Leveling Doesn't Make A Difference.

[BLOOD ASYLUM]

Level 40 now. Doesn't wield weapon any better. Wearing heavier armor makes me too slow still. Still get 2 pieced by all enemies except footmen. Still can't use that many spells. Once enemies start using blue arrows and blasts you're instant killed. This game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks.

[BLOOD ASYLUM]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย jasonbarron:

I'm not mad, I'm just impressed by how much self inflicted punishment you can take

I do have a penitent one tattoo

[jasonbarron]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย BLOOD ASYLUM:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย jasonbarron:

I'm not mad, I'm just impressed by how much self inflicted punishment you can take

I do have a penitent one tattoo

Right at the base of your spine no doubt

[Maelstrom]

I don't usually say that but....

Get gud, dude.

Stop blaming the game. Learn how to get better. Skills, game knowledge and patience matter more than levels.

Go watch Vaatividya's beginner guide on youtube if you want to give this game a real try.

[MysticalPotato]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย BLOOD ASYLUM:

Level 40 now. Doesn't wield weapon any better. Wearing heavier armor makes me too slow still. Still get 2 pieced by all enemies except footmen. Still can't use that many spells. Once enemies start using blue arrows and blasts you're instant killed. This game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks.

Git gud

[jasonbarron]

Just say no to fat rolling, invest in Endurance today!

[Hogg]

Your build is bad for one. The weapon choice you are using doesn't suit your stats. And you are probably completely new to souls games. You need to squeeze out any bit of progression into your character correctly or you are going to have a bad time. Example you lvled dex and intelligence but you are using a strength weapon. You have basically wasted stats because you are not utilising them. As for armour if you want to wear heavy gear you need to have alot of endurance. Your experience purely comes down to how you are playing the game and by the sounds of it you are not playing optimally to give you the best chance possible

[KneeKo]

Leveling stats can only take you so far. At the end of the day, having great stats allow you to wield better weapons, heavier armour, have more HP (for room more for mistakes), but ultimately, it's going to be your skill that decides how challenging the game is.

I'm not even talking about lightning fast reflexes. Being 30+, and having ADHD, my reflexes and concentration are comparable to that of a potato, yet still here I am, able to defeat Godrick solo without any spirit summons (because I forgot to preserve FP in the fight). This is not a kind of game that you can play like Skyrim and whack everything mindlessly and still win, but doesn't need you to play it like DMC on the highest difficulty and be a fidgetty boi with twitch reflexes to prevail. You need patience. I cannot stress it enough.

Leveling in this kind of game doesn't just mean leveling your actual stats. Leveling also means that your overall real life skill playing the game levels up. You play smarter and better overall.

TL;DR: The game is meant to be played slow. Levels can only take you so far. Patience is the #1 factor to succeeding.

[BLOOD ASYLUM]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย jasonbarron:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย BLOOD ASYLUM:

I do have a penitent one tattoo

Right at the base of your spine no doubt

Tramp stamp for sure.

[Ponyeater]

So many bs responses in here.

The leveling is indeed a lot slower and scaled down compared to the other Souls games. I assume to make up for the size of the game. I'm seeing it myself.

22 Vigor
21 Endurance
21 Strength

Besides the very starting area, game is still full of enemies two-shotting me.

For comparison's sake, in the other Dark Souls games with 22 vigor you well above 1000 HP, here you're barely scratching 700.

Edit: Addendum: This game is also full of prankish game design, more than the others.
In the Sofia River Depths, there are tons of archers with magic bows. A single fully charged hit of them almost deals all the life you have with 22 vigor in a hit.
They're semi-undodgable with that high flying speed, too. Taking cover is the only thing that works.

One or two of these would be fine, but there's too many so you're goaded into using the spirit summons.
For a Souls game, this sure likes to coerce you into a certain style of playing.
And yes, I get it. It's supposed to be the Anor Londor area of the game, git gut, etc.etc.

Just saying, this game takes what the other Souls games had and cranks it up to 11.
Some of that is good, some of that not.
Still a good game, but in parts they overdid it with the ambushes and such.

[BLOOD ASYLUM]

Quite honestly I don't need the advice of builds from previous souls games. I beat them all tons of times. They're done. Their skills actually impacted the weapons etc. Sorry angry fanboys. Not every thing FromSoft does is gold

[jasonbarron]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย BLOOD ASYLUM:

Quite honestly I don't need the advice of builds from previous souls games. I beat them all tons of times. They're done. Their skills actually impacted the weapons etc. Sorry angry fanboys. Not every thing FromSoft does is gold

Nobody believes that, my friend. All you have to do is read your comments on this thread and you'll see why.

[Dundo]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย BLOOD ASYLUM:

Quite honestly I don't need the advice of builds from previous souls games. I beat them all tons of times. They're done. Their skills actually impacted the weapons etc. Sorry angry fanboys. Not every thing FromSoft does is gold

Elden Ring deflated the numbers and kept the game consistently tough. Given that it lacks the linear level design from older games where the difficulty was exponential, skills were toned down.

That being said, skills never worked the way you described them and quite frankly, i doubt you've even played Dark Souls 3 based on the way you speak of skills.

STR and DEX have always modified damage values of the weapons based on their scaling, which clearly you don't understand. I'm running 30 STR and doing slightly more damage with my heavy Highlander Axe than i did with the basic one because i have a STR specced character, just like in the older titles. The only difference is, the numbers are deflated.

VIG always gave you more HP and END always gave you more Equip Load/Stamina.

The weapons never got " lighter to swing" whatever the ♥♥♥♥ that means, you'd just do more damage. And since Elden Ring so far has been pretty damn easy all things considered you're making a ruckus out of nothing. And if you did beat DS3 on NG+8 how are you struggling with these enemies? Lmao, DS3 was about twice as hard as Elden Ring is and if you did NG+8 legit you would've gotten two shot by nearly any enemy.

[D. Flame]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย BLOOD ASYLUM:

Level 40 now. Doesn't wield weapon any better. Wearing heavier armor makes me too slow still. Still get 2 pieced by all enemies except footmen. Still can't use that many spells. Once enemies start using blue arrows and blasts you're instant killed. This game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks.

Level up the correct stats? If you want to wear heavier armor, then level up endurance?

[responsibility]

it's 2022 and this mf still gets hit in a souls game 😭

[BLOOD ASYLUM]

PS4=Hironeiden_King
Xbox=blood asylum
You can find the achievements and playtimes there naysayers.

I'll just sit over here with my 'broke' version of Elden Ring where yours 'works just fine.' That's so crazy wow.