crumbling farum azula or consecrated fields/haligtree first?

[Charles Vane]

im probably underleveled lvl 90 and +17 weapons for this and just beat the fire giant, im guessing after committing the cardinal sin you can burn the thorns in morgotts boss area and proceed to the farum azula, which one should i do first, i dont care about mob difficulty, but i dont wanna fight malenia level 95 100 either

[True Spino]

id say faram azula, cuz 90 is a decent level for that but haligtree has a lot of hard hitters

[Sabaithal]

They're roughly the same level, but honestly I'd recommend doing Farum Azula first, get it out of the way.

MINOR SPOILER: Finish ANYTHING you need to do in Leydell the Royal capital before killing the main boss at Farum Azula. You have been warned.

[Dr.Abscondus]

Farum Azula is your final destination before heading to the final boss fight with the Elden Beast. You could do it for the lesser bosses and the loot, but don't kill Maliketh until you're ready to finish the game. You can always go back for him.

[cgillmore85]

You might go to Farum Azula just to get the smithing stone bell bearings located there. But I wouldn't progress there further than that. I dunno I don't like the game world in the state it's in after you complete Farum Azula.

[Charles Vane]

do i need to meet with the 3 fingers before committing cardinal sin for frenzyflame ending? or can i do it after beating the last boss, because it says that i wont be able to finish npc quests should i choose to commit cardinal sin, so does that mean after the cardinal sin dunge eaters and hyettas quest will be unavailable?

[SleepyEyez]

Originally posted by Charles Vane:

do i need to meet with the 3 fingers before committing cardinal sin for frenzyflame ending? or can i do it after beating the last boss, because it says that i wont be able to finish npc quests should i choose to commit cardinal sin, so does that mean after the cardinal sin dunge eaters and hyettas quest will be unavailable?

Go wherever you like. However, if you wanna upgrade you weapon to max before killing any boss, then Consecrated Field (not Haligtree) is the route.

For Dung Eater's quest, make sure to collect the quest items in the capital city before finishing Farum Azula.

Three fingers' quest can still be done at the very end of the game.

To get an ending, you need to interact with something in the final boss room after the boss is dead. A new grace will spawn upon death of the final boss, so touch the grace, then fast travel out of the boss room to do the 3-finger quest, and finally travel back to the final boss room to interact with that thing for an ending.

However, the timing of meeting 3 fingers (either before or after committing the cardinal sin) affects an NPC (but does not affect the ending).