how useless is armor`?

[Maniac]

3 hits, armor broken

[Usurper]

Sounds like the finest dwarven Steel you can get

[Dreadstone]

Combat is (by far) the weakest aspect of this game. I was doing (in a previous playthough), COMPLETE repairs on my armor - on a DAILY basis.

[Octavius]

The armor is just an extended health bar. It doesn't do partial damage reduction, it absorbs 100% of the damage until it's completely broken. So those 3 hits didn't do any health damage to you, which is pretty nice.

Try to dodge and block, and set up repair stations in forward camps until you get the ability to teleport home.

[Mike_an_Cake]

fight without the armor like a true man

[[Asgard] Thor]

To be fair you made it in a cave...with a box of scraps.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Asgard Thor:

To be fair you made it in a cave...with a box of scraps.

only the finest steel armor from dwarfen mastersmiths

[-=EDF=- Kouta Seto]

3 hits armor broken = 3 hits without you taking any damage ya know? XD If the number is BLUE then the armor takes the hit instead of you, wich is nice. Then again... you taking hits = skill issiue.. either BLOCK with SHIELD or EVADE thou i recomend the shield given it can stumble some foes back so you can attack.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by -=EDF=- Kouta Seto:

3 hits armor broken = 3 hits without you taking any damage ya know? XD If the number is BLUE then the armor takes the hit instead of you, wich is nice. Then again... you taking hits = skill issiue.. either BLOCK with SHIELD or EVADE thou i recomend the shield given it can stumble some foes back so you can attack.

when 200 enemys attack me its hard to dodge or block everything especially when i also have to attack. armor also cant be regenerated on the go during the fight like health so a damage reduction system would still be better
And not every game has to be soulslike, i find this trend very disturbing that you are 1 hit unless you perfectly dodge or block an enemy attack

[Dr. Sinclair]

Originally posted by Maniac:

Originally posted by -=EDF=- Kouta Seto:

3 hits armor broken = 3 hits without you taking any damage ya know? XD If the number is BLUE then the armor takes the hit instead of you, wich is nice. Then again... you taking hits = skill issiue.. either BLOCK with SHIELD or EVADE thou i recomend the shield given it can stumble some foes back so you can attack.

when 200 enemys attack me its hard to dodge or block everything especially when i also have to attack. armor also cant be regenerated on the go during the fight like health so a damage reduction system would still be better
And not every game has to be soulslike, i find this trend very disturbing that you are 1 hit unless you perfectly dodge or block an enemy attack

its nowhere near souls like difficulty wtf?
this game is EXTREMELY easy and forgiving compared to ANY souls like game unless you literally cranked up the difficulty to the maximum.
even trying to compare it to "souls like" is the most ridiculous thing i've heard all day
If you find yourself struggling, just turn down the bloody difficulty, it's there for a reason.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Dr. Sinclair:

Originally posted by Maniac:

when 200 enemys attack me its hard to dodge or block everything especially when i also have to attack. armor also cant be regenerated on the go during the fight like health so a damage reduction system would still be better
And not every game has to be soulslike, i find this trend very disturbing that you are 1 hit unless you perfectly dodge or block an enemy attack

its nowhere near souls like difficulty wtf?
this game is EXTREMELY easy and forgiving compared to ANY souls like game unless you literally cranked up the difficulty to the maximum.
even trying to compare it to "souls like" is the most ridiculous thing i've heard all day

but you are required to dodge and block attacks in the right moment otherwise you are dead pretty fast, without armor you are like 1 hit from bosses and 3 from normal enemys. pretty soulslike

[Dr. Sinclair]

Originally posted by Maniac:

Originally posted by Dr. Sinclair:

its nowhere near souls like difficulty wtf?
this game is EXTREMELY easy and forgiving compared to ANY souls like game unless you literally cranked up the difficulty to the maximum.
even trying to compare it to "souls like" is the most ridiculous thing i've heard all day

but you are required to dodge and block attacks in the right moment otherwise you are dead pretty fast, without armor you are like 1 hit from bosses and 3 from normal enemys. pretty soulslike

there are only a handful of enemies that require you to dodge. most notably trolls and drakes, and even those have EXTREMELY forgiving dodge timing
You don't even have to "block at the right moment", you can literally hold down the block button forever, you can spam shield bashes to knock enemies down, you can literally WALK out of enemy attacks
and if you're dying that fast, again, you've cranked up the difficulty beyond what you were supposed to and/or are late game with very poor armor and preparation. all of that is a "you" problem
so please cut it out with the completely ridiculous "souls like" comparsion, because if you find this hard, you wouldn't even beat the tutorial boss in elden ring.
the problem can be easily solved in 2 ways:
A) actually learn the extremely easy and forgiving simple combat system and/or upgrade your equipment. if you're anywhere NEAR a point where bosses 1 shot you, (again, they don't if you're playing the appropriate difficulty) you should have the resources to set up forward camps with repair stations. Failure to prepare is, again, a you problem.
B) turn down the difficulty.

I'm actually curious now what boss it was.

[Maniac]

Originally posted by Dr. Sinclair:

Originally posted by Maniac:

but you are required to dodge and block attacks in the right moment otherwise you are dead pretty fast, without armor you are like 1 hit from bosses and 3 from normal enemys. pretty soulslike

there are only a handful of enemies that require you to dodge. most notably trolls and drakes, and even those have EXTREMELY forgiving dodge timing
You don't even have to "block at the right moment", you can literally hold down the block button forever, you can spam shield bashes to knock enemies down, you can literally WALK out of enemy attacks
and if you're dying that fast, again, you've cranked up the difficulty beyond what you were supposed to and/or are late game with very poor armor and preparation. all of that is a "you" problem
so please cut it out with the completely ridiculous "souls like" comparsion, because if you find this hard, you wouldn't even beat the tutorial boss in elden ring.
the problem can be easily solved in 2 ways:
A) actually learn the extremely easy and forgiving simple combat system and/or upgrade your equipment. if you're anywhere NEAR a point where bosses 1 shot you, (again, they don't if you're playing the appropriate difficulty) you should have the resources to set up forward camps with repair stations. Failure to prepare is, again, a you problem.
B) turn down the difficulty.

I'm actually curious now what boss it was.

its soulslike, end of story. i wont answer any further questions

[Bungus Burger]

"its soulslike, end of story. i wont answer any further questions"

Game reporters with crash bandicoot be like.

No, but seriously, just because it's not a farming sim does not mean it's Souls-Like, at all. Just turn down the settings, if its genuinely "too hard", or just take your time with combat, learn the system, blah blah blah.

Could also play something else, if its that big of a beef for you!

[Nokturnal]

You can dodge roll pretty much every attack and out-walk your opponents. Shield bash allows you to stunlock enemies with even just the starting shield.

Don't get me started on how broken ranged combat can be with how bad the enemies pathfinding is. This isn't a hard game even on the hardest settings.

[Dreadstone]

Originally posted by Nokturnal:

You can dodge roll pretty much every attack and out-walk your opponents. Shield bash allows you to stunlock enemies with even just the starting shield.

Don't get me started on how broken ranged combat can be with how bad the enemies pathfinding is. This isn't a hard game even on the hardest settings.

I shield-based a Bat on one of the stairs. Promptly followed it down.

Ouch.