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I think it’s Shadow Keep! I’ve found two of the bosses—one insane tree guy with three phases that has killed me 20 times so I went another way, one big fat boss guy, and there has to be more cuz I’m not done yet…
There's one with three phases? That is so absolutely going to catch me out with no flasks left whenever I first get to it, god dammit. I can't wait
Oh man… i don’t wanna spoil anything, but uhhhh I think I have to come back to it with full blessing. I can’t get close even with a buddy who’s extremely good.
Nothing wrong with that! I hit an absolute brick wall with Margit when I first played the base game because I hadn't played a Souls game in years. I explored around until I found the secret route to Liurnia and did most of that before I even got into Stormveil
Did you go into a regular, boring, nondescript building and then take the longest elevator ever? Because I did the and it brought tears to my eyes when I finally got down there (also first real souls game, I only played a bit of Demon’s Souls PS3 before Elden Ring)
Edit: also this tree is far beyond any boss in the main game, and insane compared to the other expansion bosses. I don’t even think I need to kill it to progress.
I have not seen whichever part that is, no. Although it sounds like the same experience as finding Siofra for the first time, which I think was one of my favourite moments in the entire game
Oh I might be thinking of Siofra! Sorry hahaha, it’s been a while.
I went back into the expansion after months of not playing, and I forgot how much I loved this game… but sheeiit, is the expansion brutal. The main game was hard, but I had a much easier time roaming around and having fun and exploring without dying. Shadow seems a lot more…. “Go here and do the thing to progress”.
I suppose it makes sense for it to be tough considering that it's intended as an endgame expansion and it's also replicating the new character low level experience with the scadu blessing system
I have actually found that the Land of Shadow has heaps of alternate routes to places, they're just much less obvious than before. The map is so wildly vertical and overlapping that finding a spiritspring or a tunnel or one of those cliffside staircases of protruding gravestones can take you to a whole new area
I’ll have to explore much more! I’m so curious as to how much more I haven’t explored, but I haven’t looked anything up—I played through the original game blind and I want to do the same with the expansion. But it’s soooo difficult!
This exchange just popped back into my head for some reason. Your description of the approach to the flower was spot-on! Turns out it just happens to be a similar approach to Siofra. Took me a few attempts, and fire damage is a bit of a miserable situation for my dex build with a bit of int (level 150, scadutree... 9, I think? Maybe 10?), but I got there. I found that the best thing I could do was actually just to absolutely max out my own durability and accept that I was only getting one attack off per opportunity. I was having a really rough time avoiding the thorn eruption attacks, so the crimson seed talisman basically giving me two extra flasks worth of health was great. So long as I used fire damage and hit it in the "face" I didn't really need to do anything else to get plenty of damage
I have since gone through the specimen storehouse and found my way into Rauh, which I was absolutely delighted by because it looks exactly like Shadow of the Colossus and I'd been itching to get there ever since I found that waygate that gives you a preview of it