"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Me: "I won't use Claymore in this game</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Also me:</del>" and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then a picture of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Claymore alongside a picture and quote </del>from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bloodborne 's Ludwig</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">appropriate since </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">same studio created both ga</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;However</del>, Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">’s 1</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">03 patch drastically diminished </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">quality </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sword </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night and Flame. Without </del>"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Royal Knight’s Resolve</del>" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">available</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">both Night </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Flame abilities dealt 80% less damage than </del>they <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">used </del>to<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. On top of this, both abilities received </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nerf to their baseline damage</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night ability received </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shadow nerf </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its range. This latter impact was probably </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most detrimental to the sword</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as the Night ability became too risky to use </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fights since it could no longer be used at </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">great dista</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The most substantial nerf Bandai Namco levied on </del>[https://<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Www</del>.eldenringfans.com/articles/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">elden</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ring</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shadow</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">erdtree</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">unmasking</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nightmares-massive-dlc-adventures</del>.html <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring DLC</del>] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ring was the alteration to the effect </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Ash of War Royal Knight’s Resolve</del>. The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">way Royal Knight’s Resolve used to function in Elden Ring was that it would allow </del>the Tarnished to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">deal 80% more damage with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">next hit they threw with any </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their weapons. This meant that a player could have a disposable weapon with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ash of War, use it</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and then shift to any other armament (be it a sword, staff, or finger seal) and deal a tremendous amount of damage. This made Royal Knight’s Resolve essential to any PvP or speed running PvE build, as when used in conjunction with a spell like Comet Azure, every boss became a one-hit kill just like YouTuber Nipthemad shows in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">video ab</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rennala has two phases to her fight</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first phase is </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most annoying</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">During the first phase, players must destroy her protective barrier </del>by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">killing </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">correct student in the room. Running around and finding the right student sounds simple, but during this phase, </del>her <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">students are throwing items at the player and dropping chandeliers. Meanwhile, Rennala will use </del>a powerful <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">beam attack to devastate unwary players. If a player is not careful during this first phase, they can begin Rennala’s second phase with not enough health or flask of crimson te</del>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">challenging bosses </del>in Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">will require players to study their move sets or summon help</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there </del>is a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">difference between </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">difficult boss </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an annoying boss. An annoying boss may have ridiculous attacks</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or they may not be alone during </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fight. No matter their character level or skill</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">some players will struggle with these bos&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;There are </del>tons of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">armor sets </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring and some </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">them </del>can <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">make </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tarnished look </del>like a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">completely different character. Others make </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player wonder if they're even still human. However</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">none of them are that hilarious until mods get invol</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Commander Niall is another annoying boss. He </del>can be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">found in Castle Sol </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring’s Mountaintops of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Giants region</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Commander Niall </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">optional, so players can avoid him and </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Castle, but defeating him is essential for players who want the Haligtree Secret Medallion (Left) </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">access the Consecrated Snowfield locat</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The army of mimics </del>mod <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was popularized through YouTube and specifically from a video called " Elden Ring Zerg Rush " which saw </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player multiply </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">absolutely destroy bosses. What made it even funnier was that they were completely na&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Unfortunately, players will be disappointed when they see </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">real deal. His head definitely </del>looks <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">like a large gourd, </del>but <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">no Halloween-theming. But </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">entertaining Pumpkin Head Model Replacement mod fixes that. It replaces his head with a Jack O'Lantern that makes him look like </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pumpkin King himse</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Choosing </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">second option gives the player Baldachin</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Blessing, which increases poise</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">But </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">exact phrasing </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">choice, and </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">way </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">embrace happens</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is what makes it hilarious, especially considering how serious in tone </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game is</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Because of that</del>, this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">moment pushes over into almost absurd&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Elden Ring ** fans __ ** have been blown away by the number </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">boss encounters in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but some </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these bosses are annoying</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Players who come across these bosses at the appropriate skill level may not have difficulty defeating them</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, there are aspects </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their fights that may frustrate even </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most experienced Soulsborne pla&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Elden Ring was not always </del>this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">way, though. Prior </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring 's 1.03 update - which truly changed everything for </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game - </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meta was dominated by </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">few gimmicks</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">strategies</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weapons that were arguably more dominant than blood builds </del>will <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ever be</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">But whether </del>it be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">through direct nerfs or fixes, these options in </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have been rendered either obsolete </del>or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">unvia</del>&lt;br&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring 's 1</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">03 patch thought bosses should have more </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a chance, though</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and drastically reduced the effectiveness of Hoarfrost Stomp</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The patch notes share </ins>that the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">move's casting time and FP cost were increase while its area of effect was decreased</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This rendered its staggering effect useless</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as bosses and </ins>players <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">alike could close in </ins>on <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a Hoarfrost Stomp user and attack in between </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">usages </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">no-longer-spammable Ash </ins>of &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Anor Londo's name is likely an adoption </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a language created </ins>by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">J.R.R. Tolkien in Lord of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rings , and can roughly be translated as </ins>" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Land of the Sun </ins>." <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">If Elden Ring </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dark Souls were connected, </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sun Realm Shield could be an artifact </ins>from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">when Anor Londo basked in the sunlight. Though this is likely just an obscure Easter egg for fans</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it does present the interesting idea that the events of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dark Souls series could have happened long ago in Elden Ring ’s timel</ins>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ever since the game's release back in late February 2022</ins>, Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s convention-breaking developers at FromSoftware have been responding to player feedback and compiling regular updates to fix perceived gameplay issues and improve the accessibility of the RPG as a whole</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One major example of this is an update applied to the game menu that appears when Elden Ring player characters rest at a Sight of Lost Grace checkpoint; if players possess the materials needs to upgrade </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">number </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">charges or </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">restorative powers </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their healing/magical energy flasks, a golden dot will appear next to the </ins>"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Flasks</ins>" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">menu option. Updates like these aren't quite as exciting as the buffing/nerfing of fantasy weapons/magic</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but do massively improve Elden Ring 's gameplay </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">story by ensuring players won't lose track of when/if </ins>they <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can upgrade their primary restorative resour&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The Raptor’s Black Feathers armor in Elden Ring nods </ins>to a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">beloved Bloodborne character</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Eileen </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Crow. It features </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cape crafted with bird feathers, intended </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">imitate </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring 's Deathbirds</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and is worn by an assassin called Ravenmount. Eileen’s armor has much </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">common with this set, being adorned with </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cape made from crow feathers, similarly invoking worship of birds as figures of de</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring’s ties to Bloodborne 's Eileen the Crow run deeper than aesthetic, however. Eileen is known as a Hunter of Hunters, eliminating those who have gone mad and blood drunk from Beast Hunting. Her story has fascinating parallels to a character in Elden Ring named Yura, the Bloody Finger Hunter. He hunts those who have been enthralled by Mohg,  </ins>[https://<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">www</ins>.eldenringfans.com/articles/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">my</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">heart</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pounding</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dance</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nightreign</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">everdark</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sovereigns</ins>.html <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Limveld Expansions</ins>] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Lord </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Blood, and his blood magic</ins>. The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bloody Fingers invade </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">worlds of other </ins>Tarnished to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">defeat them. During his quest line, </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tarnished helps Yura defeat several members </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bloody Fingers</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">including </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">assassin Ravenmo</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">right tactic can be employed for players with a strong enough attack that can one-shot </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">boss with a single hit</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One way this works well is </ins>by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">using </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">anti-magic field to keep </ins>her <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from attacking letting you charge up </ins>a powerful <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">b&lt;br&gt;</ins>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Moonveil was once considered the most broken weapon </ins>in Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and it wasn’t even close</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The katana comes with the Ash of War "Transient Moonlight</ins>,<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" which essentially </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the "Unsheathe" Ash of War with an extended area of effect because of </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">moon beam that shoots out of the katana after unsheathing. So much about the Moonveil made it incredibly broken at launch: It scales with Dexterity and Intelligence, playing into the meta; it's available soon after choosing </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">class </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">starting of Elden Ring </ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">being just northeast of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Third Church of Marika; and most importantly</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it deals </ins>tons of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">damage to poise. In PvP, poise is incredibly broken, and </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PvE, the poise </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bosses </ins>can <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">feel infinite. But players like </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">YouTuber Varsona Vyzelta show how Moonveil could cut through poise </ins>like <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">butter; </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">few swings of Transient Moonlight could send even Godfrey, </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">First Elden Lord</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to his kn</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Each game's final trophy </ins>can <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">only </ins>be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">obtained when every other trophy is first obtained </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a remarkably difficult task as there are always quite a few different trophies in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">games that are much more difficult </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">get than oth</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Minecraft is also a game about exploring a desolate wasteland. However, the Minecraft Diamond Sword </ins>mod <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">really shows how different </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">art styles are </ins>and the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">blocky blue weapon </ins>looks <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so out of place that one can't help </ins>but <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">laugh. It</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">still powerful to wield though, making it one of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">funniest mods in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">g</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The logic of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Painted Worlds isn’t fully explained, so much of how they work is merely speculation. One theory is used to suggest how Elden Ring connects to Dark Souls and FromSoftware</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other games</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">At </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">end of Ashes </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ariandel , </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player finds someone called </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Painter. She sits </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">front of a blank canvas awaiting </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">return of Gael</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who will bring </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">paint she’ll use</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">After completing The Ringed City </ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the player acquires </ins>this <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">paint, which is actually an item called Blood </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dark Soul</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the description </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which says it is " used as pigment [.</ins>..<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">] </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">depict a painted world ." When </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player gives </ins>this to the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Painter, she says, " I will assuredly finish </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">painting. Of </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cold</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dark</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">very gentle place. One day, it </ins>will <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">make someone a goodly home</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" The player never sees the completed painting, but it is theorized that </ins>it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">could </ins>be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the world of </ins>Elden Ring or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bloodbor</ins>&lt;br&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 05:00, 19 November 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**Elden Ring ** features tons </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">references and nods to FromSoftware’s previous games. The infamous NPC Patches is notable</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">though many </del>players <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are aware of his presence and know it as something of a recurring joke</del>. However, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">several Easter eggs fuel </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">continuous speculation </del>on <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a connection between the universes </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring , Bloodborne , and </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dark Souls series. There</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">no definitive proof </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">any of these share a continuity, but </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s Easter eggs supply compelling implicati</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Understanding </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Erdtree requires knowledge </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lands Between before the Outer Gods, particularly the Greater Will, take an interest in it. Outer Gods that are seeking power would need to have a reason to choose the Lands Between as the place they seek to spread their influence. The Greater Will wouldn</del>'t <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">put </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the effort </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">send the Elden Ring to </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">land if it doesn't gain anything from controlling that land. What the Greater Will is likely after goes back to a point on the timeline before Elden Ring begins . The first hint at what the Greater Will wants is in the Aspects </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Crucible description, which says, " This is </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">manifestation of the Erdtree</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">primal vital energies - an aspect of the primordial crucible</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">where all life was once blended together." Any object or being capable of holding all life blended together would certainly be a target for </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">power-hungry Outer G</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Elden <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ring’s DLC has enormous potential to expand </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lore </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its most enigmatic characters </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their effect on the Lands Between</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Even if </del>they <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">don’t appear in the upcoming expansion</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there is much </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">explore that might be featured in future DLCs or even </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sequel </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**Elden Ring ** </del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Until then</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">community is left </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">speculate about the backstories and future of these charact</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This list </del>of Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s most substantial nerfs goes </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">show just how dramatic </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">03 update </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Not only did </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">old strategies that were popularized upon launch fade away</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but Arcane builds rose </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dominate the meta</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hopefully FromSoftware and Bandai Namco can someday reverse this </del>with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">future nerfs to revitalize _Elden Ring _ 's gamep</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The description for </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sun Realm Shield reads: " Shield of honor depicting a city crowned by </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sun</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It has seen better days. Much like </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wear upon the shield</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Seat of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sun is long faded away</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" This is possibly a nod to Anor Londo</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">capital city of Lordran from the first Dark Souls </del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In the lore</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Anor Londo was the seat of Gwyn</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lord </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sunlight</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for ages after he </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the other Lords discovered the Lord Souls </del>during the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">advent of f</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One other small but interesting detail regarding these characters highlights another parallel between the worlds </del>of Elden Ring and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bloodborne . Eileen’s armor mentions that </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first Hunter of Hunters came from </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">foreign land</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Coincidently, Yura originates from </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Land of Reeds, making him a foreigner to The Lands Between, like Elden Ring </del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s Numen </del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Such details</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">along with the heavy focus on cosmic, extraterrestrial beings in both games, fuels speculation </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the games could take place on different planets in the same unive</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In Soulslike RPGs ranging from Demon's Souls to [https://www</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">eldenringfans.com/articles/</del>the<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-bleakest-endings-in-rpgs-when-victory-tastes-like-ash</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">html Dark RPG Conclusions] Souls 3 </del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">total weight of a player character's equipment affects how quickly they can roll</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and Elden Ring's armor and poise rules are no different. Heavy armor and weapons coupled with low Stamina will cause </del>players to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">roll slowly and awkwardly, while lighter armor and weapons gives players </del>access <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to swifter "medium" or "light" rolls with longer periods of invincibil</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">recent 1.06 update has increased the distance Elden Ring players can roll if lightly equipped or possessed </del>of a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">high Endurance attribute score. Besides making </del>"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">naked speedruns</del>" <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">more viable, </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"light" encumbrance status also increases the travel distance of players using "Bloodhound Step" or "Quickstep," partially canceling out the nerf FromSoftware applied to these weapon ski</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Though he can be encountered in Limgrave</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most </del>players <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">are likely to come across D, Hunter of the Dead for the first time on their inaugural journey to Elden Ring 's beautiful Roundtable Hold . There, he </del>will <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">warn of the danger posed by </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tibia Mariner</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, should the player defeat </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tibia Mariner and give D the Deathroot earned afterward</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ll clue </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player into a secret portal </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">connects </del>with a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">far-off section of Caelid. Ultimately, while a springboard for further, more interesting events, D's role in Elden Ring isn</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">t particularly meaningful. However, his fate, intertwined with </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of Deathbed Companion Fia, should stick in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">minds of diligent play</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Between </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">two trees</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Erdtree is </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">true parasite. This fits </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ongoing theme </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring that </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greater Will</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">despite being presented as a benevolent Outer God at first</del>, is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">more vicious and controlling than it tries to make others believe</del>. Because of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Greater Will's true nature</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it isn't a surprise that </del>Elden Ring<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s Age of Stars ending is </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">favorite among players since Ranni begins a new order </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">her own that won't directly interfere with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lives </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">those in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lands Between in </del>the way <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Golden Order does</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While there</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">enough information to deem </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Erdtree as </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">parasite</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the lack of information about the Greater Will makes its intentions unclear. The purpose of creating a parasitic tree </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">uses the power of the Crucible and the dead </del>will <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">only </del>be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">revealed if FromSoftware adds DLC or creates other future content </del>through <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an expansion </del>or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sequel for **</del>Elden Ring&lt;br&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Boss fights are a staple in every Soulsborne game. Some </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these bosses may be considered optional</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so defeating them rewards </ins>players <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with cool items or runes/souls</ins>. However, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there are other bosses that players must defeat if they want to progress through </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game. But in every Soulsborne game, there are boss fights that many players can agree </ins>on <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">being annoying, even if they aren't as difficult as some </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">franchise</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">more punishing fights. And out of the many bosses </ins>that Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">has , several of them fall into this categ</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Daxter999 embodied </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ultimate duality </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring players by posting </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">following meme: "Me: "I won</ins>'t <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">use Claymore </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this game. Also me:" </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">picture </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Claymore alongside </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">picture and quote from Bloodborne </ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ludwig</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">appropriate since </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">same studio created both ga</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, </ins>Elden <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ring ’s 1.03 patch drastically diminished the quality of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sword </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Flame</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Without "Royal Knight’s Resolve" available, both Night and Flame abilities dealt 80% less damage than </ins>they <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">used to. On top of this</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">both abilities received a nerf </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their baseline damage, and the Night ability received </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shadow nerf </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its range</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This latter impact was probably the most detrimental to the sword</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night ability became too risky </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">use in fights since it could no longer be used at a great dista</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The most substantial nerf Bandai Namco levied on [https://Www.eldenringfans.com/articles/elden-ring-s-shadow-</ins>of<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-the-erdtree-unmasking-nightmares-massive-dlc-adventures.html </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">DLC] Ring was the alteration </ins>to the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">effect of the Ash of War Royal Knight’s Resolve</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The way Royal Knight’s Resolve used to function in Elden Ring </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that it would allow the Tarnished to deal 80% more damage with </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">next hit they threw with any of their weapons</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This meant that a player could have a disposable weapon with </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ash of War, use it</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and then shift </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">any other armament (be it a sword, staff, or finger seal) and deal a tremendous amount of damage</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This made Royal Knight’s Resolve essential to any PvP or speed running PvE build, as when used in conjunction </ins>with <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a spell like Comet Azure, every boss became a one-hit kill just like YouTuber Nipthemad shows in the video ab</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rennala has two phases to her fight, but </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first phase is </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most annoying</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">During </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first phase</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">players must destroy her protective barrier by killing </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">correct student in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">room</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Running around and finding the right student sounds simple, but during this phase</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">her students are throwing items at </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player and dropping chandeliers</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Meanwhile</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rennala will use a powerful beam attack to devastate unwary players. If a player is not careful during this first phase</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they can begin Rennala’s second phase with not enough health or flask </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">crimson te&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The challenging bosses in Elden Ring will require players to study their move sets or summon help. However</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">there is a difference between a difficult boss </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an annoying boss. An annoying boss may have ridiculous attacks, or they may not be alone </ins>during the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fight. No matter their character level or skill, some players will struggle with these bos</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">There are tons </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">armor sets in </ins>Elden Ring and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">some of them can make </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tarnished look like </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">completely different character</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Others make </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player wonder if they</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">re even still human</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">none of them are </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hilarious until mods get invol</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Commander Niall is another annoying boss</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He can be found in Castle Sol in Elden Ring’s Mountaintops of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Giants region</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Commander Niall is optional</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so players can avoid him and </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Castle</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but defeating him is essential for </ins>players <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">who want the Haligtree Secret Medallion (Left) </ins>to access <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Consecrated Snowfield locat</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">army </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mimics mod was popularized through YouTube and specifically from </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">video called </ins>" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring Zerg Rush </ins>" <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which saw </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player multiply and absolutely destroy bosses. What made it even funnier was that they were completely na</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Unfortunately</ins>, players will <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be disappointed when they see </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">real deal</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">His head definitely looks like </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">large gourd</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but there</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s no Halloween-theming. But </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">entertaining Pumpkin Head Model Replacement mod fixes </ins>that<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. It replaces his head </ins>with a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Jack O</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lantern </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">makes him look like </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pumpkin King himse</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Choosing </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">second option gives the player Baldachin's Blessing</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which increases poise. But </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">exact phrasing of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">choice, and </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">way </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">embrace happens</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is what makes it hilarious</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">especially considering how serious in tone the game </ins>is. Because of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this moment pushes over into almost absurd&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;</ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** fans __ ** have been blown away by </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">number </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">boss encounters in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game, but some </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these bosses are annoying. Players who come across these bosses at </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">appropriate skill level may not have difficulty defeating them. However, there are aspects to their fights that may frustrate even </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most experienced Soulsborne pla&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Elden Ring was not always this </ins>way<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, though</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Prior to Elden Ring </ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1.03 update - which truly changed everything for the game - </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meta was dominated by </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">few gimmicks, strategies</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and weapons </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were arguably more dominant than blood builds </ins>will <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ever be. But whether it </ins>be through <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">direct nerfs </ins>or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fixes, these options in </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have been rendered either obsolete or unvia</ins>&lt;br&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 04:08, 19 November 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">’s 1.03 patch drastically diminished the quality of the Sword </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Flame</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Without "Royal Knight’s Resolve" available</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">both Night </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Flame abilities dealt 80% less damage than they used to. On top </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this, both abilities received </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nerf to their baseline damage</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night ability received </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shadow nerf to its range. This latter impact was probably </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most detrimental to the sword</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night ability became too risky to use in fights since it could </del>no <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">longer be used at </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">great dista</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">chalice dungeons </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bloodborne are an optional zone for players who want </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">more challenging experience</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While Bloodborne as </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">whole lacks </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">type </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">difficulty most Souls games have</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dungeons make many players change their minds about t</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Commander Niall is another annoying boss. He can be found in Castle Sol in </del>Elden Ring’s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mountaintops </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Giants region</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Commander Niall </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">optional</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so players can avoid him and </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Castle, but defeating him </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">essential for players who want the Haligtree Secret Medallion (Left) </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">access </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Consecrated Snowfield locat</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring was not always this way, though. Prior to </del>Elden Ring 's 1.03 update <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- which truly changed everything </del>for the game <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">- </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meta was dominated by a few gimmicks, </del>strategies<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, and weapons </del>that were <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">arguably more dominant than blood </del>builds <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">will ever be</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">But whether it be through direct </del>nerfs <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or fixes, these options in Elden </del>Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have been rendered either obsolete or unvia</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Prince </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Death's Staff will serve as </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">great weapon for players that want </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be flexible in both Intelligence and Faith</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name suggests</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it buffs Death sorceries </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can be found in The Nameless Eternal C</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Despite not being seen as </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">competition-focused game</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**</del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** has seen some major changes to its meta from nerfs</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Whether players </del>focus on the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tarnished's journey in PvE or prefer to </del>take <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the path of the Bloody Fingers and fight others </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PvP, they have to watch out for what Bandai Namco and FromSoftware have planned up their sleeves. The updates they have brought to </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game have already dramatically influenced how it is pla</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The most substantial nerf Bandai Namco levied on Elden Ring was the alteration </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the effect of the Ash of War Royal Knight’s Resolve. The way Royal Knight’s Resolve used to function in </del>[https://<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Www</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Eldenringfans</del>.com/articles/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">my-battle</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">maris</del>-in-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">elden</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ring</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nightreign</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tips</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from-a-pro</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player</del>.html <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring Nightreign Maris</del>] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ring was that it would allow the Tarnished to deal 80% more damage with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">next hit they threw with any </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their weapons. This meant that </del>a player <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">could have a disposable weapon with the Ash of War, use it</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then shift </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">any other armament (be it a sword</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">staff, or finger seal) </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">deal a tremendous amount of damage. This made Royal Knight’s Resolve essential </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">any PvP </del>or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">speed running PvE build, as when used in conjunction </del>with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a spell like Comet Azure, every boss became a one-hit kill just like YouTuber Nipthemad shows in the video ab</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Both luckily and unluckily for players, Elden Ring 's patches have largely served to buff rather than nerf</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This protects the health of the game by allowing new strategies to arise while avoiding taking away anything from </del>the Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that </del>players <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">may have enjoyed</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, in practice</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this has resulted to </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rise of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rivers </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Blood katana meta in Elden Ring </del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which has left other approaches </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the game in the d</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Everyone</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bound to have their favored playthrough</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but considering </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">overall loadout on display</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">duo were never going to be </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">match to Fancy. But discontent over </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">quality </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this boss battle is understandable</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">though</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">since the fight is necessary to advance the game but at the same time does not provide engaging combat or </del>particularly <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">enjoyable challenge to players</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The childish tone </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">response is funny because it's understanda</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This list of Elden Ring 's most substantial nerfs goes to show just how dramatic </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1.03 update was for </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Not only did </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">old strategies </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were popularized upon launch fade away</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but Arcane builds rose </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dominate </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meta. Hopefully FromSoftware and Bandai Namco can someday reverse this with future nerfs to revitalize _Elden </del>Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">_ </del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gamep&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;It took many </del>players a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">long time to formulate the best strategy when fighting her. Some use specific tactics to help defeat Malenia like ashes, others summoned other players, and yet other players decided to master all </del>of her <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">movements. Many players so far have found </del>that the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">best tactic is using the bleed-out strategy as Malenia is extremely susceptible to&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;As it happens, there's an absolute treasure trove </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hilarious </del>in<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-game moments captured by Redditors and many could justifiably be called </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">best of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">subreddit, but these ten certainly have earned their spots among </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">funni&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The Astrologer</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Staff is good for those who'd like </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">focus on spellcasting in their magic builds </del>as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">opposed to things like incantations</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It has </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fairly modest Intelligence requirement </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">16, </del>and the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">staff can also </del>be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">easily bought from the Nomadic Merchant in Liurnia of the La</del>&lt;br&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**</ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** features tons </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">references </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nods to FromSoftware’s previous games</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The infamous NPC Patches is notable</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">though many players are aware of his presence </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">know it as something </ins>of a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">recurring joke. However</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">several Easter eggs fuel </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">continuous speculation on </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">connection between </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">universes of Elden Ring , Bloodborne </ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dark Souls series. There's </ins>no <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">definitive proof that any of these share </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">continuity, but Elden Ring 's Easter eggs supply compelling implicati</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Understanding the Erdtree requires knowledge of the Lands Between before the Outer Gods, particularly the Greater Will, take an interest in it. Outer Gods that are seeking power would need to have a reason to choose the Lands Between as the place they seek to spread their influence. </ins>The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greater Will wouldn't put </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the effort and send the Elden Ring to a land if it doesn't gain anything from controlling that land. What the Greater Will is likely after goes back to </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">point on the timeline before Elden Ring begins </ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The first hint at what the Greater Will wants is in the Aspects of the Crucible description, which says, " This is </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">manifestation of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Erdtree's primal vital energies - an aspect </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the primordial crucible</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">where all life was once blended together." Any object or being capable of holding all life blended together would certainly be a target for </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">power-hungry Outer G</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Elden Ring’s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">DLC has enormous potential to expand the lore </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its most enigmatic characters and their effect on </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lands Between</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Even if they don’t appear in the upcoming expansion, there </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">much to explore that might be featured in future DLCs or even a sequel to **Elden Ring ** . Until then</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">community </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">left </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">speculate about </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">backstories and future of these charact</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This list of </ins>Elden Ring 's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most substantial nerfs goes to show just how dramatic the </ins>1.03 update <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was </ins>for the game<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Not only did </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">old </ins>strategies that were <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">popularized upon launch fade away, but Arcane </ins>builds <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rose to dominate the meta</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hopefully FromSoftware and Bandai Namco can someday reverse this with future </ins>nerfs <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to revitalize _Elden </ins>Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">_ 's gamep</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">description for the Sun Realm Shield reads: " Shield of honor depicting a city crowned by the sun. It has seen better days. Much like the wear upon the shield, the Seat </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Sun is long faded away. " This is possibly </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nod </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Anor Londo, the capital city of Lordran from the first Dark Souls </ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lore</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Anor Londo was the seat of Gwyn, Lord of Sunlight, for ages after he </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the other Lords discovered the Lord Souls during the advent of f</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">One other small but interesting detail regarding these characters highlights another parallel between the worlds of Elden Ring and Bloodborne . Eileen’s armor mentions that the first Hunter of Hunters came from a foreign land. Coincidently, Yura originates from the Land of Reeds, making him </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">foreigner to The Lands Between</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">like </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s Numen </ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Such details, along with the heavy </ins>focus on <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cosmic, extraterrestrial beings in both games, fuels speculation that </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">games could </ins>take <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">place on different planets </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">same unive</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In Soulslike RPGs ranging from Demon's Souls </ins>to [https://<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">www</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">eldenringfans</ins>.com/articles/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bleakest</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">endings</ins>-in-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rpgs</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">when</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">victory</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tastes</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">like</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ash</ins>.html <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dark RPG Conclusions</ins>] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Souls 3 , </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">total weight </ins>of a player <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">character's equipment affects how quickly they can roll</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring's armor and poise rules are no different. Heavy armor and weapons coupled with low Stamina will cause players </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">roll slowly and awkwardly</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">while lighter armor </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weapons gives players access </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swifter "medium" </ins>or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"light" rolls </ins>with <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">longer periods of invincibil</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The recent 1</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">06 update has increased </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">distance </ins>Elden Ring players <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can roll if lightly equipped or possessed of a high Endurance attribute score</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Besides making "naked speedruns" more viable</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"light" encumbrance status also increases </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">travel distance </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">players using "Bloodhound Step" or "Quickstep</ins>,<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" partially canceling out the nerf FromSoftware applied </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these weapon ski</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Though he can be encountered in Limgrave, most players are likely to come across D, Hunter of the Dead for the first time on their inaugural journey to Elden Ring </ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">beautiful Roundtable Hold . There</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he will warn of the danger posed by </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tibia Mariner. However</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">should </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player defeat </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tibia Mariner and give D the Deathroot earned afterward, he'll clue </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player into a secret portal that connects with a far-off section </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Caelid. Ultimately, while a springboard for further</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">more interesting events</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">D's role in Elden Ring isn't </ins>particularly <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meaningful</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, his fate, intertwined with that </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Deathbed Companion Fia, should stick in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">minds of diligent play</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Between the two trees, </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Erdtree is </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">true parasite</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This fits </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ongoing theme in Elden Ring </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Greater Will, despite being presented as a benevolent Outer God at first</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is more vicious and controlling than it tries </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">make others believe. Because of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greater Will's true nature, it isn't a surprise that Elden </ins>Ring's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Age of Stars ending is the favorite among </ins>players <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">since Ranni begins </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new order </ins>of her <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">own </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">won't directly interfere with </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lives </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">those </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lands Between in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">way </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Golden Order does. While there</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">enough information </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">deem the Erdtree </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a parasite, the lack of information about the Greater Will makes its intentions unclear</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The purpose of creating </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">parasitic tree that uses the power </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Crucible </ins>and the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dead will only </ins>be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">revealed if FromSoftware adds DLC or creates other future content through an expansion or sequel for **Elden Ring</ins>&lt;br&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 03:38, 19 November 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">FromSoftware has recently released a new patch for </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">_ , their latest RPG, but while some gameplay updates in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">patch are extremely obvious</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">others are </del>less <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The nerfs </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">extremely powerful weapon skills such as Bloodhound Step and Corpse Piler</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">for instance, were long awaited by players</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but other updates in _Elden Ring 's 1.06 patch are far more subtle </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hard </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">notice if players aren't actively looking for them</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">These include small buffs </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">certain weapon move-sets</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> [https://www.Eldenringfans.com/articles/elden-ring-nightreign-</del>the<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-unyielding-2025-game-of-the-year-contender.html Www.Eldenringfans.Com] the elimination of sequence-breaking glitches </del>used <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">by speed-runners, and even </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new option for progressing a certain questl</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sword of Night and Flame once stood next to the Moonveil as the best weapon </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the game</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It’s dual ability in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">form </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night-and-Flame Stance allowed the Tarnished to use either a powerful Faith-based or Intelligence-based spell</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While both moves were strong, the Intelligence Night spell was especially noteworthy </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PvE because </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its resemblance to Comet Azure</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Combined with Royal Knight’s Resolve</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Sword of Night and Flame allowed </del>players <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to easily kill bosses from a distance as shown by Schlechtelaunetyp above, </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">if an opponent closed in at all</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they could then use </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Flame ability </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wipe out any remaining hea</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While one would hope that these players still fulfilled their daily tasks and jobs on time</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">very likely </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring took a priority for some</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">depicted comedically </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the meme. The amount of time players spent on </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">likely led to players finding the multitude of hidden details that the game has to of</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Anor Londo</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name is likely an adoption of </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">language created by J</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">R.R. Tolkien in Lord of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rings </del>, and can <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">roughly </del>be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">translated </del>as <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" Land of the Sun ." If </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and Dark Souls were connected, the Sun Realm Shield could be an artifact </del>from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">when Anor Londo basked in the sunlight</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Though this is likely just an obscure Easter egg for fans, it does present </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">interesting idea that </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">events </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dark Souls series could </del>have <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">happened long ago in Elden Ring ’s timel</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player-left messages around </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">quickly became one of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most meme-filled aspects </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game, as gamers were leaving all kinds </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fruitful info around the game</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It provided a </del>way to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">create </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">community feeling in the single</del>-player <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">experience, but </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">messages </del>have <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">been some </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">funniest things people have done in Elden Ri</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A Breaking Bad meme is always funny</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as it</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so easy </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dramatize a situation </del>by <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">imagining Walter White's voice in it</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hopefully Sorcerer Rogier can find himself some more mutual partnerships </del>in the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">future. And funnily enough, Margit isn't even one </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hardest bosses </del>in Elden <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ri</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In Soulslike RPGs ranging from Demon</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Souls </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dark Souls 3 </del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">total weight </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a player character's equipment affects how quickly they can roll</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and Elden Ring's armor and poise rules are no different. Heavy armor and weapons coupled with low Stamina will cause players to roll slowly and awkwardly</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">while lighter armor and weapons gives players access </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swifter "medium" </del>or <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"light" rolls with longer periods </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">invincibil</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The intersections of Marika’s plans with those </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nox and Ranni provide enough circumstantial evidence to suggest that Marika may be </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lord </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nox tried </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">forge with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Silver Tears</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">If she truly is a Mimic, </del>this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">also explains her ability </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">transform into Radagon. The plots these individuals set forth have been in play long before the events of **Elden </del>Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** . When the player Tarnished arrives in The Lands Between, they will have a crucial role in the outcome of these plans. Assuming the player chooses Ranni’s Age of Stars ending, it</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">possible Marika and the Nox will be proven victori</del>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The recent 1.06 update has increased the distance Elden Ring </del>players <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can roll if lightly equipped or possessed of </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">high Endurance attribute score</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Besides making "naked speedruns" more viable</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the "light" encumbrance status also increases the travel distance </del>of players using <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Bloodhound Step" or "Quickstep," partially canceling </del>out <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the nerf FromSoftware applied </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these weapon ski</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">To progress through Elden Ring </del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">White</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Faced Varré </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his questline (Varré being </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NPC representative </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">blood-obsessed in-game faction called </del>The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bloody Fingers), Elden Ring players previously needed </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">accept the Bloody Finger PvP item from him, then invade players </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other worlds with it at least three times</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The 1.06 update</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">however, added a new NPC character players can invade in offline mode (his invasion sign </del>can be <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">found near </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Writheblood Ruins </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Altus Plateau). After defeating Magnus the Beast Claw, a Tarnished who wields a massive Great Stars mace and uses Bestial Incantations, Varré's quest dialogue will progress as if the player had performed their requisite set </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PvP duels/invasions in Elden Ring . Besides letting players with no interest in PvP complete a dark yet interesting questline, this new change also makes it easier for speed-runners to gain access to </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mohgwyn Palace region, a popular location for farming "Rune" experience poi</del>&lt;br&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">’s 1.03 patch drastically diminished the quality of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sword of Night and Flame. Without "Royal Knight’s Resolve" available</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">both Night and Flame abilities dealt 80% </ins>less <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">damage than they used to</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">On top </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">both abilities received a nerf to their baseline damage</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Night ability received a shadow nerf </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">its range</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This latter impact was probably the most detrimental </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the sword</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night ability became too risky to use in fights since it could no longer be </ins>used <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">great dista</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">chalice dungeons </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bloodborne are an optional zone for players who want a more challenging experience</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While Bloodborne as a whole lacks </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">type </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">difficulty most Souls games have, </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dungeons make many players change their minds about t&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Commander Niall is another annoying boss</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He can be found in Castle Sol </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring’s Mountaintops </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Giants region</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Commander Niall is optional</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so </ins>players <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can avoid him </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Castle</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but defeating him is essential for players who want </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Haligtree Secret Medallion (Left) </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">access the Consecrated Snowfield locat</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring was not always this way</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">though. Prior to Elden Ring </ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1.03 update - which truly changed everything for the game - the meta was dominated by a few gimmicks, strategies, and weapons </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were arguably more dominant than blood builds will ever be. But whether it be through direct nerfs or fixes</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these options </ins>in Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have been rendered either obsolete or unvia</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Prince of Death</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Staff will serve as </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">great weapon for players that want to be flexible in both Intelligence and Faith</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name suggests</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it buffs Death sorceries </ins>and can be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">found in The Nameless Eternal C&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Despite not being seen </ins>as <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a competition-focused game, **</ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** has seen some major changes to its meta </ins>from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nerfs</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Whether players focus on </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tarnished's journey in PvE or prefer to take </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">path </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bloody Fingers and fight others in PvP, they have to watch out for what Bandai Namco and FromSoftware have planned up their sleeves. The updates they have brought to the game </ins>have <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">already dramatically influenced how it is pla</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most substantial nerf Bandai Namco levied on </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was the alteration to </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">effect </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ash </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">War Royal Knight’s Resolve</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The </ins>way <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Royal Knight’s Resolve used </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">function in [https://Www.Eldenringfans.com/articles/my-battle-with-maris-in-elden-ring-nightreign-tips-from-</ins>a<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-pro</ins>-player<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.html Elden Ring Nightreign Maris] Ring was that it would allow the Tarnished to deal 80% more damage with </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">next hit they threw with any of their weapons. This meant that a player could </ins>have <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a disposable weapon with the Ash of War, use it, and then shift to any other armament (be it a sword, staff, or finger seal) and deal a tremendous amount </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">damage. This made Royal Knight’s Resolve essential to any PvP or speed running PvE build, as when used in conjunction with a spell like Comet Azure, every boss became a one-hit kill just like YouTuber Nipthemad shows in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">video ab</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Both luckily and unluckily for players</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring </ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">patches have largely served </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">buff rather than nerf. This protects the health of the game </ins>by <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">allowing new strategies to arise while avoiding taking away anything from the Elden Ring that players may have enjoyed</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">practice, this has resulted to </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rise </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Rivers of Blood katana meta </ins>in Elden <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ring , which has left other approaches to the game in the d</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Everyone</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">bound </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">have their favored playthrough, but considering the overall loadout on display</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">duo were never going to be a match to Fancy. But discontent over the quality </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this boss battle is understandable</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">though</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">since the fight is necessary </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">advance the game but at the same time does not provide engaging combat </ins>or <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">particularly enjoyable challenge to players. The childish tone </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the response is funny because it's understanda</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This list </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring 's most substantial nerfs goes to show just how dramatic </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1.03 update was for </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game. Not only did </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">old strategies that were popularized upon launch fade away, but Arcane builds rose </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dominate </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meta</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hopefully FromSoftware and Bandai Namco can someday reverse </ins>this <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with future nerfs </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">revitalize _Elden </ins>Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">_ </ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gamep&lt;br&gt;</ins>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It took many </ins>players a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">long time to formulate the best strategy when fighting her</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Some use specific tactics to help defeat Malenia like ashes, others summoned other players</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and yet other players decided to master all </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">her movements. Many </ins>players <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so far have found that the best tactic is </ins>using <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the bleed-</ins>out <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">strategy as Malenia is extremely susceptible </ins>to&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As it happens, there</ins>'s <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an absolute treasure trove of hilarious in</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game moments captured by Redditors </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">many could justifiably be called </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">best </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">subreddit, but these ten certainly have earned their spots among the funni&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;</ins>The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Astrologer's Staff is good for those who'd like </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">focus on spellcasting </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">their magic builds as opposed to things like incantations</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It has a fairly modest Intelligence requirement of 16</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and the staff </ins>can <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">also </ins>be <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">easily bought from </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nomadic Merchant </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Liurnia </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">La</ins>&lt;br&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

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<p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 02:37, 19 November 2025</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However, there is also </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">chance that this leak is a hoax fabricated by the group responsible </del>for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the ransomware attack. Based on the other game titles released</del>, some <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">individuals believe this leak is a hoax and has no chance of being true. That said, this also happened with Capcom several years ago, ultimately resulting </del>in the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dragons Dogma 2 sequel being revealed ahead </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">sched&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Further support for the leak being a hoax lies in the fact that a ransomware attack will naturally demand some form of payment from its target. When Cyberpunk 2077 studio CD Projekt Red was hacked </del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they received a ransom note demanding payment with the threat of releasing information. It makes little sense </del>for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ALPHV to hack into Bandai Namco’s servers</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">steal sensitive data</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then give out vital information they are holding hostage </del>for <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">f&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;While it might seem </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be parasitic</del>,  [https://<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Www</del>.Eldenringfans.com/articles/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">xbox</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gaming</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">evolution</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in</del>-2025.html <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2025 gaming trends</del>] the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">relationship between Miquella </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his Haligtree is actually more symbiotic</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In Elden Ring , Miquella's cocoon is </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">only </del>form <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in which he's seen. Mohg, as someone obsessed with Miquella, cuts him out </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Haligtree </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">takes him away</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and due </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">both </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Haligtree </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Miquella suffer, displaying their symbiotic relationship. The Haligtree is not </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">parasite</del>, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it's unfortunate that its potential is never realized due to Mohg's actions. Since Miquella's status is unknown, </del>if <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">he's alive</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it's possible that he might try </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">salvage the Haligtree, or he might start over if it can't be sa</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Painted Worlds appear in the first Dark Souls - the Painted World of Ariamis - </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">during Dark Souls 3 ’s expansion</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ashes of Ariandel - the Painted World of Ariandel. In both cases</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these worlds are accessed when </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player interacts with a painting</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">What follows is a short cutscene </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player character being pulled inside </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">painting when their hand touches the canvas. The player is then transported </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a world entirely separate from the rest </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the g</del>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Scattered across The Lands Between are seven paintings that are tied to scavenger hunt quests</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">These puzzles require </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player to find </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">locations </del>from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which each painting was made</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">When the correct places are found</del>, the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player will discover Wandering Artist Spirits. Upon interaction with </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">spirits, they drop a unique item and disappear. Fans </del>of the Dark Souls series <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">will almost certainly think of the Painted Worlds whenever they come across interact-able paintings </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">FromSoftware’s Soulsborne gam</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Kenneth Haight can be found in easter Limgrave preaching atop a ruin about how he</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">not Godrick, is </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">rightful ruler of Limgrave</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Much like </del>the player, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Kenneth has a very low opinion </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Godrick and refers to him as a "jumped up country bumpk</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Age of the Stars has certainly become the most popular out of Elden Ring 's three endings. However</del>, it's <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the most difficult </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">obtain as </del>it <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">takes players on an optional quest line that has Tarnished facing off against various difficult bosses and enemies</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as well as a couple </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">frustrating areas like </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lake of </del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Despite not being seen as </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">competition-focused game</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**</del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** has seen some major changes to its meta from nerfs</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Whether </del>players <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">focus on the Tarnished's journey in PvE or prefer </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">take the path of the Bloody Fingers </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fight others in PvP</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they have to watch out for what Bandai Namco </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">FromSoftware have planned up their sleeves. The updates they have brought </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the game have already dramatically influenced how it is pla</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Several items in Elden Ring are Easter eggs that refer to FromSoftware’s previous titles. </del>The <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sun Realm Shield has intriguing </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mysterious ties </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an important city in Dark Souls lore, but </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">drop rate for this shield </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">incredibly low</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so it’s easy for most players </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">miss</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">An armor piece called Raptor’s Black Feathers resembles a notable Bloodborne character whose quest line parallels that </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a summonable </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NPC </del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Scavenger hunt-style puzzles across </del>The Lands Between <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">involve paintings</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">which also bring to mind one </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most intriguing lore aspects </del>of the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dark Souls franch</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;There have been many assumptions about what an </del>Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">_ DLC will entail, but among these theories, </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">supposed future DLC called _Barbarians of the Badlands has spread over the internet as rumors of leaks have proliferated</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As exciting as this may sound for fans</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this title leak is </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">result </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a ransomware attack on Bandai Namco Entertainment</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an attack that has resulted in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">reveal of several game titles </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be released in 2023 even while many have doubts about the leak's authentic</del>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Elden Ring <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is an open-world RPG created with help from author George R.R. Martin that is set in the Lands Between, where the Greater Will</del>'s <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">influence is </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">most dominant amongst </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Outer Gods that have come </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">search of power. It is the Greater Will that sends the </del>Elden Ring to the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lands Between</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </del>it <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">raises Marika to godhood so she </del>can <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">contain </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring as its vessel</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">However</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">life under the influence of the Greater Will isn</del>'<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">t what all residents of </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lands Between desire, and many </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">them begin to grow disillusioned </del>with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Greater Will and its Golden Order. The demigods, </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">particular</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">stray away from </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greater Will and seek their own paths and power in Elden Ri</del>&lt;br&gt;</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">FromSoftware has recently released </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">new patch </ins>for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring _ , their latest RPG</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but while </ins>some <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">gameplay updates </ins>in the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">patch are extremely obvious, others are less so. The nerfs </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">extremely powerful weapon skills such as Bloodhound Step and Corpse Piler</ins>, for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">instance</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">were long awaited by players</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but other updates in _Elden Ring 's 1.06 patch are far more subtle </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hard to notice if players aren't actively looking </ins>for <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">them. These include small buffs </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">certain weapon move-sets</ins>,  [https://<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">www</ins>.Eldenringfans.com/articles/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">elden</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ring</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nightreign</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the-unyielding</ins>-2025<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-game-of-the-year-contender</ins>.html <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Www.Eldenringfans.Com</ins>] the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">elimination of sequence-breaking glitches used by speed-runners, and even a new option for progressing a certain questl&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The Sword of Night </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Flame once stood next to the Moonveil as the best weapon in the game</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It’s dual ability in </ins>the form of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Night-</ins>and<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-Flame Stance allowed the Tarnished to use either a powerful Faith-based or Intelligence-based spell. While both moves were strong</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Intelligence Night spell was especially noteworthy in PvE because of its resemblance </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Comet Azure. Combined with Royal Knight’s Resolve</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sword of Night </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Flame allowed players to easily kill bosses from </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">distance as shown by Schlechtelaunetyp above</ins>, and if <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an opponent closed in at all</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they could then use the Flame ability </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">wipe out any remaining hea</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">While one would hope that these players still fulfilled their daily tasks </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jobs on time</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it's very likely that Elden Ring took a priority for some</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">depicted comedically in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">meme</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The amount </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">time players spent on Elden Ring likely led to players finding </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">multitude of hidden details that </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game has </ins>to of&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;br&gt;Anor Londo's name is likely an adoption of a language created by J.R.R</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tolkien in Lord of the Rings , and can roughly be translated as " Land of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sun ." If Elden Ring and Dark Souls were connected, </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sun Realm Shield could be an artifact </ins>from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">when Anor Londo basked in the sunlight</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Though this is likely just an obscure Easter egg for fans</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it does present </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">interesting idea that </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">events </ins>of the Dark Souls series <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">could have happened long ago </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Elden Ring ’s timel</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The player-left messages around Elden Ring quickly became one of the most meme-filled aspects of the game</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as gamers were leaving all kinds of fruitful info around </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">game</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It provided a way to create a community feeling in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">single-</ins>player <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">experience</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">but the messages have been some </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the funniest things people have done in Elden Ri</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A Breaking Bad meme is always funny</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">as </ins>it's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">so easy </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dramatize a situation by imagining Walter White's voice in </ins>it<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Hopefully Sorcerer Rogier can find himself some more mutual partnerships in the future. And funnily enough</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Margit isn't even one </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hardest bosses in Elden Ri</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In Soulslike RPGs ranging from Demon's Souls to Dark Souls 3 , the total weight of </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player character's equipment affects how quickly they can roll</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and </ins>Elden Ring<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s armor and poise rules are no different</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Heavy armor and weapons coupled with low Stamina will cause </ins>players to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">roll slowly </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">awkwardly</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">while lighter armor </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">weapons gives players access </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">swifter "medium" or "light" rolls with longer periods of invincibil</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">intersections of Marika’s plans with those of the Nox </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Ranni provide enough circumstantial evidence </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">suggest that Marika may be the lord the Nox tried to forge with </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Silver Tears. If she truly </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a Mimic</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this also explains her ability </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">transform into Radagon</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The plots these individuals set forth have been in play long before the events </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">**</ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">** </ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">When the player Tarnished arrives in </ins>The Lands Between, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">they will have a crucial role in the outcome </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these plans. Assuming </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player chooses Ranni’s Age </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Stars ending, it's possible Marika and </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Nox will be proven victori</ins>&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The recent 1.06 update has increased the distance </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">players can roll if lightly equipped or possessed of </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">high Endurance attribute score</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Besides making "naked speedruns" more viable</ins>, the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"light" encumbrance status also increases the travel distance </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">players using "Bloodhound Step" or "Quickstep</ins>,<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" partially canceling out </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nerf FromSoftware applied </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">these weapon ski</ins>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">To progress through </ins>Elden Ring 's <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">White-Faced Varré and his questline (Varré being </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NPC representative of </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">blood-obsessed </ins>in<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-game faction called The Bloody Fingers), </ins>Elden Ring <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">players previously needed </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">accept </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bloody Finger PvP item from him</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">then invade players in other worlds with </ins>it <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at least three times. The 1.06 update, however, added a new NPC character players can invade in offline mode (his invasion sign </ins>can <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">be found near </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Writheblood Ruins in Altus Plateau)</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">After defeating Magnus the Beast Claw, a Tarnished who wields a massive Great Stars mace and uses Bestial Incantations</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Varré</ins>'<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">s quest dialogue will progress as if </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">player had performed their requisite set </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PvP duels/invasions in Elden Ring . Besides letting players </ins>with <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">no interest </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PvP complete a dark yet interesting questline</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this new change also makes it easier for speed-runners to gain access to </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mohgwyn Palace region, a popular location for farming "Rune" experience poi</ins>&lt;br&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

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