Craftable Epic Gear before last boss? + some complaints

[LordVeral]

I know it's"technically" possible to get gold gear beforehand as i had some drop from chests but I swear epic rarity gear needs to be obtainable within the last act of the game. I should be able to make a build, gear and all by the time I hit act 3 considering gold rarity gear comes with skills. I get it you should play the game 3 times minimum for endings but this stretch of the game just feels kind of unfun and its specifically the boss fights.

Level 151 or 152 and the last 3 bosses (particularly the final boss) just suck to fight and I think part of the problem is gear, the other part is how the bosses have been designed (especially the humanoid half-casters...weee lets just fly around) and lastly, skill of course (and at this point im just complaining to complain cuz ive been smashing my head against the last boss for like 4+ hours now and it ♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks man)

[ворона]

some of the skills on the epic gear are borderline overpowered: being able to easily attain epic gear in your first playthrough would trivialize the feeling of accomplishment, it's the same reason that the completed lantern and transmog are NG+ only

most human-sized bosses can be easily interrupted by a dodge attack or brink guard at the right moment(final boss can be stunlocked nearly 100-0 in first phase), it's just a matter of experimentation

remember that there are multiple ways to deal with boss patterns:
- brink guard will sometimes interrupt the boss's combo(usually on the last hit of a string)
- being physically outside of a projectile's explosion radius(final boss arrow)
- sprinting lateral to an incoming projectile(final boss projectile spam)
- against non physical/status effect attacks, brink dodge/use skill with iframes like furious swipe(final boss first phase explosion)
- break boss stance with charged attacks/damage skills(final boss healing summon)

it took me about 4 hours to beat final boss and i've done multiple elden ring challenge runs, this game is challenging, don't worry and just take it as a learning experience, good luck

[Nikolaus]

Although I do agree that the final boss is hard, especially if you are going with the true ending route but you can pretty much brute force it. Unique gear is more than enough, and epic gear was designed as a NG+ reward so the difficulty is balanced around Unique gear only.

Here is few quick tips:

You can farm Lacrima on elite soulbound Knights in the final area (the level cap on NG0 is 200 but 150 is more than enough to be comfortable for the final boss on normal, imo)

You can farm skill points there as well (cap is 68 for NG0 which is more than enough for any build out there)

And lastly healing consumables. Just fill your whole hotbar with those. And chaos cleanse potion. You should have more than enough at this point. The healing orbs that restore 50% of your HP for 3 spirit, the spirit stones that restore 30%, 50% spirit, the Lacrima stones that gives you fixed HP and Lacrima... Don't be afraid to use those whenever the boss hits you. You can literally brute force your whole fight with enough of healing consumables and you can always backtrack to previous missions and buy more healing orbs from Bard.

Good luck, imo this is definitely the hardest boss fight in the game, at least it was for me. Until I decided to stop being a hoarder and started using healing consumables that I stockpiled throughout the whole game. It was a breeze then lol.

[Baron01]

You can farm--very slowly--epic (orange gear) gear in Imperial Palace location, main mission, Celestial Tower blade nexus. This is also the place where you can farm Lacrima by constantly killing Soulbound Knight nearest to the nexus by blowing up the chaos rock and kill the knight as it is stunned.

Now, if you want to farm some epic gear, you can only get it repeatedly in NG0 by killing elite enemes in last area. These enemies do not respawn after touching blade nexus but they do respawn when you first enter the map/nexus. This means that whenever you kill the elite enemy, you have to go back to The Crevice, load into another blade nexus in a different location, come back to The Crevice and load back to Celestial Tower node.

Now the farming route: Load to Celestial Tower nexus, run toward the circular structure to the right of the nexus node with two bull enemies. There is a Saint of Sin elite enemy that can drop epic gear. When you kill it, you can just go out and reset the spawn, however, I also like to backtrack past the Soulbound Knight, keep going right, fight 3 more bull enemies, go up the starts to the circular rotating stairs that you have to use lever to open, step on the ground button, run up the stairs past the opening and keep to the right, there should be doors to open, keep to the right, next doors behind, which there are 2 more elite enemies--Twisted Mage--that will drop down from the wall just above the door. Be careful not to aggro both at once as that can be annoying to fight, just walk to left or right from the doors, aggro one Twisted Mage, kill it and only then aggro the next one. Run back to the nexus you started at and reset the spawn.

Above route gives you 3 chances to get epic gear drops but be aware that epic gear does not drop every time. I do not use Bard set for higher grade drops so I usually get 2 pieces of epic gear for 3 kills. I also kill all the phantoms along the way just to make the run less mind-numbing. If you want to go for pure efficiency, you are probably better just farming the closes elite spawn, Saint of Sin, and resetting it every time.

My rotation is elite farm in Imperial Palace-Celestial Tower nexus, run to bard to buy consumables in Capital City Vitalon-Church nexus and finaly kill Hismar in Capital City Vitalo-Central Square nexus. You will be teleported to The Crevice after defeating Hismar, which resets all the spawns and more importantly also resets bards inventory so you can buy another set of consumables from him.

[Croxio]

Edit ; ♥♥♥♥ Discord image links not working

Thanks you

Originally posted by Baron01:

You can farm--very slowly--epic (orange gear) gear in Imperial Palace location, main mission, Celestial Tower blade nexus.

I reached the last save point with level 148. And from what I saw you had to reach level 150 to craft the epic tier, so I farmed a bit but realized that it didn't drop at level 153.

I farmed the Saint of Sin elite and the 2 Twisted Mage a bit. Since they are close to a teleportation point it goes quite quickly, but to reset the elite I opted for speed by executing the first boss. With the Jar helmet you only need 2 bard equipment for higher grade drops, the 15% is significant since it does not drop every time and it also makes better gear for recycling into souls.

As much as I had to empty my inventory once. When I finished farming, my soul stock was at 1.9 million, with a good harvest of epic armor but no weapons or jewels having good sets that go in synergy. The rule to make sure that each of the 3 random stats of each equipment is useful and pulls towards the upper 50% cost me 1.7 million.

Even with my ultra optimized build [www.deviantart.com] , the final boss (normal, no summons, true ending) risks lasting hours so I will wait for the weekend to finally attempt it.

The stats in the image are without spirits equipped. I'll see if more stamina regen is useful, or if more frontal damage is enough, or maybe a reduction in the cost of dodging is better. Because with keshta and the pill I reach 300% stamina regen.

[Ankshious]

Crafting/Blacksmith in this game was such a let down. Infusing weapons is a joke. That is a waste of materials. I don't even have Epic gear yet and I'm almost level 90. That portion of the game was poorly designed

[Croxio]

Originally posted by Ankshious:

Crafting/Blacksmith in this game was such a let down. Infusing weapons is a joke. That is a waste of materials. I don't even have Epic gear yet and I'm almost level 90. That portion of the game was poorly designed

Epic is normally for ng+ although, as stated above, farmable but only at the very end of the game. but around level 90 you should have the pink/unique equipment or it won't take long.

[Baron01]

Originally posted by Croxio:

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Even with my ultra optimized build [www.deviantart.com] , the final boss (normal, no summons, true ending) risks lasting hours so I will wait for the weekend to finally attempt it.

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Ozma is not really that hard. Put some Chaos resistance jewelry on, stock up on consumables (Willpower orbs, Chaos resistance potions, Chaos status cleanse potions) and get start trying to learn his moves phase by phase.