difficulty?

[Coeal]

am i missing something? while ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at times, never once did i feel like Elden Ring was literally telling me stop playing the game. and i never felt this level of rage at ♥♥♥♥ ai then i ever have at ♥♥♥♥ human beings in dark souls pvp.
i must be missing something.
play as a mage, get ♥♥♥♥♥♥. one shot by everything because of the encumbrance system.
play melee, get ♥♥♥♥♥♥. by a gang this time.
and as always with these games, stealth archer is broken trash as usual.
come back a year later to find summoning has been added. yay, my fave mage type. yeah, ♥♥♥♥ that. the ai ignores the summons at all cost. which is fine, cuz the summons ignore the ai at all costs. "normal" difficulty by the way.
armor in dark souls is worthless because skill matters more. armor in this game is worthless because it slows you down, slows mana regen, increases mana cost and makes more noise. ok, ok, i get it. this isnt dark souls. so lets go with the comparison that the internet in general is making. Skyrim! thats a joke, right?

10 minutes after writing this discussions, im hesitating to actually post it. because it will surely attract that asshats that have nothing of actual value to say, just wanting to "dunk" on the "hater" while im genuinely asking WTF am i missing? they are right though. of the near 10 hours i have played (about 6 in the 0.7 update), i hate it. because it seems the game DESPISES the player

[Bandy]

No, as others have also posted in several other threads (you just happen to need your own...) the game needs to be balanced. It's in early access right? The last update revised magic in big way, they changed many other things, give it some time. If you need a more polished game (hopefully) wait for the release ...

[Ojustme]

Playing as a mage, it all got considerably better around lvl 20+ I think. Before it I had to be a bit on the stealth side, but then I got enough mana for thunder spell and then I got aegis (a shield for 1 hit that explodes), so now I play spirituality/percepton build just running into enemies placing few thunders, getting mana back as they die, repeating. It's not braindead and I still die sometimes, but it gives me quite dynamic playstyle and I am going into "meele", just in light armor and not using those epsky stamina weapons, lol.

I think the game gives you enough tools to overcome challenges, almost to the point of getting you broken (and by the way, notorious throwing knives can be used by you with deadly efficiency as well), but on average it feels fair to me, the enemies are slow enough and telegraph their attacks well, so throwing a few dodges here and there is enough.

Now getting physical armor (if you wan tto go that route) seems to be quite hard and investment-heavy, but idk, I get the feeling it should work as well.

[wei270]

ok i think right now easier way to play the game is with stealth and archery.
melee is better early game and magic is better late game, but archery so far is pretty op all stages of the game.