honest thoughts on Caelid?

>>716372434 (OP)
It's cool.
A bit too oppressive and red at times, but otherwise I enjoy it.

>>716372434 (OP)
The difference in level requirement between caelid and dragon barrow (north calid) is silly.

>>716372434 (OP)
Kino. Need more unique, otherworldy fantasy zones like that.

goddamn cleveland sucks

>>716372434 (OP)
for me it's the Ruins of Rauh

>>716373762
it's actually Fresno

"DJ Caelid" is one of the funniest character names i've seen across any souls game

Absolutely great

I like it a lot. Redmane Castle could’ve been a better but I like the oppressive atmosphere. Also most bosses in the caves and other dungeons are duos here which is pretty neat I guess.

>>716372434 (OP)
Its my favorite region in Elden Ring's main game. Like many others I took the trapped chest there to the mine. Exiting and seeing the blood red sky, roiling swamp and hearing the music was a top 10 gaming moment for me. Especially as a Berserk fan

>>716372434 (OP)
The trap chest that brings you there is one of the best "holy fuck" moments in a first playthrough of Elden Ring. I pity anyone who didn't get to experience that blind, at level 7, while exploring the lake.

>>71637243
It only has 3 things of notice: Radahn, Medallion/Soreseal, and Millicent (people don’t even know she can invade)

Relies too much on people on stumbling on it in a blind playthrough no one a second run+ is falling for that teleporter chest while all the good shit is in Dragonbarrow. Everyone already knows it’s not the real poison swamp area. It just becomes part of the 40 minute prep every run does to gear up. You skip the Redmane duo boss because you stepped foot in Altus.

>>716372434 (OP)
fun zone, its definitely the most depressing/oppressive because chances are you (and myself) went there at way too low of a level

>>716374315
definitely one of the most memorable moments in the game, i also loved finding the meterorite staff there because my friends told me about it after i said i was doing a pure INT build

kino atmosphere overall and millicent is best girl
only downside (just like the dlc): the radahn fight is a letdown (beat him both pre and post patch, i just hate gimmick fights)

>>716373817
best zone in the game, i always sit here when i invade/host

good atmosphere
liked finding the secret dungeon inside the boss arena

May chaos take that shithole. Worse than India, imagine the whole place smelling like rancid rot.

very pretty, very boring

>>716374536
That dungeon was really cool since there was a war going on in it and it was the first rotted worm I fought so I didn’t mind it that much at the time.

>>716374562
imagine Melania's hot steamy russy
you'd have to flame cleanse yourself after every round

>>716374315
>did that
>ran my bitch ass out of there after dying in the cave once
>get to the grace near the lake
>"whew okay lets get the fuck outta here and come back later, im going to go to that forest with the bears and see whats around"
>whats this? sofria river well? hmm okay must be a small river underground cool
>enter the elevator
>damn this is pretty dee....

>>716374315
I painstakingly killed every insect in my path dying 20 times and then died of toxic the second I walked outside which was funny.

>>716372434 (OP)
It's gud (minus Dragonbarrow which is abysmal dogshit)

As someone who likes to obsessively go around and collect every little goodie every playthrough, it's a bit annoying. You gotta do like three semicircles around the Swamp of Aeonia. Regardless, though, 10/10 area. No matter how you get there, it's designed to make you go oh fuck:
>if you just walk there from Limgrave, you get the big vista near the Shack of the Rotting and a big, scary bird in your face
>if you use the booby trapped chest, as soon as you walk out you're right next to the swamp and the giant, rot-spewing land squirts
>if you use the portal to Gurranq, you get another huge vista and little vulgar militia goofballs that will slap your shit in because Dragonbarrow is the second highest levelscaled area in the game

>>716374929
>exit trap cave
>put message down near lake
>"despair ahead, therefore, try give up"
>*dejection emote*
>get 200+ notes and healed so many clutch times during dungeons or fights i lost count

>fort faroth with the ghost soldiers that appear
>"stealth but hole ahead"

>>716374315
>thinking about game as it installs
>oh boy, im going to use a twinblade, or the flail.
>cant decide what to do, end up picking wretch and tell myself ill use whatever gear i find first and make a build around that
>start up game, come out into the world for the first time
>the game expects me to go straight ahead but what if I immediately do a hard right turn and explore that ruin?
>open the chest within like 5 minutes of getting into the world for the first time
>teleported to caelid
>no idea how the game works, try to see if i can teleport out, I cant
>huh i guess I unlock that later
>run on foot all the way back to limgrave getting chased by giant birds and dogs

>>716372434 (OP)
See that nothing over there in the distance? Yeah.... you can climb that

>>716372434 (OP)
2spooky

>>716376321
based

>>716372434 (OP)
I wish Elden Ring had a proper desert area
Seeing the massive dunes on the map and learning it was just Radahn's arena was a massive disappointment

>>716376369
i have extreme video game desert fatigue so my reaction was the exact opposite, i thought we'd have some badlands shit from the story leaks and was worried id have to suffer though it, glad i didnt
i was also overjoyed to realize you could ride torrent through liurnia and a lot of poisonswampslop, it made the rot lake better because you only do it once
im also a massive snowfag and mountaintops being clearly unfinished/cut was a massive disappointment

>>716376497
>im also a massive snowfag and mountaintops being clearly unfinished/cut was a massive disappointment

I agree with you there. It does have some great atmosphere though. One of my favorite locations just to hang out in.

>>716372434 (OP)
The whole game needs to be smaller, way too much filler liek catacombs and stuff.

>>716376958
90% of Elden Ring is optional content. If you don't want to do the catacombs then don't do them. Nobody is forcing you to.

The Caelid ball bearing hunter is literally impossible to beat without cheating.

>>716377435
>tfw did shaded castle before going to dragonborrow
works on my machine :)
unironically if i had to fight that faggot again i would've just save edited or booted up cheatengine, 3 times was enough

>>716377435
>elden ring bellbearing
>boring slop
>nightreign with executor and deflect or dutchess and improved dodge
>fun fight
huh

>>716372434 (OP)
burn everything

>>716377435
i have 1 k hours in elden ring single player and i have not seen a bell bearing hunter 1 time.

>>716377883
if you beat shaded castle dont worry, you fought him

>>716372434 (OP)
Riding torrent shouldn't make you immune to the plague water.

>>716377883
actually kinda impressive, did you just never go to the church of vows at night?

>>716377435
Just parry

>>716372434 (OP)
Empty as fuck

>>716377834
Cool. I thought those looked like native bees and I was right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9vj1rP-eAE

>>716377996
nah that was a good decision
if you enjoy poisonslop theres 4 other video games made by the same developer you might be interested in

>>716378090
okay literally why is dark souls 3 the ugliest game in existence? why did they do this shit?

>>716377996
Miyazaki I'm through with your fucking poison swamps.

>>716372434 (OP)
>thoughts on Caelid?
I do not regret making yandex my default search engine

>>716378343
missed opportunity to have that annoying potnigger troll in the background

>>716372434 (OP)
On my first playthrough I went west first to Caelid, said fuck that and went straight south to clear out everything south of the starting point. I don't mind Caelid at all and I weep for the retarded players who bothered to fight everything out there. Just run past dawg the Dawgs ain't worth it.

>>716372434 (OP)
The dungeon was shit considering how cool the rest of the area was in terms of art direction. The huge crows and dogs were memorable. From have regressed in a lot of ways but they are still the best at creating paint-like visuals.

>>716374315
I got that spoiled but thankfully there was another chest trap that teleported me to the top of Leyndell and I opened the map to see my location and I was like "Holy shit, this game is HUGE!"

>>716372434 (OP)
It sure is red

>>716372913
There is no level requirement, only skill requirement.

>>716372434 (OP)
why did you post a pic of Ohio

>>716374315
I'm pretty sure I stayed in the mine until I killed the boss. But I definitely teleported away as soon as I left and saw the sky.

>>716372434 (OP)
Sellia should have been much larger and more involved. It has a lot of hype to it, but the actual area is basically garbage.
The main route from Limgrave, down south to Fort Gael, then to Redmane Castle is good and is a well designed guantlet, but a lot of the other stuff feels disconnected.
Dragonbarrow definitely needed a better divider from the main area.

>>716379687
I fought that Golem right by the teleport destination for like 2 hours before I finally killed the fucker and was so mad that I couldn't go anywhere afterwards. That was the first time I learned that you could just teleport between graces from the start in Elden Ring, because I didn't know what else to do.

>>716377996
Not getting Torrent for the Lake of Rot was the most annoying fucking thing ever.
I gave up on fighting that Dragonkin, because like fuck am I going to deal with all that Scarlet Rot.

>>716377996
Shut the fuck up Mitsubishi-san

>>716372434 (OP)
I riked it
>trap cave
>think up=out because you're underground
>dead end and boss you're not ready for
>get out and it's califlorida
>freaky dogs and birds
>find needle that introduces outer gods
>find castle with weird old man
>think he's secretly radahn until seeing actual radahn
>>716381109
Lake of Rot felt like a joke, like someone gave you an olive branch with Caelid's swamp just so you'd get used to it in time for the lake.

>>716372434 (OP)
Honestly pretty scary at first. Everything up to this zone was fairly grounded in reality for the most part. You just had occasional large golems and trolls. Then in Caelid you suddenly have these massive mutated animals roaming everywhere and rotting corpses in the most hellish landscape with pussy blood pools everywhere. Like fuck dude. No other level in this game had a 'smell' that comes through the screen.

Is there a way to "fix" Caelid, or is it stuck like this forever?

>>716372434 (OP)
You will spend 90% of your time in Caelid mounted because there is hardly anything worth fighting on foot outside bosses, catacombs and caves.

>>716381960
You could increase the taxes to fix the roads but the big doggos will wreck it regardless.

>>716372434 (OP)
Aesthetically, I think its cool. But it's an overall frustrating area to play in due to those shitty giant head dogs and all the rot damage.

>>716372434 (OP)
every area in this game is complete slop, but it looks good from a distance

>>716372434 (OP)
>honest thoughts on Caelid?
It was scary as fug first time through it. Cakewalk NG+ and every other play through since.

>>716372434 (OP)
Same as for every other region: "Damn, I wish this was an actual level and not just a wallpaper with nothing of value to do."

>>716372434 (OP)
It was fun to freak out when you opened that chest and got teleported there from limgrave. Other than that it was kind of underwhelming when you actually got there. The divine tower was cool at least.

>>716377883
they only show up at night

>>716378082
of course it's australia

>>716376369
nah... I haven't enjoyed a desert area ever since Nier automata

>>716381109
ya do a couple of suicide runs to get all the platforms raised then it's fairly easy.

>>716373817
Hate this place. I spent so long looking for a way to get down, only to discover later that the entrance is fucking hidden in a completely different part of the map.

>>716372434 (OP)
Looks cool but ultimately it's just another slop zone to zoom around on le horsie, no gameplay to speak of.

>>716373817
home...

>>716372434 (OP)
Needed a real Legacy Dungeon.

>>716386235
That's kino tho.

>>716374315
And then it's completely invalidated by the fact you just fast travel once you exit the mine.

>>716389651
no it saves you a tedious runback through slog enemies you'd skip anyway

716374315
I thought it was pretty faggy. Red skies and giant pirate skulls.

I mean it unironically that the teleport to Caelid was the first moment I realized From had dropped the ball bigly.

>>716372434 (OP)
amazing when you first arrive and see shit like the huge sanctum in the distance and then a major disappointment when you arrive at every point of interest on the map and it's just 1 room.

>>716377435
forced me to use bloodhound step with a colossal sword, then I was expecting his real form to be a nightmare but he's somehow weaker than that ghost

>>716372434 (OP)
not hellish enough imo. more just annoying.
I wish we had Caelid but with Frenzy instead of Rot

>Literally open path in Eastern Limgrave
>Lift from Siufra River
>D sends you to Gurranq
>Transporter trap chest in the Agheel Lake
>Alexander talking about going East to Caelid to a festival
There are many things that try to get you to go to Caelid early. I'd be surprised if more people didn't end up there before getting to Liurnia of the Lakes.

It has some really good items to pick up if you go there early. Poison Ash of War, Fire Ash of War, Meteorite Staff, Rock Sling, Radagon's Soreseal, Half of the Medallion, Gut's Greatsword, etc.

>>716373817
Frame rate was obnoxious in the dlc playing on last gen. The vanilla game runs perfectly from start to the end and then the dlc sharts all over the floor right at the start in Belurat. Cross gen releases are painful for poorfags.

Stellar art direction but I wish I was rich. Motherfuckers got to enjoy this at 60 fps and I can only imagine how sweet it is to pan the camera over the big major area with incredible backdrops without dropping to 18 frames.

>>716378150

>>716372434 (OP)
Lost Izalith part 55, still sucks edition

>>716381960
Purification by fire.

>>716373817
It was refreshing because of how dark SotE is, but out of context it's mid.

>>716392731
Irithyl is so comfy.

>>716393171
I like it too.

>>716381960
Down in siofra you can see the ash lake desiccated pillars, from the earth mending itself slowly

>>716376369
play Darksiders 1

>>716377435
He's one of the most parry bait enemies in the game, only topped by shit like the crucibal knights and misbotten warriors.

It's ok but Altus Plataeu is by far the best zone. It's very varied, has the best color pallete and music.
>>716372913
Yeah it's a very harsh cut.
>>716372578
This is mostly my opinion on it as well. It has cool aesthetics but they're kinda samey and I don't enjoy most of my time there.

>>716373817
Somehow I keep forgetting the DLC even exists when I picture Elden Ring in my mind. I even finished it with several chars and different built several times but after the first one it was just one big scadu fragment hunt and boss rush.

>>716372434 (OP)
I didn't like it
the atmosphere is nice but the area itself is pure garbage, just a giant colosseum with giant kiddy pool at the centre

>>716395791
>I even finished it with several chars
I didn't even finish the DLC once. I think the last boss I beat was the Putrescent Knight then I just got tired of it. Was weird since I loved the base game.

I think it was stupid that there was nothing cool to find on top of the rot hills.
It's one of the worst looking areas of the game.
Fighting Radan while using the summons feels extremely easy, fighting him without them is a pain in the ass.
It's the one part of the game I don't look forward to.

>>716372434 (OP)
Boss arena too big. Needed more content + more Secrets in that arena. I love dragonbarrow (i'm a scalie)

>>716372434 (OP)
limgrave mogs all the base game areas its not even close

>>716392731
probably the best view in all of Fromdom

>>716372434 (OP)
Cool, but not as cool as Liurnia Of The Lakes or the wizard towers for me. Comfy wizard towers

>>716396915
The Liurnia of the Lakes view is also pretty nice.

>>716395125
>acting tough in the same breath you admit to using a shield

>>716397976
>acting tough in the same breath you admit to using a shield
um no. i parry with an off-hand scimitar

>>716372913
dragonbarrow is where crumbling farum azula was located, so it makes sense.
>>716372434 (OP)
it's my favorite location from a from game. getting teleported there early on in my 1st playthrough was 10/10. the only downside is castle redmane is relatively ho hum in comparison to the other legacy dungeons.

>>716373817
>>716388989
How the hell did I miss this location? I've played 200hrs

>>716398670
>the only downside is castle redmane is relatively the rahdan flight makes up for it in terms of scale.

>>716398702
>How the hell did I miss this location? I've played 200hrs
me neither because its DLC

>>716397976
You can parry with Daggers and Rapiers.

>>716398819
>its DLC
Oh...

>>716372434 (OP)
Kino

>>716398670
>>716398819
fucked my quote up, but the castle redmane dungeon is a prelude to the redahan fight which i feel like was the focus of that area. games like this have to have a tension and release, and too complicated a dungeon followed by a battle like the rahdan one seems like too much tension

>>716372434 (OP)
At least it's not Mountaintop of Giants or Consecrated Snowfields

>>716372434 (OP)
I honestly don't remember much about it aside from a swamp, a lazy big dragon and Radahn's castle. It's just big, red, empty boredom otherwise.

>>716398975
oh, i definitely agree that starscourge radahn is one of the best bosses in the game. i just thing the castle itself should have been the same quality as say, stormveil.

Even when I came back after being a higher level it still makes me shit myself

>>716372434 (OP)
I was a classic "ensnared by a trap" and when I finally got out of that hellhole dungeon I was mildly frightened

>>716377435
>>716397976
You don't even need to parry him, just learn his, like, 4 attacks patterns that he uses in close range and don't get hit. I had a low level character with a +5 weapon who hadn't beaten him so I did it to prove my point: https://streamable.com/r50kpe

Just beat his ass.

>>716401010
Also I got some weird glitch while getting there where the crucible knight that the snail summons didn't get despawned when he died. I don't know what I was doing in that dungeon.

>>716372434 (OP)
its red

>>716377996
i played through elden ring without using torrent first, and i still can't really believe that you can just skip every poison area just by riding it
what were they thinking?

>>716402587
I played Elden Ring with the attack button what the fuck were they thinking you could skip bosses by killing them?

>>716372434 (OP)
Loved it. The first time I stepped out of the crystal tunnel and beheld the ruined, twisted landscape outside was one of those memorable gaming moments that will remain in my memory for the rest of my life. It's when I realized ER wasn't just 'open-world Dark Souls', but rather a grand fusion of previously established Miyazakian themes and concepts, including the cosmic horror of Bloodborne. Pure cinema.

>>716398656
>>716398897
alright that's cool

>>716392451
Its funny, because that Fire Ash of War makes doing the Carian Manor way, way, easier. Otherwise those Giant Fingers are actual demons.
And if you're a sorcerer, getting Rock Sling makes Rennala a much smoother fight.

>>716403906
Just craft pot bro

>>716372434 (OP)
I love that you can go there immediately and feels like somewhere you shouldn't be. The teleport trap close to the very beginning that sends you to the mine in caelid was a great idea.

>>716372434 (OP)
How is the sky rotten?

>>716373817
>Burn the tree
>Cool shadow spire gone

>>716372434 (OP)
It was a pretty cool area, conceptually. Very good atmosphere too, plus despite being a fucking swamp to large degrees, having Torrent makes it a lot less painful, to the point where I don't really mind.

I do love me some Elden Ring skyboxes

Horrid

>>716372434 (OP)
>First honest attempt at a Souls game
>Kill giant in front of the camp first try
>"This is the hard game?"
>Die several times trying to clear said camp
>Controller disconnects during the first time I reached the camp captain
>"..."
>Go to swamp
>Dragon lands on me out of nowhere
>At least an hour to beat him
>Exploring swamps
>Find some ruins
>Took some tries to clear the ruins out of stupidity
>Open chests
>Get teleported to some mines
>At least one hour before I reach the first exit because of insect guards with homing retard spell
>"Uhh... This isn't the swamp..."
>Spent the next 20 hours exploring Caelid
>Fought shit that I am sure I wasn't supposed to until much later in the game
>Kill the double dragons
>Kill the godskin fat and slim apostles
>Kill general whatever
>Kill fucking retarded tree
>Kill bald bird of death after an untold amount of deaths
>Kill bird dude with a lance in front of a tower
>Platform with a horse around the side of the tower because gamer instincts convinced me there was hidden shit there
>Another 2 hours went by
>Decide to leave Caelid
>Try to go the other way from the first knight camp
>Enter Stormveil Castle for the first time after 38 hours
One day I will return to this game

>>716407212
>One day I will return to this game
me after reaching mountainstops of the larpers

>>716407356
I got up to the magic university and then couldn't get in, backtracked, killed the dragon and got bored

>>716407897
OH N-

>>716393120
That zone looks like ugly UEshit with asset shop trees, I don't know why anybody praises ruins

>>716377883
you're a fucking casual, kill yourself

>>716372434 (OP)
My favorite zone in ER

>>716408042
It took me two attempts to go over 50% of the game. It will take some time

>>716386048
You shouldn't have to die at all to complete the area. That's just bad design. Spamming boluses doesn't count

>>716409872
You don't have to die at all to complete the area, you just suck

>Lets put a late game area next to the starting game area
>Okay now lets put the ultra late game area right after that area
>Okay now lets fill it with the most annoying, most hideous enemies and have them scream at you constantly
>Now lets put absolutely nothing of value there whatsoever and make every enemy worth 200 souls

Caelid captures about 90% of the problems with modern dark souls and the people who like it are about half of that.

>>716410736
>Caelid
>late game

>>716372434 (OP)
I wish they did more with the mutant creatures concept. Maybe ONE more enemy or a unique boss. The crows and dogs are cool but I wish there was more than just crows and dogs. I guess there's the giant land squirts but eh.

>>716410736
>Now lets put absolutely nothing of value there whatsoever
Is this a joke? Poison Ash of War, Fire Ash of War, Meteorite Staff, Rock Sling, Radagon's Soreseal, Half of the Medallion to use the Lift, Gut's Greatsword, Somber Stones 8 and 9, etc.

>>716411273
e's 'avin a laff

>>716410736
You never even played Elden Ring did you anon?

>>716410767
Apart from Smash and grabbing Radahnn yeah, there's basically nothing there worth doing unless you want to farm the rotten tree spirits in the ultra-late area.

>>716397802
I like how they built a huge section of their game specifically to look near exactly like a famous painting just from this one angle.

>>716406612
I love this one because it betrays the obvious truth, we are flipped upside down by Marika sending the Lands of Shadow (originally the center chunk of the world) to the "bottom" of the world

complete with the obvious twist that the ScaduTree is just the Roots of the Erdtree.

>>716372434 (OP)
I hate Elden ring, the open world is so fucking empty and gay. Like it looks nice but it’s basically trash. Souls-type games peaked with dark souls 2. It would be different if the open world served a purpose other than wasting time

>>716410736
I actually love that they put a high level zone next to the starting zone, and that you can go get high level shit by being careful and fleeing from encounters.

fuck you.

>>716372434 (OP)
feels kind of unrealistic compared to limgrave and liurnia of the lakes. wandering through a forest or those swampy lakes feels right because they seem more like actual places.

caelid has too much stuff in it that's kind of awkwardly just plonked there, it's too gamey.

*reads your inputs*

nothin personel bitch

>>716412031
noooo you can't just predict my behavior!

You have to react to it!!!

>>716412031
its fine, enemies aren't sentient so they can't bait out attacks so that they can get good attacks on you, a human.

you can, however do that, and its the crux of easily beating almost every encounter in the game, once you realize that all bosses (and almost all enemies) are just a series of "if then" attack chains and it doesn't even particularly matter what the next attack is, you just can know that based off distance between you and the enemy and your behavior it will do something that closest he gap, makes distance, or punishes aggression and you can punish all of these effortlessly yourself as well.

Crucible Knights are the ultimate teachers of this, if you just trade blows you will have a hard time, but when you realize you are basically dog walking him the whole fight they are easy as piss.

I've taken to using the first rotten tree spirit for some early runes. Firebone arrows from a shortbow make quick work, or if a faith build any ranged flame incantation will work for an easy cheesy 10k

>>716411273
caelid's one of the most valuable fucking slot machines in the whole game for nearly any build, it's insane
local bosses SHIT huge amounts of runes at you too

>>716373817
I fucking hate the verticality of the map in the dlc, navigating the caves in this place was fucking cancer.

>>716413159
Filtered

>>716411606
Lmao
>>716411981
"If I ignore all the enemies I can get cool shit by following the wiki and picking up all the good items"

>>716411273
>Poison ash of war
yawn.
>fire ash of war
yawn
>Meteorite staff
Mid
>Rock Sling
Oh boy, mediocre poise damage
>Guts Greatsword
Soulless

Notice how you mention a bunch of mediocre items and not bosses, locales, or experiences. At least Shrine of Amana was pretty

>>716413246
>Meteorite Staff
Can be used almost from the start and is better than any other staff until they're like +14, and that's not including the damage bonus to Rock Sling.

>>716413116
Yea I forgot you can rush to the big dragon mother and just whack her tail with a bleed weapon for tons of souls for new playthroughs.

>>716413246
You couldn't be more contrarian if you were a mirror.

It's the Gary Indiana of dark souls

>>716413573
>You haven't played the game
>And if you have you were bad at it
>And if you aren't then you must be disingenuous

idk maybe I'm just "good enough" to play through Caelid Normally instead of googling where to go and treating it like a shopping spree in Detroit.

Remember where I mentioned that the people who liked Caelid were about half of whats wrong with Dark Souls these days? Yeah this is what I mean. Imagine trying to design a game when half the playtesters are just infatuated with dogshit.

>>716373817
More like Ruins of Framerate. The waterfalls in this DLC still haven't been patched yet.

>>716373817
This area and Bale were the only good parts of the DLC

>>716413246
>fire ash of war
yawn
>Meteorite staff
Mid
Retard

>>716415245
I'd say you played this game without wanting to learn it. Based on >>716413246, you just got it because you wanted to see if Malenia lived up to the hype and forced yourself to play it until then.

bump

>>716389651
this
imagine if you had to unlock portgates instead of having infinite fast travel since the start

I deserve to be shit on for this but does this game have a lot of grinding options? Like if I’m getting fucked up in one area, I can go somewhere else and come back on easy mode, with better gear and lots of health? I want to explore the setting but I don’t feel like bashing my head against certain challenges and doing run backs

>>716421093
It's the game with the most such options.

>>716421392
Thank you anon

>>716421093
Yes, one of the best places to grind is actually in Caelid.

>>716421093
Yeah, you can easily get up to par or above it by just exploring areas around bosses. By the end game things start to cap off, but you can still grind for a build if you need to.

>>716422189
Maybe in early game, since the blood lake is pretty high level if you get there early unless you use the giant crow that runs to its death first.

>>716421093
>>716422571
Note, that levels are actually of secondary importance compared to weapon upgrades and item buffs.
If you find yourself running into a wall of difficulty, don't jump to getting levels but instead think about exploring for weapon upgrades first, then look into damage buffs or means to reduce incoming damage, and only in the last resort, go and grind mobs for levels.

>>716372434 (OP)
on my first play through I got inside redmane castle before the festival. that misbegotten and crucible knight wrecked my shit for at least a couple days. I was hard stuck on those faggots but set on killing them and eventually got it.
funny how now I am able to destroy both with no problem. I mean I shouldn’t say with no problem…probably a few tries still.

>>716423383
Crucible Knights are super build dependent, I find.
If you can't break their poise, you're in for a bad time.

>>716424318
nah their pattern is very manageable to dodge once you learn it of course. that pic is not related to my first run.
now this one was my first character and the weapons I had killing crucible knight.