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Since you respecced to Faith... Any chance you have an Envoy's Longhorn? You can farm it from its users in the Haligtree branches if you don't, and its Weapon Art deals some major damage even past its humongous Holy resist, let me see if I can find our video of the kill for reference (you can just use Blasphemous Blade on Radagon like normal). Pest Threads also works well, much like the Longhorn it fires a lot of projectiles that shred big body bosses like Elden Slug

Faith also gives access to miracles, with Lord's Divine Fortification taking the bite out of their attacks (and also affecting your summon, if cast close enough) and multiple healing spells as an alternative to your flask

I didn’t use any of the weapon arts or spells when I played it, which makes me wonder even more if I should play it again

I bonked everything with a sword and it worked fine

As I always do I saved nearly all my consumables for the endgame so had all that crap left at the end untouched

Memory is hazy but I think the only thing I used a bunch of was the boiled crab stuff because you could just keep buying it. Got me through the game those crabs

EB is 40% resistant to fire/lightning/magic and 80% resistant to Holy. It’s immune to every status - sleep, bleed, you name it

I think some of the spells, like swarm of flies have a built in stagger but really you want to concentrate on Physical damage and look to maximise it. Incantations like Golden Vow (20% damage boost with damage negation) and Flame Gimme Strength (15% boost?) are extremely valuable
Damage negation (esp holy & physical) are great too. Find your crab meat seller and stock up - it’s worth it

I think it’s a shitty battle with some cheaty RNG that as someone here said, could have been made a lot better with Torrent. So it goes.
You feel like you’re chasing a fart at times and getting nowhere, but be patient and chip away and it dies eventually. At least one of the boss weapons lives up to its name…

Oops got too excited - beat the Elden Beast! Whoop! Been a while I've had such a sense of accomplishment from finishing a game. Slightly regret not finishing it on release when everyone else was going through the same pain but in a way without being able to summon forumites for help I've had to push through on my own which has probably increased the atmosphere/frustration in equal measure.

I do still think (and I think I've seen a few posts saying similar) that it feels a bit of a slog in the latter stages - the last few bosses were real stumbling blocks. Now I feel like I could go back through those areas and smash them up. I feel like I wasn't under-levelled though so perhaps I should have re-specced earlier to take on certain bosses that might have smoothed over some of the end-game bosses.

I'll wait to see thoughts on the DLC before I jump right back in next week as I'm not sure I can handle another 50 mini-god bosses right now. I could quite happily restart or even check out NG+ though and my recent respec to STR/FTH means I've got all these shiny new swords & axes to try. Katanas did start to feel a bit samey!

Thanks for all the assistance chaps! What a game. I went for the Ranni ending for what it's worth since I spent so long following that questline.

Edit: Oh I beat EB with my blasphemous blade + pest threads and I think I got a bit lucky with his AOE attacks hitting my mimic instead of me. Didn't really feel like skill tbh. Whatever I'll take it! 

Hiya Quaddy - good to see you. I’m definitely getting it, I’ve got 3 characters at different stages of the endgame.
To access the DLC, you need to have beaten Radahn in Caelid and Mohg at the blood palace place. You could check your map and see if you’ve got the Graces or the inventory for the boss souls.

I don’t know what to expect and I’m trying to keep spoiler free, but it sounds like a steep challenge regardless of level.
There’s a few YT vids knocking around of early powerful builds and key items. I think I used one for Bloodhound Fang as I hadn’t played in months. You soon get back into it 👍

I rinsed this with four different builds, but it’s been, what, two years and I’m actually a bit nervous about trying to get back into it. Think I’ve beaten mohg with all the characters but I’d better fanny around in the low level areas for a few hours before anything else ahead of next Fri 😬

Secret dragon boss dead. Again mohg spear op for the W.

Melania katana is brutal. The ash of war melts most enemies.

Maybe I'll try this then... Still feel I have unfinished business with this boss still standing!

Yeah but what I was interested in knowing is, can a level 1 char go there and kill, get items and level up ok, or do you need to be at a certain point to survive.

I.e., like the horse wanker at the beginning of the first area to remind you to go away and come back later

quadfather - yeah, you’ve done Radahn then. Mohg has a grace site in his room if you’ve done him but he’s not far from Mogwyn midpoint - just up a lift from the worshipping Albinauriics.
You can summon for him. He has an annoying triple incantation attack when he calls ‘NIHIL’ and shreds your health. It can be countered with a physick - maybe look it up as a bit complicated
Good luck mate

If he has a +10 mimic he won’t need the physick. My mimic solo’d him

Yeah, just realised that if you have to kill mohg and radahn to get there, the average player will need to be fairly strong, doh! Maybe I should get back into my main character again then

@quaddy - there's no way you'll beat hime at low level - he's a tough enough boss of a fairly high level area. He's not Malenia level, but a low level character will just get shredded in there

Also, a quick Google recommends level 100+ for the dlc -

Start the DLC at Level 100 for a very challenging experience.
Start the DLC at Level 120 for a challenging but balanced experience.
Start the DLC at Level 150 for a slightly easier experience.