Elden Ring: YOU DIED on a horse

I mean, don't get me wrong, it is amazing and satisfying when you kill a boss after loads of attempts, but I don't like having to retread through a load of dummies. I've sometimes just been sprinting past them in this expansion, when that happens, which I don't think I did in the main game.

I like those sections more than figuring out bosses, like the Elphael run out of the prayer room - learn where the little guys are, work out how to pull the cleanrots, figure quick sideroutes for getting to the hard men, conserve flasks, try and edge forward run by run till you can make another grace, all deaths died by sloppiness. It's no fun if you're a trash mob killing machine tho - has to be danger throughout.

Had about a week off as I've been at Glastonbury. Decided I was going to just make sure the Gravesite Plain area was fully explored before moving on, and fuck me, I found a whole new area I'd not discovered yet(!) Wowzers!

Can be hard to know which way the critical path is meant to be. My friend apparently got locked out of a bunch of NPC quests by accidentally skipping ahead, which is really easy to do

A friend of mine did his thing where he rode around the entire map before beating any bosses, apparently he found all sorts of backdoor paths. Wouldn't be surprised if he broke some things too.

I have slight anxiety about finishing the main quest too soon but as DL says it's hard to know which bit is the main quest. I diverted to ruins of rauh from the specimen storehouse without really planning to do so, and that area is huge and really cool also.

I am like scadutree 10 now tho not finding as many upgrades for the ashes, maybe like 6 upgraded there.

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Man the frenzy flame boss is TOUGH. Still haven’t beat him even with Mimic and +14 scadutree power.