Wild Swings

[Anthem of Grimm]

Was this Ash always so overpowered?

[Key]

It was even worse before, you could stunlock Malenia with it. The downside is it's absolute ass in PvP.

And not the good kind of ass, the Ranni kind of ass.

[echo_ML]

It used to be really great before literally every weapon and skill got hyperarmor. Now it's just lame.

[array[LTU]]

Originally posted by Key:

It was even worse before, you could stunlock Malenia with it. The downside is it's absolute ass in PvP.

And not the good kind of ass, the Ranni kind of ass.

what do you have against Ranni's ass???

[CazadorDeLobo]

Depends on the weapon used, honestly. I enjoy it on Great Hammers.

[Key]

Originally posted by arrayLTU:

Originally posted by Key:

It was even worse before, you could stunlock Malenia with it. The downside is it's absolute ass in PvP.

And not the good kind of ass, the Ranni kind of ass.

what do you have against Ranni's ass???

It's blue, shiny, full of cracks despite having no hole, likely moldy, and most importantly, it's part of Ranni.

[paincanbefun]

Originally posted by arrayLTU:

what do you have against Ranni's ass???

belongs to a manipulative user who doesn't treat her dog very well

that husky voice only covers so many flaws

[Fineous🔥]

It is extremly overpowered specially combined with

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Butchering+Knife

and

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Godskin+Swaddling+Cloth

The healing procs like crazy and of course the Wild Strikes ash of war grants absurds amounts of hyperamor, letting you just plain murder knights or even trolls without even flinching after they hit you in the face.

Oh yes, bleed for the butchering knife does wonders.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2972428468

[Key]

Originally posted by paincanbefun:

Originally posted by arrayLTU:

what do you have against Ranni's ass???

belongs to a manipulative user who doesn't treat her dog very well

that husky voice only covers so many flaws

Agreed, the voice is enough to forgive the murders and the collapse of the world, but letting Blaidd and Iji die like that? That's too far.

[Narm]

It's always been really strong in PvE. Good for proccing status and especially good combined with the multihit talismans.

It can be pretty strong in PvP if you figure out how to use it correctly. It gives a ton of hyperarmor. Works pretty well with CGS and offdag because they can't predict if you'll followup an attack with wild strikes or offdag. I've seen some of the tournament players run that before.

Also, it's not super useful but people don't really know that it has both a light and heavy followup attack. I've landed those a surprising amount in PvP because people just aren't familiar with them.

[Lynfinity]

Originally posted by Key:

Originally posted by paincanbefun:

belongs to a manipulative user who doesn't treat her dog very well

that husky voice only covers so many flaws

Agreed, the voice is enough to forgive the murders and the collapse of the world, but letting Blaidd and Iji die like that? That's too far.

Worse yet, she sends YOU to tell them that she supposedly loves them and disappears. The nerve on this brat!

[CazadorDeLobo]

Originally posted by Lynfinity:

Originally posted by Key:

Agreed, the voice is enough to forgive the murders and the collapse of the world, but letting Blaidd and Iji die like that? That's too far.

Worse yet, she sends YOU to tell them that she supposedly loves them and disappears. The nerve on this brat!

Well, her mother is Empyrean, and they are canonically giga-racist and above-it-all. Not a very deep kind of love, but love nonetheless. After all, she's an ice queen.

[Drax]

Originally posted by Key:

Originally posted by paincanbefun:

belongs to a manipulative user who doesn't treat her dog very well

that husky voice only covers so many flaws

Agreed, the voice is enough to forgive the murders and the collapse of the world, but letting Blaidd and Iji die like that? That's too far.

Ranni was incredibly based tbh.

The Lands Between was already a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ place without destined death and many of its problems were already apparent before the Night of Black Knives. Marika also committed a fair few genocides and everything in the Lands Between was dictated by the Greater Will and the Golden Order.

Ranni, was able to free herself from the Order by killing her body, then seeks to be truly free by killing her Two Fingers, and her whole ending is essentially just letting everyone live without everything being predetermined and without any meddling gods or demigods. So much so, she leaves the Lands Between with the order/ring despite it being a self-sacrificial act for the benefit of the people living there.

She basically freed a bunch of people from eternal prison, and you're saying she's evil because some of them died. In a universe like Elden Ring, the ends justify the means.

Hopefully the DLC will give more insight into Marika and the Lands Between prior to the shattering.

[RandamHajile138]

Totally agree, Drax. I love Blaidd and Iji. I think it's plausible that while they might not have understood exactly how things were going to go down, they knew the end goal for Ranni and knew they might not make it out alive. The end results are getting rid of the heirarchy, and they all believed in the cause. So do I. it's my favorite ending.

[Key]

Originally posted by Drax:

Originally posted by Key:

Agreed, the voice is enough to forgive the murders and the collapse of the world, but letting Blaidd and Iji die like that? That's too far.

Ranni was incredibly based tbh.

The Lands Between was already a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ place without destined death and many of its problems were already apparent before the Night of Black Knives. Marika also committed a fair few genocides and everything in the Lands Between was dictated by the Greater Will and the Golden Order.

Ranni, was able to free herself from the Order by killing her body, then seeks to be truly free by killing her Two Fingers, and her whole ending is essentially just letting everyone live without everything being predetermined and without any meddling gods or demigods. So much so, she leaves the Lands Between with the order/ring despite it being a self-sacrificial act for the benefit of the people living there.

She basically freed a bunch of people from eternal prison, and you're saying she's evil because some of them died. In a universe like Elden Ring, the ends justify the means.

Hopefully the DLC will give more insight into Marika and the Lands Between prior to the shattering.

I think you missed the part where the entire world has been in a state of madness and eternal suffering, stuck in a loop of undeath for what could very well be millennias thanks to her.

There isn't a single sane person in the entire Lands between, with the exception of the finger readers, the turtle pope and the Tarnished, and that's because they just been resurrected when the game starts.

Also

Originally posted by Drax:

The Lands Between was already a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ place without destined death

This is after Ranni's plot, Godwyn death is the catalyst for Marika breaking the Elden Ring. We do not and cannot know how the Lands Between were before her coup, but death was in the Elden Ring, as Erdtree burial was part of their traditions.

Ranni is impossibly selfish, and may very well one of the most evil characters in the game.

[array[LTU]]

Originally posted by Key:

Originally posted by arrayLTU:

what do you have against Ranni's ass???

It's blue, shiny, full of cracks despite having no hole, likely moldy, and most importantly, it's part of Ranni.

I only see positives over here