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Also none of those are required for the trophies, so I wouldn't waste time farming for them unless you really like how they look. And there is an item Mulhu sells, the weird eye thing that shows as 10 in stock. If you use that it supposedly increases the amount of red lanterns you see in your world. Also if you have a VPN, for some odd reason Australia gets insanely high amount of the covenant items. Something 150 per. And their cost to buy things is half of everyone else. So people have been using a VPN to connect to Aussie land and farm it up faster. At least that is what reddit has lead me to believe. I haven't tried it as I don't care about them.

Those skeleton pieces look super cool though. I wouldn’t mind rocking those before I get blessed in radiant light PvP.

All these big devs are laying off employees. Meanwhile FromSoft put out an ad for a hiring event. Apparently they will be hiring a lot of people. Sounds like a big expansion of the company.

So this all means Elden Rings 2: We are the Lords of the Souls out in March 2024!

Remnant 2 also just had DLC announced. They have also been putting out major patches/changes/updates to that game constantly. Not sure souls with guns is most peoples idea of a good souls like though.

Archer wrote:

Did you print a checklist? I’m working on this and the inventory system is awful. It doesn’t indicate what you own at vendor, replay restocks it all, boss items repopulate after you restart etc. the item list is not in order, not sortable etc. some of the items are called silly crap that do not indicate the item type.

Props for sorting through this mess.

Feeb wrote:

I went to the wiki and went through each item one by one to make sure I had everything. Honestly the worst part about getting the plat is dealing with the crap inventory management trying to see what you still need.

Indeed. That is some bookkeeping. I printed the Powerpyx list yesterday and at 8 point is 18 pages in 3 columns. So much stuff.

That doesn't sound like it's worth the time, at all.

Pretty big patch for this today.

MrBean wrote:

Honestly it wasn't worth the time.

It’s the same as early souls trophies. Just feels like way more stuff and inventory is difficult. It’s pretty fun really to round the stuff up- by the time you get there the game is an afterthought though. It becomes very easy when you know it so well. It definitely gives me more appreciation for what they’ve made- a solid game.

Yeah, the gameplay is fun. But wasting all the time to find over 1000 items to collect is not. Too much collectable bullcrap. But that is also on me for spending my time doing it, lol.

Patch notes for those interested, still playing:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1501750/vi...

They are actually spending a good amount of time making this a solid game/experience. Lots of good fixes in this patch.

Archer wrote:

I was surprised at the number of drops I did not get from mobs I had pretty much already farmed- like the abbess etc. Those rabbit foot items are essential for a few drops. They go from not existing to hopefully 10% or so.

Feeb wrote:

Yeah, you have to use both foots at once. They stack together. And use the item ring. And if you killed enough of the mimics (lamp flay the item on the ground) you hopefully got lucky and got the rune they drop. Which when equipped in a shield also increases item drop rate. I had two of those in a shield. With all that I was like 4.85 item drop rate or something. Really helped a lot for some of the really rare drops.

I thought the drops were insane. I had quarduples or more of so much random crap.

Wayyyyy too much gear.

Some drops are too common. My inventory has already been full a few times. A few of the drops are probably around 1:100 of those. A certain pilgrim garb, one of the armor sets etc. I just used that as a means to level, grind the eyes etc.

The patch looks to have super saiyan mode the red reaper. Getting those scourings is already pretty bad. I’m glad I got all the items already.

Well crap, boss weapons now go to +10 or something? Haven't logged in yet, I'm at the end and wondering if this is gonna screw me over as I'm rocking light Sabres.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LordsoftheFallen/s/rwDdXt...

Sounds like they were nerfed and need to get to +10 for full effect. Also sounds like they won’t be nearly as good at least PvP wise. Bricks are discounted at vendor I guess too.

Hope they can be upgraded with materials you have/can get? That post sounds like you don't get enough now with the change.

MrBean wrote:

The final upgrade item was limited per cycle but you can buy it with the coop items. It was 300 before but patch says reduced now. I guess the idea is that making you exploit a dupe to level it to 10 is not worth the time… 🤔

Chunks are now 150 tokens. A little easier to upgrade to 10 now. Still a bit of work. Maybe easier just to run through the game at the pace I get to assist with bosses.

So you lose runes in current weapons unless you get them back to +10? TF? That seems insane. Gah I knew I shoulda just finished a couple of days ago.

I don't understand that change. I had to boot it up and look myself. All they did was cut them in half and require you to level them up again. And after that they are only barely nerfed. Pieta's lost 80AR. Corrupt Judge lost 100AR (arguably the best weapon in the entire game no one is using). The poison axe from headless boss lost 60AR. I just don't get it. Its extra steps for no reason. Just nerf the AR and be done with it (more so than they did). This really only effects people still in the first NG cycle who don't have more than the first 4 chunks, and already used them. And those are not the people abusing them in PvP in the first place. So they punished the wrong people. So if not just doing a large AR damage reduction. Why not make an adjustment that is PvP only. I don't get it.

Boards are full of people handing out duped chunks as well. Also- runes- did it remove them since you usually gain more slots?

Just logged in. This is some crap. Not only did they make you have to upgrade another 5 levels, but appears they nerfed large shard drop. I was able to farm these quickly before but now I'm not getting crap. This is annoying.

Oh fun, can't buy more rabbit foots because that dudes gone.

I traded my copy away for now for Armored Core 6. Maybe I'll pick it up again down the road with all the fixes. However, I really hate the enemy placement/density.

They updated the density. I didn't think it was an issue TBH. I see lots complaining that it's too easy now.

I'd like to get back to AC VI at some point.

I'm playing Remnant 2. So far liking it a lot more.

Gdamnit. I think I biffed the prisoner quest. Didn't realize that's the inferno vendor. She's not at any of the locations. Killed Monarch already and appears that fudgeed it.

God I hate obscure quest bs.

Feeb wrote:

I think it still had all 3 slots. I can't remember. Pretty sure it did.

Wow, it seems like I'm taking a ton more damage now too. Just running around wrapping up a few things and gonna do the inferno ending.

MrBean wrote:

I've seen a lot of people defending the NPC quests on reddit. Using the point that Souls games always have these. But honestly these are trash. Fromsoft would only do one or two like this for an entire game. Its hard tell that even half of the NPC have quests. They don't really say anything to make you think they do. Like one you are talking about. You free her and then she doesn't say anything that would make you think there is more. Then you have to go to the 4th major boss, get a random item and return to her at the start of the game? What.

It also doesn't help that item descriptions are locked behind high stats in inferno and radiance. So you can't see them to know the info you get in other souls games that help you figure out if its a quest item or not. Which is super dumb.

@Archer / @Feeb - with the newer updates on NG. Will I be forced to either NG +0 or NG +1? Can you chose neither and stay in current game? I'm googling but failing.

Archer wrote:

Agreed. It's fun'ish, till it's not. I dislike that I'm required to read guides and wikis to maximize my experience with any of these types of games... Yet I do, and I'm a sucker for it. I enjoyed playing LotF largely blind until the end. Clearly biffed quite a bit but oh well. Will probably restart it in a few years to play the dlc like I did with all the souls games.

It will give you a popup asking you if you want to move up or reset. You can also back out and stay exactly where you are, and then make the choice at a vestige at any time after.

Archer wrote:

Perfect. I'd rather sit in current game and come back later.

Time to go finish. Have like ten minutes before I gotta leave for a eye doc appt!

Thanks dude!

There is (was) an extreme difficulty curve in density, mob HPs and damage output- particularly in the last zone. The density feels much better now and I’m op so I can’t comment on the difficulty. The bosses were almost impossible solo end game NG+ plus but they’re much easier now too.

I saw radiant ending helping someone with coop, and I just did inferno. I mean, they're OK I guess, was hoping for more.

All in all, enjoyed the game quite a bit. I look forward to dlc and future games by this group.

Anyway, 50ish hours later, time to move on to Spiderman!

Felt like every other coop was killing adyr. That fight feels like it was built to coop though. In the end yeah this is a pretty impressive outing for the devs.