Bosses are too hard. I'm probably going to quit, game isn't for me
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Bosses are insanely frustrating. This game probably isn't for me, I think it's for hardcore people that really like elden ring and that's fine. I enjoyed my time while playing early access. Maybe I'll pick it up later but it's not worth the time or stress
Last bumped on Jan 2, 2025, 1:50:05 AM
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they are tough, but honestly it is highly likely that you are using a shitty build or shitty gear. upgrade a bit and it becomes very easy to kill bosses.
otherwise if you can bear the challenge of doing it without trade/meta knowledge, that's pretty fun if you have the patience. |
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" Not every game has to be for everyone. Hopefully you find a game you do enjoy. Good luck Step 1 is to self reflect.
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The bosses are difficult, but very rewarding to beat. It's okay to take a few minutes or hours attempting them. You will eventually come out victorious.
Keep in mind that most people are cheesing the game right now and often gravitate to builds that kill bosses in 1 sec to avoid boss mechanics entirely. I am one of those Elden Ring players, and prefer the slower methodical, strategical approach to bosses. Those fights are more enjoyable than spamming 20 lightning rods with cast on shock effects. |
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I really don't understand where people are having so much difficulty. Outside of a warrior it's really not very hard and comes down to a skill issue.
" Just makes you sound entitled and pretentious. Did my 4th Ascension at lvl 84 and could have done it earlier but was put off by all the fuss from people. Started selling it thereafter and it sold like hot cakes because people can't seem to put together the basics of using dodge to avoid attack, doing dmg and sometimes stopping dps to avoid mechanics that would kill me! End of the day it's a #skillissue and if people put as much effort into improving their build and gameplay as they did crying they might defeat it. P.s. Playing "your way" is fine, but stubbornly bashing your head against the wall is stupid. I don't play a "meta" build or follow a guide, but just applied some logic and thinking to what I do. The game isn't broken, you are just the one trying to be "unique" where your "unconventional playstyle" ignores much of the core gameplay or ways to gain power and no one is suprised you are struggling. |
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" That's what makes the game fun, it's the challenge. Make sure to optimize your build as often as you can (preferably after each level): - upgrading skill/support/spirit gems - optimize your gear to fit your build and check vendors whenever you level - farm areas w/monster levels at/below your current level - are you at least following a leveling build guide? * you have to be in the mindset that you are play testing an EA game (and not full release) Try playing in a party, this helped me early on for some of the challenging act bosses (Viper and Zalmarath were a pain for me first time through). cheers |
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I did my 4th ascendency on my own as well, and using my own build. You can make assumptions about my skill level and gameplay all day if that's how you choose to build an argument.
It doesn't change the fact that: -Bosses are difficult in this game -Players are opting to not engage with bosses by 1 tapping them with cast on crit/freeze etc cheese |
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" Your generalising a few of your PoE2 streamers or their highlights as everyone's experience. Yes you can defeat bosses like that, but it takes a certain amount of gear beyond the current content. Unfortunately people see those clips and then set that as the benchmark for how their boss fights should be, and when they don't insta-kill the boss. or clear their entire screen in 1 button then it's "too hard". Ignoring the hundreds and hundreds of hours they've put in to getting the gear and optimising their build to allow them to 1 shot everything on the screen as they clear the map. Throw me back in mid tier maps and I'll kill things like that, but I don't do that in t15/16 maps unless I'm using almost blank waystones etc and remove the additional modifiers from my atlas tree. And if it's just about the dopamine hit for people, they can go to Act 1 and 1 button clear the map all day if they want. Having to actually engage with and participate in a boss fight doesn't make it "difficult" - it just means you are playing the game... And the people killing bosses in 5 seconds that aren't doing it because the mechanics are otherwise impossible, but because killing a boss faster is more efficient and their goals oftentimes are around getting the most currency/progression out of their playtime VS actually playing the game for "fun". If you let the measure of success be how fast a boss died, how quickly you complete a map etc, then of course things will be optimised for where that is happening. The goal is to kill it quickly(1), not to bypass the mechanics, that's a by product of (1). If killing them more slowly got you comparatively better items for your time (i.e. kill it in 5 seconds get 1 item, kill it in 50 seconds and get 11 items) everyone would be killing them more slowly. Last edited by fancy_crab#3104 on Jan 2, 2025, 1:26:49 AM
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" I'm a profitable swing/day trader on the side for example and is that worth the stress? I'd say yeah that is, and that's probably 100x more stressful than this. Last thing I'd want to do after work or trading is put in even more time studying I feel like. Why would I want to #gitgud when I can get better at whatever else I have going on? So yeah maybe it really isn't for me. I guess the million dollar question is, are the devs going to do anything about the bosses down the line? And if they don't, how much of a gamble would that be to their business bottom line as I'm not a minority in this opinion. Elden Ring was hard and they're one of the best selling games of all time. |
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" +1 https://www.twitch.tv/satsuinotanden for streams.
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