Legacy Dungeon ranking

[mpcgannon]

With the new DLC comes a new Legacy Dungeon ( hopefully multiple ). What is your ranking of the current dungeons? Go in as much or as little detail as to why.

[mpcgannon]

1. Stormveil Castle
2. Leyndell, Royal Capital
3. Crumbling Farum Azula
4. Miquella's Haligtree / Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree
5. Volcano Manor
6. Raya Lucaria Academy

Exploration is my jam. I look for multiple pathing options from start to finish. I like looping paths. And I'm down with multiple POI.

Stormveil and Leyndell blow my mind and meet all the criterias. Farum Azula is good but like Volcano Manor I find it mostly linear with some dead-end branching. Haligtree is weak first half and amazing second half, but short. And I couldn't get into Raya Lucaria. It just felt like re-running the same path until foxy boy, and then it was too open and boring for me.

[Lord Bob]

1. Stormveil
*Billy Mays enters Stormveil for the first time*
NOW THAT'S A LOT OF EXPLORATION!
In Stormveil you explore and then you explore some more. Just when you though you'd seen it all, there's still a purple shiny item on that ledge. After looking around for two hours you pick it up? What is this wondrously hidden item you ask yourself? It's an Arteria Leaf. Thanks Miyazaki.
BUT WAIT, THERES MORE EXPLORATION.

2. Farum Azula
More or less tied with Leyndell, but I like Farum's setting more. Features one of the probably most overlooked site of grace.

3. Leyndell
Vast area, lots of stuff to see. Lots of dead ends and empty space as well. Big plus: the area beneath it. Home to yours truly, the proclaimer of Garifeld Krat.

4. Raya Lucaria
Beautiful and mysterious setting. Despite this, very linear and not a lot to see or do. More or less two side paths, one containing certified Fromsoft platforming. They kind of dropped the ball with the academy, in my opinion. Especially since it's the legacy dungeon right after Stormveil. Features probably the most overlooked hidden wall in the game.

5. Volcano Manor
Very linear, not a lot to see, barely anything to explore or discover. Despite being atmospheric, it's just barely better than Redmane Castle.

6. Redmane Castle
Straight up boring. Long ways with enemies inbetween stuff. An absolute disgrace to Radahn. He definitely deserves better.

???. Haligtree/Elphael
In my opinion both are it's on respective zone instead of just being a legacy dungeon. Hauntingly beautiful and some more or less well hidden stuff. Also revenants.

edit: typos
edit 2: added Volcano Manor

[echo_ML]

1:Nameless eternal city
Very cool atmosphere, otherwise Fortissax is the GOAT.

2:Haligtree
Challenging, Beautiful, really good bosses.

3:Stormveil
Classic,cant go wrong with it.

4: Leyndell
Music and atmosphere are enchanting, also pretty much every boss that shows up their aside from GIdeon is awesome

5: SSG
Sewers are gross, but it's also kinda cool getting lost in them. Lame bosses tho.

6: Farum Azula
I have nothing to say about this place other than Maliketh and Placidusaxx good, Godskin Duo bad.

7: Volcano Manor
Honestly i forget this place exists sometimes

8: Raya lucaria
I hate this place. I hate Moongrum. I hate Red Wolf. I hate Renalla. I hate all the cringe INT mains littering this place.

9:Castle Morne
Stormveil but boring

[mpcgannon]

Originally posted by Lord Bob:

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5. Redmane Castle
Straight up boring. Long ways with enemies inbetween stuff. An absolute disgrace to Radahn. He definitely deserves better.
...

This was so weird to me. The decision to NOT give this guy a BRUTAL Legacy Dungeon makes no sense. Plus, me just poking around, I end up warping straight to the boss / festival waiting room. It wasn't until much later in the game that I realized there was some more space to explore.

No Volcano Manor?

[Lichtgestalt]

1. Academy
2. Haligtree/Elphael
3. Leyndell
4. Farum Azula
5. Stormveil
6. Volcano Manor

It's more about the vibe for me. Aesthetics + music. So my ranking is highly subjective. I like the pretty ones. It's like you are moving around inside some nice painting.

[Angel]

I like the stormveil castle the most

[mpcgannon]

Originally posted by Lichtgestalt:

1. Academy
2. Haligtree/Elphael
3. Leyndell
4. Farum Azula
5. Stormveil
6. Volcano Manor

It's more about the vibe for me. Aesthetics + music. So my ranking is highly subjective. I like the pretty ones. It's like you are moving around inside some nice painting.

I like a different perspective. It shows how FS can appeal to many fans.

edit: I'm surprised 4 and 6 aren't swapped with FA being so grey and drab and Volcano being so bright and vibrant.

[youmeathead]

Stormveil and Leyndell are right up there. Morne’s Castle, Castle Sol and Redmane were all cut/paste dungeons. Wish the game designers did more work on these areas to make them more unique.

[Lord Bob]

Originally posted by mpcgannon:

Originally posted by Lord Bob:

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5. Redmane Castle
Straight up boring. Long ways with enemies inbetween stuff. An absolute disgrace to Radahn. He definitely deserves better.
...

This was so weird to me. The decision to NOT give this guy a BRUTAL Legacy Dungeon makes no sense. Plus, me just poking around, I end up warping straight to the boss / festival waiting room. It wasn't until much later in the game that I realized there was some more space to explore.

No Volcano Manor?

Thanks for pointing out Volcano Manor, I completely forgot about it.

[Lichtgestalt]

Originally posted by mpcgannon:

Originally posted by Lichtgestalt:

1. Academy
2. Haligtree/Elphael
3. Leyndell
4. Farum Azula
5. Stormveil
6. Volcano Manor

It's more about the vibe for me. Aesthetics + music. So my ranking is highly subjective. I like the pretty ones. It's like you are moving around inside some nice painting.

I like a different perspective. It shows how FS can appeal to many fans.

edit: I'm surprised 4 and 6 aren't swapped with FA being so grey and drab and Volcano being so bright and vibrant.

I really like the weird atmosphere at farum azula. It goes well with the lore stuff. The place being outside of time and all that. The music really makes it great for me. Volcano Manor is a Volcano level. Many games do that. The church with the godskin boss is nice. The manor itself and Rykard too. Everything else including Mt. Gelmir area is nothing special to me.

edit: I also like the abductor virgins a lot. Pretty cool design. Got to give volcano manor that at least.