Elden Ring

[MonochromeYoru]

Snowfield looks ugly, not exploring that lmao
The invisible shadow in that puzzle town took my virginity, literally spent all my flasks on one of them lol
Tree area was cool, magic horse got bullied hard

go back to snowfield lol

take a left from Ordina puzzle town. Go toward the big white tree looking things. Look for one with red flowers around it. Then go to it's back. There will be a teleporter there. Take that.

 

[MonochromeYoru]

For me Maliketh is the shittiest boss of all time.

why lol

clergyman is pretty cool. maliketh has too little hp but he's a good boss

 

[SakazOuki]

go back to snowfield lol

take a left from Ordina puzzle town. Go toward the big white tree looking things. Look for one with red flowers around it. Then go to it's back. There will be a teleporter there. Take that.

After I fight Malenia

 

[Elder Lee Hung]

Snowfield looks ugly, not exploring that lmao
The invisible shadow in that puzzle town took my virginity, literally spent all my flasks on one of them lol
Tree area was cool, magic horse got bullied hard


Yea I do
Maliketh is the queen? I’ll need to watch an all inclusive lore video after this lol

Marika is the Queen. Maliketh is her Bound Shadow, her “brother”

Maliketh is to Marika what Blaidd is to Ranni

why lol

clergyman is pretty cool. maliketh has too little hp but he's a good boss

Beast Clergyman is the worst video game fight I’ve ever experienced, I hated every second of that piece of shit

Maliketh is cool but also a bit frantic and his punish windows can be too short for slow bonk/ash of war enthusiasts

My big problem with Maliketh is that dying to him means you have to fight the fucking clergyman again, and I literally still dread that boss even to this day even though he’s not hard for me at this point, I don’t enjoy fighting that piece of shit in the slightest

I give Maliketh by himself an S for presentation/aesthetics, an A for lore, a B for the actual fight mechanics, and I give the Beast Clergyman a FFF- in all regards.

 

[MonochromeYoru]

Beast Clergyman is the worst video game fight I’ve ever experienced, I hated every second of that piece of shit

Maliketh is cool but also a bit frantic and his punish windows can be too short for slow bonk/ash of war enthusiasts

My big problem with Maliketh is that dying to him means you have to fight the fucking clergyman again, and I literally still dread that boss even to this day even though he’s not hard for me at this point, I don’t enjoy fighting that piece of shit in the slightest

I give Maliketh by himself an S for presentation/aesthetics, an A for lore, a B for the actual fight mechanics, and I give the Beast Clergyman a FFF- in all regards.

i like clergyman a lot lol

he doesn't have any bullshit moves. you can dodge or avoid everything. clear cues for attacks. good enough punish windows. a little fast paced but great fight.

 

[MonochromeYoru]

take a left from Ordina puzzle town. Go toward the big white tree looking things. Look for one with red flowers around it. Then go to it's back. There will be a teleporter there. Take that.

@SakazOuki also, near those trees, to the left, theres a ruin. Go to the backside of that ruin. There should be a cave there. clear that cave too

 

[Elder Lee Hung]

i like clergyman a lot lol

he doesn't have any bullshit moves. you can dodge or avoid everything. clear cues for attacks. good enough punish windows. a little fast paced but great fight.

Oh man don’t get me started lol.

Visually a hideous/uninteresting boss, he’s got some of the ugliest/unspectacular moves in the entire game. I think even bosses that are supposed to be more visually grotesque like the Scadutree Avatar/Putrescent Knight still have much more interesting moves than the Clergyman. The BC is as hideous as Maliketh is amazing lol.

His lore isn’t interesting at all to me, once you learn that

Spoiler

he is Maliketh with a death root addiction, there is nothing else to learn and there is just no depth to that element of his lore.

You would think in theory this could be interesting because the lore sort of hints that he has been forsaken by Marika, but there’s zero depth to this element of Maliketh, and he is far from the only family that Marika forsakes anyway. This element of lore is much more interesting for characters like Morgott and Mohg for me, especially with the theory that Marika’s own father was Midra, a Hornsent, meaning Marika forsook her twin sons for sharing elements of her own blood that she hates. That stuff is super interesting and there’s a lot of depth there but with Maliketh there’s just nothing.

Generally speaking I feel like the DLC just forgot that Bound Shadows were a thing because there are no new revelations there.

Mechanically I honestly haven’t engaged with him much since my initial play through, I typically just spirit summon or multiplayer summon and get that shit over with because even when I’ve re-attempted him solo, I still hate him lol.

 

[MonochromeYoru]

Oh man don’t get me started lol.

Visually a hideous/uninteresting boss, he’s got some of the ugliest/unspectacular moves in the entire game. I think even bosses that are supposed to be more visually grotesque like the Scadutree Avatar/Putrescent Knight still have much more interesting moves than the Clergyman. The BC is as hideous as Maliketh is amazing lol.

His lore isn’t interesting at all to me, once you learn that

Spoiler

he is Maliketh with a death root addiction, there is nothing else to learn and there is just no depth to that element of his lore.

You would think in theory this could be interesting because the lore sort of hints that he has been forsaken by Marika, but there’s zero depth to this element of Maliketh, and he is far from the only family that Marika forsakes anyway. This element of lore is much more interesting for characters like Morgott and Mohg for me, especially with the theory that Marika’s own father was Midra, a Hornsent, meaning Marika forsook her twin sons for sharing elements of her own blood that she hates. That stuff is super interesting and there’s a lot of depth there but with Maliketh there’s just nothing.

Generally speaking I feel like the DLC just forgot that Bound Shadows were a thing because there are no new revelations there.

Mechanically I honestly haven’t engaged with him much since my initial play through, I typically just spirit summon or multiplayer summon and get that shit over with because even when I’ve re-attempted him solo, I still hate him lol.

Spoiler

i mean he's consuming deathroot cause he messed up and let Ranni and the black knives steal a rune of death from him. He's basically atoning for his sin of not protecting it. He asks for marika's forgiveness. But he doesn't know that marika most likely orchestrated it all

Mechanically I honestly haven’t engaged with him much since my initial play through, I typically just spirit summon or multiplayer summon and get that shit over with because even when I’ve re-attempted him solo, I still hate him lol.

He's pretty great on sl1 lol. every hit is death so you basically have to no hit him.

 

[Elder Lee Hung]

Spoiler

i mean he's consuming deathroot cause he messed up and let Ranni and the black knives steal a rune of death from him. He's basically atoning for his sin of not protecting it. He asks for marika's forgiveness. But he doesn't know that marika most likely orchestrated it all

He's pretty great on sl1 lol. every hit is death so you basically have to no hit him.

Spoiler

Okay so wait, you think Marika orchestrated Godwyn’s death? I don’t agree with that aspect of the theory, but I think the idea that Marika was essentially trying to secretly orchestrate her own suicide is basically confirmed in the game

 

[MonochromeYoru]

Spoiler

Okay so wait, you think Marika orchestrated Godwyn’s death? I don’t agree with that aspect of the theory, but I think the idea that Marika was essentially trying to secretly orchestrate her own suicide is basically confirmed in the game

Spoiler

she is implied to have been super disillusioned with the golden order. and godwyn is basically the number 1 golden order knight.

she has ties to the black knife assassins since she is also a numen

Maliketh was mentioned to have been feared by everyone. Ranni and the assassins couldn't have just sneaked and stole the rune of death. They had to have had insider help.

And Maliketh's remembrance says "Marika's sole need for maliketh was to seal away death, and even then she betrayed him".

Means she was most likely the one who aided the assassins in stealing the death rune.

 

[SakazOuki]

Am I the only one who does exceptionally well on first try then it goes down hill in following attempts against tough bosses
Got second phase Malenia to a third of her heath first fight
Also, what the actual fuck is this spam attack of hers 😂

 

[Elder Lee Hung]

Am I the only one who does exceptionally well on first try then it goes down hill in following attempts against tough bosses
Got second phase Malenia to a third of her heath first fight
Also, what the actual fuck is this spam attack of hers 😂

Waterfowl Dance is the real boss fight

Case and point to why Malenia is not very good, she is a luck based boss, your ability to beat her is determined pretty much only by your ability to bait and avoid Waterfowl

 

[SakazOuki]

After a couple tries I postponed Malenia, will deal with the wombo combo crap later


Fire Giant pretty cool fight, 4 tries
This is also where I discovered pouches exist, amazing stuff


Farum Azula was an awesome area besides the disappearing shithead dragon (Malenia’s area is a 10/10 too)
Fatass and slenderman pretty easy, first try
Tree Sentinel was nasty, 3 tries

Maliketh, oh boy
First phase was fairly consistent, at worst you can go around a pillar and heal
Second phase was so brutal lol, I think a faster weapon would do much better, maybe a spear.
After getting the hang of the 3 shockwaves into plunge attack and the sword aoe, fight became more consistent
Somewhere around 15 tries

What good bosses are left?
Malenia is one
I remember a Midir like dragon someone showed me
What else
@MonochromeYoru @Elder Lee Hung @TheKnightOfTheSea @EmperorKinyagi @DarkestKnightofSpoilers

 

[MonochromeYoru]

After a couple tries I postponed Malenia, will deal with the wombo combo crap later


Fire Giant pretty cool fight, 4 tries
This is also where I discovered pouches exist, amazing stuff


Farum Azula was an awesome area besides the disappearing shithead dragon (Malenia’s area is a 10/10 too)
Fatass and slenderman pretty easy, first try
Tree Sentinel was nasty, 3 tries

Maliketh, oh boy
First phase was fairly consistent, at worst you can go around a pillar and heal
Second phase was so brutal lol, I think a faster weapon would do much better, maybe a spear.
After getting the hang of the 3 shockwaves into plunge attack and the sword aoe, fight became more consistent
Somewhere around 15 tries

What good bosses are left?
Malenia is one
I remember a Midir like dragon someone showed me
What else
@MonochromeYoru @Elder Lee Hung @TheKnightOfTheSea @EmperorKinyagi @DarkestKnightofSpoilers

Check the snowfield areas I told you about

 

[MonochromeYoru]

Am I the only one who does exceptionally well on first try then it goes down hill in following attempts against tough bosses
Got second phase Malenia to a third of her heath first fight
Also, what the actual fuck is this spam attack of hers 😂

If you want tips on waterfowl

Spoiler

the first flurry of waterfowl is the only one you can't dodge. You either run away far enough, block it, or break her out of waterfowl by timing a bleed or frost proc right as she goes into it. You can also do a weird circling around her when shes in the air starting it, to confuse her ai and make her miss.

The second and third flurries are dodgeable

 

[SakazOuki]

Check the snowfield areas I told you about

Cleared them in like 5 minutes lol, it was the Astel boss right?
Astel Void was far harder to dodge for some reason, maybe I got good

 

[Elder Lee Hung]

After a couple tries I postponed Malenia, will deal with the wombo combo crap later


Fire Giant pretty cool fight, 4 tries
This is also where I discovered pouches exist, amazing stuff


Farum Azula was an awesome area besides the disappearing shithead dragon (Malenia’s area is a 10/10 too)
Fatass and slenderman pretty easy, first try
Tree Sentinel was nasty, 3 tries

Maliketh, oh boy
First phase was fairly consistent, at worst you can go around a pillar and heal
Second phase was so brutal lol, I think a faster weapon would do much better, maybe a spear.
After getting the hang of the 3 shockwaves into plunge attack and the sword aoe, fight became more consistent
Somewhere around 15 tries

What good bosses are left?
Malenia is one
I remember a Midir like dragon someone showed me
What else
@MonochromeYoru @Elder Lee Hung @TheKnightOfTheSea @EmperorKinyagi @DarkestKnightofSpoilers

Placidusax. He’s in Faram Azula as well. He's one of the Remembrance bosses and he’s a pretty major one.

Sounds like after you beat Placidusax/Malenia, you will be at the end of the base game.

 

[EmperorKinyagi]

don’t miss Mohg @SakazOuki

 

[SakazOuki]

Placidusax. He’s in Faram Azula as well. He's one of the Remembrance bosses and he’s a pretty major one.

Sounds like after you beat Placidusax/Malenia, you will be at the end of the base game.

Bruh, I was pretty sure I explored every nook and cranny in this area


edit: nvm I have to do a gesture in order to access him

 

[TheKnightOfTheSea]

After a couple tries I postponed Malenia, will deal with the wombo combo crap later


Fire Giant pretty cool fight, 4 tries
This is also where I discovered pouches exist, amazing stuff


Farum Azula was an awesome area besides the disappearing shithead dragon (Malenia’s area is a 10/10 too)
Fatass and slenderman pretty easy, first try
Tree Sentinel was nasty, 3 tries

Maliketh, oh boy
First phase was fairly consistent, at worst you can go around a pillar and heal
Second phase was so brutal lol, I think a faster weapon would do much better, maybe a spear.
After getting the hang of the 3 shockwaves into plunge attack and the sword aoe, fight became more consistent
Somewhere around 15 tries

What good bosses are left?
Malenia is one
I remember a Midir like dragon someone showed me
What else
@MonochromeYoru @Elder Lee Hung @TheKnightOfTheSea @EmperorKinyagi @DarkestKnightofSpoilers

Holy shit you're fast