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Originally posted a 6 second clip but eh why not just upload the whole fight. I don't know what's going on with the phase transition, sometimes she does the sword beams instead of the fire at point blank range and sometimes she cancels the transition into an attack. So I just ended up running away but man WHAT are those hitboxes the 4th one looked like it went through the character model 😭 Windy Crystal Tear clutched up at 1:56 I think too.

I tried it without parrying but no I just didn't find it much fun at all. A word to sum it up would probably be obnoxious. I like it when her combos end in a reasonable time with bigger punishes so parrying makes the fight a lot more palatable for me. I can't tell if some of her mixups are just completely random or based on positioning, the main one was double uppercut into either cross slash or the spin (which I had to space because I could not react to it)

A lot of the fun factor feels more unintentional compared to say Messmer or Bayle I guess, like the developers made her hitboxes tiny and had her combos go on for 10 seconds and expected skilled players to figure out interesting strafes and jumps to make it more reasonable. Or they expected you to parry.

Also that awkward pause at the start when I was trying to get her to stop idling. I really don't like the flow of this fight personally, but that's a subjective criteria. The reliance on reaction checks too. Let's not even talk about doing this on medium roll if you don't know the no roll strats. Objectively a really good boss that I subjectively do not enjoy all that much, even after beating her RL1 hitless twice. I'll give her A tier because I can't call it unfair and at least it's fun when you parry and others have fun without parrying.

Side tangent: Frame rate is atrocious, it's worse than it looks. Loading time was a minute or longer. That was probably a contributing factor to my annoyance and why I decided to go hyper mode. If I ever buy a PS5, maybe I'll change my mind on her.

I feel like I post way more than the others here despite probably not playing as much. I wonder if I should be more selective with what I share haha, some of it is slop for sure. SB0 has been surprisingly easy but it's also because I've been fighting the more readable bosses... when I get to Dancing Lion and Sunflower? Oh boy.

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How To Reverse Parry On Elden Ring ✏️

Readable, mostly intuitive, great flow. Fantastic OST. Very fun. What's not to love? If he's too easy, you could always lower your damage output or vigor.

Worst part is easily "mini midra." That little shit actually one shots you with a puny slap at this level.

>"Their armor was of bronze, and their houses of bronze, and of bronze were their implements."
"Great was their strength and unconquerable the arms which grew from their shoulders on their strong limbs."
"a brazen race, sprung from ash-trees"
Hesiod's Works and Days

That's not a description of the Crucible Knights. It's nearly 3,000 years old.

It's Hesiod. Around 700 BC, the Greek poet described the ages of man, gold, silver, and bronze. And the bronze race is unlike any other. They didn't just use bronze. Their armour was bronze, their homes were bronze, their tools were bronze, there was no iron yet in the world.

Hesiod says the bronze race came from ash/oak trees, and we can find a Crucible Knight with their eyes locked on what appears to be a bronze ash/oak tree.

That's the Crucible Knights. The bronze warriors who live for combat, who live for the crucible of life.

The Crucible Knights are Hesiod's bronze warriors, reforged in the Lands Between.

Hesiod was building a myth of decline, gold, silver, bronze, heroes, iron, each race worse than the last, each further from the divine. And roughly three hundred years later, Plato picked up that same blueprint and used it to build his ideal state, the Aristocracy.

In the Republic, Plato tells his own myth of metals. Gold souls to rule, silver to guard, bronze labour. It's Hesiod's ages, collapsed into a single society, standing still instead of decaying. And who sits at the top of that hierarchy? Not a bronze warrior. Not even a silver guardian. A gold soul, fixed, incorruptible, and unchanging. A philosopher-king whose worth comes precisely from not degrading, not shifting, not becoming something else.

That's Marika. An immutable god who always remains in her own form presiding over a Golden Order built using the same blueprint Hesiod and Plato laid down.

Interestingly, Plato also has five ages of man. Aristocracy, ruled by an immutable golden god. Timocracy, a warrior nation led by spirit and combat. Oligarchy, ruled by the wealthy, where money replaces honor as the measure of worth. Democracy, where every desire is given equal voice and the soul fragments into competing appetites. And finally tyranny, where one appetite conquers all the others and calls itself freedom.

The first two ages sound just like the Golden Order and the Hornsent culture.

Funny that one of my sloppiest kills is the one that succeeds. I added on some extra footage with a few strats that didn't make it in the main video

If I could remove any encounter from the game, it would be Leda. But this is a close second!

It is impressive how they made a boss so aggressively unfun. At least Leda can maybe be fun if you gank her at RL120 or something. But no. I've never once enjoyed this boss. Worst part is she gatekeeps Midra.

Not hitless because got blocked by gravestones. Haha!!!

Piece of shit gets what she fucking deserves.

So I beat the game a little while ago but something always stuck with me and when I told my brother about it I realized I might be alone here. When Radahn is running around on his horse, does it not look like he’s got a dick flopping around. I mean I know it looks like that and I may have to realize I’m in the minority to see it that way, but I can’t help but feel like the animators would have noticed too. It almost seemed intentional. I said to my brother I feel like the creators wants to have this giant beast fighting in the raw naked with their dick flopping around but decided it’d be too much so snuck in the imagery with some strange explanation of a shrunken horse that radahn loves so much he keeps “riding”. What do you guys think? Am I crazy?

All of those videos I post about Invaders and Co-op players and how I hate ganking and how I love being a tryhard is all satirical ✋️😅

For the people who took these posts seriously even tho it was on a meme page. I get it I definitely threw in some passive aggressive statements in those posts.

But in reality I really dont care how people play elden ring...all im doing is just getting other people's perspective and having fun arguing with other people 😅. Im not trying to pull an "its ragebait bro" kind of thing I just genuinely dont care about how people play.

Also these if no one noticed these are my tiktok videos that I put on here for more exposure cause my invader content doesnt get enough attention 😭

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Anyways thank you for all the interaction with my posts and I hope you guys keep playing how yall play. Whether its jumping invaders, being a tryhard, or just playing the game how you want to

Whole time its just a father and son trying to play together 😭

What ever ruins people multiplayer experience...im up for it ✋️😈

Hey does anyone know how to get these indicatos on the boss bar?