is there any non glitch way to reach the moonlight cathedral early?

[Nerevar]

i am assumeing no but asking just to make sure i didnt miss a trick or something.
yes i know about the path that has you fight astel at the end. i am wondering if there is another way up there somehow from the outside maybe with torrent?

[Percent]

It might be patched now, but there used to be a way up by dying near the Tiche fight and respawning at the Stake. Using the poison swamp nearby to guarantee death at a high point along the cliffside on top of a natural pillar. Worth looking into

[Dr.Abscondus]

No. It's a high difficulty area which you aren't meant to visit early.

[Bees?]

Originally posted by Dr.Abscondus:

No. It's a high difficulty area which you aren't meant to visit early.

Idk. Ranni’s quest can easily be done at like, level 60, with a sudden difficult spike at Astel. Tiche is definitely an endgame boss though.

[Agemmata]

You can try that block-spam teleport glitch with greatswords or shield that speed runners use a lot. But you'll have to be somewhere where it's high enough to point to something in that direction first.

[Nerevar]

Originally posted by Almonds:

You can try that block-spam teleport glitch with greatswords or shield that speed runners use a lot. But you'll have to be somewhere where it's high enough to point to something in that direction first.

read the title again please.

Originally posted by Dr.Abscondus:

No. It's a high difficulty area which you aren't meant to visit early.

you can get into mogh palace early aswell. so your point is?

Originally posted by Bees?:

Originally posted by Dr.Abscondus:

No. It's a high difficulty area which you aren't meant to visit early.

Idk. Ranni’s quest can easily be done at like, level 60, with a sudden difficult spike at Astel. Tiche is definitely an endgame boss though.

tiche is a boss? or do you mean alecto?

Originally posted by Percent:

It might be patched now, but there used to be a way up by dying near the Tiche fight and respawning at the Stake. Using the poison swamp nearby to guarantee death at a high point along the cliffside on top of a natural pillar. Worth looking into

uh that one is new to me. nice info there. thank you. will give it a try.

[Nerevar]

UPDATE :

Originally posted by Percent:

It might be patched now, but there used to be a way up by dying near the Tiche fight and respawning at the Stake. Using the poison swamp nearby to guarantee death at a high point along the cliffside on top of a natural pillar. Worth looking into

this WORKS. and its STUPID EASY to do on top. all you need is a bit of torrent sheaningans near the site of the grace near the tower downstairs and a raw meat dumpling. then simply die to the poisen once you have gained enough hight with torrent (you will see the stake symbol in your buffbar to judge it)
early moonlight altar access : granted.

the use of this for non int builds is next to non existant for those curious as the only benefit is getting adulas moonblade early and well rannis dankmoon aswell. technically you could also get tiche early and a bunch of smithing stones but the stones usefulness is minimal as you can gain similar ones in altus anyway. and beating alecto for tiche early is.. well lets just say not very realistic unless youre a dodge god as you cannot cheese the evergoal fight in anyway and you cannot summon in there neither spirits nor players and everything he does is a oneshot at low level no matter what you wear.
but it saves you the trouble of fighting astel early.
you can also end rannis quest and get moonlight greatsword this way. despite not haveing the ring at all. this will probaly glitch the rest of the quest tough so dont do this.

this is also very easy compared to a wrong warp.

[Xengre]

Originally posted by Bees?:

Originally posted by Dr.Abscondus:

No. It's a high difficulty area which you aren't meant to visit early.

Idk. Ranni’s quest can easily be done at like, level 60, with a sudden difficult spike at Astel. Tiche is definitely an endgame boss though.

Astel is a difficulty spike? That boss is the equivalent of DS3's Yhorm fight, or at least nearly so, being mainly just a cinematic showpiece. I don't get why people struggle on this thing. Even at RL1 I'd still label it as one of the easiest bosses in the game. I seriously don't get the difficulty here.

Originally posted by Percent:

It might be patched now, but there used to be a way up by dying near the Tiche fight and respawning at the Stake. Using the poison swamp nearby to guarantee death at a high point along the cliffside on top of a natural pillar. Worth looking into

Hilarious solution. Nice.