Ringed city VS Erdtree

[Wheee333ee33e3e]

Which was better?

Ringed city had less content, but better story, better bosses, and 100% for sure, much better ending. 2 unknowns of the lowest class duking it out at the end of time, both bloated to the brim with power they earned with their 2 hands, despite their poor circumstance.

When I say less content, I mean a lot. Probably 4 legacy dungeons. You climb down a mountain while hiding from angels shooting their las0rs at you, jump into a pit, kill 2 demons, fight through an ancient city, touch an egg that transports you into the end of time. 8 hours max. Erdtree has potentially 50-ish hours?

[TropicalLad]

In terms of content and improving upon the base game? Shadow of the Erdtree wins out by a mile.

In terms of sheer quality? Ringed City wins.

[Dailao]

Personally I loved the idea and design of the ringed city, as well as most areas that were designed around the dark sign/curse.

[BreakMan]

Bosses wise I much prefer ringed city
Spell wise my miracle bro got some sweet miracles and I couldnt be more happy for ER DLC
Exploration is better in ER DLC
Enemies are eee both, both are good
weapon wise both are good too,

I honestly cared the most about new incantations and I wasnt dissapointed, most of them are usable and some of them are a new meta even if some of them could use more poise for casting it like scarlet aeonia, bosses are hit or miss I feel like they are a bit overtuned but I finished the dlc before the balance patch and with scadutree lvl 14 so who the hell knows

with that said I will start another dlc playtrough today this time with magic bro and will collect all scadutree possible and see how different it will be

[foodfairy]

imo ringed city was garbage. especially the angels. the only redeeming quality of that dlc was Gael, one of my favourite Souls bosses.

Erdtree is better but, don't know much about the story as i always find the lore too convoluted. Map design being as beautiful and big as it is i think its too hard to easily find your way around. Also the bosses are more past being 'hard and enjoyable' too just garbage difficulty.. not a popular opinion but whatever. I do love the size and the enemies added and especially the new weapons etc added.

[Wheee333ee33e3e]

Originally posted by foodfairy:

imo ringed city was garbage. especially the angels. the only redeeming quality of that dlc was Gael, one of my favourite Souls bosses.

Erdtree is better but, don't know much about the story as i always find the lore too convoluted. Map design being as beautiful and big as it is i think its too hard to easily find your way around. Also the bosses are more past being 'hard and enjoyable' too just garbage difficulty.. not a popular opinion but whatever. I do love the size and the enemies added and especially the new weapons etc added.

Gael and midir alone redeemed the entire dlc. Midir had that 2 hit instakill truckload of health thing everyone is now complaining about.

Dont know how fromsoft can go from perfect dragon fights like the midir one to dogwater elden ring ones. I was always fighting midir head on, because he always turned to face me, and backed away when I tried to run under his belly, like a realistic animal. The elden ring ones feel like puppets. I never see their heads, only their legs.

[psilocybe]

I mean... SoTE has all the assets and monsters from Ring City in it, just re-skinned.

Those as far as digestibility, the map structure of ds3 is far superior, in my opinion.
The open-world in Elden Ring, doesn't work at all.

[Shoah Kahn]

So far, Ringed City is better for me; largely, because DSIII still had the "Souls atmosphere", and the DLC difficulty didn't have the half-arsed feel. The bosses were also more memorable, like Sister Freide.

[sopadomacimo]

rap de amongus