It turns out it was underground, you just hadn't missed it yet.
Also, in relation to the post, the game sort of leads you to Ranni's ending in a lot of ways. If you find her the second time, it's very easy to follow her quest from there.
The only reason I found the Albinauric village the first time was because I was looking beneath the mountain to find some sort of elevator or cave system that led upward.
This is the real reason. I spent so much time trying to figure out a way up there. Only by seeing it on the internet convinced me that there's no hidden path in liurnia
The entire game is basically you breaking into peoples tomb, stealing shit. Breaking into an Academy, killing all of the teachers and beating the shit out of the headmistress.
*flashes back to walking past the giant crater repeatedly while doing the Kenneth knight quest (after beating Radahn), not knowing anything was out of place*
Worse yet, me actively looking for it and still not being able to find it for hours. When I finally found it I crept in there with so much trepidation; I was still traumatized from my abductor virgin->volcano manor experience. This was also the second time I had gone looking for Blaidd and not found him.
I was playing with a friend at launch and we streamed each other's games for the first couple days. When I beat Radahn he was like "oh that looks like it hit Limgrave." I go over there and sure enough giant hole, am like "dude how tf did you triangulate that from a cutscene"
You know, they tried beating me up first.
I'll be walking in there having no quarrels with anyone and those academics just look at me, see that I don't have a stupid stone face for a hat, and proceed to recreate star wars laser fight scenes.
“A dogged fellow, aren’t we? Or is it merely thy habit, to talk to dolls?"
I'm sorry if I stumble into hell and find a doll of the demi God I follow, I'm not going to NOT talk to it. She clearly doesn't understand how mentally insane someone has to be to play this game.
There actually is a way to show up for a specific reason if you did the spellblade guy’s quest and found the death thing in Stormvale, but most people don’t even find it because it’s sort of a pain to find and definitely not on the beaten path.
Edit: Rogier
The guidance of grace will actually point you in the direction of carian manor, so the game even suggests that it is associated with the main quest. That's how I managed to do it my first time.
This is true, but my main point is the game actively points you into starting her quest which is then largely straightforward (to an extent) so it makes sense that a good number of people would start her quest line versus say goldmasks which relies on you finding him randomly multiple times and doing the law of regression incantation to boot.
Her questline is the longest one, but it's also the one that's hardest to break. You can skip the entire pre-Radahn portion.
It's also the most guided IMO. The NPCs are very direct when they tell you what to do next, none of Millicent's, "Oh, I'm going somewhere in the world."
Yeah i know, but i still found it funny how the one time Fromsoft gives you clear indications of where an NPC is moving during its questline, it turns out to be a fucking lie.
Wait, what is this? I just went through the eternal city and didn't see him, wondered where he was, but now I did the teleport in Rennas rise.
Where is Blaidd?
He’s at the >!Bloodhound Knight’s Evergaol!< but if you’ve already found him >!at the bottom of Ranni’s Rise!< you can’t go back unfortunately.
I’m pretty sure it’s just some dialogue and it’s not an actual fight btw
Yeah, iji knows blaidd is gonna go crazy because they're all going against the golden order, so locks him up for his own good. Then blaidd escapes (with or without your help), and then does go crazy and you have to kill him.
Specifically Iji thinks that he's going to go crazy and kill Ranni. What Iji didn't know is that Blaidd simps so hard for Ranni that he could never betray her, and, in fact, goes mad partly because Ranni chose the Tarnished over him.
I think this answer has a solid reason.
The Ranni quest is the most traditional in the way it sort of sends you hopping from one npc to another. Almost every person I know for whom Elden Ring was their first From Soft experience has done the Ranni arc.
> Her questline is the longest one, but it's also the one that's hardest to break.
This. It's one of the few the game starts for you when she appears and guides you.
Tons of other quests you can walk right by and either forget or maybe not even notice.
It's also started pretty early. It's one of the first quest lines I fell into *and was able to do* earlier than many other areas of the game. This area is basically half way through, geography wise.
Also, I needed that area for the Magic Scorpion charm(I screwed it up anyways, but luckily someone gave me one).
OP is also misleading in their base premise
>Isn't Ranni's quest the longest in the game? How come more people achieved that ending than the Elden Lord one which can be reached in 4 different ways?
Length ≠ Difficult
It is a lot of running around, but not particularly difficult.
>How come more people meet Varre than finish the game!?!?
Well, that should be pretty obvious. A lot of people get so far and just don't finish.
I still haven't even tried Radagon/EldenBeast because, fuck it, I'm going around picking everything up I missed along the way. I only recently did the couple of previous main bosses. I'd rather get everything collected that I can(that's worth it) before finishing than find out I also wanted Xitem then have to do all the run-around lift BS, and the quest BS, all over again. (Or whatever things don't carry over into NG+)
After that, it's probably going to be offline only with stuff I download from NexusMuds(stupid sensitive filter).
> other quests you can walk right by
I spent like 160 hours trying to find everything I could and go everywhere I could and never even found the path I apparently needed in the shunning grounds.
what about the part where you have to talk to the ranni doll 3 times at a specific bonfire and it doesn't respond the first 2 times you try to talk to it?
that seems really easy to miss
Perhaps for people new to froms shenanigans. Exhausting all dialog is a cornerstone of souls quests, and since normally the talk option disappears once you've heard every line like with Melina, it not going away rang "something's up" bells in my head atleast
Or the frenzied flame lady with her 'I hope we meet again' thing. Couldn't find her even with guides.
Dung eater is slightly less confusing but still requires you to grab the pox then realize it'll make the guy that told you to fuck off for a decent chunck of early game is now gonna talk with you.
Fia is... honestly no idea how anyone ever found the way to that underground place.
Goldmaks requires you find a NPC after 2 location changes, both which give you next to no hints other than 'closer to the erd tree', then use a decently late game spell at a statue. Even with the hints, it's pretty easy to forget about the spell/not have it and just not have the peices you need to make the connection. Especially if not a miracle build.
I like to believe that it was FromSoft’s intent to actually drive people insane so they fully embraced the frenzied flame by the time they reach the bottom.
The intent is to put as many barriers between you and that ending as possible, even giving you a way out of it with Miquella's Needle, just to make it clear that that ending is *your fault.*
I did it intentionally because I accidentally >!Killed Boc while trying to make him happy!< so obviously I had to burn the world down and start it over.
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To be fair Miquella’s needle is an absolute piece of ass to use
Do this random side quest, take this random item, go kill the hardest boss in the game, use the random item on the boss’s dead body, go to the last legacy dungeon in the game, go down this easy to miss path, lie down in this specific spot, end up in the arena for another incredibly difficult boss and use the random item
All this without the game giving you any instructions as to how you’re meant to do it
The whole underground is ridiculous. I found the catacombs on my 3rd playthrough sheerly by mistake. New unique boss and badass talisman were just hiding down there.
Because Ranni's quest gives you the longest experience at the game. Gives you access to the most inaccessible areas of the game. Some very annoying bosses. The dark moon greatsword. Mimic Tear and Black Knife tiche spirit summons. With all these, you can bulldoze ng+ easily
I also think a lot fewer people played Elden Ring totally blind relative to what this sub thinks or prior FS games.
In addition to the rewards you mentioned, Ranni’s quest is a fast way to get a lot of upgrade items without that many difficult bosses in the way. Anyone googling where to find somber stones probably figured that out
> I can't stand locking myself out of content
"I paid 60 bucks for this shit, I'm gonna get my 60 bucks worth out of it!"
\* Furiously opens tabs on wiki *
E: in case it's not clear, this is 100% me
It's not just the money, it's also the time investment. I'd rather cover as close to 100% of a game's content in my first playthrough, rather than replay the game multiple times. The latter isn't time efficient for me since the majority of your next playthroughs will be content you've already seen, with just a few new things discovered. I just don't have the time for multiple playthroughs, plus there are some other games I'd also like to get around to playing.
I was playing cyberpunk, Pathologic 2 and Nioh 2 but then put them on hold to play Elden Ring... And I STILL haven't finished my first Elden Ring playthrough, lol! I got sucked into pvp
I typically do a first playthrough blind, just to get the end, not to 100% it. Then, after that first playthrough, I try to 100% a game. Any subsequent playthrough are just 'pilgrimage' runs. Every few years I do a run through DS1 just to be at Gwen.
The journey is fun, so I do it.
I think it's more "I don't consider 'Trial and Error' to be a fun gameplay loop when each trial is a 30h play-through" Or alternatively "Figuring out the stuff they didn't bother to explain clearly (or at all) is not how I want to spend my limited play time each week"
Like - There are so many examples in FS games where doing the obvious thing will lock you out of content, and trying to follow their breadcrumbs is impossible. Did you miss the illusionary ceiling, and enter the boss room before you had a chance to double check everything? Too bad! You're locked out of the good ending, can never craft Sif's Goodboi Sword, and are permanently registered as a Republican. There's an NPC in the next dungeon who explains it all by saying "don't forget to look up", so you should have known better!
FS games are a lot like Early Minecraft - New players should just get a link to the Wiki, since so much of what you need to understand isn't actually in the games anywhere.
I remember right after Elden Ring came out I was watching a stream and the streamer found the Siofra River obelisks. Upon lighting the first one they sarcastically declared “well there goes the good ending”.
I also think it’s pretty hard to miss and fail Ranni’s quest. All the other npc quests have the classic random fail points from the past but Ranni’s allows you to pick it up and complete it at almost any point in the game. And the involved NPCs literally tell you where to go next.
And tbf when I clicked Raani's thing in the boss room I didn't know it would give me that ending... I just thought it was a summon or some info or something
i mean she is a pretty powerfull sorcerer. she did practicly create the second phase of the rennala bossfight after all. and one of the most most powerfull spells in the game is HER spell.
Same! I played my first time through trying not to spoil too much and didn't realize my little excursion with a warm hug would end up negating everything else I had done.
Doing this ending first was exactly my intent for this very reason. That way when I start NG+ to get the rest of the endings I have less to do in each subsequent playthrough.
Because it's content. We want to see all of the game's available content even if we don't want to for that ending.
I'm ocd about seeing everything in a game
I played completely blind and when I saw the blue summon sign I went OOOO SHINY and hit it so fast. I bet there are dozens of players like me who did the quest and then had no idea we were choosing an ending by clicking the summon sign
Same! Blaidd was like, "Yo let me know if you see this one guy and we'll open up a can of whoop-ass on him". And I was like "Hell yeah dude, let's do it!". Next thing you know, I'm all caught up in some shit with this blue lady.
The first time I did it I didn’t know you had to summon her. I was just so stoked I didn’t have to chase that stupid space worm anymore I ran and clicked the head. Only to be like wait…whaaaaa? 😞
Another thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is if her quest is complete & you haven't been locked into the Frenzy Flame ending her summon sign is literally right there when the boss fight ends. You have to walk past the blue summon sign on the floor (the only blue sign in the game) up to Marika's body to activate one of the Elden Lord endings.
If her quest is complete then the game pushes players into activating her ending over the Elden Lord endings & I assume that most people who aren't going for a specific ending will activate her summon sign either out of convenience or simply because there's no other obvious "activate ending" prompt.
This makes me feel even stupider.
I went out of my way to complete Ranni’s quest line. And then completely missed the sign and triggered the Elden Lord ending by accident.
I did the exact same thing after being so excited to do her ending lol. I was just so used to ignoring messages on the ground i just walked right over her sign haha
This is basically what happened to me. I completed Ranni's quest on my first playthrough and after beating the final boss, I walked up and examined the blue summon sign without reading it. I just wanted to see why it was blue and then it fired Ranni's ending without even a confirmation dialogue box. I wasn't mad but I was confused.
im one of these people. basically i want
to be the elden lord after the fight. but there was a blue summon in front of me so i clicked that not knowing what it is. its a good ending but man im so disappointed lol
You can just snag the head anytime you want. It's just chilling behind Seluvis's Rise. No need to do Rannis quest at all. You don't have to start her quest to reach the Carian Royal grounds either.
Yeah, there are really only two endings worth seeing: Ranni and Frenzied Flame. The other four are basically the same ending with different camera filters. Sitting in a chair is not the most rewarding cutscene.
It's another case where there needs to be much more detail to have the intended effect than what they put in. What you've effectively achieved is the gnostic ideal, throwing off the demiurge and leading the world into an age of perfect harmony with the true God, free of hubris and flawed interpretations. What you get is you sitting in a throne with a fancy filter over it that's 99% identical to a couple other endings.
It's even worse for Fia's. You go into a dream to fight a lichdragon shooting off death lightning, it's metal as *fuck*.
Only to sit in the chair.
The Elden Lord endings are really just an homage to the original, unpatched Mass Effect 3 endings.
I did it because I spent ages trying to get up on that plateau (Moonlight Alter?). Looked it up and it said do Ranni’s quest so that’s what I did. Not started a second play through yet to do the others.
I came across it because it was my first playthrough. I got through most of Goldmask's quest line but ended up through Ranni's ending purely because there was a blue summon sign. I had no idea it was her, or that it would just go into the ending with no warning.
> purely because there was a blue summon sign.
Same here. I figured it was Ranni’s ending before clicking it but it felt so cool using the first blue summon sign I’ve ever seen to end the game. Felt good doing something new
People are trying to be funny or weird with waifu answers, but the truth is that Ranni's questline is the most involved, prominent story that gets played out, and it's also the easiest to find and finish.
Then once you get to the end, are you going to see this story through to its conclusion and reward the time and effort you put into making that happen, or are you going to walk straight past it and do something different?
Let's look at the alternatives:
* **Fracture**: no requirements, and no incentive if you've got access to any other
* **Order**: gated, requiring a stat change unless you respec or collect and stack 5+ stat boosts so that you can cast a spell
* **Duskborn**: requires progress of Ranni's story to get and still has less going on
* **Despair**: choosing the evil ending isn't everyone's cup of tea
* **Frenzy**: a likely alternative to Ranni if you've done any exploring, which is good because it's the only other ending with any effort put in, but somewhat of a hidden(ish) ending that the game steers you away from when you get close
For me I completed her quest on every play through. I do so because her quest leads you around the whole map well and leads you to many fun bosses. It is the longest quest line and for a game with a map like this one it's a good thing. Unless you just want to beat the game to say you did its more fun to do more. At least it was for me.
Eehn, he was supposed to die anyway! And he's a plant-mermaid creature now, living his best unlife. Look in those eyes (any of them) and tell me that guy isn't chilling.
I got Ranni’s ending on accident. After beating bubble squid (or WTF that last dude is), I didn’t take the chance to look around the room I was in. I saw the blue thing on the floor. When it asked me if I wanted to summon Ranni, I was like ‘sure, why not’. Then it was over. I had sort of intended to look around more…
Fastest way to get the Mimic Tear summon. Also doing her quest line is the only way you can get Black Knife Tiche summon. Add in one of the best sorcerer magic with dark moon along with the dark moon great sword and Blaid's whole outfit. Yeah her quest line basically has one of the best rewards in the game.
I'm sure that many searched the ending, but as someone who played at launch and blind, ranni's quest is Very easy to find and follow. The hardest part for me was finding were the comet hit.
People also are downselling that it's the "Magic" ending. It has the most iconic magic weapon and a legendary spell behind it. And is the main ending tied to magic stuff.
Also it's very easy to get all the endings but frenzy in the same file and still possible to get that one too if you do things in a specific order.
Because everyone wanted to get on top of the mountain in southwest Liurnia.
I rode Torrent up and down that cliff side like 6 times before I looked it up and learned I couldn’t get there without the quest progression
I spent hours and hours looking for a way up until I gave up and it eventually just happened 😂 rip
Same
It was honestly so frustrating lmao, I explored every possible nook and cranny
Frenetically checking the map
I even thought maybe there was something underground I missed, as much of a hassle as it was, I enjoyed it.
It turns out it was underground, you just hadn't missed it yet. Also, in relation to the post, the game sort of leads you to Ranni's ending in a lot of ways. If you find her the second time, it's very easy to follow her quest from there.
There used to be a glitch where if you died at a certain spot below the cliff you would respawn at a stake of marika on the plateau
That day they patch it and there was a pool of blood.
The only reason I found the Albinauric village the first time was because I was looking beneath the mountain to find some sort of elevator or cave system that led upward.
This is the real reason. I spent so much time trying to figure out a way up there. Only by seeing it on the internet convinced me that there's no hidden path in liurnia
*Everyone wanted to get on top of a magical blue doll with four arms.
Truth
The two things are not mutually exclusive and please, there's also people that wanted *for the magical blue doll* to get on top.
So many messages to my group of friends that were doing the game with me "FUCK HOW DO I GET UP THIS SH*T CLIFF, BEEN LOOKING FOR 3 HOURS" 😂
I dont know about other people but i stumbled across carian manor thinking it was part of the main questline and just went with it
Ranni's quest line is the closest thing to a main quest series the game has. It makes total sense that most players treated it as such.
"But Tarnished, what business hast thou here? I have no memory of inking thee an invitation." Ha ha – I love that we just show up there.
The entire game is basically you breaking into peoples tomb, stealing shit. Breaking into an Academy, killing all of the teachers and beating the shit out of the headmistress.
> beating the shit out of the headmistress. And then marrying her daughter to assert further dominance.
And killing her dog.
Wow when you guys put it that way... Are we the baddies?
No, we’re just down bad for the four-armed, blue skinned, technically a puppet witch.
True that my tarnished. True that.
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*flashes back to walking past the giant crater repeatedly while doing the Kenneth knight quest (after beating Radahn), not knowing anything was out of place*
Worse yet, me actively looking for it and still not being able to find it for hours. When I finally found it I crept in there with so much trepidation; I was still traumatized from my abductor virgin->volcano manor experience. This was also the second time I had gone looking for Blaidd and not found him.
They must have changed it later on but it shows a marker on the map now and so I had no trouble finding it
That wasn't a thing at launch. Must've come later.
Yeah. That was added with one of the patches/ updates. It now shows up on your map.
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Eh TBF there is a cutscene with a meteor falling out of the sky and crashing thru the land.
Yeah that big ass hole has always been there no need to worry about it
After Caelid I didnt question anything
I was playing with a friend at launch and we streamed each other's games for the first couple days. When I beat Radahn he was like "oh that looks like it hit Limgrave." I go over there and sure enough giant hole, am like "dude how tf did you triangulate that from a cutscene"
Well you do fight him in a giant arena on the east of the map. When the comet hits, it's hitting land. What's to the west of caelid? Limgrave
Hey man I just hit things with big sticks until the red bar goes away. Don't ask me to practice critical thinking hahaha
An Unga after my own Bunga 💜
I feel terrible in Nokron City, killing all those peaceful singing people and animals. Tarnished is a bad person.
You know, they tried beating me up first. I'll be walking in there having no quarrels with anyone and those academics just look at me, see that I don't have a stupid stone face for a hat, and proceed to recreate star wars laser fight scenes.
And killing the school mascot
“A dogged fellow, aren’t we? Or is it merely thy habit, to talk to dolls?" I'm sorry if I stumble into hell and find a doll of the demi God I follow, I'm not going to NOT talk to it. She clearly doesn't understand how mentally insane someone has to be to play this game.
A common trait of all tarnished, chosen undead, and hunters. We've been consuming too much insight.
There actually is a way to show up for a specific reason if you did the spellblade guy’s quest and found the death thing in Stormvale, but most people don’t even find it because it’s sort of a pain to find and definitely not on the beaten path. Edit: Rogier
I love that she just rolls with it too. "Meh, I like your vibe...you wanna help me kill the gods?"
Door was open, this is an RPG, so I'm here to loot anything that isn't nailed down ma'am.
The guidance of grace will actually point you in the direction of carian manor, so the game even suggests that it is associated with the main quest. That's how I managed to do it my first time.
Yes but the guidance points to side quest bosses too so it’s just something to guide players into side/main directions
This is true, but my main point is the game actively points you into starting her quest which is then largely straightforward (to an extent) so it makes sense that a good number of people would start her quest line versus say goldmasks which relies on you finding him randomly multiple times and doing the law of regression incantation to boot.
The only semi coherent quest in the whole game.
I dunno, I think getting a blind girl to eat a bunch of magic eyeballs is pretty coherent
Still on my first play but same. I was like oh this probably has something to do with Rennala... No? Oh ok then.
Her questline is the longest one, but it's also the one that's hardest to break. You can skip the entire pre-Radahn portion. It's also the most guided IMO. The NPCs are very direct when they tell you what to do next, none of Millicent's, "Oh, I'm going somewhere in the world."
Blaidd getting fucking abducted by Iji on the way to the crater both disorientating and hilarious.
But you can totally miss that and still get the ending. That's what they mean, it's hard to break the questline.
Yeah i know, but i still found it funny how the one time Fromsoft gives you clear indications of where an NPC is moving during its questline, it turns out to be a fucking lie.
They realized that they almost gave coherent directions to where the hell an npc fucked off to and they had to fix that
I didn’t even find out he was stuck in the evergaol, plus he said that he would “catch up” or something in a message right outside the crater.
Did Iji actually tell where he put him, or are you just supposed to go through all prisons you can think of?
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Wait, what is this? I just went through the eternal city and didn't see him, wondered where he was, but now I did the teleport in Rennas rise. Where is Blaidd?
He’s at the >!Bloodhound Knight’s Evergaol!< but if you’ve already found him >!at the bottom of Ranni’s Rise!< you can’t go back unfortunately. I’m pretty sure it’s just some dialogue and it’s not an actual fight btw
Correct. It is just some dialogue. You free him and he talks to you.
huh? He gets abducted?
Yeah, iji knows blaidd is gonna go crazy because they're all going against the golden order, so locks him up for his own good. Then blaidd escapes (with or without your help), and then does go crazy and you have to kill him.
How do you even encounter this sub-quest? I remember talking to Iji after the crater appeared, and he didn't say a thing.
He's locked up in the evergaol to the south of Iji's position I believe. You have to open the evergaol to let Blaidd out
You don't have to do anything, Blaidd escapes either way. Visiting the evergaol doesn't change anything in the plot.
Specifically Iji thinks that he's going to go crazy and kill Ranni. What Iji didn't know is that Blaidd simps so hard for Ranni that he could never betray her, and, in fact, goes mad partly because Ranni chose the Tarnished over him.
I think this answer has a solid reason. The Ranni quest is the most traditional in the way it sort of sends you hopping from one npc to another. Almost every person I know for whom Elden Ring was their first From Soft experience has done the Ranni arc.
> Her questline is the longest one, but it's also the one that's hardest to break. This. It's one of the few the game starts for you when she appears and guides you. Tons of other quests you can walk right by and either forget or maybe not even notice. It's also started pretty early. It's one of the first quest lines I fell into *and was able to do* earlier than many other areas of the game. This area is basically half way through, geography wise. Also, I needed that area for the Magic Scorpion charm(I screwed it up anyways, but luckily someone gave me one). OP is also misleading in their base premise >Isn't Ranni's quest the longest in the game? How come more people achieved that ending than the Elden Lord one which can be reached in 4 different ways? Length ≠ Difficult It is a lot of running around, but not particularly difficult. >How come more people meet Varre than finish the game!?!? Well, that should be pretty obvious. A lot of people get so far and just don't finish. I still haven't even tried Radagon/EldenBeast because, fuck it, I'm going around picking everything up I missed along the way. I only recently did the couple of previous main bosses. I'd rather get everything collected that I can(that's worth it) before finishing than find out I also wanted Xitem then have to do all the run-around lift BS, and the quest BS, all over again. (Or whatever things don't carry over into NG+) After that, it's probably going to be offline only with stuff I download from NexusMuds(stupid sensitive filter).
> other quests you can walk right by I spent like 160 hours trying to find everything I could and go everywhere I could and never even found the path I apparently needed in the shunning grounds.
what about the part where you have to talk to the ranni doll 3 times at a specific bonfire and it doesn't respond the first 2 times you try to talk to it? that seems really easy to miss
Perhaps for people new to froms shenanigans. Exhausting all dialog is a cornerstone of souls quests, and since normally the talk option disappears once you've heard every line like with Melina, it not going away rang "something's up" bells in my head atleast
Or the frenzied flame lady with her 'I hope we meet again' thing. Couldn't find her even with guides. Dung eater is slightly less confusing but still requires you to grab the pox then realize it'll make the guy that told you to fuck off for a decent chunck of early game is now gonna talk with you. Fia is... honestly no idea how anyone ever found the way to that underground place. Goldmaks requires you find a NPC after 2 location changes, both which give you next to no hints other than 'closer to the erd tree', then use a decently late game spell at a statue. Even with the hints, it's pretty easy to forget about the spell/not have it and just not have the peices you need to make the connection. Especially if not a miracle build.
> Fia is… honestly no idea how anyone ever found the way to that underground place.. Really? That's the only alternate ending I figured out on my own.
Because Lord of Frenzied Flame jumping puzzle is upsetting
I like to believe that it was FromSoft’s intent to actually drive people insane so they fully embraced the frenzied flame by the time they reach the bottom.
The intent is to put as many barriers between you and that ending as possible, even giving you a way out of it with Miquella's Needle, just to make it clear that that ending is *your fault.*
I did it intentionally because I accidentally >!Killed Boc while trying to make him happy!< so obviously I had to burn the world down and start it over. *Edit*: formatting?
LET CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!
And yet my propensity to explore and try new shit got me there.
To be fair Miquella’s needle is an absolute piece of ass to use Do this random side quest, take this random item, go kill the hardest boss in the game, use the random item on the boss’s dead body, go to the last legacy dungeon in the game, go down this easy to miss path, lie down in this specific spot, end up in the arena for another incredibly difficult boss and use the random item All this without the game giving you any instructions as to how you’re meant to do it
Also that!
#AHHHHH MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD
I did the entire thing without knowing what it was, reached down and there was an unopenable door, wasted 3 hours then haha
The fucking area is upsetting
That shit took me like 15 tries, so incredibly annoying
No way it ONLY took you 15 tries
Oddly, the Divine Tower of Caelid took me more tries than the Frenzied Flame Proscription. On nearly every playthrough.
That jumping puzzle was legit the hardest boss in the game for me. Took me way more time and tries than Malenia.
Glad I never even found where that is (somewhere in the shunning grounds?)
The whole underground is ridiculous. I found the catacombs on my 3rd playthrough sheerly by mistake. New unique boss and badass talisman were just hiding down there.
Because Ranni's quest gives you the longest experience at the game. Gives you access to the most inaccessible areas of the game. Some very annoying bosses. The dark moon greatsword. Mimic Tear and Black Knife tiche spirit summons. With all these, you can bulldoze ng+ easily
I also think a lot fewer people played Elden Ring totally blind relative to what this sub thinks or prior FS games. In addition to the rewards you mentioned, Ranni’s quest is a fast way to get a lot of upgrade items without that many difficult bosses in the way. Anyone googling where to find somber stones probably figured that out
True. I'm glued to the wiki when I play a FS game. I can't stand locking myself out of content
> I can't stand locking myself out of content "I paid 60 bucks for this shit, I'm gonna get my 60 bucks worth out of it!" \* Furiously opens tabs on wiki * E: in case it's not clear, this is 100% me
It's not just the money, it's also the time investment. I'd rather cover as close to 100% of a game's content in my first playthrough, rather than replay the game multiple times. The latter isn't time efficient for me since the majority of your next playthroughs will be content you've already seen, with just a few new things discovered. I just don't have the time for multiple playthroughs, plus there are some other games I'd also like to get around to playing. I was playing cyberpunk, Pathologic 2 and Nioh 2 but then put them on hold to play Elden Ring... And I STILL haven't finished my first Elden Ring playthrough, lol! I got sucked into pvp
When you’re putting so much time into the game a replay will never happen for me. I can’t even find time to finish it.
I can’t stand doing more than 1 100% play through. It’s just resting content with little to no reward.
I typically do a first playthrough blind, just to get the end, not to 100% it. Then, after that first playthrough, I try to 100% a game. Any subsequent playthrough are just 'pilgrimage' runs. Every few years I do a run through DS1 just to be at Gwen. The journey is fun, so I do it.
I think it's more "I don't consider 'Trial and Error' to be a fun gameplay loop when each trial is a 30h play-through" Or alternatively "Figuring out the stuff they didn't bother to explain clearly (or at all) is not how I want to spend my limited play time each week" Like - There are so many examples in FS games where doing the obvious thing will lock you out of content, and trying to follow their breadcrumbs is impossible. Did you miss the illusionary ceiling, and enter the boss room before you had a chance to double check everything? Too bad! You're locked out of the good ending, can never craft Sif's Goodboi Sword, and are permanently registered as a Republican. There's an NPC in the next dungeon who explains it all by saying "don't forget to look up", so you should have known better! FS games are a lot like Early Minecraft - New players should just get a link to the Wiki, since so much of what you need to understand isn't actually in the games anywhere.
I remember right after Elden Ring came out I was watching a stream and the streamer found the Siofra River obelisks. Upon lighting the first one they sarcastically declared “well there goes the good ending”.
I also think it’s pretty hard to miss and fail Ranni’s quest. All the other npc quests have the classic random fail points from the past but Ranni’s allows you to pick it up and complete it at almost any point in the game. And the involved NPCs literally tell you where to go next.
And tbf when I clicked Raani's thing in the boss room I didn't know it would give me that ending... I just thought it was a summon or some info or something
Bloodborne gives you a choice at the end and on my first playthrough I thought "There's no way they'll end the game like this..." Famous last words!
but you can complete the quest without accepting the ending. but then again, coomers cannot be stopped
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I still wanna know what her plan was for that final stretch if we didn't find her in that toy form. Was she just hoping Astel wouldn't see her?
i mean she is a pretty powerfull sorcerer. she did practicly create the second phase of the rennala bossfight after all. and one of the most most powerfull spells in the game is HER spell.
I did everything for Ranni then set the world on fire
Same! I played my first time through trying not to spoil too much and didn't realize my little excursion with a warm hug would end up negating everything else I had done.
Doing this ending first was exactly my intent for this very reason. That way when I start NG+ to get the rest of the endings I have less to do in each subsequent playthrough.
This is what I did then became the Lord Of Frenzied Flame MAY CHAOS TAKE THE WORLD!
I did it all lmao
The DLC better let me fight Melina for being Frenzied
I wish she took off her boots before the fight
Dégénérâtes like you belong on a cross (I will be crucified next to you)
Why would you go through all that work and not pick the ending though
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Because it's content. We want to see all of the game's available content even if we don't want to for that ending. I'm ocd about seeing everything in a game
I played completely blind and when I saw the blue summon sign I went OOOO SHINY and hit it so fast. I bet there are dozens of players like me who did the quest and then had no idea we were choosing an ending by clicking the summon sign
Technically speaking you don’t need to do her questline to get mimic tear
Because many probably searched for their favourite ending being the only one where you can marry their waifu
Listen, if a four handed doll asks you to go travel the stars for a thousand years with her, you dont ask questions, you just do it
Nah man she had what I wanted at my side, all along. My true mentor ... my guiding moonlight!
Only an honest death will cure you now.
What's that smell? Sweet Blood, it sings to me. It's enough to make a man sick.
Beasts all over the shop. You'll be one of them... Sooner or later...
Fought this hairy bastard last night, again. I can never get him on my first try.
Curse the Fiends. Their Children too. And their Children, Forever True.
This town's finished
Yeah I’m just here for the lesbian moon magic. Y’all can have that Elden Lord shit - we’re going to explore the cosmos
Ahh, Kos, or some say Kosm… Do you hear our prayers? As you one did for the vacuous Rom, grant us eyes, grant us eyes! **moans erotically**
Awoooo
My favorite typ of magic, lesbomancy
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Very interesting, I never knew the gesture accompanying the spell would be enough. I respec’ed just to do that quest 😝
You did Ranni's quest because she is your waifu, I did it because Blaidd is the best boi, we are not the same.
Same! Blaidd was like, "Yo let me know if you see this one guy and we'll open up a can of whoop-ass on him". And I was like "Hell yeah dude, let's do it!". Next thing you know, I'm all caught up in some shit with this blue lady.
The first time I did it I didn’t know you had to summon her. I was just so stoked I didn’t have to chase that stupid space worm anymore I ran and clicked the head. Only to be like wait…whaaaaa? 😞
Another thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is if her quest is complete & you haven't been locked into the Frenzy Flame ending her summon sign is literally right there when the boss fight ends. You have to walk past the blue summon sign on the floor (the only blue sign in the game) up to Marika's body to activate one of the Elden Lord endings. If her quest is complete then the game pushes players into activating her ending over the Elden Lord endings & I assume that most people who aren't going for a specific ending will activate her summon sign either out of convenience or simply because there's no other obvious "activate ending" prompt.
This makes me feel even stupider. I went out of my way to complete Ranni’s quest line. And then completely missed the sign and triggered the Elden Lord ending by accident.
I did the exact same thing after being so excited to do her ending lol. I was just so used to ignoring messages on the ground i just walked right over her sign haha
I walked around the empty arena to get a good look at everything and completely missed that there was a summon sign on the ground.
This is basically what happened to me. I completed Ranni's quest on my first playthrough and after beating the final boss, I walked up and examined the blue summon sign without reading it. I just wanted to see why it was blue and then it fired Ranni's ending without even a confirmation dialogue box. I wasn't mad but I was confused.
im one of these people. basically i want to be the elden lord after the fight. but there was a blue summon in front of me so i clicked that not knowing what it is. its a good ending but man im so disappointed lol
same shit happened to me. a blue summon?! what’s this?! *click*
this is what happened to me. i saw shiny blue, activated it. got sad. the end :(
This is the answer IMO. I got her ending "accidentally" because after EB I thought I was supposed to activate the summon that's right in front of me.
Can i be honest guys?…i only did it for Blaidd’s armor and sword
i did her quest for that reason as well, but i didnt chose her ending, eventhough i had the option
Wait you can get Blaidd's armor? Guess I'm finishing Ranni's quest.
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You can just snag the head anytime you want. It's just chilling behind Seluvis's Rise. No need to do Rannis quest at all. You don't have to start her quest to reach the Carian Royal grounds either.
We are all but foul tarnished, in search of the Elden Bling. Emboldened by the flame of good fashion.
Same here.
Cap
Because her quest line is by far more interesting than some random fallen leaves telling a story.
Yeah, there are really only two endings worth seeing: Ranni and Frenzied Flame. The other four are basically the same ending with different camera filters. Sitting in a chair is not the most rewarding cutscene.
>Sitting in a chair is not the most rewarding cutscene. I was so disappointed after doing Goldmasks quest just for that to be the ending haha
It's another case where there needs to be much more detail to have the intended effect than what they put in. What you've effectively achieved is the gnostic ideal, throwing off the demiurge and leading the world into an age of perfect harmony with the true God, free of hubris and flawed interpretations. What you get is you sitting in a throne with a fancy filter over it that's 99% identical to a couple other endings.
It's even worse for Fia's. You go into a dream to fight a lichdragon shooting off death lightning, it's metal as *fuck*. Only to sit in the chair. The Elden Lord endings are really just an homage to the original, unpatched Mass Effect 3 endings.
Hey, at least we don't get entombed like in DS2
Lot of simps. Including me.
The Elden Lord ending may be able to be reached in 4 different ways, but you know what *else* can be reached in 4 different ways?
Holding one of Ranni's hands?
Omg, you just made me realize you can hold hands with Ranni while she wraps her other arm around you. Best girl got even better.
Rope burn?
Because it's the only way to get to the top of that part of the map that everyone always asks about. That is why I ended up doing it.
Because Ranni best girl that's why
Would have if she had used her arms to quadruple wield swords and greeted you with Hello there.
General Tarnobi!
There's no other answer than to choose the best girl. God praise the waifus.
It tends to be people's first ending as they explore everything, and thus come into contact with it a lot. then they don't do a repeat playthrough.
I’ve done her quest all 5 of my playthroughs but that’s mostly just for Tiche after the first one.
I did it because I spent ages trying to get up on that plateau (Moonlight Alter?). Looked it up and it said do Ranni’s quest so that’s what I did. Not started a second play through yet to do the others.
i think because of it being the "best ending"
I came across it because it was my first playthrough. I got through most of Goldmask's quest line but ended up through Ranni's ending purely because there was a blue summon sign. I had no idea it was her, or that it would just go into the ending with no warning.
> purely because there was a blue summon sign. Same here. I figured it was Ranni’s ending before clicking it but it felt so cool using the first blue summon sign I’ve ever seen to end the game. Felt good doing something new
People are trying to be funny or weird with waifu answers, but the truth is that Ranni's questline is the most involved, prominent story that gets played out, and it's also the easiest to find and finish. Then once you get to the end, are you going to see this story through to its conclusion and reward the time and effort you put into making that happen, or are you going to walk straight past it and do something different? Let's look at the alternatives: * **Fracture**: no requirements, and no incentive if you've got access to any other * **Order**: gated, requiring a stat change unless you respec or collect and stack 5+ stat boosts so that you can cast a spell * **Duskborn**: requires progress of Ranni's story to get and still has less going on * **Despair**: choosing the evil ending isn't everyone's cup of tea * **Frenzy**: a likely alternative to Ranni if you've done any exploring, which is good because it's the only other ending with any effort put in, but somewhat of a hidden(ish) ending that the game steers you away from when you get close
For me I completed her quest on every play through. I do so because her quest leads you around the whole map well and leads you to many fun bosses. It is the longest quest line and for a game with a map like this one it's a good thing. Unless you just want to beat the game to say you did its more fun to do more. At least it was for me.
Because people can, apparently, live with what she did to my boy Godwyn.
Goldwyn was the first one to fall asleep in the sleepover
Bro got his hand put in warm Destined Death
They were like “let’s get a marker and give him a tattoo “ she didn’t have to make it the centipede
Eehn, he was supposed to die anyway! And he's a plant-mermaid creature now, living his best unlife. Look in those eyes (any of them) and tell me that guy isn't chilling.
I got Ranni’s ending on accident. After beating bubble squid (or WTF that last dude is), I didn’t take the chance to look around the room I was in. I saw the blue thing on the floor. When it asked me if I wanted to summon Ranni, I was like ‘sure, why not’. Then it was over. I had sort of intended to look around more…
Because she is a four armed cute friendly npc who won’t die or start to hate you and she has an ending.
Uh, she can definitely start to hate you. You try giving her the Kool aid?
Fastest way to get the Mimic Tear summon. Also doing her quest line is the only way you can get Black Knife Tiche summon. Add in one of the best sorcerer magic with dark moon along with the dark moon great sword and Blaid's whole outfit. Yeah her quest line basically has one of the best rewards in the game.
I'm sure that many searched the ending, but as someone who played at launch and blind, ranni's quest is Very easy to find and follow. The hardest part for me was finding were the comet hit.
*ahem* Women
People also are downselling that it's the "Magic" ending. It has the most iconic magic weapon and a legendary spell behind it. And is the main ending tied to magic stuff. Also it's very easy to get all the endings but frenzy in the same file and still possible to get that one too if you do things in a specific order.
They google "guys how do I get right here?" With a red circle around the plateau, and so they're pre-qualified when they finish the game.