Gelmir Hero Grave is ABSOLUTE TRASH DESIGN!!!

[Rontemon]

Seriously wth is this garbage dungeon!

You have to get past those instant death chariot

Get past a room of enemies

Then another instant death chariot but this is where you have to jump down to a tiny ledge or you fall into the lava, die and have to redo all over again

Made it past that? Now you have to jump on top of the instant death chariot, if you time it wrong you are either dead or have to climb up the ladder and do it all over again.

Now you made it to the boss room? But wait... WHERE IS THE GRACE?! Nope. If you die, congrats you gonna do the whole death chariot running, jumping and falling to lava all over again.

Seriously whoever designed and approved this trash dungeon I hope you stub your toes and step on legos.

[Frog]

if you tank the lava at the beginning you can skip to the end of the dungeon

[アゼム]

Git gud, did that in one attempt

[ᛁᛖᛊᚢᛊ ᚨᚱ ᚷᚢᛞ]

I am glad I just skipped volcano manor. I did all the other stuff there but just said nope to the woman and her knight. I am glad I made this choice.

[アゼム]

Originally posted by Victory Forever:

I am glad I just skipped volcano manor. I did all the other stuff there but just said nope to the woman and her knight. I am glad I made this choice.

Literally one of the most interesting parts of the game, but you do you I guess

[Dollmaker]

Originally posted by Tea Lizard:

if you tank the lava at the beginning you can skip to the end of the dungeon

For the matter, use a weapon with Quickstep or Bloodhound Step, it allows you to move considerably faster on that kind of terrain where you cant run.

[Salty Sis' 4U]

I think the level is well-designed, but yeah... The lack of a Stake of Marika once you reach the boss? Forcing you to rerun the ENTIRE DUNGEON?

Totally awful design. It's gotta be an oversight.

[ᛁᛖᛊᚢᛊ ᚨᚱ ᚷᚢᛞ]

Originally posted by TaquitoBurrito:

Originally posted by Victory Forever:

I am glad I just skipped volcano manor. I did all the other stuff there but just said nope to the woman and her knight. I am glad I made this choice.

Literally one of the most interesting parts of the game, but you do you I guess

It could cause one of the endings to become unavailable so nope.

[Salty Sis' 4U]

Originally posted by Tea Lizard:

if you tank the lava at the beginning you can skip to the end of the dungeon

It is actually quite amusing how low the DoT of lava is in Elden Ring compared to older FromSouls games.

Used to be, you step on a hot rock for a second, you die in two unless you keep chugging and/or apply an anti-fire buff.
Now, you can just waltz over actual magma and suffer a lil tick of damage as you do so.
Hilariously, the blood rot status or whatever it's called causes more rapid DoT than the magma.

Which canonically makes some sense, it's a curse/disease which was so potent it could cripple gods and outright kill demi-gods.



By comparison, magma is just some slightly hot liquid rock-stuff. Nothing a bit of divinity, magic and runes can't reduce to a slight simmering sensation on the skin. kek

[Anzaman]

Originally posted by Tea Lizard:

if you tank the lava at the beginning you can skip to the end of the dungeon

My reaction was priceless after dying several times. Then deciding to take a look what's down there, just to find shortcut that takes right to boss door...

[Nihrahk]

Originally posted by Salty Sis' 4U:

I think the level is well-designed, but yeah... The lack of a Stake of Marika once you reach the boss? Forcing you to rerun the ENTIRE DUNGEON?

Totally awful design. It's gotta be an oversight.

I do like how they have a nice treasure through the lava, as I thought it was gonna be a dead end but instead I find something amazing. Said treasure is the finger club, and it's pretty fun. If I invade and notice someone is afk, I love flicking them in the face to wake them up. It's not even upgraded, as it's meant for nothing else but to wake them up.

[アゼム]

Originally posted by Victory Forever:

Originally posted by TaquitoBurrito:

Literally one of the most interesting parts of the game, but you do you I guess

It could cause one of the endings to become unavailable so nope.

It doesn't, though?

[Deathwing Zero]

There's a Stake of Marika near the boss room in Gelmir Hero's Grave for me. I'm standing next to it right now.

[Grubbs008]

Have you not done the one near the capital city? It's like 10x worse.

[Trezoitao38]

Hero's grave is the kind of dungeons I less like in this game.

It is trying to do similar to a plataform game but without the flow and full expressive mechanics in jumps.

It is a little easier with light load equipment. Heavy almost impossible, you have to do frame perfect.

[Nihrahk]

Originally posted by Trezoitao38:

Hero's grave is the kind of dungeons I less like in this game.

It is trying to do similar to a plataform game but without the flow and full expressive mechanics in jumps.

It is a little easier with light load equipment. Heavy almost impossible, you have to do frame perfect.

That goes without saying, fatrolling is the last thing you want to be doing. If you want to do it in very heavy armour, better pump that end up.