Elden Ring - gamertags on first page

I reckon, visually, our whelms are going to be undered a bit, it’s going to have the vistas but not the exquisite texture detail, etc, of a Horizon type game. But in every other way it’s going to knock other shit into a cocked hat. Literally, someone whack me on the head, I want to sleep the next week away 😬

That reminds me - what are people doing in the character creator? It's normal to make your first character look as much like you as possible before you put them through hell, right??

Indeed, the tone is much more important than the fidelity. I’ll be pissed off if the frame rate is ever Blightown-y though.

Whilst I've tried to not look at too much information on this game, my self control has slipped, just a little, and in no small part to From kindly spamming my 'Followed games' list on the PS5 with news detailing pictures and info of the character classes. So I've naturally headed over to Fextralife to see the current specs of the ER classes for a little more detail.

Hmmm, I'm super tempted to try an Astrologer class to start with, though I may come to regret this. I've never really bothered with going all-in on magic in a Souls game, but it might be time to change things up a bit. What concerns me is that, in typical mage fashion, they're likely to be a bit squishy and I'm normally used to kicking some arse whilst maintaining some resilience. I like the idea of firing off spells on horseback though...

Rodderz Yeah I had a quick look at starting stats. I'm either a warrior or samurai because of the high dex, but not decided which yet.

I'm tempted to stick with strength, but I do like using bows for drawing out enemies, so maybe bandit's the one for me? Also like the idea of bow + horseback, depending on how fiddly it is.

It looks like Samurai can also use (long) bows as part of their class, not surprising given historically Samurai were originally experts at horseback archery. So you've probably got a couple of options open to you there hedben!

There's a Samurai class this time?!? Fuuuuuck...

My first instinct would be to create a tank character, like the one that helped me through all Dark Souls games so far, but starting as a high dex could change that... Hopefully, we will be able to re-spec our characters easily

Don’t want to look too stupid first go through, so will go for a general action hero type face.

I haven't looked too much at the classes but Bandit and Astrologer seem to appeal most.

As far as I can tell, it's basically Luck, but I'm sure there's more to it than that, else they surely would have just called it Luck.

From fextralife they say that arcane is the "attribute governing Discovery. Affects death resistance and certain sorceries and incantations."

Discovery "is a Base Stat that governs likelihood of finding items on the corpses of defeated foes". So that part is like Luck for sure.

Please add me to the Xbox group on my lowly Series S - ID is CinderN

Thanks!

I'll certainly be focusing on death resistance. I like to think that, by now, I'm good enough so that I won't have TOO many problems. Then again, I thought the same when Sekiro came out, and that made me cry on the second day.