Category: Elden Ring
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A Hefty Scimitar Build: Two Jumping Blades Before Margit
The Hefty Scimitar swings exactly like a Dismounter and hits a little softer. A Heavy Knight still starts with one, and a merchant in Limgrave sells a second for 2,400 runes. Every other infusable curved greatsword has to be farmed off an enemy.
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A Striking Reed Great Katana Build Right at the Start
One Dexterity level is the entire cost of entry to a Great Katana build. A fresh Samurai clears the Strength requirement outright and sits a single point short on Dexterity. The weapon is lying on a hill in Caelid, unguarded, ten minutes into a new game.
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Every Crucible Knight in Elden Ring and What They Drop
Spend an Imbued Sword Key at the Four Belfries, fight the Crucible Knight on the Siofra River cliffs beyond, and you walk away with 3,080 runes. Other knights of Godfrey’s old guard pay out in armor and incantations. This one pays pocket change.
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Leontiel’s Greatsword: An Ash of War That Dodges
The Ash of War on Leontiel’s Greatsword is a dodge. Muleta puts you in a matador stance, and the follow-up attacks carry invincibility frames as you sidestep out of the way. A greatsword that rolls for you, then hits back.
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Rellana’s Cameo Is Quietly One Of The Best Talismans
Rellana’s Cameo spent its first summer sitting in everyone’s storage box. Then patch 1.14 cut the hold time to a single second and tripled the payout, and a talisman nobody wanted turned into a 45% damage boost on every stance skill in the game.
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ER Tarnished Edition: Every New Item and Where to Find It
Fellow Tarnished, the patch notes never mention this one: buy the Tarnished Pack and the Twin Maiden Husks start stocking Backhand Blades at Roundtable Hold. That’s a Shadow of the Erdtree weapon, on sale before you’ve touched Stormveil.
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Elden Ring Patch 1.17 Buffs Nearly Every Greatshield
The Tarnished Pack was sold as two classes, three Torrent skins and four armor sets. Patch 1.17 adds two things Bandai Namco never advertised: NPC invasion events in Caelid and in Leyndell, plus new weapons scattered across the Lands Between.
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When Elden Ring Stops Being Fun (And How to Fix It)
Fellow Tarnished, after countless hours in the Lands Between – bosses buried, the game finished more times than you’d admit out loud – you can hit a strange wall. Not a difficulty wall. An expectation wall.
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The Bofrostmann Run: Freezing the Lands Between
Recently I thought about an Elden Ring progression build that would start with the Icerind Hatchet and switch to the Zamor Curved Sword later on. I wanted to find out if the Icerind Hatchet still gives you the shiver of the early days – well, kind of…
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I Think That Elden Ring Clip Is a Horse Commercial
FromSoftware posted twelve dark seconds of Siofra and the internet decided a Godwyn DLC was coming. I don’t think it is. What convinced me isn’t in the cave or the caption, it’s the PEGI badge burned into the corner of the video.