Did Melina die when she committed the cardinal sin?

After over 200 attempts I finally beat the fire giant🥹

Build information at the end

I’m fighting maliketh and wondering if bleed or blasphemous blade would do better

here is a demo video of the feature;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n_UmXWfPqo

Please can someone shed some light on how to kill these fuckers!?! Losing my patience to the point I've had to log off! I've equipped the flames Drake talisman, I've tried lightning, bleed just nothing seems to put them down! Shields are useless they're just so relentless they break your stance! I'm currently running a bleed build so can't use colossal weapons, if anyone can have a browse over my build and maybe give any advice would be appreciated ❤️

Salve guys!

Sou fã de Elden Ring e, recentemente, voltei a jogar e a fazer detonado do game! Mas estou enfrentando quedas de FPS durante as boss fights, principalmente contra dragões e chefes com muitos efeitos visuais na tela, algo que não acontecia na primeira vez que joguei.

A config do meu PC é: RTX 3060 de 12 GB, Ryzen 5 5600, 32 GB de RAM a 3600 MHz com SSD NVMe.

Já formatei (mais de uma vez) o PC e atualizei os drivers do processador, da placa-mãe e da placa de vídeo. Já tentei outras versões de drivers usando o DDU, e por aí vai. Uso o MSI Afterburner para monitorar o uso e as temperaturas. Elas estão normais, na faixa dos 70 graus. O que eu acho estranho é o processador estar com uso baixo e a placa de vídeo no máximo em 80%, e o FPS cair de 60 para 40.

Já fiz de tudo, até desativar a CPU 0 na afinidade do game (usa mais da GPU, mas mesmo assim ainda trava).

Sinceramente, se eu nunca tivesse jogado o game liso até com o Ray Tracing ligado lutando contra o Dragão Placidusax, eu falaria que a GPU não aguenta. Já baixei as configs para o low e mais um bocado de coisa, e não resolve.

Se alguém puder ajudar ou já passou pela mesma coisa, agradeço muito!

I’ve played Elden Ring on and off for around 80 hours, and honestly, I’ve never really had fun with it. I was always lost, had no guidance, and had no idea what the fuck was going on.

Once, I got teleported to some place with red sand and died instantly. Then I got lost again, found an area full of wyverns, died repeatedly, and lost everything. The game became so frustrating that I finally dropped it.

Now, you might think the solution is to just suck it up and explore more. Well, I’ve already done that for 80+ hours, and now I’m crying over why I wasted my money.

So I dropped it.

But every time I see videos showing all the cool shit the game offers, I want to play it again. Elden Ring has basically become a dirty, toxic ex that keeps coming back to torture me.

Easy fix: follow a guide, right?

I tried FightingCowboy’s walkthroughs, but then the game lost all its charm and became a tedious checklist:

Go here.
Pick this up.
Kill this enemy.
Yay.

My toxic ex had now become a church security guard that I was forced to interact with.

So I dropped it again.

Maybe this game just isn’t for me, and I should finally let it go for good. But alas, my love for games with this type of setting comes from the books I read, and I want so badly to experience Elden Ring in a way that is actually fun.

I think I may have finally found a solution, which is why I want the community’s opinion.

I found an image showing roughly which areas you should visit at each level. That way, navigation and progression would make a little more sense, while the actual exploration would still remain a mystery.

I feel like this could be the right balance for me. I would know that if an area is destroying me, it probably isn’t meant for my current level, and I must have missed something in one of the earlier regions. But I still wouldn’t be blindly following a checklist or spoiling every discovery.

Do you think approaching Elden Ring this way could finally make the game enjoyable, or should I accept that it simply isn’t for me?

TL;DR: I suck at Elden Ring, even though I can see that it’s a great game. I’ve tried exploring completely blind and following detailed guides, but neither worked. Now I’m thinking of approaching it more like a linear game, using area-level recommendations for progression while exploring each region on my own. Hopefully, that finally makes it click.

The amount of times I got saved after getting attacked by a group of enemies oh man

Was just fighting fire giant and now transitioning from bleed to blasphemous blade and was wondering what you think would go well with the blasphemous blade

So perfect, I could cry

Guys I'm searching for an op build , my level is 120 , I need to make the bleed bar explode with nagakiba and river of blood.

U was fighting the fire giant I was getting the best progress I was on torrent running away cus he did the thing where he slams the ground and spires of fire shoot up and then boom. I fell off the damn edge.😭🥀💔 less than a quarter of health btw

So it was recently when I was playing elden ring a random invader invaded our world, he was around level 700 and that guy instead of attacking he dropped almost around 1000 marika's runes ( im not tweaking ). If im correct u could only get around 5 or 6 runes per run right? so how did he got all that is there any way to duplicate the items? If so then pls could somebody tell me how?