1763

I read somewhere that it was possible, but can’t confirm. It certainly doesn’t seem like it should be possible.

I was screwed a couple of ways from getting some of the achievements in NG: 1) A certain event changes another part of the world and disappears a legendary armament and 2) the achievement system never registered that I had killed Godrick. I did kill Godrick. I have his rune. He’s not in his arena any more. I killed him.

1764

Can you put it in your chest and then get it back out. Does that pop the achievement?

1765

I don’t think I can put a rune in my chest – have a vague middle-aged recollection of trying – but will verify when I get home. Good thinking.

1766

You might have guessed this would happen, but I went back for one last drink from the co-op Fire Giant well with the Serpent-Hunter greatspear, and:

LEGEND FUCKING FELLED

The rune reward wasn’t worth the agony, but the clearly ecstatic guy I helped was.

1767

Is that actually helpful against the giant? I thought that was a pretty purpose-built thing for one particular boss.

1768

It’s a great weapon! No stat requirements and scales really well with strength plus allows poking from behind a shield, not that that helped me a ton in this fight. I was just giving it a go.

1769

There are small, little stories or vignettes in the game. Like Thops, the scholar of magic. I met him in the Church of Irith after I was high on defeating Godrick. He talked about a glintstone key, that he needs to continue his studies. I forgot about him… Then I needed the key myself to enter the academy of Raya Licuria. Later I found a second key on a chandelier in the academy. I forgot what to do with it, I looked it up, you can give it to Thops.
So I gave it to Thops, he was so grateful, he went to continue his studies. You can find him then in front of the academy classroom. Dead. What happened? What wants the game tell us. You can study, but the vast knowledge will suck the life out of you and finally kill you?
Who knows, I am moving on to other adventures. Poor, Thops.

1770

I wasn’t able to play yesterday, but today I got home and went back to that fight against Tweedle Dee and Tweedle badass. And got it on the first try! Woohoo!

The best part isn’t even the fact that I got enough Runes for 5 freaking levels (63 → 68) (which I impulsively spent on Intelligence for some reason, I’ve never had five points to spend at once before). The best part is that killing all those wolves so many times on the way to the bosses meant that I had enough thin animal bones to craft 7 arrows! Seven arrows you guys! I’m rich in arrows!

There’s so many different types of arrows. This time I chose poison.

1771

You craft 10 arrows at a time. So you should have 70 arrows. Unless you were doing the Greatbow arrows maybe.

I like to kite enemies with arrows and sometimes even cheese them. The poison, rot and bleed versions are great for the cheese.

1772

Sweet! 70 arrows, woohoo!

1773

I beat a secret boss and got 420k runes for it. Wandered around in a snowfield, took out 3 giant trolls spitting out madness fire in all directions, then got killed by some rats (not giant ones. Just regular rats.) Finished up thoroughly exploring Volcano Manor and am headed to Miquela’s realm.

1774

This game is amazing… 5 days after 100%ing it and deciding to stop, I actively miss it.

Started playing both Death Stranding and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and no offence to either game but they just aren’t anywhere near as engaging.

1775

Latenna’s quest must be bugged in some way. I made my way to Castle Sol quite on my own, just looking at the map and seeing this big feature I hadn’t been to. Got all the way through it and was surprised to find the other half of the medallion I’d gotten way back in Liurnia. The medallion says right on it that it works at the lift, so I went back there and went to Consecrated Snowfield and so on, and have been there for a little while. I kept expecting her to speak up, as at some point I came across the information that she is supposed to later on, because when she disappeared it seemed kind of weird and I thought maybe I’d already screwed up. So I looked it up and it seems she was supposed to talk twice by now, but she never did. Oh well.

1776

I ran into this, too. There is a point in the story where you need to have gone back to her in her original location, talked to her to get her to move, get the appropriate ashes (which you can get later, btw – hint: if you got them off the corpse of a wolf, you are screwed), and then find her in the Snowfield.

Sadly, there is a Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing stone locked behind this easy-to-mess-up questline.

note: I heard that, if you did get the ashes from Latenna, you might need to reload and carefully walk around the area in the Snowfield and you will be prompted for the summon.

1777

Ok…There is an absolutely insane ash of war called Flame of the Redmane

It’s pre-nerf hoarfrost levels of damage, low FP usage, and has a huge stagger (2 casts on most bosses even). I’m sure this is going to get nerfed, as it’s incredibly powerful, as it works on everything even huge bosses. Enjoy it while you can lol.

If you combine this with a high crit weapon…like misercode (sp), it’s just ridiculous. You can keep even bosses perma staggered and just crit them to death. I just did the Rennala fight with it, and she didn’t even get to her first summon before dying. It also worked on Radahn.

1778

I thought this happened to me, but it was just veeery picky about where it wanted me to stand to summon her. It was right in front of her, like 12 feet away, just up the steps.

1779

I did not even know you were supposed to summon her. I did speak to her outside the cave and she turned into an ash for me, etc., but she never said a word after that.

1780

Oh, btw, my experience with Ordina Liturgical Town:

  1. nice looking place
  2. a puzzle? Cool, I guess. Those haven’t been…great, but I guess I’ll try it.
  3. …what the fuck
  4. [look up rewards]
  5. absolutely fuck this shit

Edit: oh no, apparently I need to do this if I want to face the absolute worse boss everyone hates, and of course I do.

Ugh.

1781

Do you have experience with how this compares to Nebula from the Wing of Astel (obvs using an Int build)? It seems like a very similar playstyle. Although the cone is a nice everyday QoL improvement for smaller enemies, Nebula’s ability to hit multiple times against larger enemies seems to counterbalance.

Edit:For example, I used Nebula to permanently stagger the Elden Beast and most dragons and one shot them.

1782

Then you should be good; just follow @felswoop’s advice and my “note”. It’s a prompt to use the ashes to summon her.