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on November 26, 2025
<br>NPCs are abundant in the Lands Between and the Tarnished will have to choose their friends wisely. Certain NPCs will try to help and benefit the Tarnished. Others will try to hold the Tarnished back and are better off dead. How does the player decide which ones are safe to keep alive? There are the NPCs the Tarnished might want to keep around for a while in Elden Ri<br><br> <br>When **Elden Ring ** , FromSoftware's newest <a href="https://Eldenringworld.com/articles/fromsoftware-s-most-legendary-weapons-icons-that-shape-soulsborne-lore.html">Dark Souls Iconic Weapons</a> fantasy RPG, was released in late February of 2022, fans and developers drew comparisons between its open world gameplay and the gameplay of other classic open world titles such as Breath Of The Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn , and the Assassin's Creed franchise. A few developers from Western game studios wound up using social media to vocally criticize the open-world gameplay of Elden Ring , reserving their most pointed critiques for the FromSoftware RPG's game interface, punishing combat, and lack of features such as a quest log. From the perspective of these developers, these quirks of Elden Ring 's game design made it less approachable for players; from another perspective, this very lack of instant approachability is what made Elden Ring' s gameplay so enticing and rewarding for players across the wo<br><br> <br>Though Elden Ring doesn't have an "easy mode," there are many resources and tools within the game players can use to make overcoming certain challenges easier: character builds with long-ranged Incantations and Glintstone Sorceries, summoning other players or Spirit Ashes to even the odds during difficult boss fights, applying special status effects such as Bleed, Frost, Scarlet Rot, and so on. Even with these special advantages, Elden Ring remains a difficult RPG full of enemies that punish players for mistakes and moments of carelessness. Some critics argue Elden Ring 's hard difficulty unfairly punishes players who paid for and want to enjoy the game, while defenders of Elden Ring argue even the most popular video games can't (and shouldn't) be designed to appeal to every possible consu<br><br> <br>The Sage’s Cave is located on the western cliffs of the Altus Plateau. The easiest way to get there is by traveling north from the Abandoned Coffin site of grace. This cave is filled with illusionary walls, so be sure to check every wall or read the messages left by other play<br><br><br> Initially located in Church of the Plague <br><br>Although her sickly disposition might render her a relatively unimportant NPC, Millicent has a highly rewarding questline should the player be more than willing to help with her quest of healing her Scarlet Rot, which affected her deeply and immobilized her. When killed after moving to the Windmill Village, she will drop a talisman called Millicent's Prosthesis, which increases attack power with subsequent attacks and increases dexterity by 5. However, the rewards that are waiting upon the completion of her questline are far more power<br><br> <br>Later, this gesture can be used to solve a tricky puzzle in the Converted Fringe Tower. By performing the gesture while wearing a Glintstone Crown, players can uncover a secret door that leads to two particularly powerful Sorceries, Cannon of Haima and Gavel of Ha<br><br> <br>Black Flame Tornado is dropped by the Godskin Duo boss in the Dragon Temple area of Crumbling Farum Azula. This Ash of War can be applied to twinblades, spears, great spears, halberds, and reapers, as long as they allow skill replacement. A charged attack will have the player character spin their weapon around themselves to create a fire tornado. Each hit deals fire damage and applies the black flame debuff to enemies. Unlike the red square debuff in Elden Ring that players remove themselves, the black flame debuff will only last 2 seconds. When the charge is over, the player will slam their weapon on the ground. For an uncharged attack, the player will do a short windup, then slam their armament to the ground creating a small AOE around the pla<br> <br>For any morally upstanding citizen, the tapping ends there. Only a truly foul person would betray the trust that he placed in them and attack Alexander after unearthing him. Aside from the morality of killing Alexander, doing so will lock the player out of his Elden Ring questline , which grants the Shard of Alexander, one of the best Talismans in the g<br><br> <br>The most common suggestion for the fight, though, was the rock sling maneuver. Whereas many who recommended its use also combined it with another weapon, Hctaz emphasizes it on its own: "Rock Sling is a fairly easy to snag spell that does physical damage and will really help you deal with this fig<br><br> <br>This isn't the first time FromSoftware has been criticized for making excessively difficult games. Back when it released Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice , a stealth action game about a prosthesis-bearing shinobi in a fantastical version of Japan's Warring States era, a few video game journalists published articles criticizing the game for lacking an "easy mode." From the perspective of these video game journalists, the high base difficulty made the gameplay and combat of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice less approachable and frustrating for players who didn't have a high skill level. FromSoftware fans and other game journalists responded to this critique by pointing out that overcoming grueling challenges was core to the appeal of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and a traditional "easy mode" wouldn't necessarily be the best way to make it more appealing to a wider audie<br>