Elden Ring

[thinkitty]

Will do. It absolutely terrified me!

[fuse]

Anyone fancy doing an Elden Ring piece?

You should get Lara Croft to do it. You know... Tomb Raider.

[briareos_kerensky]

Question:

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in Stormveil castle, in the courtyard filled with small cannons and the large enemy close to a grace, there's light coming out of a statue. How do you break it? Explosive jar?

[thinkitty]

Question:

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in Stormveil castle, in the courtyard filled with small cannons and the large enemy close to a grace, there's light coming out of a statue. How do you break it? Explosive jar?

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Goad the giant near the Secluded Cell grace site into breaking the statue. It's not easy because you first need to clear the route of enemies including several warhawks (which as a melee character I have difficulty dealing with) in order to lead the giant to the statue.

[briareos_kerensky]

K, thanks. The warhawks are failry easy to deal with, I use a curved greatsword and two hits and they are dead.

[thinkitty]

Takes my measly straight sword 6 swipes to down a warhawk. They do me in 3 pecks.

[Tobal]

I sneak up up on the birds and burn them with charged fireball for a near death kill, then a 2nd quick cast as they dive head on. Though using guard counter now makes it easier with clubs upswing.

[briareos_kerensky]

Well, the whole giant/statue ordeal wasn't particularly worth it...

[Tobal]

found a homage to a classic Darks Souls 1 filter as a open world mini boss

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Capra Demon with 3 dogs this time but thankfully more room for fighting and the ability sneak up on 2 of the dogs to pull with arrows/bolts.

if you want to find it

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northern Limgrave from it's entrance, travelling on the west side where the swamp turns to poison and going under the huge Arch with a castle on top, under there is a path up to a damned village which has some stuff there if you explore around.

[Golgo]

Are these

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'gaols' - the ones surrounded by those odd ball creatures like something out of Magic Carpet - basically just combat encounters with legacy enemies/bosses?

Loving my ash/spirit companions, by the way. Just scored an old sorceror who is described in the flavour text as pretty useless, and he really is - in quite a cute way. When I summon him I end up having to protect the old geezer while he limply fires off his hopeless spells. I've come to care for him a lot. The horde of nobles are great, too - like shambling into battle with your own zombie entourage.

[briareos_kerensky]

From the two I've seen, yes. Rewards from these fights are pretty good though, I do prefer them to the many ashes found in catacombs.

[Finsbury Girl]

Apologies if you've figured this out but I had to look it up as well.

To summon the AI spirits, you have to be in certain areas. Apparently they have a like a stone marker or something in world but I've only noticed them in the cave boss arenas. Above your equipment display in the bottom left of the screen, you'll see a blue portcullis looking icon in that boss fight you're referencing. If you see that, you can summon a spirit. If that isn't displaying for you, travel back to the Church of Elleph (or whatever it's called) and there should be an NPC waiting to speak to you who will give you the necessary item. Then equip your spirits and use them from the dpad down menu.

It might help to have your hud set to be on all the time rather than auto. I set mine to permanently on and could see the summon icon in the bottom left.

Thanks - my problem was I was trying to summon my spirits BEFORE the gate not after, once I tried AFTER it worked great. My wolf brothers absolutely destroyed

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Magrit

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Leonine Misbegotton

[briareos_kerensky]

Yeah, the wolfies are good boys. I have ashes that might be more powerful, but I like going around with my three personal Sifs. I wish there was an Artorias set and weapons so I could cosplay all game long.

[Golgo]

So I allowed myself to be cuddled by

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Fia

because you would, wouldn't you? And then a mysterious down arrow status icon pops up and now apparently I'm HP cursed. Joy.

Beat a bunch of mini-dungeon/cave bosses plus

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Flying Dragon and Magrit

yesterday, the latter with a touch of help as he was being stubborn. Forgot I could bring my hounds.

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Stormveil Castle

is just an amazing space - classic Souls - and I love it when I can blow up those pesky hawks by dropping a flaming arrow into one of the exploding barrels they like to perch on.

The hand claws with their innate bleed are proving really good with the Dex build and the +7 spear I got for

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slaughtering Patches

is epic, especially with the special attack.

[briareos_kerensky]

and now apparently I'm HP cursed. Joy.

Use the item you received and you'll be back to normal. I wish I knew that before going through all of Stormveil, bosses included.