There is a beach due west of where you emerge at the start of the game. Also a cave to explore. IIRC the merchant there on the beach sells a bow.
Heās underneath a big chunk of colosseum on the beach, up against the cliffside I believe.
Also, donāt miss out on that gravity sword guy when you first start playing. That was a fun fight! Very unique. I havenāt encountered anyone else like him in the 100 hours I played.
By the way, playing as a character who canāt do magic, or have any arrows or bows yet, man, I really feel the lack of any ranged options right now. Like I find myself jumping with the horse to try to catch flies. And those dungeon fights against the little gargoyles is a lot tougher, especially when thereās many of them.
Once Iām finally through the newbie peninsula, I canāt wait to finally reach the meeting place thing where you can buy Faith spells. Hopefully theyāll have some good offensive faith spell options. If not, maybe Iāll have to wait until I get those dragon spells later in the game.
I remember I used Lightning Bolts quite a lot, before I got to bloodflies and stuff like that. Pretty sure it can be found somewhere in the world ( a hollow with a shitload of bats, herbs and random lightning strikes comes to mind, but not a clue where that was exactlyā¦)
who what now? I could have sworn I had explored all of the starting area!
You have to drop down to the beach thatās just south of the starting area. In order to do that you need to go further South a bit, and look for one of those air pocket things that lets Torrent safely jump down long distances, thatās how you get down to that beach.
Not far from the cave to get the sewing kit? Iāve been all around there lol.
I know what I am doing today after workā¦
I got some Faith spells for my confessor. Thereās one called Catch Flame which seems completely worthless. And then one called Flame Sling thatās actually pretty good! I used Flame Sling to beat Mr. Misbegotten, and itās a pretty decent spell for trying to get things from a medium to close distance. Phew. Nice to have a ranged option again. Iāve been without since I ran out of arrows a while back.
Oh, also, I started using this huge Club I found thatās comically large that looks like it belongs to a cave man. I really like it! It swings nicely and damages multiple creatures in front of you, so itās good for when Iām swarmed by rats and things.
I have yet to use faith incantations. But I think pyromancy and dragon spells are faith based in ER. Also later lightening spells.
Big weapons are now the thing in ER. Slow, but powerful.
I rarely care about game achievements. I just PLATINUMED Elden Ring! 300 hours and three different characters/endings.
Nice. Thatās quite the accomplishment! Well done.
Yeah, I played a Pyromancer in DS1 and 2 and 3, so playing a faith based character feels surprisingly familiar to me so far, because of those games. But playing a Strength-based character is new to me. Iāve not done that before in any of the Souls games.
Now that I have my strength built up to 23, and I actually like using this club, I think Iām going to stop increasing my strength for now, and work on Faith, so that I can use more pyro spells. I already found one this morning that requires 16 faith, and I only have 14.
Congrats. The previous games required you to venture deep into NG+ or ++ to 100% them. ER requires three endings, and the memory to grab the item in Leyndell before you burn it down. :)
With research, planning and the āfunā of maintaining and downloading (but not uploading) cloud saves, one can knock out all the endings in a day LOL.
I had a setback when my save file was just before the Hoarah Loux fight and not where I thought itād be (just before picking the Macguffin to use at the end).
I did the same thing. I did all three endings off one base save but it was further back than I thought it was.
As a result it took me another week to get endings 2 and 3.
I found Patches. And this time I tried opening his chest!
It was a transport trap. LOL. I wonder if heāll be pissed at me now and I canāt buy from him anymore?
I knew backing up my save was a thing, but I had too much fun playing this game and doing different start/charaters. My second play through was as a wretch. I ended up doing great sword/faith. For my third play through it was as the hero class. I used big swords to bonk everything. I probably fought Melania 30 times before I got her down. Malekieth was a damn nightmare.
It is weird how different bosses can be when you fight them with a different build. I had more trouble against Melania as a mage even with Uber OP spells. She doesnāt stand still. I canāt imagine trying to bonk her with a big slow weapon.
Overall being a mage was easy mode once you get 20% into the game, but without melee skill and +10 moonveil I couldnāt have beaten several of the tougher end game bosses.
He is one of the six bosses or so that I have pending to fight.
How itās going for me. A summary:
https://i.imgur.com/55mGcb3.png
The armor is the default vagabond knight armor except for one piece, the greaves. For now, the rest were better than the stuff I have found.
Weapon wise, I went from Broadsword, to upgraded (+3) broadsword for a while, finally I changed to the Dismounter (greatsword) and now I am with Bloodhound Fang that is a greatsword with a blood effect.
I have a greataxe, but given the high str requirement, it doesnāt seem to be that good.
The map is in this state
https://i.imgur.com/HQN5boU.jpeg
I beat the boss guarding the entrance to the castle, but I decided to first finish exploring to the South before venturing more to the North, as that seems the āmain questā direction.
Every green sword icon is a boss I still have to beat: the troll in the mine, Patches, some kind of golem, the dragon in the small lake, etc. I have already a bit south of that screenshot in the Peninsula, but I still have to explore other areas before going to the castle at the south.