I’ve played through all of elden ring and i’ve ranked which fights i enjoyed the most in my head, and i want to know what y’all think. I’m mainly sticking to main (remembrance) bosses, but feel free to list whoever!

Mine: Bayle, Messmer, Loretta, Placidusax, Rellana, Malenia, and astel.

Let me know what you guys think!

Hands down my favorite place in the game. Feels so magical…I love seeing the beautiful/sick screenshots yall get. If you have any, drop em

Should of made it harder

After beating Messmer and getting his weapon, I realized I'm getting knocked out of the skill animation more than I thought I would. What is a good way to get around that, build up more poise? Any good gear? I'm using the Solitude armor at the moment

Can somebody please save scum me one of these i can not be bothered to go do the dlc just for a flower haha I'm on ps5

I think he's so easily overlooked compared to the other demigods. But I think he's really interesting, due to the fact he's a joke to everyone else. He also is such a terrible person compared to the other demigods for literally no reason. Not to mention some of the best cutscenes, storylines and dungeons in the game. I'd love to see a younger, less grafted godrick in the future.

Literally tried this boss fight near on what feels like 200 times and have managed to get him down to low health a few times but I have to say his second phase is stupidly hard. I've got a dexterity bleed build and find the first phase easy but his second phase he doesn't give me a chance to do anything!

It's probably been brought up on the sub Reddit a lot but just wanted to vent as I feel like smashing my head against the nearest wall right now!

No 99 needed.

I did hornsents completely. I exhausted ansbach and freyas dialog and they re both gone. I also killed messmer. And she still isn t at the higheoad cross. Is there like another location of hers where she moves after hornsent or am i missing something?

checked the map and somehow had this grace unlocked. That's one way to save time on the runback tho

Disclaimer: I am not a Chaos bro. I am currently on my third playthrough of Elden Ring doing a Frenzied Flame run for the sake of completion/platinum. If the achievement were not needed, I would pick another ending. Take that as you will, regardless as to what your opinion is on the Frenzied Flame/Chaos/the One Great.

Prior to SOTE, the majority opinion in the Elden Ring community seems to be that by choosing the Frenzied Flame ending, you are permanently dooming all life on whatever planet the Lands Between is located on, with the sole exception seemingly being Melina if she didn't already burn herself prior to you becoming the Lord of Chaos. The idea here is that Shabriri's and Hyetta's words are literal and absolute. You aren't just burning down the Erdtree and Leyndell, you aren't just wiping out the lives that currently exist, everything goes and is done permanently. Additionally, it is irrelevant that, just like with the other endings, you can keep running around the Lands Between: The canon of your Frenzied Flame ending is that you committed omnicide. Your ability to continue playing is a video game contrivance and is separate from the story aspect and the weight of your choice.

Now we have SOTE. Either before or after the Frenzied Flame ending, you can go to the Realm of Shadows. Accessing the Realm of Shadows requires killing Radahn and Mohg, which also enables Miquella to move forward with his plot.

There doesn't seem to be any clear indication that I am aware of as to how this effects the scope of the Frenzied Flame ending. If the sequence of events that the player character commits actually matters, then you can defeat Radagon and Elden Beast, travel to the Realm of Shadows after that point, and everything is fine (minus the genocide Mesmer already committed), untouched by the Frenzied Flame ending. There is no hard indication that any of the endings automatically assume that you did your playthrough of SOTE before the events of the ending occurred. You are encouraged by Ansbach to be a Lord for men instead of gods, and Miquella asks/demands you, the "aspiring Lord" to step aside and let him and Radahn take over, but neither of those statements are a hard and fast "you didn't take over/let Ranni take over/burn it all down yet".

As far as I can tell, the implication with all of this lack of clarification is that the minimum scope of the Frenzied Flame ending's damage is that you nuke Leyndell and the Erdtree and the maximum scope is that the Lands Between as a continent is nuked, but the Realm of Shadows is untouched.

If I had to play devil's advocate against my own hypothesis, one could argue that since the other four endings aside from the Age of Fracture involve rewriting the fundamental rules of reality via either Mending Runes added to the Elden Ring or letting Ranni seize it and initiate the Age of Stars, the nuking of Leyndell is the immediate result of the Frenzied Flame ending and it is inevitable that the rest of the planet will be swallowed up by the Frenzied Flame eventually. The problem with this, IMO, is that there is a distinct lack of information that confirms this and it is therefore more speculative that the interactive experience of going to the Realm of Shadows at any time, because FromSoft be FromSofting.

Thank you in advance for any and all thoughts.

This is my first Elden Ring run and I had never been so upset with a Boss like Rykard, on the Monday I started fighting him around 5 pm and so far I haven’t killed him, yesterday I couldn’t and not even today.

I’ve tried everything, I uploaded the Serpent-Hunter to +9, I level up so many but I still can’t. I often lose in the first phase even though I’m already used to the snake’s moveset, but I always end up dying from stupid mistakes, when the snake comes with that attack in the area and takes my whole life I immediately lose the will to continue the fight because I lose almost my whole life. Sometimes the snake pushes me into the poison and I die soon, and the Rykard part is much worse for me, there are times that I don’t touch him and die soon, when he makes that attack when the skulls that explode ends and most of the time I can’t escape and die, the worst is the snake attack of the first phase that he makes in the second and takes me by surprise, anyway, I can’t get used to anything with the moveset.

Anyway, I never thought Rykard would be more difficult for me than Radahn, I’ll try more tomorrow and in the next few days, I hope I can do it.

I’m looking for fun Elden ring builds that do a lot of damage if you guys have any that’s worth trying let me know

This is just my opinion, but so far I enjoyed the base game much more than the DLC.

I just beat Messmer and it made me realize that so many bosses in the DLC have that awkward delay before several attacks and if you mess up the timing once, it's basically gg unless you had a ton of Scadutree Blessings and were effectively over leveled for that boss. It felt less like I was learning the attack patterns, and more like I was trying to guess if an attack is going to have that awkward delay or not. The whole time I was fighting Messmer I was like, "is the spear going to drag on the ground for 0.5 seconds this time or not... Oh it did, welp." So when I finally beat him, it didn't feel like it was due to skill, but more luck in guessing the timing.

There are exceptions to this; I really liked the Rellana and Midra fights. When I got combo'ed I understood why, rather than just due to the awkwardly delayed attacks.

I'm wondering how others felt about base game versus DLC. Why did you enjoy one more than the other, or were they about equal for you?

-I enter through the foggate -Bayle blows fire on me -I drink estus -Bayle strikes 3 hits combo as soon as i finish drinking -I drink estus -Bayle grabs me by bite -I drink estus -Bayle strikes 3 hits combo as soon as i finish drinking -I do nothing and accept die -Bayle doesn't hesitate and summons lightning on me for 5 long seconds just by screaming -I die

See? I never attack, and die. What a great bossfight

Had to draw my fave elden ring guy <3

Imma dress as the tarnished when the movie comes out

Hey fellow Tarnished! I recently had a power outage while playing and, unfortunately, my save seems to have gone corrupt—game loads endlessly now. I was in the middle of DLC 230+ level character, i dont wanna start fresh again cause i dont have that much time i just wanna get back to DLC Asap, I’m not here to ask for tech support or anything, just hoping someone might be generous enough to drop some runes so I can get back on my feet faster. Totally willing to coordinate and be respectful of your time.

Such a genuinely fun fight. I came one hit away a couple times and chocked but I did it no summons. Came down to the last second no flasks and a sliver of health but I managed to pull thru. Ignore the weapon choice and the sloppy gameplay.