You have the exact amount of Faith needed to use Flame Cleanse Me, which was the only incantation I used in my INT playthrough.
There really is little you can do to slow down rot. There is mushroom armor that will help somewhat but not very much. I think it is in a cave or mine somewhere.
When using the mimic start that fight with the moonveil in your hand, then summon your mimic. You want him to keep the boss busy with melee while you get close enough to do damage with your spells. Beware as he will come after you at times.
I probably had my INT in the 70s and my vigor near 50.
Yeah, I start with the Meteorite Staff in left hand, Moonveil in the right, hoping my mimic will either close in and use Moonveil specials on him or throw rocks at him. But he seems to just stay away. Frustrating.
OK, I’ll see if I can get Flame Cleanse Me and learn how to use it. Thanks!
The mimic will trade back and forth. The mimic has some weird AI. If you have knives on your consumables bar it will use those.
It’s kinda odd, when I’m using, say, The Headless (although only level 5 I think) I always see the attacks, etc. Often using my +10 mimic in boss fights it’s almost as if he’s more focused on not getting hit than hitting. Just fighting bad guys in the world, no problem.
Headless is almost always attacking. Hurling spears from low orbit or stabbing stuff.
Mimic uses “Invader AI” near as I could tell, which is nearly always trying to avoid getting hit, but it will also run in on occasion and try to do some damage. Which is good because the full aggro summons tend to last a few seconds unless they have giant health pools. In which case they last maybe a minute or two on a good day.
Woah, apparently the latest update adds ray-tracing to the game.
It already performs so poorly on my PC, it’s probably not worth trying there. But I’m curious to see if the Series X frame rate will stay smooth with ray tracing on.
Good Elden Ring performance will always be something I wish I had playing on my 2018 gaming laptop. It also is prone to crash to desktop following like a 3 minute hard lock.
I noticed the difference especially when I fired up Sekiro and it ran like the smoothest silkiness butter ever in comparison.
So another big patch dropped and one of its features is ray tracing. I fear that will doom the game for my older PC. Steam’s forum is full of people unable to play the game now. I guess you can disable it but you have to be able to get on it first and many can’t do that. It could be a driver compatibility issue.
Wait. It enables it by default?
On Steam they make it sound like you have to disable it. I saw a YouTube guy who said you have to enable it.
So I am not sure but based on the trouble people are complaining about on Steam and the replies I am guessing it must require disabling.
I started playing Elden Ring on my PS5 in the PS4 version as people said that it has better performance. I see the Ray Tracing is only for the PS5. While I doubt I’ll notice the difference with Ray Tracing as I’m repeatedly getting killed by Astel, I do have a question: Is it still better to play the PS4 version on the PS5?
There’s a ray tracing comparison vid here, and yeah… I don’t see too much difference other than lower frames. :)
It’s apparently doing ambient occlusion and shadows, so not global illumination or reflections.
Could be one of those things where they enable it to check it out and it crashes and then… chain crashes on loading after that and now they can’t change it back.
My first thought is go look for settings and ini files, but most for most people that’s going to be akin to sorcery.
Yikes, I’ve crashed to desktop three times within one hour. I guess I am glad I already 100% the game!
I like the difference I can see. Aaaand I’m on PC with a very good card (six year upgrade cycle and just upgraded the GPU) but probably shouldn’t try it. Or, via Steam I should disable it. My “very good card” is a top end AMD and supposedly it barfs at ray tracing.
So, after the download is ray tracing enabled or do you have to go into settings?
So I dl’d the patch with my older AMD PC and everything was okay. Apparently the software knew my machine couldn’t handle ray tracing and didn’t even give me the option to use it.
Good.
Is there a way to clear the blue navigation markers you set? More than once, including now, I see one set but have NO idea where it is and no way to clear it. Drives me crazy and can be confusing.