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I think Caelid is a great area. A totally new atmospheric tone for FROM. I like it that you can pull the monstrous dogs and birds and let them fight with the soldiers … and then you can clean up the survivors.

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I was above the difficulty curve for a long time, but now I am below. The new area in Liurnia after I unlocked the gate is hard, the zombies suck out all my mana.

I think I want to try the Fort in Caelid next. Also, I need to put levels into INT because there are spirits I can’t summon because I don’t have enough mana. And I need 4 levels for FAI to use the tree sentinel halberd without rune arcs. I am at 20,000 runes per level.

And farming rats for rune arcs is not working at all anymore, they nerfed it for real. I should have never updated to the latest patch.

I played online for the first time and after a couple of hours, I got disconnected during an intense fight against a wizard in a cave.

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Staffs compared

meteorite staff is best until you get higher than about +13 on an improvable weapon, at that point the scaling doesn’t keep up with the weapon level bonus, which is actually a big thing on a lot of weapons in general. So the “S” of the meteor, isn’t as good as the “B” on a glintstone staff once it gets enough levels. You can easily use meteor staff up through capital, but it is worth leveling another staff.

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If you have a Cerulean Hidden Tear you can use that in your physick and use any summon for free, even if you don’t meet the FP requirements.

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You need Mind not Intelligence to increase your FP.

4236

Don’t you need to raise Mind for that? I have a melee build so my INT is low but I went to 23 mind to get 112 mana for spirit summoning.

4237

I need to remember to use that more.

4238

yes, I mis-remembered. Level 23 for 112, ugh that’s a lot. I think that means I will not be able to get the heavy spirits out. Proably they are intended to work as a buffer for spell casters.

4239

It is interesting how they work. I have a couple to lvl 6 now and at times they work amazingly well. At other times they are useless.

4240

I would agree with this general statement, but for the most part, the jellyfish is almost always useful, even when others are useless. I swear to god, that Jellyfish is a rockstar in this game. I honestly used to hate Jellyfish until I played Elden Ring.

4241

jes, jelly is my friend, too.

4242

I call mine “Mr. Jelly”. He’s my best friend.

4243

Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.

4244

Keep in mind that the Meteorite Staff boosts gravity spells. If your go-to spell is Rock Sling the Meteorite Staff remains effective well into the late game.

4245

they fixed the button for skipping dialog. When I pressed it so slightly, it skipped 2-3 lines instead of only one. I annoyed me a lot, but with the last patch, it is gone.

4246

I wish if people summon other people, they would skip the boss cutscene…

4247

So I beat General Radhon in my first try today. Shocked the crap out of me. I knew very little about the fight, other than the phase 2 entrance. I noticed the summon signs and those guys were great.

I am Str melee at lvl 101.

4248

I did it at level 58 (burned into my brain). The first many tries was at vigor 20 or 25. After I redid my build and hit him with vigor 40 and a cold infused nightrider flail it only took two more tries.

4249

I have about 130 hours in and was kind of avoiding Caelid because of how tough it was, and how tough it looked, when I first warped there. The regular soldiers were pretty easy and the cave bosses weren’t bad at all. Maybe I was over leveled?

I don’t care. :)

Are all those NPC summons usually there?

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