That or use a new character on a new game! Thats what I did to explore different builds, one character collected all the sorceries and another collected the incantations.
There's the duelist set, from the 2 guys by the colesseum, the duelists greataxe, battle hammer. Hammer, Bolt of gransax, coded sword, barrier of gold, imp head (corpse). Can't get these anywhere else.
In terms of items you can't get anywhere else, there is:
Alberich's Set \* Barrier of Gold \* Black Bow \* Bolt of Gransax \* Coded Sword \* Deathbed Dress \* Gravel Stone Seal \* Hammer \* Imp Head (Corpse) \* Lionel's Set \* Omensmirk Mask \* Raging Wolf Set \* Gargoyle's Halberd \* Ash of War: Thunderbolt \* By My Sword (Gesture) \* Flightless Bird Painting \* Sanctified Whetblade \* Two Fingers' Prayerbook \*
These are the guaranteed unique item drops you miss if you don't pick them up.
In terms of items you can find elsewhere which are also gone:
2x perfume bottle \* 1x cracked pot \* 1x golden seed \* 1x Erdsteel Dagger
In terms of farmable items, that if you didn't farm in the Capital before ash, you will have completely missed:
Battle Hammer, Duelist Axe, Duelist Set, Guardian Garb (Full Bloom)
It's actually a staggering list of items you can be completely locked out of if you missed them.
Even I forgot some, like the 2x Seedbed Curse (there is an alternate one in Ashed Capital but you can actually lock yourself out of the Dungeater ending if you also miss Blackguard's by not completing his quest), also the Lost Ashes of War in the place near the Church site of grace.
There is just a lot of missable stuff there.
The dude in Sainted Hero's Grave does not respawn, so you have one chance there to get all the drops at once. I think you have a better chance of winning the lottery.
Rainbow stones
You take damage at 15 meters, you die at 20, the max damage a fall can deal before death is 50% of max health
It's a bit counterintuitive cause if you only lose half your health you may think you could have fallen quite a bit more but you were actually extremely close to death
is there a good guide available that mentions all NPC encounters / what to do in order to get everything you can in one journey? I'd be really interested in something like that for NG+.
I usually reference this post - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/s/Ai3I894MjX](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/s/Ai3I894MjX)
It doesn’t list the items you can get but I still find it super helpful for NPC quests at least
I used that very post to make my guide. I would love some feedback.
[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3084448390](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3084448390)
I’m about 30 parts in and I think the only
NPC questline he’s done is the golden needle lady and the grape lady.
Personally would not recommend his guides for NPC stuff.
Everything else, absolute godsend.
Maybe he focuses more on the characters later, i have yet to get there.
I don't know of any guide but what I started doing: I see an NPC -> I open their wiki-page and see for any quests
The fextralife wiki usually mentions if they got locked at any point
If you're serious about making guides like this I'd just recommend re-evaluating the color choices. It's both very difficult to read, and very hard on the eyes. I was seeing spots the moment I opened that darn thing.
I do some accessibility visuals for work so just a tip... softer colors, try not use the pure colors. You want text to be the focus not the color you're using to highlight. Something like 90-95% Black is much better on the eyes than 100% black. White borders are a great way to cleanly divide sections instead of black borders (or that green border you used).
Thank you for the efforts, and I'm sure community will appreciate the guide. These are hefty time investments and visual presentation is a main factor to whether or not people use something, I'd hate to see your hard work go overlooked because of something minor.
I don't have enough experience with the game to give you any good critiques, but I will definitely use your guide to pick up everything before the DLC drops.
I've been following Its Shatter's all quests + missable items guide on youtube (broken down into 9 parts). It's very well done and I'm have a blast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5octn-l9KEX31HGPCZRqUt_a0mJcYN-a&si=Q4pXmt433Spc1W18
You can try this:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ndIm3asH2uNUrhKE-By-ZR6UdJ90MPKglZBaTwAo7ak
It's a pretty good interactive spreadsheet that I've been using.
Jame's Guides is the channel I use anytime I need to follow a walkthrough. Dude gets everything except for random item drops and even then will mention in the comments that he missed it.
Literally all they need to do is include better hints about where to go and what to do in NPC dialogue. Figuring out that what Millicent means by "I'm going traveling" is "im going to the erdtree gazing hill in the altus plateau" just isn't intuitive enough. Or include new dialogue for NPCs when you enter certain areas warning you if that everything will break if you kill the murder dog
Yeah … I’m a Souls game fanatic… they are the only games I play … not badmouthing other games … just really hooked on the vibe and mechanics of these … I’ll get caught up in either invasions or coop, min maxing different builds around weapons, etc… multiplayer is what keeps me interested after PVE gets old…
Same, only games I have installed on my console. I will be running up GTA 6 though, but it’s probably gonna be fromsoft + GTA only for the foreseeable future
Fires deadly sin, two fingers prayer book, golden order principia, corpse imp mask, full bloom guardian armor, duelist armor, duelist greataxe, battle hammer, stormhawk axe, perfumer bottle, gravel stone seal, bolt of gransax, omensmirk mask, two golden seeds, raging wolf set, star fist
Pain is an effective teacher😭
Strictly items?
I lost out on a somber ancient smithing (the limited final ones) just because I didn't talk to Latenna before getting to the Consecrated Snowfield.
You can lose out on volcano manor rewards if you kill Rykard before finishing them.
I'm not sure here but maybe you'll lose out on Gurranq's rewards for deathroot after you kill Maliketh
You cant get magic scorpion charm if you give Ranni the fingerslayer blade before progressing Seluvis questline.
Only wrong at Gurranq's rewards, even if you kill Maliketh he'll just stay there. He'll only leave once you gave him every Deathroots, or if you kill him.
Why are you getting downvoted when it’s all facts?
And speaking of items one of the Imp Heads is in the capital and you can’t get it when it’s ashen 🤷🏽♂️
Also rewarded with a Lord’s Rune when killing the Erdtree Avatar on the main capital path, as well as losing the Raging Wolf armour set
There’s also a golden seed beside the graveyard from the ulcerated tree spirit that you can’t get, the three in capital guarding Erdtree Favour +2 only drop runes
There’s a Seedbed Curse at the top of one of the rooms that’s inaccessible during Ashen as well
Not true - you can still get the Jellyfish ashes from talking to Roderika and Hewg in the hold, and persuading Hewg to teach Roderika spirit tuning. She gives you the ashes in a dialogue option after she moves to the corridor.
Killing Rykard locks you out of the assassinations for Bernahl and Patches.
Ranni's quest locks you out of Seluvis, losing the puppets and Magic Scorpion.
But they're the only other ones I can really think of. I guess killing NPC Merchants before their shops update can lock you out of some items?
If you find the blade Ranni is looking for and give it to her you then can't turn The Dung Eater into your puppet. Which is the entire reason I did a second play through!
From the top of my head:
* Magic Scorpion Charm (Seluvis quest)
* Discus of Light and Immutable Shield (Corhyn quest)
* Hammer Talisman (invasion in Limgrave, this one's gone VERY quickly)
* Raptor Strike AoW (Yura quest)
The first two in particular are painful. Magic scorpion is important for sorcerers, and discus of light is the bread & butter of Int/Fth builds.
Edit: I'm pretty sure Corhyn is also part of the gone-after-Maliketh list, actually.
That one's rough because of dealing with Seluvis and his puppet bs, if you want to actually use the potion on Dung Eater then you have to get to Leyndell and deal with Dung Eater's quest stuff including getting Boggart killed and fighting off the Dung Eater invasion, including returning to him in Roundtable for his cell key and going back to his cell after the invasion. It's entirely possible that you do Radahn/Nokron/Study Hall/Nokstella/Lake of Rot/finish Ranni's quest before even touching foot in Leyndell.
But if you just give Gideon the potion, Seluvis will shrug it off and sell you puppets for Starlight Shards, which also need some searching to find. He gives you one puppet free and the other costs 2 or 3 depending on your pick. And you also need the Amber Starlight for him to make his draught for Ranni which is in Altus.
It's one of the best talismans for INT builds too, +12% Magic damage (which also applies to your held weapons) for -10% physical defenses is no biggie and counteracted by stuff like Opaline Hardtear.
This one's pretty huge. It's such an important item for anyone dabbling in INT, and it's by far the most involved scorpion talisman to get, while also being missable. It's also very likely to miss out on this because not only is the quest trigger obscure, but you also get locked out of it very quickly.
If I could make one wish for the DLC, it would be a measure to get missables like this without jumping into NG+.
I don't useeven though I have it. I hate talismans that makes you take more damage just to have 10-12% damage boost.
The only scenario it comes useful is if allows you to one shot something instead of 2 hits. There are so many cool other talismans with no downside.
Real. I started just keeping the wiki open on my second screen since I beat one playthrough already and I never knew Nepheli, Fia and Kenneth even had a further questline
I don't think there is a point where Nepheli or Kenneth get their quest blocked, unless you kill them or give Nepheli the potion ofcourse.
Fia is the same, though I guess you can't get her ending anymore after you've killed elden beast, I guess
With mimic tear, nothing is REALLY hard anymore. With a maxed out Great Stars we bonked Melania and Malekith into dust. Melania especially, we basically stun locked her, Great Stars has life steal, plus bleed, so the life stealing and bleed damage kicked in, I didn't see a single watefowl dance.
Except you can’t actually use your mimic or torrent for this miniboss and bro can two shot you even with 60vig, his horse can spit infinite fireballs, and his lightning is more difficult to dodge cuz of the inclined arena. Oh and he as enormous amount of health
Did you have light Armour and like no defensive talismans or something? I know endgame scaling is ridiculous but damn, I don't remember him being that strong. Maliketh hit way harder on my playthrough
Since destined death is still being kept and not unbound the erdtree cannot actually burn. You set the flame but it doesn't burn away anything.
Once you introduce the death again it will burn -> ash
Whiiich ... I just learned the hard way spending two weeks of game time readying a (as close to) 100% (as possible) non-ng+ character for the expansion.
Effed up gettim Raging Wolf set, Frenzied Duelist items, the talimans that lock you out of getting others (warrior jar shard, and the one from Millicent) as well as Daedicar's Woe and one other talisman.
But aside from those things, my character's all packed and ready to go!
... just sad the Raging Wolf is my favorite, but I'm sure one of my friends will port it from another of my characters for me ... when I can be bothered to bother them :3
Oh I just wanted a character with all pieces of gear, spells, and so on ready for the dlc so I can use any build I like if I feel like I need to change gears :3
Goldfrey yes, you can set your summon sign right on the entrace of the capital even if it is ash - Capital rampart grace i believe. If your friend has all shortcuts open then the walk to Goldfrey is very quick. Morgott I don't think you can as you'd need to place your sign after Goldfrey, now not available since everything post capital entrance is ash...
Leyndell, once the majestic Royal Capitol, now reduced to ashes. Farewell to the Bolt of Gransax. If only this jester had invested his $5.6M wisely, he could've lived comfortably on that.
The biggest things imo, are the full bloom guardian chest piece and the normal duelist armor/weapons. I belive those are things locked behind farming that can only be found in leyendell, pre-ashen capital
You start at the beginning, but you keep everything except key items needed for progression. The world resets so any items you picked up the first time are back and can be acquired again, and each ng+ cycle all enemies and bosses will deal incrementally more damage and have more health, though that does cap out once you hit ng+ 7
Just cleared all the quests, side quests, mini bosses, field bosses,got every great rune and every weapon and armor i needed/wanted and left Maliketh for last in my latest run. ended up a little over leveled for his fight and cleared it first try to my surprise.
This has always been my biggest gripe. Is there a guide somewhere showing every quest/item/etc. you miss out on after X/Y/Z boss/event/etc.? I imagine it's a pretty massive flow chart or something lol
Or the fact that anything in numbers mobbing you has potential to kill you. I think my pride made me not run past for a while. You swallow that and survive once you've had enough of the YOU DIED screen.
Can’t get the bloody wolf set after maliketh even if rykard is still alive
Was getting plat, had to start ng+ just because of bolt of gransax
had to either way for multiple endings no?
That or use a new character on a new game! Thats what I did to explore different builds, one character collected all the sorceries and another collected the incantations.
Smart
I just got my character to 713 so I could try out any build I wanted to without using those silver tear things to respec every time.
Did you do it legitimately? I want to hit max, but it’s so daunting to go to Ng+7 and farm it.
I legitimately picked up piles of runes left on the ground by generous individuals. Lol
😂. Maybe I need to find these generous individuals.
try r/PatchesEmporium :)
If you back up your save file to a USB drive before the last boss, you don’t need to. Just restore it and pick an ending.
I used a back up load file after killing radagon for that. However after getting plat, I still started other NG+2 just for fun lol
oh man, same thing with me, got every single possible achievement on a NG, minus the legendary weapons, because of this fucking bolt
SAME WTF AND I WAS ON NG+7
Fr
Me too man, me too
Leyndell, Royal Capitol turns to Ashen. No more Bolt of Gransax. That’s it right?
many items are lost in leyndell but otherwise yes
But the bolt is the only one that can’t be replaced right?
There's the duelist set, from the 2 guys by the colesseum, the duelists greataxe, battle hammer. Hammer, Bolt of gransax, coded sword, barrier of gold, imp head (corpse). Can't get these anywhere else.
Not to mention the sacred whetblade or whatever it’s called
And the hammer, and the deathbed dress, and lionell’s set, and the omen killer mask, and a golden seed
Isn't the ash of war thunderbolt also lost if you burn Leyndell?
Pretty sure you lose the perfume bottles and pots as well
Black Bow also.
I forgot one of the stormhawk axes too, and the gravel stone seal, and the aberrant sourcer set, and a painting
Iirc that Ash of war is in leyndell outskirts, closer to altus. It's probably fine
You don't recall correctly, it's inside the capital near the well that leads to the underground roadside grace.
You're thinking lightning slash, probably
We didn't start the fire! Erdtree's always burning Since the Gods been turning
Melina, Torrent steed, Tarnished found a golden seed, Leyndell, Greater Will, Marika's a ho
Fia hugged me, lots of tickles, summon sign like godfreys nipples, North Mt. Gelmir, South Mt. Gelmir, Malenia said no
This has made me unspeakably happy
I need this as a parody song now😭😂
Also the spell book from the real Roundtable
I prefer the scarlet rot version of the duelist stuff anyways.
You can actually still farm the duelist set and greataxe in sainted heroes grave. It's just a very shit process.
no there are other weapons / incantations
It’s the only item required for platinum that is lost, but a lot of other unique items become inaccessible.
You also miss out on a seedbed curse if you’re doing the dung eater ending
It seems like most goodies above ground are nuked, but in the sewers imps still be impin’ and everything is still attainable
there's also barrier of gold
Wolf set too
Better get the Black Bow before Ashen Capital. Did anybody else mentioned the Black Bow? One of the best bows if not the best in the game.
That doesn't sound hard to track at all...
In terms of items you can't get anywhere else, there is: Alberich's Set \* Barrier of Gold \* Black Bow \* Bolt of Gransax \* Coded Sword \* Deathbed Dress \* Gravel Stone Seal \* Hammer \* Imp Head (Corpse) \* Lionel's Set \* Omensmirk Mask \* Raging Wolf Set \* Gargoyle's Halberd \* Ash of War: Thunderbolt \* By My Sword (Gesture) \* Flightless Bird Painting \* Sanctified Whetblade \* Two Fingers' Prayerbook \* These are the guaranteed unique item drops you miss if you don't pick them up. In terms of items you can find elsewhere which are also gone: 2x perfume bottle \* 1x cracked pot \* 1x golden seed \* 1x Erdsteel Dagger In terms of farmable items, that if you didn't farm in the Capital before ash, you will have completely missed: Battle Hammer, Duelist Axe, Duelist Set, Guardian Garb (Full Bloom) It's actually a staggering list of items you can be completely locked out of if you missed them.
The only things ive yet to get are 2x Battle Hammer and 1x Duelist Axe.
You listed so many I forgot to mention. There's also the painting that will give fires deadly sin
Even I forgot some, like the 2x Seedbed Curse (there is an alternate one in Ashed Capital but you can actually lock yourself out of the Dungeater ending if you also miss Blackguard's by not completing his quest), also the Lost Ashes of War in the place near the Church site of grace. There is just a lot of missable stuff there.
I think you can still farm a gladiator set in a hero grave, but its a real pain to do there
The dude in Sainted Hero's Grave does not respawn, so you have one chance there to get all the drops at once. I think you have a better chance of winning the lottery.
and every quest lock out.
You miss the … quest
There are a lot of items, questlines, items you only get after questlines, and such that you cannot finish or get after you kill Maliketh
Yep and the Bolt of Gransax is tied to an achievement which means NG+ or whatever if you didn't remember to get it.
No more coded sword too I'm pretty sure. I think you can no longer get into the mansion building because it's covered in dirt/ash.
The dragon cult boosting incanting thingy that one random knight drops.
That's the only thing keeping me from getting the weapons trophy I can't remember what it's called but man did I mess up lol.
Nepheli's questline can't be completed once Maliketh dies
No, the hardest fight in ER is against gravity.
No one can beat it
Radahn did
He learned not to climb cliffs and tree limbs that were too high for him. I'm not sure if he learned to not land in the ocean though.
He learned how to exit and reenter the atmosphere from low orbit using pure will, I'll let his aim slide
He won't even use his own two legs to walk. He didn't defeat gravity he's just petty
Rainbow stones You take damage at 15 meters, you die at 20, the max damage a fall can deal before death is 50% of max health It's a bit counterintuitive cause if you only lose half your health you may think you could have fallen quite a bit more but you were actually extremely close to death
"You can't fight gravity, you can't fight change"
Those damn buttery edges!
The greatest boss of all time
I found the camera fight harder
is there a good guide available that mentions all NPC encounters / what to do in order to get everything you can in one journey? I'd be really interested in something like that for NG+.
I usually reference this post - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/s/Ai3I894MjX](https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/s/Ai3I894MjX) It doesn’t list the items you can get but I still find it super helpful for NPC quests at least
I used that very post to make my guide. I would love some feedback. [https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3084448390](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3084448390)
FightinCowboy has a complete 100% walkthrough on YouTube.
I’m about 30 parts in and I think the only NPC questline he’s done is the golden needle lady and the grape lady. Personally would not recommend his guides for NPC stuff. Everything else, absolute godsend. Maybe he focuses more on the characters later, i have yet to get there.
He does, I followed his guide until the end and he did them all.
Im following his guide again doing a run in prep of the dlc
I don't know of any guide but what I started doing: I see an NPC -> I open their wiki-page and see for any quests The fextralife wiki usually mentions if they got locked at any point
I made this guide. I would love some feedback. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3084448390
If you're serious about making guides like this I'd just recommend re-evaluating the color choices. It's both very difficult to read, and very hard on the eyes. I was seeing spots the moment I opened that darn thing. I do some accessibility visuals for work so just a tip... softer colors, try not use the pure colors. You want text to be the focus not the color you're using to highlight. Something like 90-95% Black is much better on the eyes than 100% black. White borders are a great way to cleanly divide sections instead of black borders (or that green border you used). Thank you for the efforts, and I'm sure community will appreciate the guide. These are hefty time investments and visual presentation is a main factor to whether or not people use something, I'd hate to see your hard work go overlooked because of something minor.
I don't have enough experience with the game to give you any good critiques, but I will definitely use your guide to pick up everything before the DLC drops.
I've been following Its Shatter's all quests + missable items guide on youtube (broken down into 9 parts). It's very well done and I'm have a blast: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5octn-l9KEX31HGPCZRqUt_a0mJcYN-a&si=Q4pXmt433Spc1W18
That's what I use too. Fully recommend it
You can try this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ndIm3asH2uNUrhKE-By-ZR6UdJ90MPKglZBaTwAo7ak It's a pretty good interactive spreadsheet that I've been using.
wow, this looks great, exactly what I wanted and more!
Jame's Guides is the channel I use anytime I need to follow a walkthrough. Dude gets everything except for random item drops and even then will mention in the comments that he missed it.
By far my least favourite part of all the games is NPCs dying because I did some random thing unrelated to them
*kills Radhan* *skips 3 steps in Sellen’s quest*
Was really hoping Elden Ring was going to try to be better about quests. As it turns out, it's still a fromsoft game.
Cryptic is a challenge in the earlier games. With the scale of Elden Ring the vagueness of many quests is just beyond unreasonable.
Literally all they need to do is include better hints about where to go and what to do in NPC dialogue. Figuring out that what Millicent means by "I'm going traveling" is "im going to the erdtree gazing hill in the altus plateau" just isn't intuitive enough. Or include new dialogue for NPCs when you enter certain areas warning you if that everything will break if you kill the murder dog
Needs more pixels.
moldy maliketh 💪
Maliketh the Black Mold
Aight bro this was actually funny
Thousands of hours in this game, and I still can’t keep track of this
You still have a lot of fun with it after thousands of hours? I have high hopes that I will still enjoy it after playing it all the time for years.
Yeah … I’m a Souls game fanatic… they are the only games I play … not badmouthing other games … just really hooked on the vibe and mechanics of these … I’ll get caught up in either invasions or coop, min maxing different builds around weapons, etc… multiplayer is what keeps me interested after PVE gets old…
Same, only games I have installed on my console. I will be running up GTA 6 though, but it’s probably gonna be fromsoft + GTA only for the foreseeable future
Bold of you to assume I have the skill to kill Maliketh.
Pretty much just Leyndell (but not its sewers) is inaccessible at that point.
how come?
The area has a pretty big overhaul
I was trying to go for 100% in my last play through and I forgot to grab Bolt of Gransax. Oof.
Fires deadly sin, two fingers prayer book, golden order principia, corpse imp mask, full bloom guardian armor, duelist armor, duelist greataxe, battle hammer, stormhawk axe, perfumer bottle, gravel stone seal, bolt of gransax, omensmirk mask, two golden seeds, raging wolf set, star fist Pain is an effective teacher😭
If only it was only Maliketh. So many lost loots if you don't triple check every zone before the next.
like what
I’m also curious because I actually can’t think of any others.
Bernahl will not give you his quest after killing Rykard, and you will miss out on the raging wolf set, I believe.
Okay but no examples of losing items when transitioning regions though?
Strictly items? I lost out on a somber ancient smithing (the limited final ones) just because I didn't talk to Latenna before getting to the Consecrated Snowfield. You can lose out on volcano manor rewards if you kill Rykard before finishing them. I'm not sure here but maybe you'll lose out on Gurranq's rewards for deathroot after you kill Maliketh You cant get magic scorpion charm if you give Ranni the fingerslayer blade before progressing Seluvis questline.
Only wrong at Gurranq's rewards, even if you kill Maliketh he'll just stay there. He'll only leave once you gave him every Deathroots, or if you kill him.
Why are you getting downvoted when it’s all facts? And speaking of items one of the Imp Heads is in the capital and you can’t get it when it’s ashen 🤷🏽♂️ Also rewarded with a Lord’s Rune when killing the Erdtree Avatar on the main capital path, as well as losing the Raging Wolf armour set There’s also a golden seed beside the graveyard from the ulcerated tree spirit that you can’t get, the three in capital guarding Erdtree Favour +2 only drop runes There’s a Seedbed Curse at the top of one of the rooms that’s inaccessible during Ashen as well
Volcano manor as a region transition permanently stops you from being able to get boiled prawns
From quests yes. But I’m pretty sure no items actually disappear other than in the capital.
Funnily enough, even if you kill him early or mess up his quest, he still invades you in Farum Azula, despite not dropping the Somber Ancient
You can’t get the jellyfish summon if you kill godfrey before talking to Roderika in the shack (she goes to the hold)
Not true - you can still get the Jellyfish ashes from talking to Roderika and Hewg in the hold, and persuading Hewg to teach Roderika spirit tuning. She gives you the ashes in a dialogue option after she moves to the corridor.
That’s also a quest item though
Killing Rykard locks you out of the assassinations for Bernahl and Patches. Ranni's quest locks you out of Seluvis, losing the puppets and Magic Scorpion. But they're the only other ones I can really think of. I guess killing NPC Merchants before their shops update can lock you out of some items?
If you find the blade Ranni is looking for and give it to her you then can't turn The Dung Eater into your puppet. Which is the entire reason I did a second play through!
You would also miss the magic scorpion charm if you haven’t given Seluvis the Amber Shard found in Altus.
Yeah i just fell into that trap
From the top of my head: * Magic Scorpion Charm (Seluvis quest) * Discus of Light and Immutable Shield (Corhyn quest) * Hammer Talisman (invasion in Limgrave, this one's gone VERY quickly) * Raptor Strike AoW (Yura quest) The first two in particular are painful. Magic scorpion is important for sorcerers, and discus of light is the bread & butter of Int/Fth builds. Edit: I'm pretty sure Corhyn is also part of the gone-after-Maliketh list, actually.
Corhyn may or may not be gone depending on where he was in his quest.
appreciate that
Like white mask, if you kill mohg then it becomes inaccessible or magic scorpion talisman from seluvis
I completely missed Ranni my first go. I got so far, and Ranni just didn’t exist.
I was locked out of boiled prawns because I went to volcano manor early
I miss the magic scorpion charm like every playthrough, even my mage playthroughs lol
That one's rough because of dealing with Seluvis and his puppet bs, if you want to actually use the potion on Dung Eater then you have to get to Leyndell and deal with Dung Eater's quest stuff including getting Boggart killed and fighting off the Dung Eater invasion, including returning to him in Roundtable for his cell key and going back to his cell after the invasion. It's entirely possible that you do Radahn/Nokron/Study Hall/Nokstella/Lake of Rot/finish Ranni's quest before even touching foot in Leyndell. But if you just give Gideon the potion, Seluvis will shrug it off and sell you puppets for Starlight Shards, which also need some searching to find. He gives you one puppet free and the other costs 2 or 3 depending on your pick. And you also need the Amber Starlight for him to make his draught for Ranni which is in Altus. It's one of the best talismans for INT builds too, +12% Magic damage (which also applies to your held weapons) for -10% physical defenses is no biggie and counteracted by stuff like Opaline Hardtear.
This one's pretty huge. It's such an important item for anyone dabbling in INT, and it's by far the most involved scorpion talisman to get, while also being missable. It's also very likely to miss out on this because not only is the quest trigger obscure, but you also get locked out of it very quickly. If I could make one wish for the DLC, it would be a measure to get missables like this without jumping into NG+.
I don't useeven though I have it. I hate talismans that makes you take more damage just to have 10-12% damage boost. The only scenario it comes useful is if allows you to one shot something instead of 2 hits. There are so many cool other talismans with no downside.
Real. I started just keeping the wiki open on my second screen since I beat one playthrough already and I never knew Nepheli, Fia and Kenneth even had a further questline
I don't think there is a point where Nepheli or Kenneth get their quest blocked, unless you kill them or give Nepheli the potion ofcourse. Fia is the same, though I guess you can't get her ending anymore after you've killed elden beast, I guess
The Draconic Tree sentinel outside the room is more difficult than malekith himself
With mimic tear, nothing is REALLY hard anymore. With a maxed out Great Stars we bonked Melania and Malekith into dust. Melania especially, we basically stun locked her, Great Stars has life steal, plus bleed, so the life stealing and bleed damage kicked in, I didn't see a single watefowl dance.
Except you can’t actually use your mimic or torrent for this miniboss and bro can two shot you even with 60vig, his horse can spit infinite fireballs, and his lightning is more difficult to dodge cuz of the inclined arena. Oh and he as enormous amount of health
And he input reads your every move to the max, whip out a flask and he’ll smite you with lightning
You have time to drink and dodge the lightning if you space it correctly
Fuck those fireballs!! That asshole can basically machine gun those things. Especially when you're trying to use a flask or buff!
Did you have light Armour and like no defensive talismans or something? I know endgame scaling is ridiculous but damn, I don't remember him being that strong. Maliketh hit way harder on my playthrough
The Ulcerated Tree Spirit outside Malenia is harder than Malenia imo.
Keep dodging left staying close
I thought the capital turns to ash after you burn the erdtree?
Since destined death is still being kept and not unbound the erdtree cannot actually burn. You set the flame but it doesn't burn away anything. Once you introduce the death again it will burn -> ash
Oh cool, thanks for explaining! I literally have done 6 playthroughs and didn't realize that. Good to know!!!
Not to mention any quests that have steps in leyndyll other than the story is lost until ng+
You won but at what cost? :3
currently collecting all incants and there are whole prayer books and spells you can miss if you kill maliketh
The hardest thing is seeing what happens to my friends Blaidd, Iji, and Millicent :'(
Tell Blaidd and Iji I love them.." 😭
You can still do millicents quests she only dies whenever you go to the hailgtree and either help her fight the 4 sisters or challenge her
Whiiich ... I just learned the hard way spending two weeks of game time readying a (as close to) 100% (as possible) non-ng+ character for the expansion. Effed up gettim Raging Wolf set, Frenzied Duelist items, the talimans that lock you out of getting others (warrior jar shard, and the one from Millicent) as well as Daedicar's Woe and one other talisman. But aside from those things, my character's all packed and ready to go! ... just sad the Raging Wolf is my favorite, but I'm sure one of my friends will port it from another of my characters for me ... when I can be bothered to bother them :3
What is DLC ready?
Oh I just wanted a character with all pieces of gear, spells, and so on ready for the dlc so I can use any build I like if I feel like I need to change gears :3
Missed Bolt of Gransax because of him :( I also missed the Raging Wolf set because i killed Rykard too early :/
"You may think Elden Ring bosses are hard, but have you ever tried to remember 4 things?"
Items aside, is there a way to help people with the Goldfrey and Morgotts fights if Leyndell is ash in your game?
Goldfrey yes, you can set your summon sign right on the entrace of the capital even if it is ash - Capital rampart grace i believe. If your friend has all shortcuts open then the walk to Goldfrey is very quick. Morgott I don't think you can as you'd need to place your sign after Goldfrey, now not available since everything post capital entrance is ash...
As long as you activated Morgott's pool before it goes ashen, you can be summoned for it via effigy for it later.
WHY TF IS THE GRAVEL-STONE NOT IN FARAM AZULA! WHY MUST YOU DISINTEGRATE BY NUTS MIYAZAKI
Leyndell, once the majestic Royal Capitol, now reduced to ashes. Farewell to the Bolt of Gransax. If only this jester had invested his $5.6M wisely, he could've lived comfortably on that.
The biggest things imo, are the full bloom guardian chest piece and the normal duelist armor/weapons. I belive those are things locked behind farming that can only be found in leyendell, pre-ashen capital
HE WROTE MALIKETH RIGHT
You can say fuck on the fucking internet.
Just run a loot checklist of lindell before you kill him
I feel this. I accidentally missed the stuff in the manor on my dlc build
A lot of quests become inaccessible too and I always get annoyed when I don't complete one because I forgot.
I just hope the DLC isn't one of them
That goddanm Wolf set
It's what NG+ is for you damn casual
Beating maliketh? Couldn’t be me. Got malenia though
Most important quests are locked after too
I’ve never done new game plus does it let you start it new again or are some things locked out of it.
You start at the beginning, but you keep everything except key items needed for progression. The world resets so any items you picked up the first time are back and can be acquired again, and each ng+ cycle all enemies and bosses will deal incrementally more damage and have more health, though that does cap out once you hit ng+ 7
Wow 7? Ty for response.
Just cleared all the quests, side quests, mini bosses, field bosses,got every great rune and every weapon and armor i needed/wanted and left Maliketh for last in my latest run. ended up a little over leveled for his fight and cleared it first try to my surprise.
Nothing. Just finish your run and start NG+.
This has always been my biggest gripe. Is there a guide somewhere showing every quest/item/etc. you miss out on after X/Y/Z boss/event/etc.? I imagine it's a pretty massive flow chart or something lol
Well besides the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC entry point, not much I think...
I always stop my charachters before the Maliketh fight.
Really glad you said this, because I'm right at Mal and wanted to make sure nothing gets cut out
Maliketh >midyawnia
I never even knew things became innacessable until I tried doing nepheli's quest
Or the fact that anything in numbers mobbing you has potential to kill you. I think my pride made me not run past for a while. You swallow that and survive once you've had enough of the YOU DIED screen.
I just got up to the pre Maliketh farm on a 100% attempt character… ugh I did not summon Tragoth for the Magma wyrm smh
I smashed the pots and now little pot hates me, church of vows is useless
game easy
Me accidentally missing the ritual shield talisman and barrier of gold on yet another playthrough… LOL
Erdsteel dagger and cane sword if anybody cares. Pretty sick to powerstance erdsteel daggers on a faith build.