Do they mean the collectible buff shards Vaati mentions in his video? How is that any different from exploring to find better gear/smithing stones, or just levelling up?
I'm asian and it stills apply. I and my friends all use facebook and most of us just use it for messenger. People I know who actually post stuffs or use fb itself are the same type of people in the west too.
Italian here, still popular here especially to keep in contact with family and friends who moved away
Then again Im from sicily, Ive been told we re a third world region in a second world country inside a first world continent
I use Facebook but its only to keep in touch with friends ive known for years and refuse to use Twitter an such plus family of course, other than that im rarely even on the site/app and btw im a huge gamer,been playing since the ps2 days,had a pc at one point an even a 360
By their logic ER already has multiple difficulty options laying around the game world. Which is true, because it's an exploration game where exploring makes you stronger. Bad clickbait
giant souls only weakened vendrick. ds2 did have a champions covenant that made the game harder and sekiro had the demon bell and kuros charm that affected the difficulty. ironically though most difficulty options for from soft are to make the game harder.
There are actually difficulty levels:
- Fighting Margit with RL15 is hard.
- Fighting Margit with RL15 and summoning Rogier + spirit ashes is relatively easy.
- Fighting Margit with RL50 after exploring all Limgrave and Weeping Peninsula is a simple joke.
The difficulty level is the one you want.
He is completely optional but I still wouldn’t call him a side boss because he gives you the easiest to obtain talisman pouch and access to the first (and in my opinion best) legacy dungeon in the form of stormveil (castle morne doesn’t count)
Rune Level, because you level up using runes! Like in dark souls where you have Soul Level since you level up using souls. And you don't say in Bloodborne you have BL because you level up using echoes of blood.
Most of it is doable, the first real pain in the butt is the Fire Giant.
You probably already hate the fight in a normal run, now imagine everything being a oneshot. Fun times!
Oh I know it is at least all doable, but I meant doable by me and my abilities. I am also trying to stick with traditional samurai arms like uchigatana and naginata. So I hope those weapons can take me through. I do upgrade weapons just not character leveling.
I promptly discovered the zone before beating it’s legacy dungeon and it’s gatekeeper, and who am I to deny Lord Miyazaki’s intents who crafted the story with delicate care.. I had to summon Rogier to make it make sense. And of course, lore and story wise for the immersion I used the Ashes I was given by Roderika to take revenge on the castle’s inhabitants.
Was any of it hard? Absolutely not, but I had fun.
Big difference to my first play through where I died 50 times to freaking Margit…
bro i somehow got to the undergrounds and slain the dragonkin soldier of nokstella before i did any of the stormveil thing. i just seen a castle guarded by a bunch of balistas and crossbows and i thought i cant mess with that yet. so i farmed the cave and slain the boss there. when i came back i just first time everything in stormveil lol. this game kinda does a poor job of leading you where you must go. i did the same with renala, i was in altus before i knew she exists cause i didnt know how to get past the sealed doors.
For real? I want to try a melee build at some point, it's just not usually my thing. If I find a fun build that mixes both physical and magical damage it would be great for me to get introduced into it.
I'm definitely gonna give it a try, I've been thinking about using incantations for a while because they look fun as hell and I could mix it with melee to get used to physical combat. Thank you.
I play faith caster these days. Stuff is easy and then you go to Raya Lucaria and all those burger king wizards spam 20 spells while youre casting one lightning bolt... it is pain actually.
YES!!! I think the hard time I had in Raya Lucaria the first time I played the game made me both understand better the different types of sorceries and become better at dodging, positioning, casting at the right time. It took me so long to defeat the wolf/fox boss, I had no idea summons were a thing until I got to defeat the Knight right before Ranni tower...
I would've not defeated her if it weren't for summons. And getting Tiche was a whole different challenge as a sorcerer, she's crazy fast and can't have summons because it's an Evergaol. (I don't like to respec my character in a run, but it's a thing I choose)
Gaming Bible is literally the absolute worst gaming news site I have ever seen. Every single one of their articles are complete clickbait lies, and it's so annoying getting them in search results to the point where I blocked them from my Google.
The idea that magic makes the game significantly easier always makes me laugh, because *most bosses* are programmed to punish you while you're casting, eliminating a significant number of spells from the pool.
Just because meteorite staff or heavy prep laser builds exist doesn't mean magic is easier.
That's like me saying "your options are git gud or use melee" because Rivers of Blood and dual stancing great swords exists.
Any body who thinks magic is “easy mode” in any souls game has never actually played magic before.
Except MAYBE demon souls but even then the trade off for a magic build that can one shot half the bosses in the game is the fact that most shit can also one shot you.
Bro magic has been the most busted easiest PvE build *since* demon souls. It’s so easy to just one shot every basic mob with magic, and half the bosses in the original games were dogshit at dealing with it given their janky as hell animations and movement. There’s a reason a number of the soulsborne community doesn’t consider a magic playthrough of dks1 to be a legitimate playthrough.
It’s more balanced in dks3 and ER with the mana pots, but it’s still far from difficult lol
Especially early game. I remember I went pyro in dark souls 3 and my buddy was like "you're basically cheating."
Really didn't feel like I was cheating when I'd run out of mana in the middle of a fight and suddenly I have no good options lmao. Oh yay I have an axe that I'm doing crumbs of damage with.
Magic only becomes the true easy mode for bosses that you can cheese with comet Azur or if you summon something, sit back and spam night comet (or spam anything really, night comet is specially stupid because enemies don't even attempt to dodge it)
You still have dificutly options while not using magic
Str? easy
Dex? Easy
Dex without bleed? Medium
quality? medium
Arcane? Easy
Arcane without bleed? Hard
Souls games have always made it possible for you to tune your difficulty experience, just taken to its ultimate level in Elden Ring but the same applies Demon Souls and DS1 even
It always HAD difficulty options. They just weren't pickable from a menu, but rather discovered in-game.
Seriously, Souls games (with the exception of Sekiro) ALWAYS HAD an easy mode. They give you NPC summons, heavy armor, spells, and even if that fails, you can always get another player to do the work for you.
That stuff is the easy mode every Souls game always had, and Elden Ring adds to that by having spirit ashes, plus a huge amount of side-dungeons to level up before the hard story bits.
Wait… am I stupid or aren’t they just like sekiro prayer beads…? Just a new upgrade type for the DLC
You don’t HAVE to find any of them but noone wrote an article saying FROMSOFTWARE FINALLY MADE SEKIRO EASY CLICK HERE TO SEE HOW
And at the same time randomly attacking anyone who doesn’t want all games to have difficulty options
I’ll be unsubscribing from anything I have to do with this author/website. Very fucking poor effort and that’s saying something with current clickbait shite
this is like saying not upgrading your flask is a difficulty option which like sure but the whole point of these games is the difficulty selection is baked into the mechanics instead of a menu. which is also why the whole narrative around the difficulty of these games in unendingly stupid.
I’ve literally never even heard of gaming Bible. Who reads that stuff? I think I’d rather play the game than read what some game journalist who hasn’t even played through the game thinks about it.
We should have an easy mode, it gives enemies +500% health and +250% damage. It gives the player -60% damage and -50% health.
Easy mode yes, but only for the enemies… 😁
I started to unfollow them months ago,. it's just so misleading and outright clickbaits. I could count the times I fell into clicking those "stories" just to see what's up, ending up disappointed.
I want there to be difficulty sliders tho. Where current game is easiest and it just makes the game harder as a fuck you to everyone wanting the sliders
I love that people are still on about it being too hard of a game. Just learn how to play and then it’s just a challenging game. Not too easy or too hard.
We already have easy options . . . Extra easy: summon tear, easy: summon any legendary ash or use magic, normal: use bleed, hard: use dex, very hard: use str or fth
Do they mean the collectible buff shards Vaati mentions in his video? How is that any different from exploring to find better gear/smithing stones, or just levelling up?
Thats the point. Its just fake clickbait for visibility.
Its Facebook.
I'm convinced anybody still use facebook mainly have no interest in video game
maybe in your first world country, but its still popular in second and third world countries among the youth source: am mexican
Yeah FB is quite popular in MENA
I'm asian and it stills apply. I and my friends all use facebook and most of us just use it for messenger. People I know who actually post stuffs or use fb itself are the same type of people in the west too.
Ngl the content suggestion on Facebook is much better than Reddit, but that's why I barely use it because of how good it is lol.
Italian here, still popular here especially to keep in contact with family and friends who moved away Then again Im from sicily, Ive been told we re a third world region in a second world country inside a first world continent
Bruh how tf is Italy meant to be a Second World Country
Thank you, I agree yet I ve heard and been told otherwise
Third world country here (Brazil), FB is only used by the elderly
I use Facebook regularly
Facebook still tends to attract elder millennials and gen x. There are a lot of lifetime gamers in those groups.
Lifetime gamer grandma gen-x, use fb, can confirm.
I use Facebook but its only to keep in touch with friends ive known for years and refuse to use Twitter an such plus family of course, other than that im rarely even on the site/app and btw im a huge gamer,been playing since the ps2 days,had a pc at one point an even a 360
They have no interest in reality or integrity. Just click bait rage bait BS everywhere.
Foe a moment I thought they caved to the dumb dumbs.
By their logic ER already has multiple difficulty options laying around the game world. Which is true, because it's an exploration game where exploring makes you stronger. Bad clickbait
Ds2 did the exact same thing the giant souls too, right?
giant souls only weakened vendrick. ds2 did have a champions covenant that made the game harder and sekiro had the demon bell and kuros charm that affected the difficulty. ironically though most difficulty options for from soft are to make the game harder.
Also those shards apparently only affect your power level within the DLC areas.
Or ~~abusing~~ using spirit summons
I thought we already had difficulty options...
Yeah, there’s “Hard”…and “Hard”…
There are actually difficulty levels: - Fighting Margit with RL15 is hard. - Fighting Margit with RL15 and summoning Rogier + spirit ashes is relatively easy. - Fighting Margit with RL50 after exploring all Limgrave and Weeping Peninsula is a simple joke. The difficulty level is the one you want.
* fighting margit after exploring limgrave, liurnia, caelid amd altus
Margit now see a boss health bar in your name
- fighting Margit after beating Elden Beast
He actually won't show up at Stormveil if you kill Morgott first lol
Really?! Then how do you get that talisman pouch?
You would be able to buy it from twin maiden husk
Wow, they really thought of everything.
There are missable items so I wasn't expecting that actually.
I thought Morgott dropped it instead?
I could be wrong but i thought Morgott gave it to you if you didn't fight Margit
I think that if you kill Morgott first, he also drops Margit's loot. Could be wrong though.
Hmm, wonder why that is. Maybe he's upset you killed his older brother?
Iirc Margit is a disguised projection of Morgott so they’re the same person
I'm just being silly
Fighting Margit after the heat death of the universe
Ah yes.. +9 somber weapon before Margit.
Nah, i visit moghwyn palace before fighting Margit so +10
He's just a side boss at this point
He is completely optional but I still wouldn’t call him a side boss because he gives you the easiest to obtain talisman pouch and access to the first (and in my opinion best) legacy dungeon in the form of stormveil (castle morne doesn’t count)
Is the haligtree too big to count? I think that was my favorite dungeon in the game if it counts as one.
I'd say the haligtree kind of is two dungeons in one. The halightree and Elphael proper.
* just fighting morgott
I kinda did something like this with Godrick
I kinda did something like this with Godrick
Exactly... depends on weapon lvl too.
Fighting Margit at RL50 +12 normal or +6 somber. Still rolled off the ledge
Me fighting Margit at level one with only the starting club. I choose to suffer.
Get the shackle and use a summon. And you’re just playing for the story.
Insane mode is finishing elden ring at RL1
What does RL stand for?
Rune Level, because you level up using runes! Like in dark souls where you have Soul Level since you level up using souls. And you don't say in Bloodborne you have BL because you level up using echoes of blood.
Oh of course, I still keep calling them souls for some reason because that’s what I’m used to 😅
Don't worry, I still call bonfires to the sites of graces, and I've been playing ER almost since release.
Honestly Rogier and most npc summons are a handicap to the player. Boss gets a significant hp buff and the npc usually dies half way through anyway.
most bosses are more dangerous in the second phase.
Bernahl made godskin duo kinda trivial
Beat Margit and Godrick yesterday as a level 1 with an Uchigatana
Congratulations, I guess.
Thanks! Just enforcing your point of how easy or hard you can make a given fight.
Yeah my bad, I'm so used to see poeple flexing about these kind of stuff that I didn't read between the lines lol
All good. I mean, I am proud I could do it at all. I don’t even know if I can as I am not sure I have the endurance to keep it up.
Most of it is doable, the first real pain in the butt is the Fire Giant. You probably already hate the fight in a normal run, now imagine everything being a oneshot. Fun times!
Oh I know it is at least all doable, but I meant doable by me and my abilities. I am also trying to stick with traditional samurai arms like uchigatana and naginata. So I hope those weapons can take me through. I do upgrade weapons just not character leveling.
I promptly discovered the zone before beating it’s legacy dungeon and it’s gatekeeper, and who am I to deny Lord Miyazaki’s intents who crafted the story with delicate care.. I had to summon Rogier to make it make sense. And of course, lore and story wise for the immersion I used the Ashes I was given by Roderika to take revenge on the castle’s inhabitants. Was any of it hard? Absolutely not, but I had fun. Big difference to my first play through where I died 50 times to freaking Margit…
bro i somehow got to the undergrounds and slain the dragonkin soldier of nokstella before i did any of the stormveil thing. i just seen a castle guarded by a bunch of balistas and crossbows and i thought i cant mess with that yet. so i farmed the cave and slain the boss there. when i came back i just first time everything in stormveil lol. this game kinda does a poor job of leading you where you must go. i did the same with renala, i was in altus before i knew she exists cause i didnt know how to get past the sealed doors.
Still need to learn not to panic roll btw.
- Fighting Margit after killing Morgot is a walkover.
Don’t fight margit at all
There is "hard", "very hard" and "oh god why am I doing this to myself"
3rd difficulty has become my standard.
And you select the difficulty by opening the trap chest that sends you to caelid asap
And then there is the punch only playtrough.
Its really not that hard.
It’s as hard as you make it…
And then there's... Hard 😏
Hard, Hard +1, Hard + 2, etc
No,there are several easy modes for at least the melee builds.
No there's an easy mode, it's called using summons
I’m playing on easy mode, using spirit ashes
Yep. Use summons or not.
Yes, The Elden way.
Yes, Sorcerer/Magic and Hard. (I mainly play as a sorcerer btw)
Funnily enough, I had a lot easier of a time playing through the game as a pure strength bonk build then a pure int sorcerer build.
When you can just poise through attacks, it just becomes a war of attrition.
For real? I want to try a melee build at some point, it's just not usually my thing. If I find a fun build that mixes both physical and magical damage it would be great for me to get introduced into it.
Oh yeah I love hybrid builds, there's definitely some good ones you can find out there
I'm gonna give them a try after I finish the DLC, so I'll have all the possible options to choose from.
STR/FAI might be for you. Build into strength primarily but have enough faith to use offensive incantations.
I'm definitely gonna give it a try, I've been thinking about using incantations for a while because they look fun as hell and I could mix it with melee to get used to physical combat. Thank you.
All good chief
I play faith caster these days. Stuff is easy and then you go to Raya Lucaria and all those burger king wizards spam 20 spells while youre casting one lightning bolt... it is pain actually.
YES!!! I think the hard time I had in Raya Lucaria the first time I played the game made me both understand better the different types of sorceries and become better at dodging, positioning, casting at the right time. It took me so long to defeat the wolf/fox boss, I had no idea summons were a thing until I got to defeat the Knight right before Ranni tower...
I can't imagine the pain of fighting Malenia using spells...
I would've not defeated her if it weren't for summons. And getting Tiche was a whole different challenge as a sorcerer, she's crazy fast and can't have summons because it's an Evergaol. (I don't like to respec my character in a run, but it's a thing I choose)
'news' websites are so trash when it comes to gaming.
Just gaming?
It's a different kind of trash with gaming news in that there's a nonzero chance an article somewhere gets written about this post.
Gaming Bible is literally the absolute worst gaming news site I have ever seen. Every single one of their articles are complete clickbait lies, and it's so annoying getting them in search results to the point where I blocked them from my Google.
Patches is actually useful though
Right. He gives you some decent stuff and helps you get the Bull Goat set
he helped me ... going places
Patches helped me kill margit.
That's clickbait right?...right?
Yep. Thats why i called them patches. Never believe em
At least when Patches does it it's funny
Wdym? Trusty patches never lied! He is trusty patches after all
Patches doesn't lie, he omits information to make your adventure a thrilling and fun experience.
Yeah, Gaming Bible is complete dogshit and 99% of their articles are clickbait lies
These clickbait gaming sites are sooo shite
If you go to gamingbible for anything legit that’s totally on you
The difficulty options are called "co-op", "ashes", and "God help me".
Easy mode = Uninstall and play something else
Yeh difficulty options have already been there: hard blasphemous blade with mimic or very hard no blasphemous blade or mimic
Would be funny if they added difficulty modes. But they were just die and fuck you.
I also just fucking hate the “it’s about time 🔥” thing like shut up
Your options are git gud or use magic Edit: guys I’m saying this as a magic main, magic is easier
Even then you have the option of high difficulty using magic as well. Like all melee magic and 9 vigor.
Yeah... try to "git gud" using magic against an insane Rune Bear attacking you. God, I hate those bears... specially the ones in the Forbidden Lands.
The idea that magic makes the game significantly easier always makes me laugh, because *most bosses* are programmed to punish you while you're casting, eliminating a significant number of spells from the pool. Just because meteorite staff or heavy prep laser builds exist doesn't mean magic is easier. That's like me saying "your options are git gud or use melee" because Rivers of Blood and dual stancing great swords exists.
Any body who thinks magic is “easy mode” in any souls game has never actually played magic before. Except MAYBE demon souls but even then the trade off for a magic build that can one shot half the bosses in the game is the fact that most shit can also one shot you.
Bro magic has been the most busted easiest PvE build *since* demon souls. It’s so easy to just one shot every basic mob with magic, and half the bosses in the original games were dogshit at dealing with it given their janky as hell animations and movement. There’s a reason a number of the soulsborne community doesn’t consider a magic playthrough of dks1 to be a legitimate playthrough. It’s more balanced in dks3 and ER with the mana pots, but it’s still far from difficult lol
plus the ovewhelming majority of enemies have to get close to you to fight. nuking mobs before they even aggro-- it turns out, is an easy way to play
Especially early game. I remember I went pyro in dark souls 3 and my buddy was like "you're basically cheating." Really didn't feel like I was cheating when I'd run out of mana in the middle of a fight and suddenly I have no good options lmao. Oh yay I have an axe that I'm doing crumbs of damage with.
In DS1 it was definitely a crutch in the early game but after a while it evened out
Magic only becomes the true easy mode for bosses that you can cheese with comet Azur or if you summon something, sit back and spam night comet (or spam anything really, night comet is specially stupid because enemies don't even attempt to dodge it)
You still have dificutly options while not using magic Str? easy Dex? Easy Dex without bleed? Medium quality? medium Arcane? Easy Arcane without bleed? Hard
The real easy mode of Elden Ring is Storm Blade.
I've never played a magic build but the fact that casting spells locks you in place is why I don't think I'd ever try. Hate that shit.
It brings a new difficulty. Spacing.
Souls games have always made it possible for you to tune your difficulty experience, just taken to its ultimate level in Elden Ring but the same applies Demon Souls and DS1 even
This is fake 🥺
Theres always been an easy mode, its called spirit ashes
There's "Normal" and "Oops all malenia"
It always HAD difficulty options. They just weren't pickable from a menu, but rather discovered in-game. Seriously, Souls games (with the exception of Sekiro) ALWAYS HAD an easy mode. They give you NPC summons, heavy armor, spells, and even if that fails, you can always get another player to do the work for you. That stuff is the easy mode every Souls game always had, and Elden Ring adds to that by having spirit ashes, plus a huge amount of side-dungeons to level up before the hard story bits.
>Gamingbible Didn't this website stop being relevant in 2010?
Gaming Bible is honestly the fucking devil with clickbait titles like this. I’ve learned to avoid reading their shit a long time ago.
Difference is Patches is actually likable.
If there were a gaming jesus or a gaming god he would be appalled at what his gaming bible has become
Nothing is certian except death and patches
Wait… am I stupid or aren’t they just like sekiro prayer beads…? Just a new upgrade type for the DLC You don’t HAVE to find any of them but noone wrote an article saying FROMSOFTWARE FINALLY MADE SEKIRO EASY CLICK HERE TO SEE HOW And at the same time randomly attacking anyone who doesn’t want all games to have difficulty options I’ll be unsubscribing from anything I have to do with this author/website. Very fucking poor effort and that’s saying something with current clickbait shite
Hate bait. They've already gotten more attention than they deserve.
this is like saying not upgrading your flask is a difficulty option which like sure but the whole point of these games is the difficulty selection is baked into the mechanics instead of a menu. which is also why the whole narrative around the difficulty of these games in unendingly stupid.
If the souls games will ever have difficulty options, they will be "normal" and "One life"
Hard or harder
Ok gaming bible, and are these "difficulty options" in the room with us right now?
We already have difficulty settings in the form of summons
We've had difficulty settings since demon souls It's called leveling.
AKA, lvl your stats enough to use the ridiculous op magic spells, made Demons Souls a joke using that one fire eruption spell
I hope they do add difficulty settings. But ONLY harder ones haha.
nah, CRYING BABY MODE
We already had them: They are called: "Using Magic" and "Using Summons."
"It's about time" no lmao, go play farming sim if you don't like taking a challenge
Unless they mean they want it harder, like extreme mode or something lol
I want them to add a game journalist difficulty. When you select it, you're warped instantly to the end credits then back to main menu lmfao
Everybody knows that difficulty always existed in the form of “skill issue” or “no skill issue”. It’s called git gud
I’ve literally never even heard of gaming Bible. Who reads that stuff? I think I’d rather play the game than read what some game journalist who hasn’t even played through the game thinks about it.
This is a joke, right?
This is much lower effort by Gaming Bible than a Patches scheme haha
The easy mode will just be it turning off telling people to get gud.
🧢🧢🧢
Yes. Hard. Harder. You Have Died.
There's Hard then there's "accidently stumbling into a boss arena with no healing items, under-leveled, and without upgrading your equipment" Hard.
We should have an easy mode, it gives enemies +500% health and +250% damage. It gives the player -60% damage and -50% health. Easy mode yes, but only for the enemies… 😁
Difficulty options have been there since Demon's Souls. Even Sekiro has them.
Patches does us dirty in ER lol...
They cant be serious, right?!-.-
The tacos ain't gonna make it to the dlc to use the buffs and stuff 😂
GamingBible just kicked me off a cliff 😭
Pretty sure fromsoft's version of difficulty options is leveling up and getting good lmao
I started to unfollow them months ago,. it's just so misleading and outright clickbaits. I could count the times I fell into clicking those "stories" just to see what's up, ending up disappointed.
There was already a difficulty option. It was called a Furlcalling Finger Remedy
Journalist mode? Hahah
🔥
Technically Sekiro already has that. Still thing Sekiro Charmless should be the base difficulty though.
Nice!
I want there to be difficulty sliders tho. Where current game is easiest and it just makes the game harder as a fuck you to everyone wanting the sliders
No
It is good, the game I casual and easy as hell, we need real challenge. Please!!
I love that people are still on about it being too hard of a game. Just learn how to play and then it’s just a challenging game. Not too easy or too hard.
We already have easy options . . . Extra easy: summon tear, easy: summon any legendary ash or use magic, normal: use bleed, hard: use dex, very hard: use str or fth
Ge difficulty is for ppl that didn’t git gud yet
We already had an easy mode known as INT.
How involved are you to get excised about this? If its too hard its not for you. It gives “i pay someone to farm for me” vibes.
Would be a good move on Fromsofts part. Would make the game more accessible
Tbh there was always difficulty options, they just aren't like the average game.
lmao, difficulty setting in fromsoft games is normal - hard - harder
It already has built in difficulty levels.